GOD IS STILL SPEAKING FOR HIMSELF

A lot of what people do in the name of God, and for God, really has very little to do with God at all.  God is asked to bless man’s ways and believing that He will we move out in our own power to do what we want to do, claiming it to be God’s will.  I am pretty sure that is not the way it is suppose to go.

Christianity comes out of Judaism.  Jews were known as people of the Book.  Christians grew out of that tradition but we are people of the Person of Jesus Christ.  The only thing he wrote was written in the sand and was never made known, much less permanent.  Jesus spoke and still speaks directly to those who receive and believe in him.  God spoke and still speaks directly through the Spirit of Truth that comes down from God.

God reveals Himself today as He always has.  He reveals Himself in the things that He created, ie nature. (Romans 1:20)  God reveals Himself in His Son, Jesus Christ, with whom He was One. (Matthew 17:5)  God reveals Himself in the sacred writings of Scripture. (II Timothy 3:16)

All of these revelations of God are ways for me to know God, know God’s ways, know God’s truth, and to participate in God’s life.  They are all of One Source and therefore all will be in agreement with what they say; they will not contradict one another in what they say.  They will stand together as one standard.  I cannot read one without reading the other two.  It is a natural check and balance for me and will guide me along the right Way.

Jesus came to earth to heal and to restore people’s relationship with God.  He corrected perceptions, interpretations, and actions that had developed by abandoning God and then building cisterns according to human intentions, broken cisterns that could hold no water.  He came as The Word from God to correct the many words written by man. “You have heard that it was said…but I say to you.”  He came to correct a faulty perception of righteousness. (Luke 18:9-14)  He came to correct a faulty idea of who mattered and who didn’t. (Matthew 9:13) When Jesus’ ministry on earth was finished and he returned to his Father, the Holy Spirit was sent to continue that work, from the inside out. (John 16:8) 

God has spoken and continues to speak clearly, through the things He created that surround me daily; through His Son as his words dwell in me through the Holy Spirit.  I am to look at God all around me and listen to God who is dwelling within me.  I am to love God with all of my heart, mind, and soul.  It is then that I will do what I do in the name of God and know that it is truly of Him.