Here is the story
We have heard so many stories of people who plainly accepted sickness and set-back circumstances that they have been struck with, saying that it is a burden they have to carry …
Why?
Some even reasoned from their religious mindsets that it was something God wanted them to go through …
Why?
Even others, reasoning from their brainwashed, doctrinal pasts, explained that their affliction was a burden they had to carry to show that they are able to prevail …
Why?
Astonishing! I am a father and I must tell you that I would never strike one of my kids with anything just so that they may be able to prove to me that they are worthy of my love.
Never!
Biblical?
It is like asking for a fish and getting a serpent, bread and getting a stone … (Mat 7:10)
What is even more amazing is the fact that Jesus told us exactly who it is that strikes you with affliction. Remember John 10:10? The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Yet, our religious mindsets still attribute our afflictions to God … I guess someone needs to be blamed …
My theory
My theory is that it all has to do with our concept of sin.
We were taught that sin is all the wrong that we do (sometimes inherited from previous generations), sin is all that we do against the law (of Moses), it is all the bad and the ugly that we do and conjure … but, that is actually not what sin is!
Sin is simply to miss the mark. It is simply to be without form (which I have explained here and here). The Greek word for no form whence our word sin was translated from, is hamartia, which means to be without a share, to miss the mark, to be mistaken, to wander from the path, etc.
The word hamartia originates from the Greek root word meros that means part, assignment, destiny, allotment. Adding the prefix ha to the word meros turns the word into the negative form. So, hameros or hamartia means to loose your original form or to be without part.
Our original created form is to be free from any kind of affliction, whether sickness, anxiety, set-back, insecurity, needs, wants, loss, destruction, even death …
But, we lost our form ... because of believing the lie that we have to carry a burden of some sort to first prove ourselves. We believed the lie that we needed to do something instead of just being. We believed that wee needed to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil instead of just receiving the form of what we already we created in - the very image (form) of God that He Himself declared to be "very good". No hint of evil ...
Yet, we are what we eat!
But there is good news.
If we’d only but believe …
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the formlessness of the world! (John 1:29)
Jesus came to bring us back our original form, to hit the mark for us.
In the beautiful exchange (metamorphoō) on the cross He took on our form(lessness) and gave us His perfect form, so that we now stand before God without blemish, without fault, speck or wrinkle ... flawless - as was intended with our original design.
So, we don’t have to.
We don’t have to carry the burden and formlessness, because Jesus already did. If we insist on doing so, we regard His finished work ineffective and powerless. What a shame!
We don't have to accept sickness and circumstances, because Jesus already carried it in His body on the cross and completely dealt with it. If we insist on accepting sickness and formlessness for some religious reason, we regard His finished work incomplete and powerless. What a shame!
We don't have to go through anything to prove ourselves to God, because Jesus already went through those hardships and proved us worthy before God by placing His Spirit right inside of us. If we insist on putting up with hardships, we reckon His finished work and His abiding Spirit powerless. What a shame!
We don’t have to carry a burden to show that we are able to prevail, because Jesus prevailed onto death and beyond so that we do not have to show that we can. If we insist on doing so, we reject His finished work. What a shame!
It about power and might and dominion
So, you might think that God is almighty and all powerful, which He is, but there is a flipside to this coin. God gave you the instruction and power saying go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature … to cast out devils; speak with new tongues, take up serpents; and if you drink any deadly thing (such as the lie against the finished work), it will not hurt you; you will lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:15-18).
God gave mankind dominion to rule on this earth. He never said that He would rule on our behalf.
But, it can be undone.
It can be undone by believing the lie.
The Word (Jesus and His finished work) of God can be made to none effect through our traditions, which we have delivered and many such things that we do. (Mark 7:13)
… like believing the lies I came across during this past week or so!
... doubt and unbelief ...
Jesus pleads with us saying Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. (Mark 7:14-16)
Yes, the finished work can be undone.
What a shame!
So, we don’t have to do anything to prove ourselves, but what do we have to do then?
Say unto the mountain
Words have power.
It is by the words of the Word (Jesus) that He created everything, speaking those things that are not as if they are, healing the sick, casting out the demon, speaking to the fig tree …
Just the same Jesus said that we’d do even greater things and that we would speak to the mountain and it would obey.
Why don’t we?
Why don’t we leave our religious mindsets and speak the finished work of God.
I always remind myself how this story (our story) ends, how we overcome … and where the story further continues from into eternity:
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