Message 19 - Book 5
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Message 19 - Book 5 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF
A determined little girl student wearing a supremely confident expression on her determined face sat at her school desk intently sketching on a drawing pad. Her teacher, monitoring the class at work, paused at the student’s desk and asked the little girl, “What are you drawing, dear?” The intent little girl replied, “This is going to be a picture of GOD!
The teacher replied, “Are you aware that nobody knows what GOD looks like?” to which the little girl, obviously undeterred, responded, “Well, they will when I get finished!”
GOD is spoken of countless times every day all over the world in many different languages by folks who speak of HIM as they might speak of a neighbor with whom they are well acquainted, although they feel close to HIM as the result of having read about HIM in the Holy Bible; even though it is written into the Holy Scripture of Truth that “GOD has made everything beautiful but has set the world in their heart so that no man can find out the work that GOD makes from the beginning to the end” (Eccles. 3:11). This admonishes us that however much we may learn of spiritual truths, we will not be able to elicit all aspects of our creation and our heavenly and earthly status. There are many reasons for this state of affairs, all of which rightfully belong in the province of GOD’s Will.
Not content with having limited man’s knowledge of all the many aspects of his creation, the Ecclesiastes writer disclosed, “I have seen the travail which GOD has given to the sons of men to be exercised in it” (Eccles. 3:10). Not only are we to be limited in what we can learn about our existence, we are advised that we are to be “exercised in travail” during our incarnate earthly learning experiences! Why should not such conditions predominate? GOD exists in dimensions far above and beyond man’s comprehension; should the statue understand the carver’s reasons why he chipped away as he chose to do?
But the Holy Bible supplies stepping stones to provide mankind a way to understand basic essentials in the process of his creation. The spiritually illuminated Apostle John established the all-important principle that GOD IS A SPIRIT (Jn. 4:25). Understood in its spiritual sense – in accordance with 2 Cor. 3:3-6 – GOD the Father is the Creator of all things that now exist, that have ever existed, or that will exist in the future. As Apostle Paul, after his powerful rebirth experience on the Damascus Road, disclosed to the Ephesians, “There is one GOD and Father of all, who is above us all and through us all and in us all (Ephesians 4-6).
By this we understand that GOD’s Spirit is Creative Energy existent at the highest and most powerful level known to mankind. It pervades all things, being the Spiritual Energy in everything that exists, including ourselves. Jesus declared that GOD the Father is in Him, and He is in GOD (Jn. 10:38). Thus we understand that GOD’s and Christ’s Spirit Energy are present in both. Thus the Spirit of GOD the Father of All things is in Jesus the Son of GOD, and that the Son of GOD is also a Spirit.
GOD, then, is a Spirit Energy having the property of being miscible within itself in all its various vibrational frequencies of which it is composed, and HE is able to control, regulate, and adjust them at HIS Will. And since GOD has seen fit to empower HIS Son over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18), presumably the Son also has the power to control and regulate all things at His own Will.
Series to be Continued in Message Twenty - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF