God's Covenant With Himself

The following article is a partial copy of the response to an email from a dear friend of ours:

Hi Ron,

Here's just a few thoughts that come after reading some of the material:
I really don't have a problem with what they are saying about God and 'other' and I do see why. But I just happen to believe that the 'other' is still the manifestation or individualization of the One for there was nothing else to make anything of other than the One, for God was All-In-One or all within Himself, Self contained before He was anyTHING at all. But the ultimate purpose of God, as I best understand it, is that God is to be All-In-All or absolutely everything in absolutely everyone.

And I do agree with one of the summaries they make about the new creation man being more than what man has understood. I have felt impressed for some time that the new creation man is more than just spirit and certainly more than just man but, in my present understanding, the new creation man is the embodiment of what that scripture means when it says "heaven and earth will pass away". It passes away through amalgamation or merging together of the twain. Your heavens become a little more earthly and your earth becomes a little more heavenly. You won't be able to tell where God begins and leaves off or where you begin and leave off.

There is a script. that says "such a one became us" speaking of Jesus. Or God became a man. In order to do that there had to be the kenosis I believe it is called, the emptying, and if Jesus is the Pattern son, then that tells me he was showing or patterning to us what our forgotten path was too. If we were first spirit creations, then we had to be emptied of that knowledge, too, to become self conscious for becoming self conscious was actually a step up in our progression even though they call it the 'fall' for we had to take on flesh to participate in the ultimate purpose of God to fill all things with himself.

We are sons and daughters of God first by CREATION not formation. If we are the creation of God made in His image, and God is spirit, then we were first a spirit creation. He is the Father of spirits. I don't think that the material takes you quite that far in its presentaion. Perhaps that would be the Covenant vs. Contract thing you were saying. Remember God never covenants with anything other than himself.

"For when God made His promise to Abraham, He swore by Himself since He had no one greater by whom to swear. Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt, to those who were to inherit the promise, the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened (mediated) with an oath. This was so that by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us,
we who have fled to him for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before us."


So, in a sense I see in this that God only depends and relies on Himself in us to fulfill the covenant, that's why he said "if we deny him he remains faithful for he cannot deny himself." He has covenanted with Himself and his word cannot be broken for all shall ultimately hear his voice(within) and live. \o/

Much love,
Karen