The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"From Illusion To Infusion"
"To live is Christ declares the text of God's Word regarding the context of our very existence. In Him we live and move and have our being."
Perhaps the clearest indication of humanity's dependence on God involves our very existence.
"It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves" (Psalm 100:3).
We then proceed to the continuation of our existence.
"By Him all things consist… He giveth to all life and breath and all things" (Colossians 1:17; Acts 17:25).
Now let us apply these large and wondrous universal truths to our lives in personal terms, particularly in whatever our life presently involves of blessings, challenges, and everyday realities we currently experience. Can the One who made and sustains us provide for whatever this day holds and whatever it will bring to us?
"Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord, He is God in Heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else" (Deuteronomy 4:39; emphasis added).
Let us indeed "consider it in thine heart" that God is God, and "there is none else" who made, sustains, and provides for our existence. This is truth. This is reality. This is the fact of this day. Any other way of viewing life constitutes nothing but delusion and illusion. "To live is Christ" declares the text of God's Word regarding the context of our very existence (Philippians 1:21). "In Him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). We are as fish that swim in the ocean that is God. How little even the most godly among us presently see the divine environment and atmosphere in which we live, and which lives in all who have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ. How much more every believer must aspire to open the eyes of our hearts a bit wider each day, and thus live according to reality, as opposed to delusion and illusion. "I will look for Him" (Isaiah 8:17).
Our Maker and Sustainer beckons us to know Him as He is, and as all things are in accordance with His personal, particular, and powerful involvement in every aspect of our life and being. We may not see or perceive Him, and in most things we won't with earthly eyes. By faith, however, we can affirm with our hearts and confess with our tongues that God saturates the warp and woof of everything in our lives. "The very hairs of your head are all numbered" declared the Lord Jesus Christ to His disciples (Matthew 10:30). The Spirit of God and the Word of God proclaim such truth to us in this present moment of divine saturation, and in all that will follow. We cannot yet see all of what such grace means. But we can see some, and we can see more as we determine to escape our native delusion and illusion into the infusion of God in all things. "There is none else" of truth and reality that exists, and we genuinely live only as we affirm that to live is indeed Christ. Nothing more. Nothing less. Nothing else.
"He is thy life."
(Deuteronomy 30:20)
"This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."
(Psalm 118:24)
Weekly Memory Verse
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord, He is God in Heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
(Deuteronomy 4:39)
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