Our creator is pure goodness. Absolute righteousness. He is holy. Separate from everything that is not Himself, because he is pure.
We took the knowledge God had of evil and good, and so made ourselves little gods, making ourselves into judges of good and evil, when God is Goodness itself, and the definition is not open to interpretation as we like to suppose.
We took truth and made it subject to our will. We decide what is good (as if we were God). But God IS goodness itself. He is the standard and there is no other. In God, there is no mixture. He is pure. He is THE truth. Since God is righteousness itself, by eating the fruit and becoming judges of what is good and evil, we immediately become against God, as our will (being free), choosing anything, even a “good” thing, immediately defile the thing we call good, as it is not “Good”, no one is pure good except God. Everything else compared to his goodness, is an idol.
God created man in His image, and called us good! But in our new found knowledge from the tree, we now have mixture inside of us. We chose knowledge, and so our corrupted thoughts guide us to decide what is good, thereby ourselves becoming evil (or against God).
God is good only. There is no evil in him. He will not tolerate evil inside himself.
The purpose of sending His only son, who is Good only, is to purify that which is mixed. To wake us from the grave and to shine His light on us. His light is pure righteousness. Pure. Forgiveness and love.
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
John 3:19-21
My will, which has mixture, must die (daily) so that His will can be done through me.
Is there a way to live my life looking for the pure righteousness of Heaven instead of focusing on my sad, depraved mixture?
Righteousness is not gentle, it’s violent! Righteousness is devastating to mixture. Truth is devastating to lies. Light is devastating to darkness. Yes, I should live in the Light. Inside of him, and Him inside of me.
Following Jesus means dying to my will and seeking His will. Daily.
For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Ephesians 5:14
Not my will, but yours be done.
Luke 22:42b
Let Your Kingdom come! Your will be done! On earth as it is in heaven.
