Living consequently

God is in the mission of love and consequently we are living in it. We are called to live after the image and the likeness of the creator. There is a Swahili saying that says ,’mtoto wa nyoka ni nyoka’ the offspring of a snake is a snake. The point here is not trying to invoke that we are God and actually the scripture is brave enough to refer to the children of God as gods but to infer that we are taking after our father because we are his offspring.

The inheritance of a son is to live by his fathers 
resources. The elder brother didn’t know that all that belonged to his father also belonged to him and consequently lived as though he was a mere servant rather than a son.

Acts 17:28 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.

 Paul enters Athens and immediately notices the religious inclinations of its inhabitants. As a popular evangelist, many of us will prefer that he lashes out his King James bible (which was not in existence at the time) or a copy of the scroll and mete out Gods word in rage and anger towards these Godless pagans. But on the contrary Paul invokes the words of their finest Poem, That in him we live , we move and have our being and we are his offspring.

I am thinking that Paul should introduce our real God and install him as God among these pagans but Paul’s understanding of the gospel concludes that man is not a stranger before God. If man exists it’s only because of God. All human expressions and expectations derive  the truth that we are from God. We have been created in his own image and likeness.

This means that God is the infinite standard of our being and we take from Him as a consequence of him preceding us and designing the design of our frame. Living consequently therefore is living after the image of our creator our true frame being designed in true Holiness

,,, and put on the new self, created to be like in true righteous and Holiness (Eph 4:24)

There is something in us that resonates with pin point accuracy the nature of our maker. The ability for man to love and respond to God is God given. Gods Grace is flaming in us .The ability of man to love a fellow man is God given and infact when God is demonstrating his love to humanity as we see in Christ , he speaks of this love as that of a friend who lays it aside for another friend.

When Isaiah the prophet speaks to the lost nation of Israel, He refers them back to the rock to which they were hewn.

Isaiah 51: 1 Listen to me you people who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord ; look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

This speaks of something exponential, that the material that made us is the rock. We were cut from the rock and consequently we are from the rock and the only rock we know is Christ. This means that we are one with the material that made us. That’s why we are told that Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers (Heb 2:11-12) both he who makes men holy and them who are being made Holy are all of one, that is very significant and important for us to know. We are as a consequent of another person. The life we have is as a consequent of the life of God manifested in Christ Jesus.

This is what I meant by this post Living consequently. We are living as a consequent of another persons action. We live because God lives, we move because God moves. And in this administration God desires that we partake in his divine nature in this pattern. God wants us to live by him, through him and in him in his unforced rhythms of grace where his life pours to ours and ours pours to him. Let him teach you to live consequently of him