where are You ?
God .. right ?
God .. ?
where is God ?
where are You ?!
You're coming right?
it's darkening ..
we barely can see
we need You
now
now now
where are You ?
come ! now !
we're waiting .. . .
please come now ..
i can't see very far these days ..
ageing eyes struggle
in this dawning night of smoky scenes
where Lies prop the street corners
in their sequined highheels
and no one
absolutely no one
is promised tomorrow
in this land of sneak and pickpockets
and street-corner preachers
with me-holes in their jeans
neon-ed promises
whistle at the weary ..
spots darken the tarmac
where one of us got caught
too long staring at the loud headlight
horn screaming
it's just too BloodyMary much for my life's eyes
have to retreat
shutter the myopic windows for a bit
rest from the mad-inducing assault of Animus
Ares and Mars in tow
.. .
just there ..
the smoke clears
the discordant cacophony stilled ..
clarity
smiling eyes welcome
the pleasant sight of a Lamb
clothed in Light
holding Shalom
while lightbearers dance in circles
around the Tree of Life
..
i
see
You
When God decided to share Godself, to overflow into others, the Godhead selected one of Themselves in particular to Christ the happening of it ..
Word, Expression of God, undertook the Human Expression and everything connected with it ..
and the human being became a living soul, imaged in the likeness of Elohim God, Christed with authority over Creation, to care for it in honor of its Creator, and to reproduce Images of God, filling the good Earth with goodness, reflecting the nature of Creator God for all to see - all the Authorities and Powers and Rulers in the cosmos will witness the goodness of God in the Christed creation.
When the created Images of God rejected the authority of the God in whose likeness they were imaged, the Word expressed and took on flesh, leaving behind the form of God. The one who existed before the creation and by whom everything was created - the things visible as well as the invisible Thrones and Rulerships and Kingdoms and Authorities in the worlds unseen - took human form as the ultimate visible expression of God to humanity, to reorient the Christed humanity to God and reconcile their injured relationship.
Through the deathblood of this humanized Christ. we are ushered into God's presence holy, blameless, standing without fault before God in Christ. This is an unfathomable and perplexing mystery that calls forth our faith, trusting that the same person who created us also redeemed us, this Christ, and claims us as God's own possession, God's inheritance, in Christ, sons and daughters in good standing.
The very one by whom creation exists and continues to exist instantiates as very Human, and stands-in before God for all humanity, to be, one good day, recognized universally as the God in whom all humanity is embraced and included, one with the Father through the Son of Man .. one with God in Christ ..
.. and our home will be God's home, and we will each be perfected Images of the Living God, Expressing God's goodness throughout God's good creation, and God will be all in all ..
all because of Christ ..
praise God
who blesses us
in Christ
with every spiritual blessing available in Heaven
from the very beginning the Father decided that humanity
would be included in Christ
as an expression of the Christ
His own
pure before His face
His love
He accomplished this intention through His predisposition of
adoption into His family as children
and this gave Him very much pleasure
and the sheer graciousness of this giving through His Beloved
speaks powerfully to the praise of His glory
it is through Christ that our release is secured
and our fallings forgiven
through His abundant grace poured out in the human blood of him
God has let us know of this mystery
concerning His delightful desire for us -
that it would be through Christ that His intention for us
would be fulfilled in the fulness of time
that everything in the created universe
would be consolidated in Christ
in whom we also have been made a heritage
his inheritance
predisposed in accord with the unravelling of God's intention
.. .
that is a restatement of the opening verses of Paul's writing to the Ephesian church
Christ is the instrumentality and the instantiation of our spiritual flourishing
it is because of Christ, and through Christ, that we are able to thrive in this fallen world system, which falls under the influence of the Archon of the ethereal authority (2:2), to be overcomers (Romans 8:37)
all that we are is by Christ - our very existence and the original environment we occupy are all a product of the Expression/Word of God, the Christ, who brought it all into being .. and beautifully done too ..
this Expression of God as Son - Son of God, Son of Human - is the Person of the Godhead tasked with the Human Expression, the loving sharing of Godself with a being designed to be like God - as they imaged God, being images of God - and who, in Person, expressed the likeness of God in the human form
it is to this One we owe everything, not only our existence (in his image to boot), but also our continued existence, even after our breach of trust, the denial of our Creator
he takes upon himself Redemption, the Rescue from the wicked and perverse powers that wage war against humanity and it's God (6:12) ..
further, this one is our Hope, for in him we witness the fulfillment of the original intent of Creator God for the created human
the Christ has gone before us, as us, having participated in the depths of us, and arrived in eternity as the matured, complete, full human expression of the GodImage .. so that when we look at Christ Jesus we see us in wholeness, fully formed, accomplished according to the blueprint of God in creation - that blueprint is the GodWord, Creator himself
this was God's intent all along – that we be consummated in the Christ ..
the Christ is our imaged intention, our divine pattern, the human standard, and the measure according to which our humanity is fulfilled (4:13) ..
humanity perfected
everything that i am and strive for is wrapped in the person of Jesus, and as the Christ, he has included me .. me
how do i unfold that ?
how is there a place for me in the space inhabited by Christ ?
does God not care who i am ?
does God not know who i am ?
surely ..
and so i am left with what exactly ?
i am left with the virtually unbelievable thought that God does indeed love me
and has accorded me standing through Christ
and not just standing, but affiliation as child
as if i was His own flesh and blood ..
..
that, my friend, is a God i can serve wholeheartedly
how you doing ?
'nother day in paradise
(aaaaaaghhhhh.. .)
i'm fine ..
(rrrrghhhh..)
good
(. .. . .... .)
(aaaaahhhhh!!!!)
..
walking
confusion
conversing
hurt
working
turmoil
eating
lostness
misty
wet
cloudy
muddy
blustery
lostness ..
headbanging migraining loudness
catapulting my soul
into that wall
again and again
hi
hi
(aaaaaghhhh !)
blah blah blah
mumble mumble
hum hum
ho hum
hum drum
hoho
mumble bumble jumble
jumble
hi
.. .
..
(arghhh!! ..)
how're you ?
.. i'm good
( .. )
..
.. .
..
i'm good ..
O sovereign Lord
my Lord
Your majesty floods the Earth
up to the heavens !
~ selah
children, the little ones
sing out your praise
Your foes hear
and stumble into silence
~ selah
i look up
the moon the stars
and i wonder ..
what is human .. ?
we are but mortal
and yet
You look out for us
You care
~ selah
we are set below the Elohim
and yet
You surround us with glory
honouring us
You give us authority - we Your hands to rule
all things set under our feet - the creatures that run,
the flyers, those that swim ..
~ selah
O the majesty of You
Lord YaHWeH ..
O the majesty of You
psalm 8
It's been said, often, that the point of God's creative activity is that God gets glory
("In general, Scripture teaches that God created the world and all that is in it for His own glory.." Bible.org, first response on internet search.)
Unless we reform the meaning of the word 'glory', a common understanding of that would be that God created so that creation would worship, honor, obey, etc. In other words, God was looking for exaltation.
But does God really need to be gloried? Does God need creation to be bowing and scraping before him? Is this the Biblical God, chasing glory? ..
..
Perhaps Elohim God looked to extend Godlove.
Perhaps Elohim God wanted to share God's inherent beauty and unified community with other beings inclusively, invitingly, welcomingly, embracingly, not out of a desire for personal gratification, but because love is inherently an overflowing, a touching other.
Obviously they would not be God-equals, since created, but they would mirror God, receive and radiate the love of God into the cosmos, be transceivers of God's goodness, filling the cosmos with light, and goodness, and beauty, and truth grounded in Divine integrity, one massive organism, unified in being, understanding and purpose, all telling the Telling of this magnanimous Creator and sharing the love so obviously present ..
and there, right there, God gets the glory
not by dictating glory, but as a natural
consequence of the magnificence of
the God Who Is There.
The God that is there, the Living God, does not need accolade.
The Jehovah God that is Elohim only looks to share the love
because God is love.
