| Daily Thought — January
10, 2008 |
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| LIVING THE
SOLUTION WITH DAILY INSPIRATION |
Unless a
person submits to this original creation—the "wind
hovering over the water' creation, the invisible moving
the visible, a baptism into a new life—it's not possible
to enter God's kingdom. (John 3:5 — The Message)
This original creation—the “wind
hovering over the water—this is the term
used in Genesis to describe the beginning of creation. “The
earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness.
And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface.” (Genesis
1:2) What was Jesus getting at? Here in this verse we
have the ultimate purpose of the cross and Jesus’ death—to
put us back to the time before the “fall”,
before Adam’s and Eve’s bad choice.
In his book, The
Normal Christian Life,
Watchman Nee presents the idea that Adam and Eve
were created perfectly, but they were not yet perfected.
Perfection would come when they made their choice to
either follow after the knowledge of good and evil or
to submit to life in God. As we all know they chose the
knowledge of good and evil. After that the rest of mankind
had no choice; we were bound to a life in pursuit of
this knowledge and the exultation of self. This was the
sin that needed redeeming, that needed restitution. This
restitution, however, did not make us believers. Jesus
died for everyone’s sins, all people for all time
are forgiven, but not everyone is a believer. This restitution
is not the end but a means to the end. It gives us the
same choice that Adam and Eve had. It is up to us whether
or not we will submit our lives to the “wind hovering
over the water”, the living Spirit of God. When
we choose to do that we are then perfected; we complete
what God created. That is why Jesus says without this
you cannot enter God’s kingdom. To do so you must
be submitted to the King and give control over to Him,
total control.
This does not take away from the cross and Jesus’ death.
It actually makes it more important. Because of his death
we now can chose life, we can now submit to the original
creation—the “wind hovering over the water”,
the Living Spirit of God.
Live intentionally, purposely, free and with passion,
Pete Reinbold
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