I don't think we realize our own mortality, that our time on this earth is not permanent. We have a sense of our frailty, and we naturally understand that our fate is to one day have no more breath in our lungs, but we do not live as though this is the case, no matter how strongly we believe in our inevitable expiration. If we did understand that, one day, our peculiar essence will no longer pass through this realm, how much more thoughtful would we be? how much more forgetting of perceived wrong against us? how much more apt to listen? how much more caring towards self? how much more active in goals? how much more willing to inspire others to achieve their vision? Instead of getting out of our head, we are oddly sunken into the muck of damaging thoughts and feelings, and if understanding the very precious opportunity we have as functioning creatures, we would pray, "Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom," Psalm 90:12.
What separates the living God from the gods and deities of every religion under heaven is the fact that He designs, creates, and sustains whatsoever His voice is entered into. Creation is His ultimate intention, and today, the creation of a right and healthy heart and mind is His aim. Because this creation is through His Spirit's words, our heart is "to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man," Ephesians 3:16, because "that which is born of the Spirit is spirit," John 3:6. Today, and for ever more, creation is confined to the heart of the mind, which is why we are counseled, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind," Romans 12:2, and, "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind," Ephesians 4:23. The mind is to find its members regenerated to help govern the heart and body to execute a life similar to the heart of the Spirit that created it, which is why the mind must be strengthened with His Spirit's words, and it is well to know that "wisdom strengtheneth," Ecclesiastes 7:19.
To hear of creation by the living God's Spirit is to hear of creation by the wisdom of the living God's words. Such a creation is very personal and intimate, even as the example of creation's record in the book of Genesis teaches. Like as heaven and earth came about by no impression of hands, but only through words; as it says, "He spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast," Psalm 33:9; so too the heart of the mind is to find its self a living creation by no impression of hands, but only through the words of creation's present will and wisdom.
Is this not taught through the illustration of His Christ on the tree? Isn't it written, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come"? Galatians 3:13,14. The fact that this act on the tree establishes Abraham's mind of devotion witnesses to the fact that a course of service contrary to Abraham's is blotted out of existence. Because Abraham sought blessing not "through the law, but through the righteousness of faith," Romans 4:13, it is evident that a religion honoring the religious law for its creation and righteousness is no longer a valid approach to creation and righteousness. For if creation had occurred not through the direct Word of His Spirit, but through the pen and judgment of flesh, then we ought to think that creation is by commandments and traditions of priests and elders, but that record in Genesis chapter one tells a very different story, which record the illustration of His Christ on the tree verifies.
Creation found the core of its being regenerated to newness only through the living God's voice; by hearing, examining, and doing the commandment, heaven and earth became what heaven and earth were ordained to be. With His Christ "having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances," Ephesians 2:15, we today may know that "the strength of sin is the law," 1 Corinthians 15:56, allowing us to understand that creation, being without the handwritten religious ethic, is inward, within the mind, even as it says, "Thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom," Psalm 51:6. The heart of the mind is to be filled with the words of "the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding," Colossians 1:9; there is no more or less than this. With the religious law perpetually cursed in every age for handling, a message is preached for the wellness of the conversation's conscience, that it should no longer be directed by theoretical religious prescriptions, but by knowledge obtained through personally examining and doing His words.
Wisdom retained through examining and doing His thoughts should organize our life. Our decisions, our obligations, our desires, our thanksgiving, our goals, our benevolence, should be executed through wisdom retained by personally learning of and doing His words. We show forth the brilliance of His thoughts for us when allowing His words to not only prove our heart, but to also be the Corrector and Governor of our thoughts and feelings. We do not know how to live this life, and we have become desensitized to the fact that we must master our environment, because we have no real or sure wisdom of creation; by lending our mind to pre-conceived religious theories unproven to our sensibilities, a subconscious belief that trends and traditions define our existence is adopted.
We are born into a religious age preaching the imprisonment of the conscience, but the living God's doctrine is contrary to this belief, for if we were creations of His words, we would say, "Why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?" 1 Corinthians 10:29. The mind is creation's present realm because the human being is governed by thoughts and feelings. Let the mind perceive its empty condition and watch it begin to soberly think and feel not only for the heart and mind of its self, but for the heart and mind of other human beings. Religious laws and policies constrain the mind, keeping it from actually learning who and what it is, and such a practice bleeds into the natural life, for if my creed preaches the subjection of my conscience for blessing, then subconsciously I will believe it is right to limit and degrade every other conscience, which is why, by our coarse thoughts and feelings, we give more negative energy to one another than positive energy.
Such a creed is not the living God's doctrine, for, as that creating Spirit, He understands what magnifies the higher and lower faculties of the human being, which is why, through that act on the tree, it is an eternal fact that "the strength of sin is the law," 1 Corinthians 15:56. The religious law; or Moses' religious philosophy; must be exchanged for Abraham's mind of devotion because, like creation, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness," Galatians 3:6. To believe on religious laws and traditions is not to believe on the living God's words; your mind is not blessed by "your vain conversation received by tradition," 1 Peter 1:18. Abraham, like creation, maintained his faith's core through a promise, and it is well to know that "we have received a commandment from the Father," 2 John 1:4, to "receive the promise of the Spirit through faith," Galatians 3:14. What is this promise? Concerning creation's present promise, we read: "Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life," Romans 6:4.
The full illustration of His Christ on and divorced from the tree is creation's present doctrine, for with that body representing a conversation ruled by the religious law, to see it passed away on the tree is to see it giving up Moses' ghost, but to see it not only separated from the tree, but also raised to life again, is to see that same conversation now operating by another mind of service, even by that mind obtaining blessing not "through the law, but through the righteousness of faith," Romans 4:13. Such an illustration preaches the mind's separation from traditional and superstitious religious theories to claim a sobriety for benevolently caring for self, the doctrine of this understanding, and other minds. With our mind liberated from the muck of religious "philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men," Colossians 2:8, we can finally experience His words to retain wisdom to live by.
This wisdom will help us to lead our best life. The human being is too frail and sensitive to live without a right understanding of its condition. So much eats at us, so much destroys our very beautiful person, so much halts our warm and individual tenderheartedness, because our mind is not healthy. Must such a lovely thinking and feeling organism find its self retarded by vain imaginations? Must we not be who we are because of damaging thoughts? Must we accept a lesser version of our self because of damaging thoughts? Must we continue to harass one another because of an unclean conscience? Not even the living God would have us exist in such an unhealthy estate, for the illustration of His Christ on the tree, and then separated from the tree to become "a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God," Hebrews 2:17, preaches His will for us.
We are to learn how to possess self for rightly directing self, and the longer we continue to live without true and sincere knowledge of His will and intention, the greater our hardheartedness will be. It is about time that we become creations according to His definition of creation, because we unnecessarily die and abuse self for no good reason. Our assignment is creation's, and does creation abide by some policy invented for it by man? Has a man ever told creation to start and stop winter, only to have winter started or stopped? Has a man ever told creation not to quake, and has that earthquake ever stopped? Has a man ever told the sun not to rise, only to have the sun listen? Has any human ever told the ground not to soak in the rain, only to find that the ground has listened? Man can speak whatever he would to creation, but creation has one operation, even as its Creator says, "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease," Genesis 8:22.
Creation obeys not because it feels manipulated to obey, and not because it feels forced, but because it experienced the living God's will for it, and so finding His thoughts to be in its best interest, creation has continued to love the Spirit that pronounced its liberty. Our faith needs this experience, and it cannot be given to us until our conversation becomes a willing subject of His words.
We will not always have breath, but like as creation accepted regeneration to fulfill the reason for its birth, so too it is today important that our mind embrace heaven-appointed creation so that we may fulfill the reason for our birth. This life is too short to lend it over to untrue and hurtful thoughts. There is a reason why breath is in our lungs, but we cannot know that reason if we are not willing to replace our current personal and devotional mind with the living God's will and wisdom. Our lives are to portray a clean and peaceful stream of mental and moral liberty, and this task begins within our conversation's conscience, which is why we today have creation's commandment preached to us through the illustration of His Christ on the tree, to the end we may all chase the newness of mind and approach promised to us.