Most are familiar with the idea of "pre"-destination. Which is of course our natural way of perceiving everything--if we believe that things were first ordained by God. Which perspective we naturally adopt from experiencing life as one day follows the next, and so on.
That is where the biblical explanation of Christ being "the same yesterday, today, and forever" comes from. However, that is just world-perspective speech for describing a man who lived as a man day to day, but who is also God and whose kingdom is not of this moment by moment world.
Do you see the difference--that our worldly experience is not at all the same as that of God's?
So...when do we start thinking differently? When should we start His timeless reality increasing in us, and our worldly bonds decreasing? Has it not occurred to you that such a change is coming?
It is.
If you would like to get started--decreasing this world perspective--then beginning with things like "the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world", or the reality that we who have Christ "were" crucified with Him (past tense)--or that "I am" is actually a more accurate way of describing God than "was, is, and is to come"--you can. Or not. Yes, we have a choice.
But why? Because, whether we do or not, God is in the process of undoing everything we have become accustom to of this world, and redoing it in His own greater terms and reality. And in that greater reality everything actually "was" "before" and only now is made manifest...as if predestined. In reality all of history is in post-destination--as it were. Which has only been revealed "here a little there a little", day by day, as baby steps.
That is where the biblical explanation of Christ being "the same yesterday, today, and forever" comes from. However, that is just world-perspective speech for describing a man who lived as a man day to day, but who is also God and whose kingdom is not of this moment by moment world.
Do you see the difference--that our worldly experience is not at all the same as that of God's?
So...when do we start thinking differently? When should we start His timeless reality increasing in us, and our worldly bonds decreasing? Has it not occurred to you that such a change is coming?
It is.
If you would like to get started--decreasing this world perspective--then beginning with things like "the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world", or the reality that we who have Christ "were" crucified with Him (past tense)--or that "I am" is actually a more accurate way of describing God than "was, is, and is to come"--you can. Or not. Yes, we have a choice.
But why? Because, whether we do or not, God is in the process of undoing everything we have become accustom to of this world, and redoing it in His own greater terms and reality. And in that greater reality everything actually "was" "before" and only now is made manifest...as if predestined. In reality all of history is in post-destination--as it were. Which has only been revealed "here a little there a little", day by day, as baby steps.
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