In innocence, I asked the Lord a question. We tend to think we should understand, but in the knowing of good and evil, there is no balancing on the razor's edge. This comprehension is the key which moves us on through an open door.....to hell or heaven. The minutest sample of the power of destruction, even for it's own sake, corrupts everything it touches. They all become "without form and void," stripped of all meaning and conscience.......with One exception.
Only One has overcome the dictates of force, fear, and merciless, mindless, and compassionless destruction. He has disarmed hatred. He robbed death of all decisive power. It is His will, alone, which does, and will, prevail, again, with one exception.....
He has left our own will intact, sovereign in choice of destiny, in context of relationship with Him. He defines the one criteria which gives access to His reward and approval. It's an all or nothing choice. Only the very righteousness of God passes muster.
My question for Him was, "If each sinner seeks to impose his own will over yours, then why not provide each rebel with his own world, with limits beyond which he cannot spread his illness?" God has already done that. The world is called Earth. He even threw in a shot at perfection. Now that we have joined in the questioning, He has added the chance to learn some of what He knows and understands. The mess starts with the knowing of evil, but with all of the full scope of it's pain and consequences.
In conquering our darkness, in banishing the just results of our rejection of our very life, He has reaffirmed Himself as our standard, our goal, our reason, and our highest calling! He has imposed His healing on our insanity! It was always our destiny to understand, but from the perspective of His joy! That joy is far greater than we could contain in a state of innocence. He has blazed the trail, opened wide the gate, to heaven, where He dwells, by gifting us an understanding of Himself.
New eyes opened understand the cost of love, HIS love, and know that only HIS has any worth! Rabid and fanatical devotion grow out of the perception of His beauty! This zeal is but a reflection of His own!
No matter how pristine the environment in which the sinner is placed, he will soon convert it to the hell which dwells inside himself. He can achieve no satisfaction, can find no shred of joy or love, but must endure the final, eternal disappointment and anger of the One who cannot be shut out, because of the cost of the refused, freely offered without price, salvation. Sin has destroyed any trace of the godly within the wicked man, for he refused to be satisfied with the abundance of the person of God. The time has past when he could have surrendered the only thing of value he could have offered, himself, to receive as King the only One of any value. The sinner is left with nothing. He IS nothing.
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