Outward In

Outward In

..Can it be true that what the institution has taught us to do is to look outwardly for an inward reality? Over the course of my life in Christ for the last 25 years I have seen the Christian world create outward interpretations[seen] of spiritual, fixed, UNseen realities. Over time I have witnessed the insanity this engendures in people. It is NOT a place in life to envy. It may seem so from the children of Gods perspective, [and because it does not carry the sense of moment by moment confusion that we who are seeing reality in Christ experience in the body] for they have plenty of agreement, plenty of outward support and friendship with the spirit who is in the world but,they are one slip away from complete meltdown. That is why they must keep the ear muffs of religion so close. Struggles with the fleshly mind eat at us and that is why religious or earth bound opinion is so tempting for us. For instance we ask: "if I am a NEW creation, why can't I DO the things[the stuff of] God?" We DEMAND OUTWARD, SEEN PROOF of this reality hidden within if it is so 'true' as God through Christ and His Apostles have proclaimed. We ask "why the hocus pocus"? "Why not SHOW it..real...OUTWARDLY?" And so we get into action thinking we can make something alive that doesn't show outwardly. We tip our hats once in a while to phrases like 'earthen vessel" or "it is no longer I but, Christ who lives in me"[as written in the scripture] and move on as if these phrases play right into the outward, seen stuff of this world. But does it? Does life as a new creation mean I am able to produce the life of God? If I am REALLY new, shouldn't I be able to see it with my EYES and hear it with my EARS? Take for instance our idea that we can heed "God's will" or carry out "Gods Authority". So many will tell themselves and each other that we are ABLE to follow after these things as a conscious law. But we are only deceiving OURSELVES! We have gotten used to something hanging around in our lives that we can NOT DO. Instead of having eyes fixed on what is unseen we are fixed on that which is SEEN. For that is what we are taught in this world to do, to crave and to go after. We figure instead of feeling the examination coming from the world all the time for our 'weakness' we can just shame THEM for not making the most rational outward decision of their pathetic lives. The church teaches agreement with the world in everything it says. It has caused SO much damage only because it has used the same WORDS [not meaning] as it is written in the testimony of our brothers[The Bible] in ancient times. We BOTH rely on these testimonies for a great deal of encouragement. One relies on it for the outward and the other the inward. However the fruit of the natural mind[the flesh] is producing DEATH in those who head it's cause. And those that are preaching outward stuff are preaching flesh which leads to DEATH. Death in that it leads to all the condemnation worthy human particles that were taken away. Trying to reconcile the outward with the unseen may provide a thrill for a short time in ones life but, ultimately one will have to face a sense of judgment. For the flesh is not the thing that God has ignored. God condemned flesh in the man Jesus Christ. Walking around with the thing worthy of this death all over us is not exactly living if you know what I mean?

Adam