Higher

"God created humans. Jesus is one. He gets us."

EVERYTHING’S a repeat. A copy of what we’ve heard before. I’ve begun to ask, “Where’d she hear that? Where’d he pick that up from?” when someone’s in the pulpit. There’s nothing wrong with repeating things. We’re all a product of what we’ve heard. But I’m kind of a “know what you’re sayin’” person. And it’s far easier to repeat the same idea and not look it up. In this case, with Papa, the Holy Spirit.

We’re supposed to live closer to heaven than earth. To walk led of Him all day long (Galatians 5:25). Instead, we want to do what appeals to us, and when we do, we include what we’ve heard as it comes to mind. Not listening to His “yes” or “no” at all. This comes up far more often than most would believe. There are actually spiritual rules involved in what we teach.

Here is where some apply the brakes. But it isn’t that we were saved and born into God’s kingdom to never follow rules. Jesus didn’t teach “don’t follow rules”. He taught how to hear. He encouraged us to listen. It is when we listen and listen well that revelation of God’s Truth comes and sensitivity to it, which will prevent us, with our use of it, from repeating end-to-end things that aren’t God. Or aren’t what needs to be said.

There are topics God does not want discussed. He has identified them to me because of our relationship. I heard them misused and knew the pain, the trouble, they caused. Most people would find them okay. They are commonly taught. This I do not understand because what God says “no” to, I won’t touch. He’s asking us to change. Our way of thinking. Our discernment of Him. Our vocabulary. Our worship. He’s asking us to COME UP HIGHER, a known statement from God’s Word that most are excited to hear but never bother to implement (Luke 14:10). Come Up Higher requires obedience. And in this topic, it requires us to stop being a dripping faucet.

A man writes a book God told him not to write. A woman pens a devotional full of mistruth. A pastor makes a remark more a defense of attitude than anything God desires spoken. Another feels impaled on public opinion and makes an apology he didn’t need to make. I could go on. To simple things, such as examples we use and Scripture verse interpretations that are common but wrong. Jesus being separated from the Father on the cross is a big one. He wasn’t, and He said this. John 16:32, “Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.”

“The devil in my ear” is another, whether this is said and meant as the devil himself or a devil. The devil himself is in no one’s ear. He’s been destroyed or rendered useless (the meaning of the world in Hebrews 2:14). Devils, plural, speak to men. But, again, they cannot do what they were doing before Jesus. 1 John 3:8, the works of the devil are destroyed or dissolved. These two verses as well as 2 Timothy 1:10, which tells us that death is abolished, cannot be overlooked in any doctrinal theology, two words far more religious than God. They must be applied, instead, to everything we teach, write, or sing.

God created humans. Jesus is one. He gets us. We have this need to fight back against what we’re dealing with, a need to speak out, to have an enemy. And we do have an enemy. But from this moment forward, that enemy is not a being, good or evil, not a face or figure we can outline. Our enemy is SIN. And Jesus’ death took the promise fulfilled in the Old Covenant of freedom from sin and made it the Truth of the New Covenant.

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18)

Hear me on this. The Old Covenant is in effect, every jot and tittle, until heaven and earth pass away (Matthew 5:18). Whether we are the one reading it and standing on it for our lives or whether it is a Jew, for his. It is God’s Word, His Voice, the Spirit’s work, who is on this earth wooing hearts, male and female, Jew and Gentile, barbarian or free (Colossians 3:10-11). Jesus, King of the Jews, will never speak condemnation against His family. He doesn’t THINK CONDEMNATION against His family. He is love, willing to die for their salvation.

“And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” (Colossians 3:10-11)

Wake up church. Pastors and teachers. Apostles and prophets and evangelists. Congregants. Children of God. Put God first. Be less willing to drip-drip-drip what you’ve said in the past and be hungry, instead, for righteousness (Matthew 5:6). For a higher outlook on a new level. Of revelation, yes. But of obedience even more.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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