HIS PRESENCE IS MY HOMELAND

Jesus was identified by John the Baptist as the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.  I think the sin of the world goes back to the very beginning of creation, when the human beings that God created with His own hands disobeyed God and hid themselves, separating themselves from God’s Presence.  The story continues when God took the Israelites out of Egypt so they could go and be in the desert, in the Presence of God; and then when Jesus was crucified and the curtain to the Ark in the Temple was torn, making God’s Presence available to all who would receive it.

Jesus didn’t come to earth to fix the Religious System, or the Political System of the world.  If he had, he would have.  He came to teach us, show us how to be in God’s Presence and live peacefully in the Kingdom of God, where God rules and reigns.

I miss the true message if I think sin is about being good or bad.  It’s about removing all obstacles to God’s Presence in my life.  It’s about living in the fountain of living water of His Presence and not building my own cisterns of dos and don’ts.  I am not to try to be good in order to be in God’s Presence.  I am good because I am in God’s Presence, and that’s the only way that makes sense.  That place in His Presence is where I am who I am.  That is home, the home land that God promised His people in the beginning and throughout history; and still does.