A CLEAR VIEW

      The primary legacy of man has been the obfuscation of God's Word. Obfuscation: the obscuring of intended meaning in communication, making the message confusing, willfully ambiguous, or harder to understand.

     The natural Adam man constructs his life view according to himself, his interests. He is bound by his nature to do so, there simply is no other choice for him. We Christians are members of the natural Adam family as a condition, therefore we are guilty of carrying on Adams self serving failure also. He went his own way.

      We are self centered creatures and cannot escape our own destiny. In this way we are much like a animal. We all see what we see in the frame of reference of what and where we are at the moment we receive the  information or stimulus. This is our identification as sinful humans. Its called being self centered. Yes Christians too!

      That is why true Christianity is forever and always contrary to the natural inclinations. Christianity requires only and always faith in the actions on another. Faith will not be proved by our feelings or actions, choices or morals as natural men. Within ourselves we do not have the capacity to form a godly or even a good choice, we only like to think we do. As a matter of fact it may take a life time to internalize faiths message, as the Adam man must forge the road of a indeterminate quality of his own faith.

      A contemporary and worldly example of the typical Adam mans self serving for us to consider is the current global financial system we have all embraced. It is debt based; all money issued is in the form of a interest bearing note, a debt instrument, including cash produced from those debts. We all know debt must be repaid and we all should know that debt which is used for a non-productive purpose like transfer payments, deficit spending, welfare, wars and a large centralized bureaucracy etc. poses no return and therefore cannot be serviced by any proceeds from it, as this type of debt produces none. It cannot even be paid off, it must ever be expanded to continue to support itself.

      This type of money creation has no value added [unlike a loan to build a factory] and is not true capitalism; which means savings or earnings applied. Yet we persist in believing the lie that continued deficit spending and debt expansion will keep us fat and happy. Like a dog if one continues to feed it, it will eat and eat, even to its own destruction. The mathematical law of exponents [how many times a number is multiplied] proves a crushing collapse must come with unlimited debt expansion, as all debt must be serviced and repaid. That is its nature.

      You see my friends we only see things from the perspective of that which pleases us best at any given time, even if we lazily and simply absorb another mans opinion on matters of truth or volunteer to be victims of the current system and make it ours; which is most often the case.

      I have been thinking a lot lately about how one can know a true truth. There is only one truth about any one thing, at least in essence. There are not many true views of God's word, only one true one. In the case of our relationship with God it is critical that our own perspective [self centered desires] and the absorption of others self serving opinion not get in the way of that truth; a most difficult, perhaps even impossible task. How then shall we proceed?

      One might say just read and believe the bible, pray a lot, do good things, don't sin too much.....well OK that's pretty good. But what about the basic dilemma? All of mans questions are answered according to his own self wish perspective. Hardly a bookmark for true truth in that schematic; which is defined as: a drawing showing relationship between two designs. Here it is God's and man's. There is a big difference! Our only job as Christians is to discover what is truly true by the Holy Spirit, or God's design.

      That is why dear saints I go on and on about faith. Granted we may have a misplaced faith even a silly faith or a faith in something that's not possible or true like our monetary system. Us continuing on living successfully in a debt based economy and not suffer the pay off call. It would be so easy just to say read this or that bible verse or go to church and then believe and all would be well.

      However I think the answer to our issue [Adams dilemma] lies in a specific hope or a need applied. A defining awareness of our weakness and corruption as Adam men. You see one does not seek faith if one does not need it first. That needful condition is the precursor to faith. But knowledge of the truth must then be consistently and aggressively sought. If one truly seeks he will find because the Holy Spirit will provide the truth. God's nature demands it.

      Thankfully even a misplaced or erroneous belief is a tool used by a loving God to bring us into the freedom of truth when we finally suffer enough and admit to it's lie or the error of our way. As those in pursuit of a misplaced goal hopefully soon do, bringing need. At least this is true for those whom God knows will finely receive His true truth. Of course eventually all of mankind will. But why wait?

      Often the result of a practical path to discovering God leads us down a crooked trail. This is merely a human reality. One day we wake up and discover that the road we were on is not taking us to the place we hoped to be, even though we may be morally correct in many of our life choices. Then despair comes forward, weakness prevails. We question the story we once thought so true. Often  having been lead there by well meaning men whom we respect; who suffer our same condition. If one is simply satisfied he has already succumbed to his condition. Our only hope is the Holy Spirit allows pain and suffering to arise.

      We then begin to hear something new that our ears formerly could not. We come to see that the problem is in our nature, not merely our understanding alone. We have to move out of the way. We may now enter upon a new road; one of faith that has been made clear in the life and death of another Man, Jesus Christ.... For that exact purpose [us finding our life in Him by faith] God has placed us in His consideration positioned in His Son.

      God knows mans condition far better than we. He, by His love for the being or essence of each and every individual predestined to receive Him and all others for that matter, provided a way for us to enjoy Him in a present reality, one of truth, seen only by faith in it [the truth] specifically. His plan was not to remake our Adam man with his sinful condition. Pound it into submission. He simply became us and provided the way for us in Himself. Really the only logical way of satisfaction for a perfect being who is love and by His nature must demand perfection. He could not have possibly used us. We only need the hope of faith in that exact truth to realize it. But we must use our mind to prove it to ourselves!

      Now by faith we are asked to exercise our mind, to choose to live our life by His provision of  His identity. Learning to recognize our condition, but having faith in our position which is identified by God as in Christ. We the Christian, have been absorbed or placed into Jesus Christ by The Fathers design. Is it possible we can truly believe this as our only true and real form of life? Ask Paul.

     The Father is non-material and we have become also non-material or spiritual by being born again. Our life is found in Spirit, not a changed Adam man. This requires faith at the outset, we call that justification. It is all a matter for the mind. The only way to God and eternal life is through the minds door as shown by His Word. Why then do we enter the futility of a discovery according to mans perception and not God's? Because we always will seek the easy path.

      His Son identified with us for the purpose of pleasing the Father, that He [The Father] might fellowship with us forever. He [The Son] went to the cross, died and came back in Resurrection all in representation of the Adam man. He Ascended in that same status....a Man in the flesh is now at the right hand of God and His presence there is applied to us. Only faith will see that. No work will do. But then how do we live it now, in our Adam condition?

      Can we believe this is true? Can we apply it to ourselves? Is it possible God sees us only in His Son? Can we stop being committed to remaking the Adam man and learn to rest in the position and identification of the New Man Jesus Christ as our inheritance? These are all good and worthy questions we must all at some point ask of ourselves. We must prepare a answer by faith. But first knowledge shows the way. Faith in a truth is the only way to please God. His Word provides the answers.

      Hope and need paves the way for the clear view....weakness and failure are the fuel for the journey. The end of ourselves is the beginning of life. Faith applied along the way by His Word as the resting place will provide the sanctuary. There is no other way.