Personality

I have been teaching at our youth services recently, about our union with God through Christ. This post was inspired during my last message, so big ups to Ground Zero Youth, who continue to draw out the treasures in us!

This is the big idea: We limit our experience and knowledge of God to our Adamic nature! We still think of ourselves according to Adam and not according to Christ. We think in terms of limitation and not in terms of fullness.

We say stuff like “some people are like this” and “some people are like that”, which is true to an extent, but this is ultimately based on our  (adamic) humanity and not in the work of Christ! Yes, everybody is different and with absolute good reason, but the effect and application of the work of Christ is the same! WE have been given a new nature, we are new creations and that is why it is important to have the gospel rewrite everything we think we know about ourselves! WE are like HIM, but our expressions of Him will differ.

I guess the point I’m struggling to make is that, we should allow the gospel to work it’s way through us and not limit our experience and knowledge of God to our personality or our natural understanding! WE should embrace His work completely and it’s repercussions what ever it might mean, so that our humanity can rightly display His divinity!

Jesus is the How and Where, the truth about God and the truth about Man and He is the Life that vitalizes our Humanity!