Heavenward

"His love is our design. It's how we're supposed to operate."

AS HE HAS designed us, so we will be. We cannot be otherwise. Try as hard as we might, we cannot be square pegs in a round hole. We are as He has made us.

To walk in the ways of darkness, practicing principles and behaviors absent of the light, is to contort ourselves into figures of whom we are not. A car frame makes a lovely mantlepiece, but no one looks at it and is fooled. Except fools.

Jesus described the behavior of those who would crucify them to His disciples and to those who would crucify Him. He ate the Passover meal, a picture of His death, while they killed Passover Lambs. They worshipped Jehovah, spitting on Jehovah, and couldn’t see it, blinded by hatred, malevolence, and violence – the products of the absence of God’s love in man. And angels. His love is our design. It’s how we’re supposed to operate. To think. We believe we’re given freedom to go our own way. Or His. It’s not so cut-and-dried. He is Creator. He made us. We remake us, and it doesn’t work. Darkness ends in death. Physically, spiritually, and in the end, lack of existence. Here is God’s mercy. He will end death forever. He’s given us a choice, but a choice between design or damage. We destroy us by living outside of His goodness. With our need to “go our own way,” we choose destruction.

Jesus is the Way back to Life. He’s the Life provided by the Way He made. He’s the Way to recreated Life, renewed minds. He’s the Way to live between two worlds – the heavenly and our life on earth. We are meant to exist in both. To be as much earthly good as heavenly, to be earthly good BECAUSE of heaven in us, and to know heaven while being on earth. We are designed for it.

Jesus is proof. Proof it can be done. Proof of God’s goodness to us, IN US, to do it.

ASCENDING, DESCENDING
“And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.” (Genesis 28:12 BSB)

“Then He declared, ‘Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.’” (John 1:51 BSB)

TRANSFIGURED
“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.” (Matthew 17:1-8)

“For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.” (2 Peter 1:17-18)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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