Thursday, May 9, 2013
The Spirit who Is Lord and the Lord who Is Spirit
Reading 2 Corinthians chapter three this morning and I have been digging into this group of verses.
"But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 3:15-18 NASB
There is an amazing dynamic that happens when Christ is revealed. I'm talking about the unveiled display of His grace, mercy and all of His divine attributes as only God can do and does by His Spirit. Christ's seamless oneness with the Spirit is amazing and when a person sees that sight in his or her inner man the result is tremendous freedom (verse 16).
A person suddenly faces God by faith. Grace has allowed it to happen and supplied a capacity to look in this particular spiritual direction and when that happens it is revealed that the Kyrios (G2962) Pneuma (G4151) eimi (G1510) or "The Lord Spirit Is" in a straight literal translation. In that same moment the Pneuma (G4151) Kyrios (G2962) or "Spirit that is Lord" is revealed. In freedom and unconditional acceptance we see God's true nature reflected (verse 17). Our inner man sees a glimpse of the whole picture at once. It is a sight no natural man can see because there is no faculty or sense in the nature man to behold it with. We see that duality is really unity and we are transformed by the sight. Our inner man stands at the mount of transfiguration just like Peter and John did but the landscape is the mystical boundary where soul meets Spirit and has interaction.
We grow further into a resemblance of the One we have already been made to resemble... the Lord who Is Spirit (verse 18).
Christ is one person and the Spirit is another but at the same time they are One. The Father is also in and apart of that unity. As God's spiritual children we are in an unbreakable chain not just by decree but by nature and divine substance.
The revealing of that allows there to be a flow and in that flow we know we are free.
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In God's presence we are overwhelmed with the privilege of access. That access can only be by grace. When familiarity comes in it is because we have disconnected grace from our access.
ReplyDeleteIn the book of Job Satan's attitude is one of familiarity with access to God. He craved more and more access to God and His people. God ultimately limited and will further limit Satan's access.
A friend pointed out to me today the wrong use of this dynamic. People give others access to what they shouldn't see to garner loyalty. A inner circle is created that is based on soul power. People want to maintain their access and live in fear of being an outsider again.
God gives us access freely by grace and only by grace. His Son is the door and the anchor to give us a method of entry and an unbreakable connection to our Heavenly home. No threat of exclusion exists in is this relationship.
"Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great." Psalm 18:35 KJV