February 10, 2021
A friend wrote me a letter, which triggered these thoughts about our identity in God…
What if we are not the ones who are most important? What if our identity, who we are, is not the most significant thing in our lives? I think, for myself, that when I spend too much time trying to figure out who I am, I create chaos. That’s because the answer is a gift. I am a child of God. I am His creation. My identity is discovered through living, through experience. I am an angel, a messenger, from God, because I experience that in my life. I am in the process of becoming an embodiment of His Love, because I experience that too. I come from another world, because I come from the mind of God. He created me and He knew me before the foundation of the world. It’s wonderful to think on who I might be … what miracles accompanied “my” creation, how God sees me, the beauty and wonder He sees in me, the value He has given me … yet all that pales before whose I am. When I focus on Him, life is astounding. I have nothing to prove, I don’t need to be special. I am chosen. Loved. Created in His Image. I Am His. The limitations of my mind disappear. Life becomes something incomprehensibly beautiful. All day, today, I was just sitting with Him, relaxing into Him, and watching Him BE inside of me. It was such a moment of grace. I am so grateful for it!
I do think that our friendships with people can become burdensome, if not downright hellish, if He is not in the center of them. When I start to depend upon anybody else, or when anybody else starts to depend upon me, except in those cases (like with a child) when they should be depending upon me, problems can break loose. But when we are both depending upon God, and coming together to celebrate Him, being there for each other, in Him, we produce a bit of heaven on earth. It’s quite a lesson God has been teaching me. How do we develop close friendships with people where we do not become each other’s “salvation?” I do not believe any of us is meant to be a savior to another. We are simply meant to be friends, family, those who love each other and care for each other within God’s Grace.
I believe, that just as math is based on laws that function fully and completely within the dimensions for which they were created, God’s principles function the same way. For instance, in the Law, meaning Torah, God gives us a series of principles, of rules, we must follow to stay on the “good” side of the knowledge of good and evil. When Yeshua died upon the cross, He removed the intransigence of those laws by offering us the dimension of fulfilled grace. Under this new dimension, God’s “agreement” with mankind changed and blossomed. When we choose Yeshua, our sins are covered. We do not need to atone for them. We need to repent, and come into alignment with our Creator, and they are removed from us. Forgiveness is just as much a law as all the laws in the Torah. And it turns death to life. amen.
FREEDOM 