We dwell in the midst of the creation of God, seeking His will, desiring to experience and manifest our true identity in Christ because we have received the spirit of Jesus Christ. He that has the Son has life and without receiving the Son we are without eternal life. All is complete in Him. He has made us one with the Father and one with Himself. We desire to express this unity in a single-minded application of our faith. We bear witness as to how we have received the reality of the Son of God and reveal how God intends to make us capable of manifesting the intended measure of the fullness of Christ. We have received the gift of God and the promises of God stimulates our faith encouraging us to put on His divine nature.
We face the challenge of life – we have a physical body. We are also empowered to enjoy the greatest blessing - because we have a physical body. God has chosen our physical reality to show forth the extent of His power and glory. In our present state we are His Body in Christ – the fullness of Him that fills all in all. Ephesians1:23 Through Jesus Christ - God’s desire to dwell in His creation is being fulfilled. The creation does not exist on its own. If God did not create it and maintain its existence - it would not be. “Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else that exists.” Deuteronomy 4:39 The true frame of reference, seeing reality from God’s side, does not exclude the finite and the physical. It is incorporated into God’s true oneness, seen from God’s point of view. We have experienced and continue to seek His view.
The world that we perceive by the senses does not fully reveal the relationship that the creation and we share with God. The spirit of Jesus Christ, which we have received, is revealing it to us. There is a unity based on the fact that God brought forth the creation out of nothing. God exists – He has substance. His substance is the origin of all substance in the creation. Our bodies symbolize in type His substance therefore God intends to transform our bodies by Jesus Christ who now indwells the believer. “God shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.” Philippians 3:21 God has determined to reveal to us both the relationship of substance and the relationship of consciousness in and through Jesus Christ – because the creation was brought forth through Him, by Him and for Him. “For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And he is before all things, and by him all things continue to exist. Colossians 1:16-17
All judgment is given to Jesus Christ – Jesus is the revealer and the revelation (that is given to us by God) and He provides the ability to understand and apply the revelation. He is the knowledge and the knower (He knows the fullness of God and Himself) and that which is known. He will enable us to know even as we are known. “The Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son: That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father that has sent Him. John 5:22-23 Judgment is not only about God evaluating our deeds, the lack of condemnation and the forgiveness of sin but also how much of God’s light is measured out in our own lives and measured out throughout all creation. How much of God’s glory is measured out is a continual process, and Jesus measures it out. “For by Him (Jesus) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth. Colossians 1:16-17
It is Jesus who both conceals and reveals the glory of God. Through His death and resurrection the glory of God can be revealed to us and in us who have received His life and Spirit. It is by Him that rivers of living water flow out of our belly. The fullness of God is in Jesus Christ - yet the amount of glory that is revealed is measured by Jesus Christ and related to Christ within us. Christ in us is the hope of glory therefore we seek His appearing. The work of the Holy Spirit is a continual work of judgment. “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for He shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. John 16:13-14 Nothing is hidden but that it should be revealed. Mark 4:22
It is Jesus Christ that both conceals and reveals. This hiding and revealing can be further understood by an example. Within the nature or power of the soul, by the power of the mind there is both a potential for revelation and a potential for limitation and concealment. We possess, by our mind, the potential for revelation, which is the ability to conceive and express any intellectual concept. We also possess the power of limitation, to confine the scope of any concept. This is of fundamental importance. Every idea and concept must have a limit to its scope; it may be extended to a particular point, but no further. For if one thinks abstractly and extends the scope of an idea beyond its limits one can begin to lose sight of the truth. In Christ the power of revelation and the power of limitation are both established in the glory of God. All judgment is committed unto the Son.
We can feel Him working in us. God is continually reviving Creation. God generates the desire of your heart to arrive at the fullness of God by obedience. Obedience is experiencing the nature of God within yourself sufficient to express it as your nature. It is an outcome of hearing correctly. Heaven and earth, once created, continue to need the Creator. We continue to need Jesus Christ and we are crucified in Him. If we can do what we see the Father do we can live in a state of obedience. “We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10
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A PLACE IN CREATION: BY MICHAEL BROD