I see the following a "Must Ask" question, "Is this life only about the results of what men do FOR God OR does the whole process we term "Life" all have just as much to do with the clear delivery of a deeper message to some others than can only be realized when God alone is "Believed"?
I suppose when we boil down to its essence what actually ails a true relationship with God, it's when we find such to be our "Self' oriented nature that prevents a True relationship with Him.
Beyond ourselves those said "Others" being of the sort which can only be realized once all that does exist and take place in the heavenly realms gets truthfully "Acknowledged" as to how God defines those same "Beings"?
As though the eternally important ramifications that speak to the WAY things God originally intended them to be managed in this world. Certain considerations which are then observed and followed as if the "Wisdom" of God has been "Found" worthy.
Wisdom which then points EVERYTHING God also created towards the example He would eventually send as His Christ that was given to this same created BEING God termed "Man" (Adam).
Wisdom that is "Proved" righteous as to how we (BECAUSE WE ARE BELIEVERS) live out our lives in the midst of such a great and far reaching "Truth" that has since become OUR collective reality.
"Pleasing" intended to interpret as a group of people which recognize themselves as though One and the same body, "God" alone "Chose" to assemble.
God chose to frame this image in one place as though One spiritual man being raised up in the earth and in another place One spiritual House with many rooms He will also "Indwell"!
Was Jesus NOT the leading edge of this living example? This same process and example "Given" to mankind in whom ONLY the Holy Spirit can then accomplish as our mutual and eternally mindful guide?
Does God only ask rhetorical questions without also providing the answer OR does He ask questions He trust the Holy Spirit will respond to once ask in a momentary revealing by way of the "Truth"?
Such divine moments that are ONLY relative to ALL that was accomplished through Christ and HIS example?
Does this also sound the likes of the "First" Adam BEFORE His soul was corrupted by the Hell bound Lie(s) satan spread in the Garden?
1 Cor 2:15-16
The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"
But we have the mind of Christ.
NIV
Basically, Paul couldn't preach about the WAY of God until he'd lived through the essence of that same message he later preached.
Jesus as the likeness of all that was given to Paul to preach since he'd deemed the message of Christ "Such great Revelation" is only able to be poured into the earthen vessel where "Believing" the words of God come first.
First to mean the mind of that same vessel that's been made ready (believed) in order so that it CAN receive from God in order to House (Contain) a more complete revelation of that same message that concerns Christ in terms of His (Christs') influential capacity and involvement here in the earth within the hearts and minds of men.
The evidence of such influence which then affects not only that same being that message indwells, but also the surrounding world where God has also planted that same "Being".
Having then by way of His spoken word(s) appointed Him (man) to have dominion over such a consideration and that only because this Man (Adam) has since discovered the Wisdom of God to be "True".
Who is the "APOSTLE" Paul if not yet one more living example through which God has went to great lengths in order to make Himself known to ALL men?
In some parts of the world the word "Apostolos" still infers what we term here in the US as the"Mail Man".
In fact it can still be found written as such on the sides of the mail delivery trucks in certain cultures.
I didn't make that up, but as is everything we "Choose" to believe, the evidence remains invisible until we too then see it in order that it prove itself to be the PRE-requisite.
The telling of the Apostle Paul's story only became a Godly story worth retelling AFTER he (Saul) had received the entitlement to do so.
Enough that He (Paul) was now pleading for some NOT to be discouraged at His suffering many had heard about as though a weakness they might have in common. A weakness then considered as such that might somehow diminish what God was otherwise going to accomplish through the full effects and delivery of the Good News (Gospel) concerning Christ.
Yes the same "Greatly" admired Apostle whom God clearly anointed with the Grace to hand out what some might term "Napkin's" to where people would then be physically healed from the ailments found in their bodies simply by coming in contact with the "Virtue" (power) of God "Believed" to be upon those same napkins.
Why "Believed" and what medium did God choose to be used in order to deliver this same power? Why didn't God use a bolt of lightning or a talking horse in order to introduce the likes of Paul to the doubt filled and unbelieving people there at the time of Paul's tenure in the earth?
Apparently God thought it wise to demonstrate His power through a Napkin or maybe the powerful image of a mans shadow passing by and healing the sick as did Peter's in one story line?
What was their soon to follow testimony with respect to NOT only "Shadows" of things to come, but maybe more important the intent of ANY shadow that God also "Cast" for "Good" reason in order that the greater reality might then be found IN CHRIST?
Col 2:17
These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
NIV
What does God try to tell man takes its rightful place when he (man) looses his connection with God who is also the head?
Col 2:19
He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
NIV
How else can God demonstrate anything he has to say to man unless He also takes him (man) by the hand on a stroll down the middle of all that is in a man? That in order to reveal to him (man) all that's in play within his being?
As though THE God chosen messenger, disciple and Apostle sent of God who told them they would be healed AND followed suit by dispensing napkins as such having himself "Believed" in the same virtue of the One True God!
Many see the miracles that took place under the hands of Paul as though the focal point of the grace of God, yet He tries to tell us who now find ourselves struggling to believe His message sent (as did some back then), that His grace was such that was given Him (Paul) was in order so that he (Paul) might find himself able to preach concerning the 'Mystery of Christ"!
This same mystery concerning the Intent in Christ coming that had been kept Hidden in God up to that point in time.
Eph 3:8-13
Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.
I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
NIV
How "Just" and how great is the hope found within the overall "Being" that now defines its self as though a "Believer" who is also discovered as though ONE with God?
That same oneness being realized as "Glory" in such a fashion where ALL now "Know" and understand the importance of this consideration that reaches beyond the placement of doubt and unbelief?
It now reaches into such a place that ushers in the freedom and confidence which displaces a previous and poorly established sense of doubt and unbelief? As such that now delivers them to the God appointed place where they each (including the Gentiles) have determined they're "Accepted" of God?
In terms of "That was then and This is NOW" at what point does this same collective group who were at some point ALL beings recognizing themselves as "Sinners" who now find themselves acceptable to God?
At what point does this group "Realize" as the content of all that they choose to believe to be true as it concerns God is now being transformed through the "Renewal" process of their minds?
Quite frankly is such a message being taught today and that in ALL that "Truth" is as though a person?
Exactly how might this "Renewal" of their minds come to pass if NOT by way of exposure to all that Truth is as it concern the presence of Christ who walked among men?
It's one thing to simply send a message to humanity yet it's entirely another event to demonstrate the intent of that same message.
Surely God can put a NEW spirit within a man, yet how does this NEW spirit guide in the process where the MIND of the soul is then renewed?
That same part of a man that attempts to reason and formulate his thoughts in order so that He (man) can then find himself able to "Relate" to God?
The God derived objective being an absolute doubtless "Reconciliation" unto ONE and the same God who is the creator of ALL things both great and small?
It's one thing for God to think of mankind one "Way", yet what happens when "How" a man thinks (reasons) does NOT agree with what God knows it "True"?
The phrase "It is what it is" does NOT depict someone that has "Learned" how OR why it's important to reason together WITH the spirit of "God".
The "WAY" the word "Obey" has been introduced to mans reasoning faculty works as does a LAW that's directly opposed to the very nature that opposes a Man.
That Nature being the way God created this same man to "Be" and further "Become" in terms of his maturation in this earth while under the governing tutelage of "Truth and Righteousness".
I pray that you've found this encouraging, yet encouragement can only reach as far as does the things we believe to be True about God.
As is Pain or Comfort found in our lives, "Lies" are also an important part of our transformation, yet only when they've been properly aligned with their deceptive source the WAY God would have them to BE considered.
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