How, Through Christ, We Understand God And Ourselves

Go from lip service to a spiritual sacrifice.
Walk the talk... and live the dream planted in your heart.
The dream to experience the Divine Nature - life in Christ.

God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in Truth. 

- John 4: 24

I was thinking this morning how Christ may have 'felt' alone although knowing He is One in God.

Every aspect of Christ reveals to us our humanity and also God's divinity... and how the two meet as one in us.

The archetype of the Perfect Man is Christ.

A man who, although tempted, never sinned... because God was [in] Him.

Temptation is through the flesh.

The flesh by itself is not 'evil', but rather the conduit to how evil manipulates our minds, senses, feelings.

Remember, God created all things in the beginning and He saw that they were good.

It is through the spiritual realm that temptations are suggested, saturating our flesh, at times causing knee-jerking reactions.

A pause can be a moment of doubt, or a moment of reassurance.

We are called to be one with He who is One, so our feelings may not overwhelm what we have come to believe and know and understand.

I don't think it was possible for Christ to 'forget' or 'doubt' who He was.

One purpose for God appearing in the flesh was to teach us who He is.

Another purpose for Christ's archetype reveals to us who we really are - created in God's image and likeness.

Christ is God's image and likeness made known to us.

We who have been gifted the faith are very much as He was in the flesh.

His example teaches us that we too existed prior to arriving into the material world.

The temptation He felt prior to being arrested, I don't think was that He feared death.

I think He was feeling what we feel when overwhelmed by the flesh.

Temptations that can be so beguiling and doubt-filled that our flesh reacts in a difficult way.

Nefarious spiritual forces bombarding the flesh temple housing the Holy Spirit.

The soul being attacked.

Attacks causing the Spirit of Light within us to combat the forces of darkness trying to displace it.

For those sealed no such displacement is possible.

Those of us who are eternally sealed only 'doubt' that this impossibility may be possible.

Doubt is yet another temptation.

Why did God allow Himself such humiliation when appearing in the flesh?

One reason: to teach us what faith, humility, love, and submission really is... and how to overcome what seems overwhelming or impossible to survive.

I can write about my personal experiences, my joys, triumphs, failures, and defeats... and perhaps some readers can relate or understand them without having to go through similar experiences.

But some readers may never really 'know' something unless they personally experience a similarity.

To God's praise we do not have to endure such a submission and weight of responsibly as Christ did, but some of us may be called to experience similar challenges.

If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first. 

If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. 

As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. 

That is why the world hates you. 

Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ 

If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. 

If they obeyed My teaching, they will obey yours also. 

They will treat you this way because of My Name, 

for they do not know the One who sent Me. 

- John 15: 18-21

Not all the early disciples of Christ (in the 1st century, for example) experienced horrendous deaths as Christ endured... but some did.

Much how dirt is useful for a crop to grow in.... and we do not eat the dirt, but what that dirt produces (the harvest), so also does overwhelming struggles and difficult temptations produce a righteousness and a learning that would not be possible otherwise.

May Your Name be forever praised, Holy Father.

May I submit wholeheartedly to even the most uncomfortable and ridiculous of circumstances so Your good will and purpose may be done through me (as you pleased).