Human Conundrum
Conformed into HIS Image
The story goes Made in His image – they fell over – remake over in His image.
Restored.
BUT do men and women with free will really want this?
After all Adam and Eve fell in disobedience through cunning deception and lies.
Their eyes were opened and they entered into death and decay into a world descending into chaos.
Made in His image should be a no brainer or do we look at the options offered on the table, we can imagine our own construct of what ideally the image should be in our likeness?
OR is there a blue ray beam projected into us from the higher dimensions? This could allure us and offer what would be an illusion of freedom, you know it can be complicated in our head, mental anguish rules.
Orwellian 1984, the so called freedom can turn out to be a deal gone wrong that becomes slavery to the system. You cant always trust the sales pitch.
Have you studied history and seen the charismatic leaders that are the most influential who used flattery and other persuasions, only to turn out to be a power freak with sick and very dark agendas.
Do they tell you I can make your name great, I am the solution to the troubles in your world?
A corrupted image is like a GM cornflake, promises much but has no real substance to it and minimal nutrition. Don’t take the bait!!!
What if the answer really is die to live OR you live to die.
Lose to gain or gain to lose.
What have you got to gain when you lose?
This does sound more like a Human Conundrum than a Human Condition although it can be both.
Always check the proposal, what are the conditions.
Benefits to His image the original design perfected.
Undeserved Righteousness gained only in and through Christ Jesus.
Identity established in truth by putting on the Christ Nature.
Losses
You cant just do your own thing.
However, as we should have noticed by now, doing our own thing leads to destruction.
A way that seems good to a man leads to death. Proverbs
Wise in his own eyes Pride before a fall.
Is Gods ways really counted as a loss?
Pain to gain which is long term an eternity.
A Malfunctioning Image Parable. Meaning it is bit like a parable.
Why because something got into the programming which defiled the original perfect expression.
We are not AI from the machine world, I mean if you are born a human being, see you are a being, you just be and you are.
The virus that corrupts the perfect image is sin, the sin nature is death.
This world has been in a state of decay since Adam and Eve fell from perfection.
Part of being a human being is that we get choice.
Choose life or death.
However, history tells us that all humans choose death at some point in being here in this world, where you are offered on a plate the delights, some are good and some are deceptively bad and some are blatantly bad.
So with choice came death.
Jesus is the cure to the virus. Jesus is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE and there is no other.
All others that enter in illegally are thieves and robbers.
The thief comes to steal kill and destroy.
Jesus came to give us life in abundance.
So getting back to the parable about the malfunctioning image, we will call it a perfect product.
You know how they say you are a product of…… fill in the blanks.
So this perfect product was created by the Master Designer who is a Garden Manager.
However, during the course of time an enemy of the Master Designer got in and altered the original perfect programming expression, by inserting a virus, could be the gain entry of the function.
So now the product instead of watering the garden and caring for the plants, it now burnt the plants, ripped them and pulled them out.
It didn’t stop there some products that are now malfunctioning attacked other products that still were functioning and messed up their gardens under their care.
On top of that the virus would jump like a contagious worm from one product to another product and the malfunctioning would spread effecting all of the gardens until all products were infected in varying degrees.
What would the Master Designer do about that?
Sue the pants off the enemy and kick a lot of butt!!!
He would put out an order to recall all of the products, get them factory reset and place a patch in them to resist the future virus attacks.
Afterall the Master Designer has the original blueprint and He can perfect even further His original design with ability to overcome enemy attacks,
because the enemy is shifty and will use any evil tactic to gain access to the products.
The enemy is very destructive because he is jealous of this wonderful product that he can never come up with.
However at the end of the story the enemy is well and truly dealt with so he cant attack again.
Cmon we are not just a product, but as I said we can all be the product of…. Fill in the blanks.
Nothing compares to the mastery of human design, we are fearfully and wonderfully made. That should tell you something.
Respect the Maker.
Why the Conundrum?
The woman with the issue of blood pushed through, she felt like she was the most unworthy person there that day in the large crowd that thronged Jesus who went about doing good healing all those oppressed by the devil.
Through Jesus and her persistent faith made her completely healed and this declared to the crowd that this woman was made righteous. Made Right Again.
Martin Luthers message revelation is Saved by Grace.
Yet Martin a Monk in the Religious Order felt unworthy and struggled with guilt until he found the truth that set him free.
Jesus nailed to the cross all of the laws that were against us, by taking the punishment due to us on the cross, if we believe and receive. The Just will live by faith.
He first loved us when we were unworthy, we received His kindness and now we love Him and obey His Commandments in return which are not burdensome.
His commandments are not there to control us, they are for our welfare and protection and keep us from harm.
Also He has a perfect plan for our lives beyond what we could conceive. When we become like HIM we mature and no longer are blown about by the winds as deceived children conforming to the patterns of this world.
(What is the latest, whim, fancy, popular narrative spread by media and the whos who, it’s the propaganda spin, very persuasive and if you don’t conform you will be cancelled, abused, basically persecuted,
welcome to the real world matrix.)
We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which He predestined for us to walk in. Ephesians 2:10
Then why do we resist the Lord? Why did the Israelites fall in the desert instead of entering the promised land? The enticements and the familiarity of Egypt and their gods,
this is the world system of enslavement, we need to receive insight into what is pulling on us, what triggers us and plays with our emotions at opportune times.
We need to get to the point where we are no longer striving and enter His rest, yoke easy and burden light, hand it all over.
Easy no but worth it, am I there no, but I am learning to be obedient and not allow my past and circumstances to sabotage Gods wonderful intentions.
Afterall God knows whats best for us and only He can solve the worlds problems, we cant fix anyone or the world like God can.
If we allow HIM into our lives, together we can make a huge difference, Jesus is the Head we are His body to say and do His will be done.
Blockages to us believing who He says we are.
Traumas.
Deception.
Religion.
Lust of the flesh. Lust of the eyes and the Pride of life.
The Cure
Submit it all to Jesus.
Be conformed to the image of God.
I am a carrier of the message package and I deliver it.
Perfect no!
I am an interpreter I handle it best I know how.
I only see part of the picture I am not the know all.
Originally made in His image.
Got tampered with.
Now conforming to His image.
Our part offer our body, mind, soul for transformation.
Be not conformed.
Don’t bend to the Pattern of the world.
Be transformed.
We cant fix this worlds mess and no one else can either, but we can be part of the answer instead of being the problem.
Colossians 2
10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
A Product upgrade.
Adaptive learning new tasks in purpose.
Different products have different skills for broader garden care specialist.
The Maker sent His best product last.
It could repair and upgrade the rest.
It can reset the other products to original design.
The enemy thought I will take out this best product and completely wipe out the rest.
But the Maker knowing how the enemy works had a plan.
When the enemy attacked the best product with everything he had it looked like it was destroyed, but in reality the best product learned all of the viruses the enemy had and then reprogrammed a patch to eliminate all types of viruses to restore all other infected products.
The Virus inserted was gain of purpose for take over and destruction.
Good News God has a solution. Receive it or be altered images forever defective.
Conundrum is that we are not GOD, we are created and we cant call the shots for the universe.
The world doesn’t rotate around us and serve all of our whims and fancies, we really don’t know whats best for everyone else and the worlds problems.
Our choice delivers to us
John 10
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Life in abundance that is far more than we can ever imagine, God has endless life for us that we cant possibly conceive how wonderous and glorious it will be.
You know God loves us, He gave His Son Jesus to save us, who is God who became human in order to legally save us, He really wants whats best for everyone, only receive, only believe.
The Lord thy God in the midst of you is mighty, He will joy over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17
Make Jesus your Lord and Saviour.
Pray His way. Say His Word.
Today do where He leads you.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son
It is forever worth it to be conformed to His image.