THE GOD WHO DECONSTRUCTS & RECONSTRUCTS

Jesus deals a lot with transformation: water to wine (John 2), the temple (John 2, Revelation 21:22), the Law and Prophets (Matthew 5:17), worship
(John 4:21-26), and life (John 3:1-16). It isn’t external. It’s internal and it is a definite change. The Christian life begins with repentance; a change in governance, a change in direction, and a change in action. It is not that the outer forms are wrong; they simply are no longer necessary because they have been fulfilled and transformed. Where does the seed go once it becomes the plant? Where do the sperm and egg go once they become the child? They are the containers of life. But they become transformed and no longer necessary. And yet, how much of our dissention and division is based on these outer forms that are no longer necessary? How much energy goes into proving this and disproving that? The form is no longer essential.

My faith is based on the God whose “thoughts are not my thoughts, and ways are not my ways; they are much higher (Isaiah 55:8,9).” God is Spirit and I worship him in Spirit. Jesus is Truth and I worship God in Spirit and Truth
(John 4:23-26). The forms are not good or bad; just unnecessary. It is by the fruit that people will know the seed that was planted within me. I am what I am and because of what I am, I do what I do.

Deconstruction seems to be the thing to do these days. Tear everything down because we don’t like the results. But, as usual, it is not a new concept. God has been doing this throughout history. He creates something simple, something organic, and humans add things to it, complicate it, and organize it. It’s that “Thanks god, I’ll take it from here” syndrome. It never works and unfortunately we never learn the lesson. We “forsake the fountain of loving waters and hew out cisterns for ourselves, cisterns that hold no water (Jeremiah 2)”. We continue to build houses for God and our spiritual lives even though we have been told that “unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain (Psalm 127:1).”

God will continue to deconstruct until I learn to simply be still and die to my way of doing things. In that act of dying the transformation will come and with it the resurrection of who I truly am; and in that am-ness I will do what I am meant to do. Deconstruction isn’t bad if it empties one so there is a total reliance upon God. If all that’s offered after the deconstruction is self construction or construction using new thoughts and understandings of different human beings, then those will eventually have to be deconstructed, again and again. God warns us not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil that results in separation from him. God invites us of eat from the tree of life and live forever with him. The choice is ours to make. I choose the tree of life.