Creation part 5
The power that lies within us--the death and life that is in the power of the tongue, the ability to define or create our reality--is nothing compared to the power of confessing (or agreeing) with the true reality, the true creation, of God. Because when we confess the truth, then the truth manifests in our lives! When we agree with God--when we know and believe the love of Christ--then what is true becomes true for us! In the same way that we are not to judge according to appearance--we are not to live in the appearance realm, or the realm of "good and evil"--but judge righteous judgment... EXECUTE judgment... we are not to create anything. We are to manifest creation. In fact, all of creation is groaning and waiting for the MANIFESTATION of the Son(s) of God! God already did all the work. He created the heaven and the earth. And it was (and is) very good. We can't improve upon His creation, and when we understand how very good it is, we will understand that we don't need to. See, it's not about a change that needs to happen. It's about SEEING that change that took place 2,000 years ago on the cross. In the beginning man was made in the image of God. But man didn't know what God looked like, so man didn't know what MAN looked like. That's why man swallowed the lie that he had to do something in order to be like God. Then, at the appointed time, because He so loved the world, God sent His only Son into His creation to show us what He really looks like. To show us what WE really look like. The creation was dark and void and without form. Then God said, "Let there be light." He filled His creation with the light of life, and revealed to us how things really are. What LIFE really is. And what life really is... is love. It's relationship. That's what the Creator created us--so that He could have someone to love. Because love is a verb. It's an action word. It takes two. Someone to love and someone to BE loved. And then when you know and believe that you ARE loved--when, through the Spirit, you are filled with the fulness of God--that love overflows out of you. That's the change that happened. That's what it means that all things are become new. Not that God can finally love us, because He always has loved us and always will love us, but that we can now RECEIVE His love. We can see Him now. We can see ourselves now. We can see our loving heavenly Father, and we can see ourselves as His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. And when THAT ultimate truth of the universe is revealed to us, then all of creation is revealed to us. We can see that the work is finished. We can see that we have come into the promised land of rest. We can simply begin to enjoy the fruits of God's labor on the cross. We don't have to change, because the change already took place! We don't have to create anything... we can simply enjoy God's creation!