b) HOW ABOUT MAN? Why had God created man in the first place? Do we know? YES, we do! And why He created him “in His Own Image”? Do we know that also? YES, we do! Our Father does not give us His reasons in the Book of Genesis where He only said “Let Us make man in Our Image.” (Gen. 1:26), but we also have Rom. 8:29,30 and Rev. Chpt. 21 and 22. Yet we cannot understand the act of God whereby He created “male and female” (Adam and Eve), but called THEIR NAME ADAM… in the singular… and not Adam and Eve! (Gen. 5:2) Do we understand that? The Word in Mt. 19:5,6; 1Cor. 6:16 or Eph. 5:31 may certainly give us a hint, but we still cannot see and comprehend this fact in either physical or spiritual world. Our imagination and the understanding of our natural mind will not help us at all. We cannot possibly fathom such mysteries in our natural soul.

Yet, Our Father does not desire to keep it “top secret” from man, that is, from the man that loves Him, that has given up his life for Him, that desires to serve Him and obey Him and be with Him for ever. It is the delight of Our Father to show THAT MAN all that he is able to see, hear, touch, smell, taste and under­stand in his spirit. Do we also believe this truth? Our Father will give us His Light about this mystery and we will consider it later on when He will also grant us the Light about the Cross and the Cup of Our Lord, the differ­ence between the two and about the destruction of the works of the Devil by Our Lord. These are also deep mysteries to our soul and to our natural understanding.

c) OUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS GOD ALMIGHTY, Who always had every­thing He wanted, Who never suffered short­ages, Who says a Word and it is done, Who can create anything He wants, any time He wants and that, from nothing, just by speaking a Word, Who can do anything and there is nothing too hard for Him to do. (Gen. 18:14 // Jer. 32:27) He has the supreme Power in this Universe and is able to make sure that His Will is always done, and so on. True? YES! This is our simple and logical human understanding and conviction. Are there areas or points in this paragraph where we could also say NO? Yes, there are!

THE WILL OF OUR FATHER IS ALWAYS DONE! BUT WE MAY NOT COMPREHEND HIS WILL OR HIS NEEDS BECAUSE GOD BY THE DECISION OF HIS OWN FREE WILL HAS NEEDS, EVEN UNFULFILLED DESIRES THAT MAN MAY NOT UNDERSTAND.

If we just stay with our human logic, then we must admit that OUR FATHER DELIBERATELY CHOSE to “SUFFER NEED”, “SUFFER PAIN”, to “LOSE WHAT HE DESIRED TO HAVE”, TO “SEE HIS CREATION DESTROYED”… the Creation which He declared “very good” and which He loved. He Himself decided to “DESTROY WHAT HE LOVED”, to CREATE A MAN that is able to bring forth a tool for his work and also to CREATE A WASTER that destroys it. (Is. 54:16) Can we fathom that? NO! Yet, it is true and we may find it throughout the Scripture.

IF Our Father had no need of us, we would never exist and I would not be writing this book! True? Being “as a little child”, I can say anything in good faith and with good intention and My Father will understand and correct me, if necessary. All we have to do at this point is to empty ourselves from all that is logical to our natural, educated soul. That includes our selfishness in general, which involves not only our views and convictions but possess­iveness in general, holding fast our own views, goals, plans, desires to acquire or to rule. Our Lord Jesus emptied Himself of all this “stuff” and let all those things go. He had decided in His Soul to do nothing of Himself, but only what His Father would show Him to do (Jn. 5:19; 8:28) whether it looked logical or not. Again, how far we are from Our Lord as to His Character and Grace and Love for His Father? Can we fathom it? NO! He became an “unnatural Man” shunning His will, plans, desires, preferences and all those forces that are natural to us and hold us in their grip.

We are thus clearly stepping out of our natural human soul, its reason­ing powers and selfishness into His Spirit, Who Alone searches the depth of God and is able to reveal to us what we cannot even imagine. He will not reveal these things of Our Father to any flesh which dwells in us and may rule our natural soul. If we are to receive anything from Our Father, it must be our New Spiritual Man.

WE MUST ABANDON OUR OWN IMAGE OF OUR FATHER AND OF OUR SAVIOUR AND OF OUR LORD. If we are not willing to do it, then we might as well stop reading this book at this very place. If we cannot do it, then we have to ask Him to enable us to do it. If we will not do it, then we cannot receive from Him the light we need to SEE. Let us therefore continue sitting at the Father’s feet as children in hope and faith and in emptying our selves from all the traditional religious stuff that had become our “solitary confinement” and thus the place of our spiritual death.

There is a question which we may ask ourselves and which may be shocking to many; it is the following:

IS SATAN FULFILLING THE WILL OF GOD? YES, OR NO?

If we say “no” we are in conflict with the first two para­graphs of this point c). If we say “yes” we would be in conflict with our own understanding of God, with our own sense of righteousness, just­ification, love, grace, mercy, forgiveness, compassion, goodness of God, etc. True? Is there a third answer? Before we say anything else we must repeat that there are at least TWO BASIC KINDS OF WILL whether that be the Will of God or the will of man. The first basic kind is the PERMISSIVE WILL: DESIRE-PREFERENCE-OBJECT­IVE. And the second basic kind is the ABSOLUTE-UNCHANGEABLE WILL: THE PRINCIPLE-FINAL JUDGMENT.

If Satan is fulfilling the Will of God, then pagans must also be fulfilling His Will; evil itself must be fulfilling His Will; pain and suffer­­­ing are fulfilling His Will; death is fulfilling His Will. Judas Iscariot fulfilled the Will of God just as Pharaoh, Herod, King Saul and all the other evil men did. That does not mean that His desires or preferences have been always fulfilled, but His Judgments and Purposes always have. True? God is “not willing (desiring) that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance”. (2Pet. 3:9)

YET, He accepts the decisions and the destiny of all those that He created for Himself and for His own pleasure though they choose to go their own way and perish. IN HIS PERMISSIVE WILL AND JUDGMENT PEOPLE ARE FREE CREATURES so they have the right to choose what they want. But HIS ABSOLUTE WILL AND JUDGMENT SAYS that no one, who refuses His Word shall live in His Presence. So, in God’s Judgment, it is His continued Grace to allow some believers to be even killed or perish temporarily before they would have a real chance to commit, for example, the sin unto death (Mt. 12:31,32// 1Jn. 5:16) or make other fatal decisions and perish eternally. God views our physical death differently than we view it and He may thus use even our physical death for our good.

d) I AM SURE that in myself I am unable to express realities in the spiritual world in any useful way unless I ask My Father for His Wisdom and ability that He gives to us liberally, if we ask Him. (Jam. 1:5) Therefore, let us ask Him believing that He would grant us His additional Grace, Patience, Wisdom and spiritual eyesight that we would be able to SEE and comprehend what our natural soul cannot possibly see and comprehend. Even though our intellect can see and understand some things pondered in this section, it cannot penetrate into, see and comprehend their spiritual depth, their reach and impact on our Christian life and destiny.

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To be continued next week in chapter 5 – part 3

brother Hanola

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