So now what? I'm
trying to figure that out.
I have met the Holy Father - God Almighty. Tracy
I have been guilty of having my focus on Jesus. Not a bad place to focus by any means. But when I read the New Testament letters and
gospels and it is all about Christ. All
of creation is pointing to Him. He said
that if you've seen Him you've seen the Father.
I do not doubt it.
He is God, so what's the problem? ..... I
don't know.
Somehow I need the Old Testament to really learn about the
Father, to become familiar with Him and who He is. The Trinity is God the Father, Christ Jesus
the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Maybe to focus on only Christ is to miss a third of who God
is. Perhaps that is it, at least in part;
that in order to know God and to function as He planned I need to be brought
into His presence. I need to be aware of
His Majesty, His Power, His Holiness, His strength and every other facet of who
He is. In order to understand His plan
for me and to be able to worship Him in spirit and truth I must 'see' Him and
discover His person as well.
The New Testament given to reveal the secret (the untold
mystery of the Old Testament) of Christ and His manifestation into the flesh
was new to them who it was written for in those days. However though the 'Law' of the Old Testament
was not meant to justify but to reveal the need for justification, it is also a
revelation of who God is. It was a His-story,
history, of Him and His movement in the earth, through His people. So for me to dismiss the need for Old
Testament study is absurd now to me. And
though I had not summarily dismissed it, I had focused on New Testament
teachings to order my life by.
Somehow the Old Testament has been degraded into a
substandard position for me and I think other believers, especially those who
like me revel in the freedom of our rebellious past. We love casual. God is not casual. I think He is serious. Not stuffy and religious, but serious. (Big difference there)
Coming into the presence of God the Father was so different
than meeting Christ the son. Jesus Savior,
Friend, Companion, Hope of the Nations, always accessible, loving and caring
has come to represent in my mind, the fullness of who God is, alone. But He was flesh, He came as one of us, and
somehow because of that - in order to relate to us - He giving up His place in
heaven (albeit it only temporarily) - He became a bit 'less than' in my thinking. So there is a subtle attitude that I have in
which I do not revere Him in the same way as I do the Father. I feel kind of 'pal-sie' with Jesus. A less than adequate response to who He is,
to be sure. But being honest, I think a
lot of us view Jesus this way. He is familiar;
therefore I have taken a casual approach in my relationship with Him much of
the time.
So having the veil torn by Christ's sacrifice allows us in
to the Holy of Holies, into the very presence of God Almighty. No man may see God and live. Something must die to be in His
presence. Christ died, but we also must
die for that privilege. To see Him and
to know Him was Christ's goal, bringing us back together as it was supposed to
be. So we worship the Bridge for the
sacrifice that He made, and many of us stop there, including myself. I had been content to stay in the outer
courts with only an occasional glimpse of His Majesty.
I repent Father.
You have given Your Son for me to have the opportunity to
return to fellowship with You. For that
I have never given enough weight, enough thought, enough worth. It is huge.
It is monumental. It is
awesome.
I had no idea that there was more. That Jesus was the Door... Begs the question of, "Door to what, and
to where?" Right? But thinking now, it's a DUH! Of course there's more. The Door leads to the gates of heaven, the
kingdom that He is building with us, the living stones. The kingdom, a place where the Father
resides, and is worshiped day and night, round the clock by all in His presence
(if there would be clocks in heaven). God
is infinite and unfathomable. I just
shake my head at my own small brain. And
once again am thankful for Christ's sacrifice, not only for the fact that He redeemed
me from my sins, (which is where I usually stop), but to redeem me for the
purpose of His will, (which I'm having more understanding of now days), and to
be reconciled to the Father (a foreign thought until recently, that will I'm
sure develop into a full-blown theme in my life). The
veil was torn and we have access to the throne above. It is a good idea for to me at least get a
clue about who sits on that throne.
Well that only leaves the Holy Spirit. I wonder how He will make Himself known to
me? I am hoping that I don't have one of
those - get swept out to sea and put into the belly of a whale - type
experience before I give in to His direction for me. I hope that I am open to the leading of the
Holy Spirit enough to follow when I am told to follow, and do what I am
directed to do, that my ears are ears that hear His voice and that I obey it.
Always one to try to categorize according to my own minute
way of thinking:
Christ: flesh - touch - taste (communion).....
God the Father: on high - see - hear......
Can one smell the Holy Spirit?????
Ok that's just silly, I know.
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