Bucket O' Bulletz

(continued from previousyesterday’s post)
Before Adam ate the fruit of judgment, his life was to walk with the Lord in the midst of perfection. When we forsake the pairs of opposites, we can walk with the Lord beholding the perfection that He is. It’s not as easy to behold His creation as perfection. We have to look beyond the appearances. What we behold with our senses is the projection of the human mind. What we can perceive with our spirit is the underlying Godness of all things. When that perception manifests, the world will be an out-picturing of the perfection we see with our inner vision. This requires silencing the judgment of our mind and waiting on God to interpret His own creation. What we see as an enemy, might well be God’s friend. What we call an attack, might be our ticket to freedom. We must stick to our foundational truth: God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. He said Himself He created the destroyer that we pray to be delivered from. Can a creation of God destroy God? All that is ever destroyed is that which is not God anyway. W
hat can exist that is not the omnipresent God? Only an illusion. His word says that every kingdom that can be shaken will be shaken, and His kingdom is the one that will remain forever. If we are attached to a shakable domain, we can expect to be shaken with it. Whatever we lose in the shaking was not our true self, it was excess baggage that we would not want in the kingdom of God anyway. Let it go, praise Him for the lightened load and continue to pursue His kingdom and His righteousness.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. 1 Cor 3:12-15
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. John 9:3-5
We have a choice to work using eternal substance, or that which is here today and gone tomorrow. Gold, silver and precious ston
es are treasures buried deep in the earth. They serve their purpose by their stability. They represent the foundation of the world, all that is eternal, all which was not created. To acquire them, one must dig for them and separate them from the worthless matter. He who seeks after God is always about the task of separating spirit from flesh, heaven from earth, and the kingdom from this world. Gold and silver are refined and made pure by fire. Precious stones are formed from carbon crystals under tremendous pressure. Overcoming fiery trials and temptations of this world, uncovers the beauty of holiness, the very nature of an eternal God.
Wood, hay and stubble represent temporal form which serves its purpose by being consumed. It’s alright to use the temporal things, providing we recognize them as servants and not as masters. When the temporary is consumed, we will still remain, but our attachment to the temporary will be revealed by the magnitude of our loss. When one who is called out of this world is totally unattached to form, he doesn’t suffer any loss when the corruptible is consumed. All that matters to him is the eternal Spirit, the gold, silver and precious stones. The beauty of these are made manifest by fire and pressure.
Part Three coming next