Man became alienated from God in the garden of Eden, and for the moment God is staying in the background. He lets us deny his existence if that’s what we desire. In our present emotional condition, awareness of God permeating all of space could have an adverse affect upon our sense of freedom. Our true self would not show, or perhaps we would beat ourselves to death fighting the light as does a pitiful moth.
Science is correct in saying that light fills all of space, but that very little of it is actually visible to our eyes (ref. My page “Trinity” from my Home page). That same thing is true of God, so there is a reason why God remains invisible to us. In this environment we can experience a greater sense of freedom, and our freedom is very important to him. It is also important for us, of our own freewill, to come to agree with him that freedom must be governed by personal responsibility. We must learn to care for others.
We each need to understand that in unique and individual ways, we are all our “brother’s keeper.” As individuals, all of us have a much greater awareness of our own self than of any other being. Next in line would be those that we are close to, loved ones and family, friends. Anyone can claim an awareness of God, but a true consciousness would permit God to be his own self, whether we see him visibly or not.
As it is today, if one of us simply tries to exhibit the evidence for God’s existence, that person is often met by ridicule or even violence. We must become aware of the need for accepting God’s influence in our life. That event must eventually embody an acceptance of Jesus. Earth’s reaction to the advent of Jesus into this world is actually its response to God. It would actually be simple for God to subdue the earth, but it is not so easy to change rebellious hearts. Rather than to intimidate us by appearing in his power, he came as one of us. He came as one of you.
You may be at war with God at this stage of your life, but God is fighting for you, not against you. I now want to use the word “we,” because I am one of you. God is for us. If we lose, it will be because we continue hiding from the truth, fearing that it will hurt us, perhaps even kill us. But it is the truth that will set us free, and God is fighting to give us life forever, not to harm us.
Take another look at the world’s rejection and crucifixion of Jesus. Those are the wounds he received in his battle to win our hearts. There is a question in Zechariah 13:6, a prophecy from around 500 years prior to the advent of Jesus; “What are these wounds in your hands?” And the answer is, “These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.” Though he was fighting for us, we resisted, and it brought about his suffering and death. Our ability to change our mind may seem to grow weaker as time passes, but Jesus can yet free us (John 8:36) , and only he can. Exercise faith in him and keep calling on him as long as it takes.
The serpent’s lie to Adam and Eve was that we could be like gods (Genesis 3:1-5). God wants you to be you, and me to be me, but a paradise cannot exist where every living being is behaving as if it were an autonomous god, fighting over every concept of right and wrong. Even if an Antichrist forced all humanity into agreement, as some tyrants have attempted to do, that wouldn’t make us right, and it wouldn’t make us into God.
…I have said before that I believe the personal Hebrew name for God (YHWH) is the origin of our English word “you.” One Hebrew symbol represents our letters v,w,u, sometimes o, and ou. The Hebrew symbol for “Y” becomes an “I” when transliterated into Greek, and a “J” in modern English. Hence, “YHWH” sometimes appears as “JHVH,” and is written out as Jehovah. The Hebrew “H,” sometimes becomes an “E” in words transliterated into Greek. So “YH” could become “You,” or “Ye.” An “H” at the end of names and such sometimes becomes an “S” when transliterated into Greek, and is also one of those letters that can become silent in English.
As the word “you” is probably derived from “YHWH,” so it is in a fashion that your life also comes from his. As I’m using the word “you,” I’m trying to make a point and not excluding myself; I am one of you. As is the case for each of us, one day you must meet YHWH, and the mystery of both you and YHWH will be solved. God has come into our world as Jesus, and our first reaction to him wasn’t positive, but his mission was to create peace between man and God. We all need forgiven and now is the time to ask of him.
We would probably feel compelled to beg forgiveness upon suddenly coming face to face with God; but would repentance under such circumstances be real? Would that really be our desire and our will? Receiving Jesus here and now, is receiving God (John 14:6,7) of our own freewill. The world is flaunting its freedom from God, reveling in its belief that we are free to remake God in our image. But saying “freedom from God” is like saying “freedom from freedom,” for it cannot exist outside of God.
When we declare our independence from light and proclaim our own concepts of love and truth above that of God, we are enslaving our hearts to darkness. Now you can be you, but you can’t be YHWH; neither can I, but God can be a part of us. He must be if we are to live forever, and that’s a good thing, whether we realize it or not.
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