Friday, March 11, 2016

The human condition

I have many times asked God about the "human condition."
That condition that causes us to have ill health, make bad or even defiant decisions, abuse ourselves, and opt to show rejection instead of Love.
Many times my prayer has been "how does Your Word work, and what is it's application in these areas?"
Since I have been a Christian (making my own disparaging  decisions and actions along these thought lines) I have entreated about these things with still no answer that is "across the board."
My problem is that I can't just ignore the untouched or pushed behind issues that scripture exposes about us.
Think about it: There is an answer in scripture for absolutely every situation that can take place in our lives, for sin there is salvation, infirmity has healing, oppression there is deliverance, death is overcome by life, and the list goes on.
So why then do people (especially believers) seem to trod the same path, and suffer the same difficulties?
God never promised that life wouldn't be without difficulty or trials, and He has promised a "way out", but the question is "does that way out have to take so long before we see it?" Is it because we don't ask Him to shed light in our darkness so we can find the scriptural answer we need to change our hapless situation and then hold on by faith till He says "it is finished."
God is Unconditional Love, there is no lack in Him, He can do all things, He empowers His promises, at the mention of His name every knee must bow, tongue confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord.
I don't see any wavering on His side so the "failure" to "lay hold of the promises" must be on our end.
Victory over the human condition (for believers) is proof that God's Love is Unconditional and His promises sure. Able to be stood upon. The inability "to obtain" these deliverance's and promises are both disheartening and troubling, first to the believer, and secondly toward those "who believe not" that are watching.
Hope deferred makes sick.
If we can't produce a "body of healthy believers" in the Body of Christ how then will we be able to "bring that health to the lost?"
Somehow the reference of "the woman with the issue" bears the most amount of significance in relation to this quandary.
She spent all she had and was no better, (went the way of the world first.)
Had to realize that the answer was in Christ, (the promise of God.)
Realized "she" had to reach out in faith and tough Him for her problem to be solved.
Acted on that faith and received the healing she needed.
This single incident might hold the key to "the human condition." Seek God first while there is no emergency "in everything", seek harder as the situation intensifies, press on in Jesus name till you touch Him and the answer is received.
Remember that we can only ask by faith what we have received by revelation, (that which is taught by the Holy Spirit), of Jesus Christ. Scripture commands us to "wait on the revelation of Jesus Christ." This is a continual waiting-receiving, waiting-receiving as long as we "tread this vale."
Having a continuing revelation keeps us "hungering and thirsting after righteousness."
It proves that His Word is "real meat and real drink." Able to answer any questions that we have, and meet all the needs we are given.
Are we ready to "go forward" increasing in faith and the revelation of Jesus Christ? If so the "human condition" will become less and less a part of our lives and Jesus Christ more and more.
Thanks for your time.
Love and peace through Jesus Christ
J&E in Tn

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