12/4/12

From "NO, NO, to "Yes"!


Children can be so cute when they are small, so innocent, but they still have to be taught and nothing teaches like the word "no".  Those under the first covenant were as children, but then came the new covenant and adulthood.  Paul puts it this way...

Galatians, Chapter 4
 1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.  3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.  4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,  5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.  6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba,Father!”  7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Now that we are adopted into the family of God, we don't have the "yes" and "no" of the Law, but the Spirit of God to guide us.  And although we might have just become a babe in the family of God, our relationship entitles us to be treated as adults.  This must give God great pleasure when HE sees us maturing.  Humm; if the first word is no, then I wonder what the second word is...?

Could it be...

1 Corinthians, Chapter 2
 6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.  7 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,  8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.  9 But as it is written,

“Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear,
which didn’t enter into the heart of man,

these God has prepared for those who love him.”

  10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.