Page 1 of 2 Facing a rough deal?

17-08-2012

What helps me when I face difficult times is to know on a deeper level than what my senses are often aware of that my difficulties do not define me, and therefore I know that they cannot separate me from God or the life of my design Many people everywhere have similar and perhaps worst situations to face than what you are facing right now! All of us face contradictions and are often tempted to give the contradiction a stronger voice than what they deserve! What God spoke to humanity in Christ is universally true for every single human life, whether we believe it or not, the truth of the full implication of God's love declared and demonstrated in Christ often remains veiled to us because our own circumstances seem to be more real God is not nearer to some than what he is to others, he is equally Emmanuel for every person on the planet! See Acts 17:27,28 It is really about two different dimensions we live in, the one is our sight, meaning our senses and what they perceive as our "reality" and the other is the realm of faith, and what God declares to be our truth that sets us free from the claim and dictate of the senses when God calls things which are not as though they were it is because they are! they are more real and permanent that anything we perceive with the senses! 2 Cor 4:18...because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. The Mirror reads: 2 Cor 4:18 We are not keeping any score of what seems so obvious to the senses in the natural realm, it is fleeting and irrelevant; it is the unseen eternal realm within us that has our full attention and captivates our gaze! (See John 1:18 Until this moment God remained invisible to man; now the 1authentic begotten son, (1monogenes, begotten only of God) the blueprint of mans design who represents the innermost being of God, the son who is in the bosom of the father, brings him into full view! He is the 2official authority qualified to announce God! (Official guide, 2eksegesato, from ek, preposition denoting source, and hegeomai, the strengthened form of ago, to lead as a shepherd leads his sheep; thus hegeomai means to be officially appointed in a position of authority. He is our guide who accurately declares and interprets the invisible God within us. 2 Cor 3:18 The days of window-shopping are over! In him every face is 1unveiled. In 2gazing with wonder at the 5blueprint likeness of God displayed in human form we suddenly realize that we are looking at ourselves! Every feature of his 3image is 2mirrored in us! This is the most radical 4transformation engineered by the Spirit of the Lord; we are led 6from an inferior 5mind-set to the revealed 5endorsement of our authentic identity.)

Page 2 of 2 See 2 Cor 5:7, we walk by faith and not by sight... this is not a luxury option for some, this is the life of our design! The Mirror Transation reads; 2 Cor 5:2 Facing pressure times the way we often do, makes us sigh with longing to exchange the skin-suit with the permanent splendor of the heavenly-suit. 2 Cor 5:3 In the meantime, whatever challenges we are facing in the meat-box, we know that we shall never be found naked; since we are already fully clothed with our heavenly identity in Christ in our inner person! 2 Cor 5:4 We are not complaining about our bodies, even though we are often aware of its frailties; instead we yearn to be overwhelmed with life. We know that every evidence of death even in our bodies, will dissolve into life! 2 Cor 5:5 God wired us this way; his Spirit already confirms within us the present evidence of eternity. We are eternal beings by design. 2 Cor 5:6 We are cheerfully courageous; knowing that our immediate address in our earthly bodies cannot distance us from the Lord, since we originate from him. 2 Cor 5:7 Faith is to our spirit what our senses are to our bodies; while the one engages with the fading and the fragile, the other celebrates perfection! 2 Cor 5:8 Our 1confidence stems from 2knowing that even though it might feel at times that we are merely 4reduced to flesh; our 3greater reality is that we are 5entwined in the Lord. He is our permanent abode! (The word, 1tharreo, means confident courage; 2eudokeo, means well done opinion; 3mallon, means prefer or rather; and 4ekdemeo, from ek, is a preposition that always denotes origin or source and demeo from deo, to bind, to wind, to tie, to knit; originating out of the body (we were knitted together in our mothers womb). In severe affliction one feels at times reduced to mere physical identity; but 2our persuasion is anchored in a greater 2opinion; the reality of our genesis in God and our union in him. The word, 5endemeo, means entwined, knitted together, tied in oneness. Yet at times it almost feels strange to be trapped in this body especially when we are exposed to such abuse and suffering; one longs to then do the exchange and relocate to our permanent address, where our hearts already are; in the immediate embrace of the Lord.) 2 Cor 5:9 We are 1totally engaged in the loveliness of that which is of exceedingly great value; whether we are 2in a physical union with our bodies or a 3spiritual union with our source; it makes no difference to Gods esteem of us! We are highly favored by the Lord. (The word, 1philotimeomai, comes from phileo, meaning dear, fondness; timay, meaning value, esteem; and einai from eimi, I am. The word, 2endemeo, means in union with, entwined; and 3ekdemeo means tied to our source.) Draw on your source! He is within you and closer to you than your next breath! True worship is simply our awareness of our oneness Francois du Toit