" What is the chief end of man?"
"What is He ain't that he won't already is?"
The mystery of the trinitarian perception of God and how can it be encompassed in our finite language is amazing to me. We are climbing Jacobs ladder and every round goes higher and higher. Every generation grows upon the findings and excavations of the earlier generations. It is always amazing to me that the more progressive we become, the lesser the spiritual hunger seems to be expressed.
I catechised my children and this seems to have given them a sieve of faith in God's word that is sometimes baffling to me. The catechism's that we employed included orthodox expressions of understanding God's Word boiled down to simple truths. It is a way to look at your life in a prism of faith that can't be stolen from you. When some "so-called" truth tries to parade itself into your soul, your youthful teachings guard your soul {to some extent}.
Why did God make us? Isn't God good? Amen and Amen! He wants us to love Him and enjoy Him forever! There is no real truth that flies in the face of God's truth. You needn't be afraid of studying. All truth belongs to God.
Learning about God is the mine of life! We could look at Him from every angle and never find an imperfection. The translation of our Ebonic traditions have so much to instruct us about the infinity of God and His TriUnity. How our forefather's embraced a language and lived in subservience and developed a way to talk to one another, uninterpretable by the Master and yet our own English I find phenomenal. God has an eternal purpose in our slave history and our growth out of that position.
God is high and exalted and yet condescends to the lowest estate.
The African History of being the most magnificent empire and the most diminished empire and yet used by God in our exaltation and in our debasement. That is God's way of expressing His image in our history and it is to our benefit to rejoice in the glory of what God has done instead of complaining about the providences and the steepness of the climb and the swiftness of the slide. We must trust His purposes in the personal and in the corporate cultural and the corporate national and the corporate church and the corporate age that we live in. Where we are in time is where we are.
Keep reading the book of revelation and pray for God's true purpose for the time God has appointed you for. He will use you for His glory wherever you are.
Did Daniel perceive that his story would endure the times of history? He was a very young man determined to live for God in a wicked world. We live in a time that is infected with the Gospel along all lines and cultures but equally infected with deceptions. Vigilance and study of God's word is the new Kosher. Will you eat the king's philosophies? Will you truly imbibe the deceptions as true? Daniel purposed in his heart.
Will I guard my heart as diligently as I guard my tummy? To us belongs confusion of face, but righteousness belongs to YOU! I am confused. I don't get it. Only You own the righteousness. I see Daniel looking around at the things that all the nations regard and seeing how off center it was compared to God's standard. We have sinned and that is why we are here, but they are also confused who are our captors. We are not here to emulate their standards but to represent God in the confusion that is around us. Yes, we mess up, but there is forgiveness and straightening power in the God of the universe. He doesn't just leave us to ourselves. They have no standard. They have accountability to lesser standards. The kingdoms of the world will one day bow to Christ, but until that day...We pray for God's standard in our own lives because that is the only safety.
Your testimony is God's resume for you and for your children. God has been faithful in pain and in joys. Some answers to prayer we have seen and some things we await. But HE IS!
