See Beyond Sight

We have not fully recognized how great the work is that Jesus Christ accomplished on the Cross.  He not only took within Himself the Sins of the World, He destroyed the construct of Sin as a World order.  Before Golgotha, Sin was the universal condition of all creation.  Its poison reached into every particle until the sinless Son of Man came to us.  His body contained the damage of sin but not its presence.  When our Lord was crucified, Sin filled Him and corrupted His body but not the being of God.  Christ's death took Sin with it so that as Resurrected Lord not even the damage of Sin could be found in Him.  For the first time since Adam, the Created Order had a Sinless place and He is the beginning of the Sinless universe.  From Christ Resurrected comes Life not only without Sin but Life undamaged by Sin.  We find in Jesus Christ raised from the dead the beginning of the wonder of living without Sin.  Can we begin to picture life without temptation, without depression, anger, fear or selfish craving?  Have we taken time to think of what it will be like to walk without Sin boundaries and barriers; to be united with God and one another yet still ourselves?  No force of nature will hinder us for once more as it was before Adam, nature will be our dominion and not our master.  Like with Jesus, the wind and waves will obey us.  The earth will be our home and we will no longer struggle with it.  Work will be our pleasure and not our curse, the days will not exhaust us and nothing new will usher in pain.  Memories will only bring joy and dreams will never turn into nightmares.  We will never be betrayed by ourselves or others and the knee and elbow and back will forever be our friends.  The light won't reveal sorrow and the friend will remain a friend.  For the first time, we will see God and really see Him and we will never turn away from Him.  The Cross is the unveiling of Life without Sin and the uncovering of our Lord's Love for us...we now begin to see it; soon enough that Love will be the source of all sight.

Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that."   John 1:50 NIV

A Willful Temple

There is a place at which we must decide who we really are and make a clean break from all the other possibilities.  If you are the Temple of God, then that must be decided in definitive actions.  The river must be crossed, the rope released, the battle entered.  As long as you see yourself as less than the Temple of God, you will live like it and no amount of posturing will obviate the damage caused.  The simplest and most uncultured of Christians who has determined with his will that He is the Temple of God will do more good and have longer lasting benefit to mankind than the greatest personalities of our age.  You may not be known here and now but the Temple of God is known in the corridors of heaven and your impact will reverberate throughout eternity if this is decided by you.  Settle the matter.  You are the Temple of God.  The Holy Spirit is in you and therefore there is nothing trivial or little about your place in the workings of God.  Each of your actions is critical and measured within the activity of the Lord who by His death resurrected your life and has recreated you into the liveliest and loveliest of treasures.    You realize don't you, that you are the temple of God...1 Corinthians 3: 16 MSG