3:59am. Before
“Before.” It happens in front of something special. Or It could be the very thing we look back to; hoping, praying that those times or events will return again someday. We ALL have a rich heritage (whether we realize it or not) in our ancestors that have went on “before” us.
They have believed things, hoped for things, and endured things (not expressly for us, but for our benefit nonetheless). “1 Corinthians 13:7” They in effect have loved us from afar. Before we were ever known; or formed in our mothers womb they (like God does) loved us.
But unlike God’s love; their love was not perfect towards us. They in their humanity (which was crippled and broken); have left us a legacy that we MUST struggle with. There is reward in the legacy left to us, but in their imperfect humanity we have received more than we bargained for.
6:12 am. From Before (Mark 7:13)
New International Version
Thus you NULLIFY the word of God BY your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
New Living Translation
And so you CANCEL the word of God IN ORDER TO hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”
Berean Literal Bible
making VOID the word of God FOR your tradition, which you have handed down. And you do many things like such.”
New American Standard Bible
thus INVALIDATING the word of God BY your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”
Amplified Bible (AMP)
so you NULLIFY the [authority of the] word of God [acting as if it did not apply] BECAUSE OF your tradition which you have handed down [through the elders]. And you do many things such as that.”
New King James Version (NKJV)
making the word of God OF NO EFFECT through (THROUGH AND BY) your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
Wow! Who knew; that our deeply rooted traditions would be the very thing that stumbled us the most? God knows, God knew; that’s who! It is almost hard to grasp the ability and the depth; to which our traditions have hobbled us. Our “little” and “big” systems that we refer to as: “Well, we’ve always done it that way!” ARE KILLING US!
“How are they doing that?” You say.
If they are rendering “the word of God” to “no effect” in those areas; how are we receiving life AT ALL, in those areas??!! Was it not the “word” of God through which we received “life” in the first place? Did He not; form Adam from the dust of the ground, breath His word (breath) of life into him, and he (Adam) became a living soul?
God likes and makes things “simple”. Not because He is not complex, there is NONE more complex than Him; but, because WE like making things complex. We ALL are prone to adding in, our own “little” part. Taking the simple and plain things of God and turning them into a monstrosity! God is not a monster, nor will He flow through a monstrosity!!!
How about us doing our true part? Not adding to or taking away ANYTHING! (Revelation 22:19) So let’s deconstruct and deconstrict any obstruction in the flow of LIFE. I’m not talking about “throwing the baby out with the bath water” (then again; maybe I am), let’s get RADICAL about it! If there is some “baby” (tradition/systems) that need to be saved; God will stop our hand just as He did with Abraham when he was about to sacrifice Isaac. Let’s let God decide which/what; traditions/systems need to be saved. I’m sure He has already set them into action; in and through His word. To the rest of them…..out you go! And good riddance, you have held us back for way too long.
AAAhhhh, I can feel His Breath of Life starting to flow already!
Let’s…
#1 Awe God…
#2 Love people…
#3 Repeat…
Stay simple my friends!
September 1 (Remember first) 2016
Matthew 6:33-34 Good News Translation (GNT)
Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what HE requires of you, and HE WILL PROVIDE you with all these other things. So do not worry about tomorrow; it will have enough worries of its own. There is NO NEED TO ADD to the troubles each day brings.
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Eric
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September 10th, 2016 by Eric