4 Pillars of Relations - Our relation to God

When we start to walk a life with God, there are many aspects that need fine tuning in order for our lives to represent Christ-likeness. The big question is, where to start? 

A few years back, I asked Abba to show me a glimpse of what it looked like right in the beginning, before creation as well as the idea behind creating man. The vision He gave me is  difficult to explain in words, but what was interesting is that in the vision, I saw that creation was created as a mirror. It gave a new understanding to be “created in the image of God”, as a mirror reflects exactly that what it is turned towards. With Adam and Eve sinning, this mirror shattered and since then the mission of putting the mirror back together started, with each of us representing a piece of it. 

What I learned from this image was that we reflect what we are turned towards. This means when we are turned towards God, seeking His Kingdom first, we will reflect Him in all other areas of our lives. However, when we are faced towards the world, to run to the world first in any area of our lives, we would also reflect exactly that. The big question then is not, where to start the fine tuning to be more Christ-like, but rather, what are you turned towards. Where are your eyes at? Your ears at? To what is your heart turned towards? The fine tuning is not doing things in your own strength, but understanding that when we fine tune the proximity and our positioning, all the fine tuning would happen through the connection point.

Personally, I have walked through a divorce about 4 years ago. I find it particularly interesting that I come across many women who are either now going through the same or considering. Even some of my friends. One friend in particular is already speaking to legal advice. This past Sunday I was sitting and moulding her situation in my head. On the one hand, you have a toxic marriage (I for one know what damage that does) and on the other hand, you have a divorced life. Both are destructive in different ways. So how do one choose between destructive and destructive? Then God showed me another way…the only way…Jesus. You see, if we are turned towards our partners, it is so easy to reflect (as mirrors) their shortcomings. However, when we are faced towards Christ (and reflect Him), we can only witness Christ in each other. 

Now, I had to walk my own path and everyone will give account of their lives to God on the choices they have made, but when you are absorbed in Jesus, the lamb who was not just crucified on the cross for us (on the physical earth), but slain before the creation (in the spirit [Revelation 13:8]), you cannot help but to fall on your face in absolute awe of His love with an auto response to want to share this love with the world. It happens naturally and is not done out of duty, but out of an overflow of awe.

In Numbers 21 we read how the Israelites spoke out about God. He then sent venomous snakes among them and many died. The only way they could be saved was by looking at the Bronze Serpent on the cross that God told Moses to put up. In the book of John, Jesus compares himself to this symbolic event in the wilderness. At first, this confused me. Why would Jesus refer to himself as  similar to the serpent? However, with deeper study, it became clear. Bronze is the symbolic colour of law & judgment. The serpent represents sin & death. Jesus came to take sin and death on Himself and be judged by the law, not in our place, but as us. In John 5 verse 22 - 24 it reads "Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life."

This is part of the good news! Not only has the Father given the authority to judge us, to Jesus, but Jesus decided to take that judgment upon himself, so we can be free. Not to be free to sin, but that we can live with boldness and freedom the way God had originally designed for us to live in Him. Living already in everlasting, abundant Kingdom LIFE!

For me it is so clear. When we are connected, fully immersed, intertwined, and completely submit our entire beings to be turned to face Christ, our first Pillar of Relationship, the most important pillar, is brought to Life, and it is the foundation and the reason for Abundant, Exuberant life in all other pillars of our lives. It opens up the source of everlasting water that flows in us and through us into this world. This is how the light pierces the darkness. This is how what is in Heaven is to be so on earth.

Blessings,

Marilu