- not just "true statements" - words divorced from lips,
but ones who think - "true men", "true women", whose
unitedness is "life's true way", in sips .
[my lesson from a weekend get-together in Feb 2020]
How do we join in partnership with him?1
- When even asking questions like that can
seem like we think ourselves a god that shim-
mers. Pretty special, not someone who's banned
from entering again into that place,
the Garden, where the overlap in time
occurs, between dimensions within space:
of rule or reign, of reason and of rhyme,
the rule of God in there is right in line
with human rule, with no disparity.
Yet humans made alternative divines,
and gave them room to live and also breathe,
so Pharaohs, & then Caesars down the track,
and little kings in castles ev'rywhere,
have let this way of thinking (which does smack
of treason), be the way, they say, they "care".
To get their news out helps folk live in line
and helps them magnify (to others too)
the rule of this alternative divine,
but grows a cynicism deep in you.
It is a growing thing, and looks alive.
This message as it spreads enhances rule,
but rule that's somehow like an insect hive,
with absolute obedience, like a tool.2
Yet fealty to the First One, who made all
(for life and health, with goodness that abounds)3,
and news of it, though it may seem quite small,
is more alive and pow'ful than it sounds!4
For that First One, with his own kind-a rule
stands quite apart from most of history
as we have come to know it; he's no fool
he doesn't need our salesmanship to be
now growing leadership as a real GOD;
or learning what true fatherhood looks like.
Where-ever Jesus put his foot he trod
on holy ground, as God’s own little tyke!
And round God’s leadership that’s based on love
(an unconditional and positive
regard, that he empowers like his glove,
or rather skin on hands and feet; the sieve
in which all actions test as “live” or “dead”;
& through which all his actions come to life),
his other living stones, gems faceted,
now glimmer with their gleams, cut with a “knife”.
And strangely all the gleams are never seen
at any one time, just the opposite!
They’re cut so there will always be a gleam
from most directions that you look on it.
And those whose eyes are “tuned in” to that cue
need only see the smallest kind of gleam,
and they will focus in, move, and they’ll do
whatever must be done, they'll live the dream.
It’s also like a tiny living seed,
since it has pow’r of life within itself
the DNA communicated reads
itself into new life, and then good health.
And now I see: the stories that depict
the Life of God on Earth within his Christ,
are like those facets, or the seeds of it.
I needn’t fear, for each one will suffice
to indicate the kind-a Life that’s come
to Earth; and my job is to let that spir-
it of the Life of God lead me in some
Way, so that what I choose to let them hear..
from this here mouth, will come in God’s own time.
Oh God we love this partnership1 with you,
so, as Yeshua did, apostles chimed
in (with the Loving spirit of you too)
and said “When you speak, speak as one who says
the oracles of God, to those who hear.”5
So I will do my part, and leave the rest
to you my God1, till you in me appear!6
I now see that I am in Christ, that Eed-
en, tabernacle or temple,7 of God.
The God himself within this world has freed
up access to that central garden plot,
right through the 8gate into that verdant patch
where life that’s come from heaven has come down,9
and we who walk upon this stair10-way match
him,11 who has brought us life: Heav-en’s “fool” clown!
And when I think of those "triplets" - of God's:
the Life of God (once offered on that tree),
the Way (Most Excellent) that Jesus trod,
the Truth that may be all reality,
then most I see I need God's Life, of course
which is to say God's Love & Truth expressed,
which can't be fully outlined from its source,
but can be incubated in a “nest”.12
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“until Christ is formed within you” Galatians 4:19 or untill you are formed “in Christ”, where our Christ (= King) is like a mother whose body is to her born/ unborn child, it’s source of both food and drink.
The tabernacle/skin-tent & the temple, with their embroidered pomegranates and bells, dividing walls, cherubim and (alter) where a beast was killed to “clothe” the children of God, were dramatic props standing for the Eden Garden of communion with God. Jesus tabernacled/ skin-tented among us (John 1:14), Peter and Paul speak of other humans tabernacling/skin-tenting here (2 Cor 5:1-10; 2 Pet 1:13); We are individually (and together) the temple of God (Cor ), (or living stones within it) (Eph; 1 Peter)
I am the door, the gate.. (John)
“Come down from heaven”: the one born from heaven, from above, who then bears witness (John 3:) the bread of life (John 6:).
Jesus words to Philip “you will see … ascending and decending upon the son of Adam” tying in with Jacob’s dream of seeing a ladder or stairway with angels ascending and descending to and from heaven.
Copy him, follow him, & make his attitude and spirit and way of life our own.
How I longed to gather you as a hen gathers its chicks (The prophets, speaking for God; and Jesus speaking for God (Luke)) and see footnote 6, above.
1 DOZEN WINE / OL' CHEESES! TASTING HERE
TODAY! SOME PALATE PLEASERS TOO! : I says :
DRINK SOME, PROPOSE A TOAST, & RAISE A CHEER!
- TO WHAT YOU KNOW AS TRUE, & GOOD, - & PAYS!
