Crossed Out part 5
The cross crossed out everything that wasn't Jesus Himself. LOVE Himself. Matthew 19:28 in the Amplified Bible describes it as the Messianic rebirth of the world. The consuming fire that IS God consumed everything EXCEPT God. Leaving only... God. Only love. It's the same picture that we see when in the garden of Eden there were two trees (the tree of knowledge of good and evil AND the Tree of Life) but when we get to New Jerusalem there is ONLY the Tree of Life. The cross crossed out the old in order to bring forth the new. And nothing connected to that old man--sin, death, the curses of the law--remain. It's all good. And not the same "good" that needs "evil" in order to define itself. But the good that is "good, acceptable, and perfect" (Romans 12:2). The WILL of God. That's what's left on this side of the cross. Peace on earth and goodwill towards men. Love remains. Everything else was burned away. The problem is that we still see things that have passed away. We need to look at things cross-eyed. We KNOW that everything is under our feet. But we don't SEE everything under our feet. BUT we see Jesus. And that's all we need to see. Because, again, that's what remains. That's what's real. Everything else has been crossed out. Passed away. We don't need to struggle with it, or fight against it. We can lay it aside. Because it's not real. If God is all-powerful (and He is) that doesn't mean He's the MOST powerful. It means He has all the power. Nothing else has ANY power. And when we stop magnifying anything else, we stop empowering anything else. When we simply "let go and let God" then we let things reveal themselves to be in Divine Order instead of trying to force things into OUR order. We stop working and start resting. Stop trying to earn and begin to receive (and release). Stop struggling and start LIVING!