THE WHOLE REALM AND RANGE OF CHRIST FOR EXPERIENCE, IS DEPENDENT UPON HIS RISEN LIFE IN US, OUR LAYING HOLD OF IT, AND STANDING ON IT. MAY THE LORD SHOW US MORE OF WHAT THAT MEANS.



Wednesday, October 5, 2011

CHRIST IS THE INTERPRETATION OF THE WORD


HAVE YOU EVER COME UPON A SCENE OF SOMETHING AND WISH YOU COULD CAPTURE THE BEAUTY OF IT FOREVER? 
OR HEARD A SONG OR A SERMON THAT MOVES YOU IN THE DEPTHS OF YOUR HEART, AND YOU WANT OT HOLD IT CLOSE, AND NOT FORGET IT.
WE CAN TAKE A PICTURE, TO HOLD ON TO THE MOMENT.  WE CAN RECORD MUSIC, AND SERMONS, AND TRY TO RECAPTURE THE DEEP MOVING OF GOD'S SPIRIT ON OUR HEART,  BUT THE MOMENT IS SOON GONE, OR WILL SOON FADE AND WE HAVE TO MOVE INTO THE NEXT MOMENT HOPING TO CAPTURE THE PREVIOUS MOMENT'S  BLESSING.
BECAUSE WE ARE OR MUST MOVE FROM ONE MOMENT TO THE NEXT IN OUR LEARNING, AND EXPERIENCE OF LIFE,  IT IS AS IT IS WRITTEN, LINE UPON LINE, PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT, THAT WE COME TO LEARN THE WORD OF GOD ALSO.
BUT LEARNING THE WORD, THOUGH WE STUDY IT FOR OUR LIFE TIME,  DOES NOT NECESSARILY QUALIFY US TO INTERPRET IT.  FOR IN THE END, IF WE DO NOT KNOW CHRIST,  WE CANNOT INTERPRET IT  (RECEIVE IT IN THE POWER OF THE PERSON OF CHRIST FOR OURSELVES, OR FOR OTHERS.)
JESUS IS THE INTERPRETATION  ( THE PRESENTING OF JESUS CHRIST ) IN THE WRITTEN AND INSPIRED WORD OF THE BIBLE. 
BUT IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH IS THE INTERPRETER  (REVEAL-ER) OF CHRIST TO US, THE IN-SPIRITED WORD OF THE MIND, WILL AND PURPOSE OF CHRIST WHO DWELLS IN THE TIMELESS BEHOLDING OF THE UNFOLDING WORKMANSHIP OF HIS HANDS.  HE IS THE BREATH OF THE NEW CREATION MAN.
FOR YEARS, EVEN AS A CHRISTIAN, I WAS GRIEVED TO READ GOD'S WORD.  IT ALWAYS MADE ME FEEL SUCH CONDEMNATION, AND RIGHTFULLY SO.  HE CALLED ME TO HIMSELF,  I HEARD HIS VOICE.  BUT I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO LEAVE MY PAST AND MY FUTURE, AND KNOW HIM IN THE NOW, REAL MOMENT OF WHICH HE WAS BEHOLDING ME. 
HE SET ME ON A PATH OF SEARCHING,  LETTING ME TASTE OF MAN'S WAY OF THINKING AND INTERPRETING,  AND THEN COMING TO LET ME TASTE OF THE FRESH AND ALIVE WORD FOR MYSELF.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE HAVING A CAN OF PROCESSED FOOD, COMPARED TO SOMETHING FRESH.
I'M NOT SAYING HERE, THAT WE ALL NEED TO GO OFF AND WAIT FOR GOD TO REVEAL HIMSELF IN OUR NOW.  ALTHOUGH THAT'S HIS PLAN FOR US ULTIMATELY, THAT WE MIGHT WALK MOMENT BY MOMENT IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF HIS SPIRIT IN US.
THERE ARE MANY SPIRIT FILLED MEN AND WOMEN WHOM HE HAS CHOSEN AND APPOINTED TO PRESENT CHRIST THROUGH THE WRITTEN WORD.  BUT THERE ARE FEWER, WHO CAN PRESENT THE WORD BY THE INTERPRETER,  THE HOLY SPIRIT.
WHAT EVER IS BEING TAUGHT, OR SHARED, OR LEARNED CONCERNING GOD'S WORD,  THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ENCOMPASSES THE ETERNAL PURPOSES OF GOD,  REVEALING CHRIST.
ALL THAT I'VE SHARED IS MEIR WORDS,  MY THINKING, REASONING, INTERPRETING, PRESENTING.  WHAT I AM BEHOLDING IN THE MOMENT AND WANT TO HOLD ON TO...TO REMEMBER, TO CONTEMPLATE, TO SHARE.
LISTEN! AND BEHOLD!  RIGHT NOW IN THIS MOMENT,  THIS ETERNAL MOMENT,  LEARN TO FOCUS ON THE REALITY THAT WE ARE EVER IN HIS SIGHT, IN HIS PLAN, IN HIS PURPOSE AND HIS WILL TO MAKE KNOWN SPIRITUAL THINGS TO SPIRITUAL MEN.  KNOW THIS ALSO, THAT THE CARNAL MIND CANNOT RECEIVE THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT,  FOR THE WORDS OF MAN'S WISDOM CAN NOT INTERPRET THE WORD.   MAN'S INTERPRETATION IS ALWAYS FILLED WITH HIS OWN THINKING.  HIS OWN UNDERSTANDING.
LET CHRIST INTERPRET HIS WORD, THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO WILL REVEAL HIM.
"OH LORD UNITE YOUR BODY IN THE REVELATION OF WHO YOU ARE IN YOUR TIMELESS ETERNITY.  GOD WITH US.  NOW

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