Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Natural


A fallen world reflects human nature. In that sense, nature has become unnatural. We are used to the unnatural and think it natural.  What we know is familiar and it becomes our norm for understanding, our frame of reference, as it takes root through our habits and time. 

God is beyond nature because of sin.  God cannot abide sin, and for that reason Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, the presence of God.  In the beginning they walked with God,  heaven and earth were one.  Disobedience brought death into the Garden, which was incompatible with life and could not be tolerated by a Holy and Pure God.

Now the "natural" man cannot understand the things of God because our nature has been distorted by sin.   The light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not perceive it.  The light of the world has been given and continues to shine forth, stronger with each believer added to the body of Christ.  In the end darkness will be removed and God will be our light, and of that light there will be no end.

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