Christ – the ultimate design.

Christ – the ultimate design.

John describes God as light, life and love.
God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. His light is not just any light, it is absolute light. Darkness cannot understand or overcome it. Light is not a passive quality, its dynamic, explosive. Light desires to shine! This is God; He desires to reveal Himself. He is not withdrawn, unknowable and hidden. He is light and He desires to enlighten every man with the knowledge of His favour. While Paul was hunting down the followers of Jesus Christ, Jesus revealed Himself to Paul. Later Paul writes about the God who reveals Himself to those who do not seek Him! He makes His sun to shine on the evil and the good. It is in His nature to reveal Himself; it’s got nothing to do with your ability to attain revelation, it’s got everything to do with His desire to reveal Himself independent of you deserving or not deserving it!

God is life and in him is no death at all! The greek word for this God-kind of life is Zoe. It also has the meaning of absolute life in it. Jesus spoke about this life as abundant life. At another time he describes it as a spring of living water bursting forth from within you. Again, this is no passive quality. God is not passive, He brims over with life. He lives abundantly and desires to share this abundant life. His life is so expansive and so full of goodness that he simply has to share it.

God is love. Love’s greatest need is to give. This is no passive love either, but a love that manifests itself. He demonstrated His love toward us, in that while we were yet at enmity against Him, He reconciled us to Himself! While the world was still spitting in His face and breathing out hatred against Him, He kissed the world and declared that their trespasses would no longer be held against them. This is a love so great that it cannot wait for man to approach, but took the initiative to embrace us while we were yet hostile.

We so often limit our perceptions to our own points of view. We see the love of God only within the context of our need. But it is not so much our need for His love or light that caused Him to reach out to us, as it is His own desire to simply love. It is not just the intensity of the darkness we are in, that motivates Him to bring light. It is simply His nature to shine forth.

God delights in revealing Himself. He overflows with life. He brims over with love. He bursts forth with light. At the very core of who God is, is this urgency to express Himself, to manifest Himself, to demonstrate His love. The whole of the universe is testimony to His enormous desire and ability to express Himself. Every galaxy, every plant, every animal is a unique manifestation of His imagination. But ultimately a person wants to express Himself through a personality and that’s why God made you!

Love needs to give; Light’s nature is to shine; life reproduces. These are the characteristics of God; these are His essential qualities. This expressive nature of God gave birth to His ultimate plan and purpose: He designed a vehicle, a being through which He would accurately and completely express Himself! He preserved that design in Christ. You are part of that design! The way is which the Word describes His eternal purpose is so revealing of His desire to express Himself: A body through which He would live; A living temple which He would fill Himself and dwell in; A kingdom of light and love in which He would put away all contradiction.

His eternal purpose is to fully express Himself. In Christ the fullness of the Godhead dwells in a bodily form and you find your completeness in Him
Col 2:9 Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don't need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him.
Col 2:10 When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.
Col 2:11 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It's not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you're already in--insiders--not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin.

By Andre Rabe
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http://eclesia.blogspot.com