We always feel when God has unfolded something to us that it is in its last stages of development at the time we are getting it. We have it now, we feel, all sewed up in a neat little package of truth, but alas, I promise you by just the mere fact of living for the past 60 years, that God will continue to develop and unfold and expand that truth in us as we are able to digest it. So, if you would allow me the privilege, to suggest this: God often takes something that we felt was bedrock in our understanding and shakes our present understanding of it and unfolds, yet, a broader realizaton of it. But I am sure you have experienced that too. It has, at least, been my experience since passing through the different realms since my first experience with the Lord at six years old.
I would like to suggest this to you for contemplation as a response to what you said about God never evolving or discovering himself. (a response to someone) When God took out of Himself, Himself, and reproduced Himself in kind, in those "kinds" of Himself was the same creator powers. Just as when in the natural when you produce a child, inherent in that child is the power to also reproduce. Since God is the Father of spirits - this is who we were when in our first estate - we were a spirit creation. And since everything produces after its own kind, then the kind that God produced was a spirit-kind for God is spirit. This is the plural Elohim, or this is the God that said, "Let US make man."
We were a spirit creation before coming down into these lower, slower, colder realms. All matter is energy that has been slowed down to take on form or visibility. This is the lowering that creation was subjected to. That is why we have to experience the 'quickening' or re-generation, or we have to have a jump start to speed back up to a proper spirit frequency to function as spirit. And it is why it says "That same spirit that raised Christ from the dead, shall also QUICKEN your mortal bodies." Our bodies will be speeded back up to a LIGHT FREQUENCY equal unto his glorious body.
God knew that these emanations of Himself would continue to MAGNIFY HIM. "Oh, MAGNIFY the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together." One definition of the word 'magnify' is to make larger. We make larger the experience of God by becoming what he is and being a co-creator of the new heavens and the new earth and even what is beyond that we can only dream of those glories at this time.
I would like to also draw attention to the words "raise Christ from the dead". There is much more in that than first meets the eye. For one thing, Christ in not just the singular Jesus the man, but a many membered Body. Jesus the Pattern son demonstated victory over death in all of its forms, body, soul and spirit and was, in fact, a picture of our future Self, a mirror in which to see our true self. I think most of us quickened believers have the understanding that when sleep is talked about in the bible that it is talking about death many times. You are dead or asleep to something. Remember Jesus saying "Let the dead, bury the dead". Were these literally graveyard dead he was referring to? Well, we know it was not. It was people still dead or asleep in their understanding of truth.
Another illustation about the God part of us needing to awaken is pictured with the story of Jesus being asleep deep in the bowels of the ship. Your spirit man lies sleeping or dead or not resurrected within you until awakened. It was the disciples who awakened him, you recall. Those disciples represent attributes of the spirit. Peter is faith, John is Love, Andrew is Strength, etc. When aspects of the spirit wake us up that is when the storms of our life are calmed and we find peace.
Many years ago, I read the following words by William Law before I fully understood them and was quickened by them and wrote them down. "Christ is in all men, either crucified or resurrected." That means, either dead or alive. Either asleep or awake.
I know that "Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling, or slipping, or falling and to present you unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory - with unspeakable , ecstatic delight - in triumphant joy and exultation." will do just that.
Much love to each as you "apprehend that for which you have been apprehended." Karen
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