Remember Who You Are

I am a son of Adam, created in the image of God, and a son of the second Adam, created for good works. Remember this. Live like you believe this. You are a son of Adam and a son of God. The life you are looking for can only be found in God.

The life that you are looking for can only be found in God thru His Son Jesus Christ. It cannot be found in the daughters of Eve, in money, in power, in experience, in fame, in possessions, in sex, in work, etc. It can only be found in God thru Christ Jesus our Lord. Only He can fill the hole, fill the void. Only He can answer the question. Only He is worth living for, dying for. Only He is worthy of being the reason we do what we do. True joy and peace and freedom etc. can only be found in Him. Healing is only found in Him. He is the end game. He is what we live for. He is the audience we play for. He is life.

Remember who Eve is (and her daughters). The daughters of Eve were created. They were created to be our helper. Eve is not the end game. God is. In the garden Adam chose Eve over God. We continue to make this choice to this day. Do not do this. Choose God. Eve’s beauty reflects the Beauty of God. In it we glimpse eternity perhaps. We see God’s glory. It is magnificent. She is truly beautiful. That is why we are so drawn to the daughters of Eve. That is why her beauty is so compelling, why we so easily think she is the end game. She can easily become the reason we live and do what we do. But she is not. GOD is the end game. He is the reason we live and do what we do. Remember this. He is our reason to live.

And remember that the life you are looking for can only be found in God. Remember this when you gaze upon the daughters of Eve. Do not be fooled and think she has life. Only God has the life you crave. I must remind myself of this everyday. Every time I look upon her beauty. Only God has life. Life abundant.

So, having said this, truly believing this, what does this mean to me? How now should I live? How should I view the daughters of Eve when confronted by their beauty? How should I live with my wife, the daughter of Eve that I have chosen as my helper?

I am a son of Adam. A son of the second Adam, Christ Jesus. Created in the image of God. Created to do good works. Created to walk with God in the garden. Restored to the garden by the work of Christ. Restored to fellowship with God by the work of Christ. Eternity is mine. God grant me the wisdom, strength and courage to walk with you and accomplish the works you created me to do while I am here on this earth. Train me to think rightly and to act rightly. Train me to look upon the daughters of Eve as you intend me to. Don’t let my flesh overcome me. Do not let me fall into the traps of the world, sin, and Satan. Teach me your ways and show me how to live.

Remember, you are a son of Adam, born again. You are also a son of God. Remember this. Act like it. Think like it. And act like a man. Don’t act like a woman. Don’t act like and animal. Don’t act like a child. Act like a man.
Every trap the devil sets is upside down. It delivers the opposite of what it promises. The fruit delivered death, not life. Evolution is in conflict with naturalism, not religion. Following him leads to bondage and a loss of freedom and fewer choices, not the freedom he promises. Everything he says is a lie. Every trap he sets delivers the opposite of the promise he uses to bait us into the trap. You would think we would figure this out by now. I guess we are easily fooled.

Remember that everything he says is a lie and you will be well served. Remember that every trap delivers the opposite of its promise and perhaps you will keep your foot out of it. Remember that every argument he makes is upside down and you will not be fooled and led astray by his theories and teachings.

Everything he does is to keep us from God and occupy our time in worthless endeavors. Remember Egypt and the Wilderness. Do not settle in either of these places, they are his. Move on to the promised land. Egypt is his land of bondage and slavery. The Wilderness is his land of wasted life. Move out of both of these places, and get God’s help as needed to do so. And move into the promised land life of walking with God and building His Kingdom. Be a Matthew 6:33 kind of guy. “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you.“

Accept responsibility. God has put you in charge. Be in charge. Don’t blame others, don’t pretend you don’t know what is going on. Don’t abdicate decisions to others when it is your decision to make. Accept responsibility. Be responsible, for good or for bad. Step up and be counted. Face the music. Move towards conflict and not away from it. Move towards problems and not away from them. Don’t hide, be accessible and available. Accept responsibility.

Be responsible for those in your charge. For their well being. For their spiritual growth. For their safety. Etc. Take responsibility for the work God has given you to do.

Lead courageously. Leading is what you are to do. With courage is how you are to do it. God has put you in command and you are to lead. You take in the relevant info, get whatever input you need, talk to God about it, etc. But ultimately it is your job to make a decision and lead your family, your team, your business unit, your friends, your girlfriend, whatever God has put you in command of. People may not like your decisions. You may not like some of the decisions you have to make. You may not like the outcome of some of the decisions you make. You may not even want to make the decision. But it is your job to lead, to lead with courage and make decisions. Just do it.

The issue isn’t whether God is speaking but whether or not you can hear Him or want to hear Him. Are you living your life in such a way that you can hear from God? Are you giving God opportunities to speak to you? Are you stopping to listen? Are you taking the time to record what He says to you? Do you need to slow down your life? When do you hear from God? Where do you hear from God? Do you need to establish a time and a place to hear from Him? What works best for you? Make time for God.

Remember who you are.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.

There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John *testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’” For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.”
John 1:1-18

1. Created in the Image of God

• Genesis 1:26-27: We are created in God’s image. “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…’ So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
• Psalm 139:13-14: Reminds us of the deliberate, magnificent design of God’s handiwork. “For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.”

2. The Second Adam & Good Works

• 1 Corinthians 15:45: Jesus is the second Adam. Where Adam failed, Jesus succeeded. Adam disobeyed God, and ate from the tree. Jesus obeyed God and was hung on the tree for our sins. “So it is written: ‘The first man Adam became a living being’; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.”
• Romans 5:12-14: Adam gave in to temptation and fell, letting sin into the world. Jesus overcame temptation – 40 days in the wilderness being tempted by satan, sweating drops of blood while praying in the garden of Gethsemane, and on the cross when they told Him to come down from the cross if He really is the son of God. He overcame that in Him we might have life. “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned— for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.”
• Ephesians 2:10: Just as Jesus came to do good works, so He has called us to follow Him and do good works as well. “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

3. God as the “End Game” and True Life

• Colossians 3:3-4: “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.”
• Psalm 16:11: “You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.”
• Philippians 3:7-11: “But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.”

4. Christ Fulfilling the Void over the World

• John 10:10: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
• John 4:13-14: Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
• John 14:6: “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’.”