The Tragic Beauty of Having Life
“For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.” – 1 Corinthians 3:11-13 ESV
Being alive is an occupation; our employer is the breath of life, and the Founder is God Almighty. Everyone has a job; we all have the job of choosing how we live our lives, and our work will be tested for quality at the beginning of eternity, and at the end of the global brand that is mortal living. For the believer and unbeliever, Christ is the foundation of life, and whatever each of us builds on that foundation will be tested in fire.
The Gift and Expense of Free Will
I asked God the Holy Spirit and said, “I was born of the Spirit like Jesus; born from above, empowered by the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead, so much so that I am in the divine nature of Christ, but yet I still feel that there is a difference between Him and me.” The consensus of my question to God was this: Yes, you are like Jesus, a child of God led by the Spirit of the Father in oneness, cleansed and made perfect in the sight of the Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit, however, Jesus is God the Father and Spirit in the flesh; the only begotten of God.
And I remembered Psalms 82:6 ESV: “I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;” and I said, “I am like Jesus, He is born of God and thus is God, and He has made me to be born like Him, and God says I’m a god in being one with Him.” It’s only logical. But I said, “But Lord, something is still missing. Some things that I call to pass indeed happen, but I feel some things might not, although actually they just take longer.” And then the Lord reminds me of Adam and Eve, that, Adam and Eve were perfect beings, and yet they still managed to fall. Evil didn’t exist in their being, they were perfect, and yet in that perfection, they were still able to commit the first sin of not following God’s word and they ate from the tree. Only after eating did they fall.
So what was the matter? Adam and Eve did not have the maturity to operate their free will even as perfect beings. So God showed me that the missing link I feel between Jesus and I is that, unlike Jesus, I am yet to reach full (spiritual) maturity. Jesus, my Brother, my Friend, my Master, my Lord, my God, waited 30 years to move in the Spirit and fulfill His destiny, which took 3 years to fulfill. And so I understood that, if on this day I cannot yet walk on water, it is because I am not spiritually mature at that capacity, and that’s okay. God taught me that life is a road of maturity, so much so that, even perfect beings fell, for they weren’t mature in ways they needed to be even as perfect.
The Choices we Pick and Lives we Make
Then I asked God and said, “Lord, You said it is the law (of God through Moses) that brought forth sin, and if there was no law there was no charge of sin. Because we didn’t create ourselves, wouldn’t it have been better for all of mankind to die without the law and sin so they could go to heaven, as they weren’t charged with sin?” Firstly, through the Spirit’s spirit of understanding, I had to understand if people who lived and died before the law of Moses went to heaven because there was no law to charge them with sin. The Lord took me to Noah’s flood (in remembrance). I wondered and asked, “If everyone who died in the flood went to heaven, how is it that God condemned them all to death in the first place? In that, if He was so displeased by them to such a great extent, how could they possibly go to heaven?
And so I remembered how the spiritual manifests the physical, for we are spirits first and foremost. And if those people were so evil as to be killed by God in the flood, it is because spiritually they were in darkness and evil as well, as that’s the only way to have brought it forth to the physical world. And so it cannot be that they were spiritually in the kingdom of darkness and death, but would physically die and not continue existing only in the kingdom they were of, the kingdom of evil and darkness.” And so I contemplated again the Word of the law having brought forth sin. I remembered how God operates at His capacity, the capacity of His all-knowingness and all-powerfulness, and that He doesn’t ever deny Himself or dim Himself down to our level.
Even when He came down to earth and in human flesh, He came as perfect, and in His all-knowingness, knew the significance of maturity in the flesh, a truly humble God, ever teaching us the way we should go. And it clicked that, God separated Himself from Adam and Eve, in that it is written that we were separated from God. And so even if Adam and Eve weren’t aware of sin themselves because there was no law, in God’s eyes, we were in sin. Meaning the law brought forth sin to us, in that we became on the same page with God in understanding regarding being sinful. Because otherwise, in our minds we were not guilty of sin because there was no law to tell us otherwise. And so, the law brought forth sin to us. And we thus knew we needed to repent and be remorseful unto God and His forgiveness.
Going against God’s word and nature was always a sin, but only in God’s eyes, for we did not know until the law of Moses. For, Noah was righteous before God and wasn’t charged with death, he and his household, for Noah was spiritually in light and right-standing with God, and that manifested physically by being saved in the ark. Abel spiritually pleased God as in the light and that manifested in the physical by God loving his offering and so when he died he went to God for that’s where he was spiritually, and the opposite with Cain, firstly by God not loving his offering, and secondly by him manifesting being in spiritual darkness by killing Abel.
The Consequence of Our Choices
We have free will, and it will declare who and whose we are. For, we are spirits, what our spirits manifest in the physical because of where our spirits are in the spiritual realm (light or dark), it is there where we will dwell spiritually forever. Where does Christ come in here? Only the Spirit and presence of God can empower us to choose good and not evil, in the reality of having the knowledge of good and evil.
Without Christ, all of mankind was doomed to eternal damnation because though we may have known good from evil, we couldn’t choose good, for only God is good, and we weren’t aware that God was charging us with sin, and weren’t aware of our tremendous need for a Savior to save us from eternal death, for God said, “…you will surely die” and He knows a human being is a spirit so He did not just mean death in the physical but in the spiritual as well. Truly, truly, God saved us from eternal (spiritual) death.
As the Creator, God took responsibility for His creation and saved us. From my earlier conversation with the Lord, He made me understand that because creation is His, He brought sin forth in our lives through the law so we can know in full understanding that we need to be saved, so we could receive Jesus Christ’s sacrifice wholeheartedly. To my earlier point/question, if we weren’t dying unto eternal hell in the instance of there being no law and thus no sin, then we wouldn’t have needed Christ, in God’s eyes, to save us. It is evident that we needed saving for God is not a man (a mere human-being) that He should lie. So God took His responsibility as Creator, and in God having given us free will, He gave us His ownership of us to us by not making us His slaves, but giving us the freedom to choose Him or not.
He took responsibility as Creator, and now we hold the responsibility as the ownership of our lives as given to us by Him in the reality of free will. That is to say, it is not in God’s hands anymore that one might end up in eternal damnation, for it is them who choose the road to it. He did His part as Creator and Maker by saving us, and now we do our part by the choices we make, in that, one will end up in eternal hell or eternal heaven. No one can charge God with blood on His hands because guess what, everything that lives wants to stay alive because life is a gift unlike any other.
This life is not ‘living’, this life is the reality that is the complete absence of death. Life is the complete absence of death, and that’s why in having life, people wish they could live forever. Life wasn’t meant to coincide with death. If anyone is suicidal, it is because life is coinciding with death. This life that is pure light and goodness, no one could wish to return it, lest there is death (evil) of some sort, like disease and illnesses of the heart and mind, which aren’t life but death (darkness) itself.
God is guiltless forevermore. He made us pure and perfect with free will, we lost our pureness and He saved us. It is only ever our choices that lead us to hell, as God gave us a clear distinct way to lead us to Himself, for the road to Him is of light and goodness, and as the only Source of light and goodness, He has empowered us with His Holy Spirit to live a life that takes us home to Him. What a mighty grace. Hallelujah forever.
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