Being Equal

Come on... Stretch out your wretched, broken, and withered hand and I will heal you!

Sounds weird coming from me, huh? Yeah, for sure. But coming from Jesus, it was perfectly normal--if you knew that He was EQUAL to the Father God.

Just yesterday, my wife asked me if I knew about some new religion claiming that when a person accepts Jesus, then that person becomes a god themselves. In fact, if we are literally then sons or daughters of God, then there must be no other rationale but to claim deity for ourselves, right? I think we all have heard what happened to the Angel of Light, Lucifer, when he tried to claim this very thing for himself and was evicted from heaven along with the other angels that believed the same stuff. Even the angels have a free-will, for they too can decide to follow God's plan willingly, or not. Maybe they were just being revolutionary in their thinking. God's ways were so "old-school" and they decided they could improve on the agenda. Yes, yes, yes! They had a better idea for the way things should be -- more so than God!

Well, God decided otherwise. Instead of tolerating their new agenda, God kicked them out of Heaven. So God's obviously a "hater" now for not accepting their "better" way of thinking, acting, and behaving, which is basically contrary to His purpose and design for them. God is so wrong fordoing this! How could He do such a thing, does'nt he know who Lucifer is? Dude, Lucifer is a god too, so you better give him some "r-e-s-p-e-c-t" now. Yeah, right! Like the book of Revelations doesn't tell you how things are gonna end.

So, what about us? Are we really reading the Bible as the Word of God as His Truth and adapting our minds, wills, behaviors to what He says, or do we honestly believe that we can be little, "mini-me" gods and change things that we don't agree with? We go to church, sing hallelujah and praise God and each other, yet somehow we discredit ourselves and prove our religion to be worthless by the motivations of our hearts and our actions. After all, can't we see that what God said in His Word so long ago was for somebody else, and couldn't possibly apply to my life today. Maybe God is a"HATER" as much today -- as He was in the beginning. Maybe it's just that you don't agree with God's Word, since it causes your flesh to burn at the thought of Him requesting that you conform to His definition of a "CHRISTIAN" and not your own. Go ahead, re-write the Bible to make yourself feel better; Disagree with God so you can live your life anyway you wish; You can live for you, for your "dreams", to build your own "tower of Babel" if you think that God will tolerate this. How are we ever to reach our schools, cities, or communities for Jesus if we not even willing to conform ourselves to the standards that God has revealed to us?

So many Christians hang onto things that should also be filtered through the Word of God and through the renewing of our minds in light of the new creations we should be after becoming Christians. Even key aspects of our different cultures that we prize and value must be held up to the Light of God's Word and be filtered accordingly. What! You're telling me that I have to stop being latin, filipino, indian, german, etc... NO! But the life that God desires from you should transcend even your own culture.

Within your own culture, Jesus desires to renew your whole life so that you could most effectively glorify Him, right where you are! But are you like Lucifer? Do you think that you have a better way, or a better plan than God's? Are you being deceived? If you are, and don't know it then you would say "no". That's deception; Your perception has been altered to make you think everything is alright. Is everything alright, is the flesh and the spirit in agreement in your life? Do they ultimately line-up with the Word of God, for this is the litmus test. Of course, if you've decided to EDIT how, when, where and to what areas of your life the Lord has access to, then maybe your'e not the person you think you are.

We attempt to make ourselves EQUAL with each other irregardless of position, authority, or design. We simply don't like even the appearance of someone or something higher than us on the foodchain. People preach EQUALITY at the expense of purpose. As humans, we are created equal in our essence. By God, we were created male and female --for a purpose. As Christians, we also have a different purpose, but that does make any of us gods, nor does that mean that we should assume we can claim authority to nullify the Bible whenever we claim a new purpose for our lives that, by our own declaration, supercedes the divinely inspired Word of God! In other words, if you don't believe it, then admit it. If you can't ask God for wisdom in these matters, then don't expect revelation. If you think that your opinion is worth more than God's, then go and live like the rest of the world, if that's really what you want to do. So, who is really "HATING" now, us or God?