Those Who See God

"We justify our behavior by saying we're fighting the devil."

WE TAKE our attitude about people, about government, and doctrines into our worship, and it becomes about us and not about Him. We exclude others from it, saying they’re not like us. When in actuality, spiritually, we’re all the same. There isn’t a different NEW CREATION based on cultures, genders, and denominations.

It isn’t the church who is Christ now, but not the Jews. This has been misinterpreted in a form from the words of the apostle Paul, a Jew of the Pharisees, who wrote in a time when many who crucified Jesus still lived. The church was a fledgling, little known and controversial. Things today are different.

We worship their God. They worship ours. Simply not by the name Jesus. They know God is living and cares for them and keeps His Word. They know He is Redeemer, Father, and King.

We must lay down our attitudes and make Jesus Lord, and if we’ll do that, we’ll see Israel and the Jews as so very beautiful. He is Jew. We’ll see people we disagree with, in the light of God’s compassion. We’ll adopt His mercy. Because the last thing that needs to be hung up in our worship is our being indecent, self-seeking, easily provoked, and evil. We should not be rejoicing in what is to God iniquity.

Love bears all things (1 Corinthians 13:6-7).

We justify our behavior by saying we’re fighting the devil. Then turn around and say he’s defeated. He isn’t if we’re fighting him. So what is correct? The truth is, the devil, which roars like a lion, is our opinions, our hatred, our self-defense. They look like an angel of light but are totally opposite of God’s character. God isn’t fighting anyone or anything. He’s resting forever. Jesus won the war.

“Because of this, ever since we heard about you, we have not stopped talking to God about you and asking him to enlighten your minds with truth and with a greater knowledge of his character, methods, principles and will, thus increasing your wisdom and understanding of eternal realities.” (Colossians 1:9, Remedy)

It is the humble who will see God and the arrogant who will imagine they did.

I have said this a lot recently. But you can think you are much higher and more knowledgeable in God, when what you hear is not Him speaking, and until you seek Him, He will not be found. The key to knowing who you are right now is your hunger for Him, your surrender. Walking in submission is a daily, minute-by-minute, thing. I get up with it, adopt it in prayer, in worship, in studies and writings, and repent when I know I’m wrong.

Because the devil, going back to that, never admits he’s wrong. The devil of our criticisms and hatred, for that is what we battle now. Blindness is the destruction of sin, which consumes men and devils alike. The devil himself thought he’d exalt himself above God (Isaiah 14:13). So have men for thousands of generations. Men have crucified God saying they are in obedience to Him. And God’s response was to raise the dead.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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