The following is what I wanted to say yesterday…I’m not sure if all of this came across clearly so I’m going to post snippets through the week. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Intro: There is a “wisdom” that we are confronted with every day that proposes a solution but instead it secretly promotes the problem. I received a bill from my lawyer (yep, I’ve been sued). He is a good guy. I heard his words when he said that he is interested in bringing this case to completion, but then when I’m confronted with his firm earning $500 for two emails and two phone calls, it makes me think that there is a “wisdom of cash flow” that may work against a quick result. Are drug companies and medical institutions interested in curing all disease? I have no doubt the people working in the companies want people to be healed. But then, what would you do with all the buildings, drugs, latex gloves, scalpels, testing machines, needles, Qtips, doctors, nurses …? You know what I mean.
A similar wisdom is set against us recognizing our complete cure or our living free of accusation. The reality of being free from the law and free from the disease of sin has a cost associated with it…it will kill the need for religion.
Religion (wisdom of this world) does not want to die so it has a vested interest in hiding our healing, our completeness and the reality of our freedom. What would we do with the preachers, counselors, Sunday school curriculum, denominational offices, books, etc. that teach us all the “how to’s” that are to be applied from our own strength and our own initiative? What would you do with all the hope that you have that is based on the thought that maybe, with enough dedication, you can get your act together? Possibly, you will throw it on the crap heap where it belongs in exchange for REAL LOVE.
The true REALITY is that we have been delivered into the gift of being born IN CHRIST. This reality is what the miracle of fellowship (as seen in 1 John) speaks toward. It is in fact, what the letter entitled 1 John is all about.