#263 Embrace the Wind I Did

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God.

3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord. Leviticus 18: 1-5 KJV

It is an interesting opener to contemplate, since He is God regardless, and there is no other outside the vanity of the mind. This repeats the commandment that we shall have no other gods before Him. So what does it say about our natural state, the one He first finds us in? It is well put that we are at enmity with God, maybe not with lower case god, but with the God that presents Himself through the inspired Word, the clash is inevitable. I have done many things in response to God: first I smiled and then invented lower case god, after all the imagination is a wonderful place. There it is that I am the hero in that novel and god has recruited me, so I go to him when I need something. It was not till much later that I realized God was never in need of or waiting for my endorsement. Secondly, I forgot about God, I did that a lot, I still have my moments when I allow the volume of all else to be turned up too high. His voice is still there, He is still God, the volume of life, the noise, the drama, none of it changes Who He is or what He has said. Thirdly, I laughed and tried to create an even lower case straw man, a god that I could easily burn down with my understanding of "science" or sarcasm. Here it was though, when the scales are pulled back from the eyes, I find myself not so logical as I thought and in fact quite  bent to my wants and emotions. I realize, the problem with the straw man is that defeating him is defeating a creature created for defeat, created by myself and the world, but the Creator of everything, oh my, and no wonder He has to say, "I am the Lord your God." He has to tell us that we are no longer like that from whence we came, and we cannot be like the people in the land where we presently dwell. To say, yes there is God, but to not change or be set apart, is to create this god, this little, impotent, clay figurine. Sure, we may so easily crush him later or the world may grind it to dust, but don't hold your head so high, because it was never God you sought. 

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. Romans 12: 1-3 KJV