You, however, are not under the control of the human nature but under the control of the Spirit, since God's Spirit lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of the Messiah, he does not belong to him" Rom. 8:9"
It is pictures rather than propositions, metaphors rather than statements, which most often determine our spiritual/mental/philosophical convictions and thus our Christian world view. We receive a image in our subconscious mind and therefore results the consequent conscious actions we take. Many of our Christian life discovery's are derived from traditions engaged in, impressions and influences, snippets heard here and there. We are thus held captive in the mirror of our mind.
Some images are accurate some not, but all are capable of being formed/studied/ contemplated and lived out by the non-empirical process of the mind's intuition. But thankfully despite the vast formative rush of words and pictures merged into our conscious awareness, and then indulged in, some right some wrong, we make our way by God's grace. But the experience never the less effects how we can acknowledge the notion of the mind in conscious awareness, as the mirror of the life of the Spirit. It effects the way we can know our place in God's providence. What is really our contemplation of God, who we are to Him in our minds eye and therefore the direction of our soul.
If our thoughts are misplaced or inaccurate the presence of knowledge that is actually true of our God Christ Jesus is limited. The result is the door to the importance of the process of living His life as one manifested in truth, as His new creation, is Held back. Many never, to their great loss, learn a immaterial inner and sedulously [preserving or constant effect] sought biblical true exercise, largely because it is too much work for them. As they must, to live His life responsibly, attend to gaining truth through His Word in a way that favors Him in reality. However to live this kind of life, a new creation life, requires a seekers heart which is only acquired by admitted weakness.
It is the combination of Christ Jesus' true narrative from His Word and His Spirit within and our capacity of contemplation of His truth, thoughts as well as studious knowledge, which forms the affection of our soul. It is so sad how few it seems will take the time [have deep enough need] to develop either one. The truth is so many do not because they have little need within. Mostly finding themselves settled in, in their comfort and traditions or their occupation with themselves and the world.
I believe we have come to admire the surroundings and atmosphere allowed by grace as simply His communications with us as expected. His taken for granted provision for our contact with Him. Rather than occupying His Word in contemplation by faith in it's revelation of Himself to us. Him formed in our inner man, a spiritually true life. However in our emotional satisfaction of our social and worshipful provision we tend to see a certain godliness we think of as approved. A taken for granted proper method, forming a image which we have adopted of habit as His church. If it looks good and feels good this must be God's way for us.
The loss is ours if His Word has not built our thoughts of Him individually in a diligent needful accuracy, as to our heavenly position. And then unto a faith experience of a new creation life in identification of His Son. It is our loss if we loose the beautiful picture of His Son as the very true and only living or eternal identification of ourselves in our inner man. His Word tell us this is just as the Father finds us in Christ Jesus who is at His Right Hand. We pictured perfectly in the mirror of His mind, His thoughts of us empowered as He observes His Son.
The believer must come to know that position; where the death, resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ has forever placed him before he can acquire an intelligent worship, be an accepted servant, or a effective wittiness. We may then move forward as reflections of God, by honoring Him in a intelligent faith in complete dependence upon His divine providence. Unfortunality we often rely on a collective experience urged along the path of feelings and emotions; usually engaged with a organization attempting godliness but really often its direction is dependent upon mans selective and worldly judgment and conditional comfort. We now have as result largely institutions dedicated to pleasing man and their traditions.
Many simply rest with the thought of their sins pardoned thinking themselves on the Christian path of life, but know nothing of a personal attachment to the Risen and Ascended Lord Jesus Christ in heaven, or of a faith that lives in the invisible established in a mature spiritual contemplation. The heavenly walk with the Father is not their experience as their works are earthly and often influenced by cultural expression.
We struggle in our own strength, faith wanes and waxes; religious habits are kept up; but there is often little evidence we as a church have entered into His glory in the contemplation of His Word. Specifically the image of a new creation being developed. "The power of the world, the spirit of its literature and the temptations of business and pleasure, all unite to make up a religion in which it is sought to combine a comfortable hope for the future with the least possible amount of sacrifice in the present." This is the place many find themselves in the translation provided them of the Christian life by their commitment to what is effectively a man designed collective organizational process they assume as God's direction for them.
As humans, the way we process and react to information is influenced by both the biology of our brains as well as our social and cultural norms. Let's face it Christianity in its spiritual essence is unprovable, using any scientific biological means that is. That is why God presented us with His Words for the contemplation of His reality individually and internally, wholly within our mind to be taken in a contemplative process. A learned process! So it stands to reason if we do not first have a great need to know, followed by a firm commitment to learn this truth on our own, we loose the message He has for us in the privacy of our minds.
The result is the grace that saves us from death and judgement, with present forgiveness of sins, is clouded with uncertainty. So much so that the fullness of grace in seating us in the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven is rarely heard of, much less known and believed as a present realty, by a knowledgeable contemplative studious faith process. It is no wonder then that we accept the established traditions, "the ground of a earthly people". Aligning ourselves with the very place that rejected our Saviour.
We have developed a earthly system as if that is what we should be in experience and practice, rather than what God has established since Christ has come here and gone back to heaven, paving the way for a spiritual existence. The world it's ways and our habits of worship all conspire to block the true reality of our eternal redemption, eternal life and present seated position in Christ before the Father. All of which are found only and lived exclusively in a mental conception of our abiding rest and peace of a complete salvation represented by Christ Jesus and us positioned heavenly in Him. And all available to us here and now. Happy are they who receive in their simplicity these blessed spiritual realities as beyond all question. Knowing them as contemplations call from our great and faithful loving God and Father. "For the law [heavenly reality] of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law [earthly reality] of sin and death" Rom 8:2.
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