13 September 2010

Inspired by God - Penned by Beth R Auman

Change of View

Many in our world today believe the lie that you get more than one chance at life and although only the Lord can change the heart of man. There is a view from which they cannot see. Your view in this life (your perspective is what you believe in your heart).

Christians walk by faith and not by sight.[ 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 (King James Version)  ⁶Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:  ⁷(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)  ⁸We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

 We believe that which we truly have not seen with our physical eyes, but have received in our heart. That is the truth that Jesus Christ was born, that He lived a sinless life, that He died, went to hell - took back the keys of the kingdom and rose again. [Revelation 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.]

That is the truth and for some who can believe in aliens,  reincarnation and for those who believe in nothing at all - Jesus seems unrealistic.

The view of which I'm speaking of is eternal. We live in a world that lives for the day. Everything is quick and available. Technology is entertaining and we all reach out for those snap shots that make us laugh, cry, - feel.  Quite void of eternal reality.

See if you live your life with the perspective that you have another chance - what do you gain? A lazy attitude that you get a do-over?  There are no do-overs, your view has to change. Each second that God Almighty has granted us on this earth is eternal. You can never, ever do a second over. NEVER.

We are to live our lives as is there is no tomorrow,  only eternity and your belief system dictates your eternity. You will never be a bird, a fox, an elephant or a different gender - it will not happen - that was not God's design. He didn't say light - BE, Human Male made in my image - Be then Be again until you get it right. No He created Adam in His Own image. [Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."] He made man generational with a generational perspective and with a generational eternal beginning and end. The circle of life.

Adam gave up his right to rule on this earth, Jesus Christ bought it back, through His obedience and sacrifice. Many believe that Jesus Christ was a good prophet - HE IS, many believe that Jesus Christ was a great Healer, HE IS, and many believe the Jesus Christ was a Wise man - HE IS or should I say as Ab ba Father said in  [Exodus :14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.] He is whatever you need at the moment. That is when you yield and ask, believe and admit that you need Him.

Many refuse to see that Jesus  died for the forgiveness of their sins. They choose to believe that they will have a do over, so they will get it right the next time. Will they ever be surprised when they die!

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (King James Version)

 ¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

 ²⁰ That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Oh and for those who read this and just know that it was only for the Jews - [Ephesians 1:4-6 (King James Version)  ⁴According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:  ⁵ Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,  ⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.]

We have been adopted - engrafted into the True Vine [John 15  ¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.  ²Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.  ³Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.]

Perspective and Vision - per·spec·tive

   /pərˈspɛktɪv/ Show Spelled[per-spek-tiv] Show IPA –noun

1. a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.

2. a picture employing this technique, esp. one in which it is prominent: an architect's perspective of a house.

3. a visible scene, esp. one extending to a distance; vista: a perspective on the main axis of an estate.

4. the state of existing in space before the eye: The elevations look all right, but the building's composition is a failure in perspective.

5. the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship: You have to live here a few years to see local conditions in perspective.

6. the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship: Your data is admirably detailed but it lacks perspective.

7. a mental view or prospect: the dismal perspective of terminally ill patients.

vi·sion   /ˈvɪʒən/ Show Spelled[vizh-uhn]  Show IPA –noun

1. the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.

2. the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur.

3. an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency: a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision. Compare hallucination ( def. 1 ) .

4. something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message.

5. a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory.

6. something seen; an object of sight.

7. a scene, person, etc., of extraordinary beauty: The sky was a vision of red and pink.

I choose Vision myself, laying down my perspective I want to live every second of every single day that I have been given being grateful for the life that God chose to give me. In thankfulness to Jesus Christ for His blood sacrifice for my salvation and appreciation for Holy Spirit who is my helper and counselor, keeping me in line and away from the seduction of the devil. I have declared and decreed that Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life, I have yielded unto Him and He changed my vision. He experientially with His personage appears vividly and credibly to my mind even though He is actually seated at the right hand of Almighty God. I am under the influence of my Divine Savior and He is vivid in all of His wealth and glory in my sight, He is beautiful and extraordinary.

My perspective changed and minute by minute, second by second  I choose Him and know that I am His and He is mine - eternally.  I have an eternal view.

From what view are you looking? Is your own guilt and shame blocking you from receiving the free gift that is set before you. Can you just not grasp that someone would pay the ultimate price for your redemption? That's the only reason that anyone would have a different view and if you just yield unto Him and ask Him - not books, not others perspectives - Ask Jesus  if He truly did this for you. Your view will change too.

In the Torah on the day of Atonement the High Priest  had to follow God's instructions, explicably in order to enter in to His presence:

Leviticus 16:1-34 (New International Version)

The Day of Atonement

 ¹ The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the LORD. ² The LORD said to Moses: "Tell your brother Aaron not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.

 ³ "This is how Aaron is to enter the sanctuary area: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. ⁴ He is to put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are sacred garments; so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on. ⁵ From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

 ⁶ "Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. ⁷ Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ⁸ He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat. ^{[a] 9} Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the LORD and sacrifice it for a sin offering. ¹⁰ But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat.

 ¹¹ "Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering. ¹² He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain. ¹³ He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the Testimony, so that he will not die. ¹⁴ He is to take some of the bull's blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.

 ¹⁵ "He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull's blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it. ¹⁶ In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness. ¹⁷ No one is to be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel.

 ¹⁸ "Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it on all the horns of the altar. ¹⁹ He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.

 ²⁰ "When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat. ²¹ He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat's head. He shall send the goat away into the desert in the care of a man appointed for the task. ²² The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a solitary place; and the man shall release it in the desert.

 ²³ "Then Aaron is to go into the Tent of Meeting and take off the linen garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is to leave them there. ²⁴ He shall bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people. ²⁵ He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

 ²⁶ "The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp. ²⁷ The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and offal are to be burned up. ²⁸ The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.

 ²⁹ "This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves ^[b] and not do any work—whether native-born or an alien living among you- ³⁰ because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the LORD, you will be clean from all your sins. ³¹ It is a sabbath of rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance. ³² The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments ³³ and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, for the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and for the priests and all the people of the community.

 ³⁴ "This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites."
      And it was done, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. All you have to do is believe. No goat, bulls, garments, just simply confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of the Most High God. Jesus is the scapegoat, and the living sacrifice, and through His blood we are forgiven and have access to Father God.

John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

This is my view and my perspective I love the Lord with all of my heart and I have personally confessed with my mouth and I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is Lord.

It is so very simple to live each and every moment eternally in Jesus Christ.