We are prone at
every turn to look for something new, something hidden, something interesting
to entertain us. Somehow we think we are
better for our curiosity and wiser for our breadth of gathered experiences. Since Adam, we have an insatiable interest in
the side corners of our world and do our best to get at them. Adam, unlike Eve, was not fooled by Satan's
ploy; he embraced the rebellion within it.
Hidden knowledge became a lust for him and he grabbed at it
hungrily. Before the fall, knowledge and
insight came directly from God; the fall provided a new way of seeing, of
searching out things. The actualization
of self became the idol of Adam and it is ours too if we are not careful. We are not made to search things out on our
own but to see everything through the eyes of God. The only way we can do this is if we obey Him
at each turn. Faith brings us to
recognize our need for God. Obedience
gives us His eyes. I cannot know love if
I am not obeying God nor do I know what to do with it if I am not letting Him
be King of my actions. Lust has been
thrust upon us as love; it is the unwillingness to wait for God to show us the
way through each holy desire we possess.
Once we turn from Him, we grovel in lust and make no headway whatsoever
in seeing and understanding. Romans 1 is
the clear way we head when we let lust take hold of our Godly longings. Matthew 5-7 is the way we look when we obey
God in our longings and let Christ live through us. The distance between Romans 1 and Matthew 5-7
is a great divide that can only be crossed through the cross of Jesus Christ
who has made the way for us to love and hope and faith in the grind of daily
living. There is nothing fascinating or
captivating in the moment a man or woman of God gives a cheek to a bad
man. It is an absurdity, a clownish act
for all those who have taken the way of Romans 1. And yet, for the one walking in Christ, doing
as He directs, it is the pearl of great price, the stuff of heaven and that has
a fascination for him. You can tell who
directs your boat by which shore grabs your attention. Have you found Romans 1 your harbor or do you
lean out after Matthew 5-7. No law can
turn you one way or another. You must in
the end choose who you will serve…
See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be
put to shame. Romans 9: 33
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