Love By Our Creator.

"I need the miracle worker," she whispered through cracked, dried lips. 

"Shh, you're going to be okay, just rest now."

"You…you don't understand, my husband…" Her voice was barely audible. Her dry tongue tried to wet her parched lips but there was no moisture. 

The edge of a cup was placed against her mouth. "Sip slowly, dear." Her caretaker's voice was soft. 

Listening, she sipped from the cup. Cool water touched her lips and mingled with the copper taste of the caked blood. As the water trickled down the back of her throat she coughed lightly and the cup was pulled away. 

"Easy now, slowly." 

She was encouraged as the cup returned to her lips.

Several sips later she felt better and closed her eyes even as she tried to speak, but failed. Nonsensical words trailed off as consciousness eluded her.

Not awake, yet not resting, Rarnne tossed and turned, moaning as her dreams slipped into nightmares. 

He was calling for her over and over. The sound of his voice familiar yet strained by the agony filling his entire being. He needed her help, his pain was too intense, but there was nothing she could do, nothing. The teas to relieve pain weren't working any longer. The twisting of his spine growing worse even as he was placed in a healer's contraption meant to straighten him. Why had this happened to him? What caused him to go from being perfectly healthy to an invalid over the course of the last several years? He didn't know, she didn't know, and no one else knew why this tragedy had befallen Venjeran. Even if they knew, there was nothing they could do to change a thing. The knowledge of the why would not give the how and that is what they needed, the how to make things better.  

"Rarnneeeeee! Help me! Rarneeeee! Please! The pain! Stop the pain!" 

How long had she heard the cries, day in, day out, awake, asleep the constant voice of agony she could no longer shut out of her thoughts.

"Venjeran!" She answered in a hoarse cry of her own, breaking through her sleep and into consciousness. "Venjeran!" She tried to sit up but every muscle in her body protested and she fell back.

"No, no! Don't get up, stop, you need to rest!" Gentle hands wrapped around her arms and eased her back into the bed. "Shh, I'm Luida. You arrived here yesterday morning and collapsed. Let me get you some warm broth and some more water and after that if you feel up to it you can tell me…"

"Venjeran, he needs the Miracle Worker. We were told he'd been here, please…"

"Shhhh, eat first. You need to get stronger. The miracle worker hasn’t been here for over a year now, I'm so sorry." Luida gave Rarnee's arms a gentle pat, her words filled with compassion. Rarnee wasn't the first to come to their village looking for the Miracle Worker. Several people had heard the news and come looking for Him. Theirs wasn't the only village touched by the Miracle Worker, though. Many villages had been blessed by Him, people were desperate for His healing touch.

"I have to find Him, please…"

"Shhhh, let me get that broth. You stay here for a few days and rest up and I'm sure we can get you to the next village, they might have news of Him."

Rest, while Venjeran suffered, she didn't dare and yet, if something happened to her then she couldn't help him any longer. She'd rest but only for as long as it took for her to regain her strength. Every moment was precious and she'd been gone from Venjeran for over two months now. 

"Thank you," she whispered, "thank you, Luida, may God bless you."

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A collective of creatures. We all have the same basic components with overall minimal variances. The only thing unique to the creatures as individuals is their thoughts, their memories, their choices, the thing that makes them separate from all others. Our brains in structure are quite similar. To take several brains from several creatures and mix them up blindly, you'd be hard pressed to tell whose brain belong to which body (in general-not in comparing excising strokes and the like). The brain is our center of thought, our uniqueness resides there. If you were to really get right down to it, very few people are exactly alike in any great detail. We are all generally the same. We are creatures given the gift of unique individuality. That individuality was never intended for us to use in order to place ourselves in a position of superiority. No creature could ever become their own Creator, forever there would be a Creator above and beyond all creatures. 

We have been deceived by Satan, the would-be great usurper, the great deceiver, the one who dared believe they - a creature- could be a Creator. The deceiver was given a death sentence and prior to that being carried out, all the creatures would get an opportunity to use their individuality to decide to be creatures loving their Creator, or to be creatures loving themselves, creatures putting their Creator first, or creatures putting themselves first. Our loving Creator suffered and died to give us this opportunity of choice. Our loving Creator did everything He could to save as many of His creatures as He possibly could. 

A.T. Jones -

"The deception of man led him to put self in the place of God, and the mind and word of Satan in the place of the mind and word of God. This led to the perversion of man's ideas concerning God, and the receiving of Satan's ideas and suggestions as the true ideas concerning God. It led to the setting of God in a totally false light in the estimation of man. It led mankind to look upon God as a hard master, a despotic governor, and a stern, impassive, unmerciful judge. Over and over, the Lord set forth His Word to the contrary. To Moses He declared Himself to be "merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin." In His law He set forth His character as "LOVE." Yet, for all this, mankind still followed perverted ideas of God."

Exo 34:6  And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 

Exo 34:7  Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin…

No Right to Know.

 Why do we imagine we have a right to know evil? Satan said to Eve…

Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 

Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 

 God said…

Gen 2:16  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 

Gen 2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 

Eve chose to eat the forbidden fruit because of a lie. She didn't think she'd die. She imagined having her eyes opened to know good and evil would make her like a god. Satan lied and told her she would be 'as gods'. He didn't lie completely though, he loves to mingle truth with lies. Gods do know good and evil, but Gods are from everlasting to everlasting, without beginning or end.  Gods can create from nothing. Gods are the purest of love. Mankind are created beings, not Creators. Mankind are powerless, not gods. Tempted with being given God knowledge, Eve succumbed. She'd been told by her Creator Himself that she shouldn't eat of this tree, told it was a tree of knowledge of good and evil, told she would die if she chose to gain that knowledge by eating the fruit. She deemed it worth it, worth death. Did she know what death was? Yes. God gave her and Adam that knowledge of death's meaning. What good would such a warning be if there were no knowledge of the punishment? To tell a child they will not be allowed to play with a drum if they are disobedient would mean nothing if they had absolutely no knowledge of what a drum was.  But given the knowledge of the drum and its allure to be played with, the child would have incentive to be obedient.  God let them know what death would be should they eat of the fruit. Yet, Satan called God a liar and said that mankind would not die. Instead of dying they would just be given knowledge, and God had said it was a tree of knowledge. 

Death. There are many forms of death, aren't there? Seriously. You've heard the term a death to innocence, you've also heard- "You're dead to me." - spoken to a living being. The death that Adam and Eve were given knowledge of was the death of their non-existence, a death of their entire being. Satan knew that death was non-existence, as well as an end to their forms.  

When Eve bit into the fruit her death of non-existence was not instantaneous. The death of her being however had begun instantly, the process was underway. All the eternal life giving particles that she'd been imbued with were instantly tainted with the promised punishment of death. Everything changed for her and she knew it immediately. The knowledge of evil mingled with the knowledge of good, and that evil was horrific beyond anything she might have considered, but under God's protection she had no need to know of any evil, not the slightest bit. That she knew it existed and would take away her eternal life should have sufficed, it did not.

We have this belief that as created beings we have rights to things, oh wait, we forget we are created beings and that is why we believe we have the right to things. The knowledge of good and evil tainted all aspects of us, even our perception of rights as being people. We've put ourselves on pedestals- ever seeking a little god status that Satan promised we get by having knowledge. Knowledge does not make God, but knowledge especially evil knowledge can lead one to believe they are as gods. God does know evil and good, and it's a heavy weight of knowledge never intended for created beings.

We must all die with Christ- we must all be crucified with Christ, and rise with Him.  We suffer under the curse of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, a tree we had no right to partake of, a tree's fruit that is the root cause of all the suffering we ever experience in any way.

Please, Lord, we would be YOURS. Live in us, let Your mind be in us, because the mind of our own is corrupt, so very corrupt.

All by Your grace and mercy, Your love.

Find the Miracle Worker

 

Church Authority

 

Freed.

 Freed.

Alone with her own thoughts, no, no! That wasn't right! She wasn't alone there was something else there, something she couldn't explain, a whisper of peace. How long, oh, how long she'd suffered with the thoughts of others! She hadn't always had this plague of thoughts in her mind, no, no, she'd been the same as all others, hadn't she? It was hard to remember, but at the same time easy, the thoughts were easy, calm, alone.

"I…I…" she stammered softly, she was speaking. Her voice, it was her voice! The voice she'd lost when the others took over. When was the last time she'd heard her own voice? Ten, fifteen years ago? She hadn't been a woman more than a full year when the first voice had intruded. Called disturbed by some as her outgoing demeanor altered overnight into one of withdrawn sullenness, that didn't last long. A half a year later and two more voices they'd labeled her possessed, and they were right. Disturbed by one, and completely wrecked by three evil entities, Emelai was shunned and rightly so. 

 "Drink," the man responded, still with his back to her. Strong, calloused hands set the filled water jug on the edge of the well. "Drink deep, Emelai."

(Excerpt- Present Truth Articles - The Unconquerable Life By E.J. Waggoner)  

"In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not." John 1: 4, 5 (RV). The marginal rendering, "overcame," gives us the exact meaning of the text, and conveys a message of great comfort to the believer. Let us see what it is.

Christ is the light of the world. See John 8:12. 

Joh 8:12  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 

But His light is His life, as the text quoted states. He says, "I am the

light of the world; he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." The whole world was in the darkness of sin. This darkness was due to lack of knowledge of God; as the apostle Paul says

that the Gentiles are "darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them because of the hardening of their heart." Eph. 4:18.

Satan, the ruler of the darkness of this world, had done his utmost to deceive men as to the true character of God. He had made the world believe that God was like men--cruel, vindictive, and passionate. Even the Jews, the people whom God had chosen to be the bearers of His light to the world, had departed from God, and while professedly separate from the heathen, were enveloped in heathen darkness. Then Christ came, and "The people which sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, to them did light spring up." Matt. 4:16. His name was Emanuel, God with us. "God was in Christ." God refuted the falsehoods

of Satan, not by loud arguments, but simply by living His life among men, so that all might see it. He demonstrated the power of the life of God, and the possibility of its being manifested in men.

The life which Christ lived was untainted by sin. Satan exerted all his powerful arts, yet he could not affect that spotless life. Its light always shone with unwavering brilliancy. Because Satan could not produce the least

shadow of sin in the life, he could not bring it within his power, that of the grave. No one could take Christ's life from Him; He voluntarily laid it down. And for the same reason, when He had laid it down, Satan could not

prevent Him from taking it up again. Said He: "I lay down My life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of My Father." John 10:17, 18. To the same intent are the words of the apostle Peter concerning Christ:-

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"Whom God hath raised up having loosed the pains of death; because it was not possible that He should be holden of it." Acts 2:24. Thus was demonstrated the right of the Lord Jesus Christ to be made a high priest "after the power of an endless life." Heb. 7:16.

This endless, spotless life Christ gives to all who believe on Him. "As Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him. And this is life eternal, that they might know

Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." John 17:2, 3. Christ dwells in the hearts of all those who believe on Him. 

"I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." Gal. 2:20. See also Eph. 3:16, 17.

Christ, the light of the world, dwelling in the hearts of His followers, constitutes them the light of the world. Their light comes not from themselves, but comes from Christ, who dwells in them. Their life is not from themselves, but it is the life of Christ manifest in their mortal flesh. See 2 Cor. 4:11. 

2Co 4:11  For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh

This is what it is to live "a Christian life." This living light comes from God in a never-failing stream. The psalmist exclaims: "For with Thee is the fountain of  life; in Thy light shall we see light." Ps. 36:9. "And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." Rev. 22:1. "And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst, come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Rev. 22:17.

"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." John 4:53, 54. This life of Christ we eat and drink by feasting upon His Word, for He added, "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life." Verse 63. Christ dwells in His inspired Word, and through it we get His life. This life is given freely to all who will receive it, as we read above; and again we read that Jesus stood and cried, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink." John 7:37.

This life is the Christian's light, and it is that which makes him a light to others. It is his life; and the blessed comfort to him is that no matter how great the darkness through which he has to pass, no darkness has power to put out that light. That light of life is his as long as he exercises faith, and the darkness cannot affect it. Let all, therefore, who profess the name of the Lord, have the confidence that can say, "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy; when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me." Micah 7:8.

Spirit Words.