Pathway of Peace - Seeing

Hebrews2:6 ‘What is man that you pay so much attention to him, or the Son of Man (Jesus), that you would bewith him and look out for him?’7. You created him of a lower spiritual order than angels, and yet now you have given him a crown of glory and honor and placed him in supreme authority over everything that is yours.

8. He is in command of everything. There is nothing that exists outside the scope of his dominion. But when we see (discern) the apparent disorder of things (What on earth is going on?) it does not seem that everything is conforming to this rule. (Many free will agendas out there) 9. But we see (behold) Jesus for who he really is, created of a lower spiritual order than angels, so that he could suffer and die as a man and then receive his heavenly crown of glory and honor - and through the grace and goodness of God, to digest the poison of death for all of humanity.

10. It was the most noble and upright thing for him to do, the one to whom everything belongs, and through whom everything was created. It was so that he could bring the whole human family, as his brothers and sisters, into the same place of recognition and standing that he has himself. The pioneer of a whole new and perfect way of living had to voluntarily live the paradox of human suffering.

1. We don’t see all things in subjection to God. So what we see and what we are beholding are two different things.

2. What does Jesus see? What does Jesus feel – defeated, worried? What does Jesus know?

3. He sees everything under his feet and he knows he is in complete command and he is at peace. He is actually rejoicing and singing (Zephaniah 3:17). We have a happy God. (Holy Spirit grieves)

TWO DIFFERENT WAYS OF SEEING - TWO MINDS AND ONE HEART.

The left brain is activated when we analyze the minute details of our situations - the good and the bad, the correctness or the injustice of them - and it projects us into the future problems or benefits of them. It also reminds us of past situations in the same way and sinks us into our story of ‘Why me?’ and ‘What on earth is going on?’ It isolates us. There is another part of the brain (the right brain) that is activated when we become still (and know that He is God).

In the stillness of faith we can see Jesus and behold Him. The veil is taken away and Holy Spirit is changing us. How do we do this? We cast down imaginations and arguments that block us off from Knowing God and we bring every thought into captivity to the attentive hearing of Christ (2Corinthians 10:4.).  This is not a passive state but a very active state of transformation of the soul. We are consciously IN God with Jesus or IN something else. That is ALWAYS the difference.

ACCEPTANCE AND THANKS

1Thessalomians 5:13 ‘Give thanks IN all circumstances; for this is the will of God IN Christ Jesus for you.’

The circumstance does not prompt you to accept it, or give thanks for it. Our perception (the disorder of what we see) is that it is unwanted and unnecessary.

It is only the beholding of the reality of who Jesus is that causes us to tap into the acceptance and thanks for being joined to him who is always at work in the world of the unseen and works all things together for good.

The peace is within us – it doesn’t come from the circumstance.

JOY AND PEACE

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that IN Me you may have peace. IN the world you will have trouble; but be glad and joyful, I have overcome the world.

The pressure makes our humanity feel weaker, not stronger, so this is more than acceptance and thanks.

EXCITEMENT AND ENTHUSIASM

Luke 6:23 (When you are hated and excluded) … Rejoice IN that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great IN heaven.

This is an even higher order of confidence in being part of the penetration of heaven into the earth – Thy Kingdom come.