Wednesday, 4 May 2011

What's the Plan?

I previously asked why Holy Spirit came to live in us at re-generation? What was the plan? Well it was more than a plan of God, more than a design, more than a desire; more a Life. Eternal Life Himself came to live in us at new birth. The church believes His blood was shed for the remission of sin, His body was given up for our change of identity from sinner, to saint. But it is a little behind when it comes to Him giving us His life in exchange for our old Adamic lifestyle. Ephesians 2:5 tells us that even though we were dead in our transgressions God made us alive together with Christ. The Amplified bible says that God gave us the very same life He gave Jesus when He raised us up into the heavenly spheres with Christ. The key verse in Colossians says that Christ in us is our hope of glory. Gal. 2:20, so familiar, I was crucified with Christ I no longer live but Christ lives in me. Why?
Lets go back a bit to the Garden. I can't look at Adam's and Eve's life before the talking snake through the eyes of an un-regenerate man. God might have said a couple of commands to Adam, but He wasn't expecting Adam to go off and do it by himself. Adam was created in the image of God. God is Agape, and Agape is other centred, and other dependent. After Adam decided to act independently and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he could understand the severity of his sin.
The sin was the act of doing something independently of God. Zip up to the temptation scenes with Jesus and the same tempter. Each temptation was to get Jesus to act independently from Daddy. Jesus demonstrated His dependence on Daddy by maintaining dependence on Him.
How important is it in God's eyes that His created ones whom He loves so much chose in love for Him to be dependent on Him?
Maybe I'll get a chance to expand on this.

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