Flesh Bibles

How we freshly appreciate the wonder of God becoming flesh, as we think of all you God-filled people we met this weekend! To recognize the Father in one another has always been His idea. To recognize Him, need not be some spectacular event or some visible glow upon your head. We simply need to see from His point of view, for He recognizes His own image and likeness within each man. Have you ever wondered what God’s mirror looks like? When God looks at you, he looks into a mirror – He sees Himself! Jesus was a person so much like us, so ordinary, that the Pharisees had to pay someone to point Him out. Yet He said that if anyone saw Him they saw the Father. We do not need a new event, a more spectacular demonstration, to recognize the Father – we simply need a new appreciation of how He chose to reveal Himself. He chose man! His ultimate intention was never for His Word to be captured in a book, a doctrine, but to become flesh – to be expressed in human form. A blank piece of paper makes no contribution to the message written by the author – as living epistles, we can only let God – the author and finisher of our faith – write whatever He determined to write through our lifes.

You are designed for intimacy with the Father. There is nothing difficult or unnatural about it. This intimacy is not limited to a venue or dependant on a specific environment. It is not limited to an event or a specific time. God’s chosen moment of encounter is always NOW. Neither is this relationship in any way related to your contribution! Jesus did not say to the woman at the well that once she gives Him a cup of water, then He will take her contribution and multiply it and make it a fountain in her. Before she gave Him anything Jesus said: "If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water." If you know the generosity of God, you will never again be conscious of your own contribution!

At another stage When Jesus taught how to react to the reality of daily needs, He advised us to look at the birds that neither sow nor reap! The Fathers provision has nothing to do with your contribution! Jesus taught on sowing and reaping a another time, but in this context - the context of need – He advised us to rather place our focus on the Father’s goodness than on our contribution!

Let us summarize what we have said so far:
Our intimacy with the Father is:
· not restricted to a place, a venue or an specific environment.
· His time is NOW. Just like you can’t live on the memory of your last meal or the expectation of a future meal, you were not designed for mental encounter with Father, but a real partaking of His substance.
· not limited to our contribution.

You are His venue. Who you are, is the only environment necessary for encounter. Remember, this intimacy is with ‘I AM’ not with ‘I USED TO BE’ or ‘ I AM GOING TO BE’ He only knows of one appropriate time and that is NOW.

Let us now take a step deeper. The father does not intent your worship and adoration to be focussed on Him externally. He want you to realize and recognize and appreciate that the very qualities you adore in Him, He reproduced in you!

“ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect” Deu 32:3,4


Andre Rabe
http://eclesia.blogspot.com