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I found the title for my post, “The Power of Human Thought” somewhat exhaustive if not encyclopedic to say the least. Our human thought and lifestyle are described as culture. Thoughts refers to the norms and societal ways of a given time. Society interacts with one another, and culture shapes the way we work and play, and it makes a difference in how we view ourselves and others. It also affects our values, which are what we consider right and wrong, and how these values influence our choices. Our choices can also influence others and ultimately help shape our society for the greater good.
I would argue your thoughts are vital and has much to do with how we will live a meaningful life. To put it another way, it’s your thoughts that count! Let’s talk about the true value of our thoughts and how they affect our future and that of our loved ones.
The Human Mind – Having the Divine Spark Which Gives Human Intelligence (Wiki Commons)
Paul sternly warns us about this mechanism behind the human thought process. He said, “We demolish arguments (thoughts) and every pretension (attitude) that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient (in Love) to Christ.” (2 Cor.10:5). This passage tells us we are to reject bad thoughts, while trying to keep the good ones. Jesus gives us the right words and thoughts for living. He said, “Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” (Matt.11:29) By saying, “Learn from Me,” Jesus is talking about being reeducated in our thinking process.
Sometimes, it is hard to shut out the world around us and be able to spend some quality time with God and imbibe on His Word and His thoughts. The reason for this is obvious – our minds and thoughts are still locked into the sway of this malevolent world with all its hectic pace and insidious manipulation. As a result, our thoughts involuntarily and habitually have a negative impact upon us in more ways than one. So, let’s talk about an important Godly attribute humans has been given that can help us find rest and peace in our lives – through our thoughts and thinking process – not only for us, but our neighbors.
It was wise King Solomon who said, you are what you think, saying, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he (Prov. 23:7a). James Allen, author of the book, “As a Man Thinketh,” writes that “…humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt. It’s the wise man, it’s he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, that makes the wind and storm of the soul obey him.” The life that’s mixed with malevolence seeks competition, domination, and rivalry whose mind is generated by inconsistent and incomplete thinking and comes at the behest of humanity’s “lone wolf” thinking. Remember, our thoughts lead us into action.
Thirty Thousand Thoughts a Day
Dr. Caroline Leaf, in her book, “Who Switched Off My Brain,” said the average person has over thirty thousand thoughts a day. Thoughts are words in muted rather than spoken form. Words forms the picture of life we will live in our real-life realities. Thoughts are actions in muted form. That’s why your words and actions which originate in your thoughts are important for they form the foundation of your reality. Our actions, behavior, and cognition are the three fundamental pillars of the human thought process. Rather than running separately, they blend with each other, enabling us to perceive the world around us, listen to our conscious and subconscious desires, and respond accordingly. Thus, humans can be regarded as active consumers of all the human sensory impressions.
Thirty Thousand Thoughts a Day
Of all the species of life God has created upon our earth, only humans are replicated in God’s likeness with the divine capacity to think and act upon his thoughts. (Gen.1:26-27; Prov.23:7) Animals and other created species don’t think thoughts like humans do. They were created by God to have and ‘behave’ according to their inborn instincts. They ‘behave’ in a fixed and predictable manner. The cattle will always graze upon grass and not hunt for game like a lion. As for humanity, the Psalmist informs us, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psa.119:105).
However, the function of the human mind is fundamentally spiritual in its outlook and activity, rather than a purely physical and cerebral brain function. Thoughts are unseen and exist in the realm of the spiritual. As we saw human action, behavior, and cognition, are the fundamental pillars of our thought process from which we create mental ‘visions’ to act upon. Again the Psalmist tell us, “Send out Your light and Your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to Your holy mountain, to the place where You live” (Psa.43:3)
Jesus is the foundation and source of all wholesome and cleansing knowledge. Jesus, the Personified Word of God, is the Instructor, as His Word the Bible, is the instruction manual that comes with God’s ‘product’ called human beings. However, we are not robots, we are His children who been given freedom of choice, and God deeply Loves each one of us, so much so He did not spare His Son in order to save us. Presently, Jesus is humanity’s High Priest in heaven who mediates for us day and night, so we may remain true to God’s purpose for us.
Paul reminds us of the beautiful truth about Jesus mediation on our behalf in heaven before the Father, “As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God. God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made Him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; He made us pure and holy, and He freed us from sin. Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the LORD”” (1 Cor.1:29-31).
If God made us in His image to have a mind like His, and the fund of knowledge of His Son to tell us how live, then He is as near to us as the many thoughts we think with our God-given minds. All we have to do is utilize our freedoms and choose the right thoughts which reflect Him. And yes, there are also false and destructive thoughts that can dominate our minds if we choose to allow this.
Thoughts Create Forms and Visions
Yes, freedom is divine and originate with God and is the flip-side of His Love. We use it to make deliberate and wise decisions – and even bad ones if we so choose. This in itself is a miraculous activity we live through each day without fully appreciating His unseen Loving hand upon us. The ability to think and reason and exercise our liberties then be conscious of our actions is proof of the presence of God and the Spirit in our lives. Our thoughts underlie all our actions and interactions with each other.
The purpose of the human mind is to be a “factory” for thoughts to create visions and ideas which conform to the image of Christ. (Rom.8:29; 2 Cor.10:5) They can be good and bad thoughts, happy and sad ones, loving and fearful, living and deathly ones. The Spirit of God is the life-energy which envelopes our universe and all life forms upon this earth. Nothing can exist outside of God’s life-giving energy. The Spirit is the ‘divine spark’ which give the mind of humanity his intellectual and spiritual faculties.
Thoughts Create Forms to be Acted On
Of all the thoughts the mind receives through internal and external stimuli, enters the factory of the mind which processes them to create concepts and ideas to be decided and acted upon. The work of transformation begins with the flow of Jesus’ Person in His Triunity with the Father and the Spirit, and His Words (the Bible) in man’s thought processes. The Bible compares man to a riverbed with the Spirit as its “living waters” which cover him and so help control his thought process. (John 7:37-39)
Jesus Alone Brings Humanity True Freedom
There’s “living waters” as there is “deathly waters.” Where the Unbeliever (Bulumanriver**- see appendix ) has “deathly waters” of the devil flowing through him, he process thoughts through the spirit of fear, self-interest and independence. The Believer (Bulamanriver* – see appendix for explanatory notes) has “living waters” of the Spirit flowing through him. His thoughts are processed by Love, self-giving and interdependence. The “deadly waters” (Bulumanriver**) of the river of fear produce one result – lack and deprivation, and ultimately death. The “living waters” of the Spirit give us the power to channel our thoughts and actions in Love, with one result: to live creatively and abundantly, both now and into eternity with God.
The Thought behind the Thought
So how do we take these many conscious thoughts that enter and influence our minds at a rate that boggles the mind and make sense of them? It’s not as hard as one might imagine. The human mind is first and foremost a filtering device. Everyone possesses two mindsets: one manages the conscious thought, all 30,000 of them, while the second the subconscious thought, filters them according to our sponsoring thought. Our subconscious mind is associated with and inspires the human conscience. That is how God made the mind to function, and it is well researched in scientific circles.
The subconscious mind is the underlying thought process which governs the mind’s conscious thoughts. So, what a person is thinking in his conscious thoughts is automatically filtered through his subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the sponsoring thought that governs his conscious thoughts. It’s the ‘factory’ that collects all your thought data and creates “form” out of them to be acted upon.
Believer (Bulamanriver) vs Unbeliever (Bulumanriver)!
It’s not uncommon to find the conscious and subconscious thoughts encounter disagreement. This happens because the subconscious is filtering the conscious thoughts based upon what it believes to be true and secures everything about him/her. When differences occur, the conscious thought always loses the battle to the subconscious mind.
Book Cover: “Bulamanriver”
For example, the Unbeliever (Bulumanriver**) with the river of fear flowing in person, will have his/her subconscious mind (sponsoring thought) lead inevitably to create actions that produce self-centeredness, greed, anxiety and ultimately lack and death. No matter how many “good intentions” his conscious thought might have, the subconscious mind will not allow him to achieve them in a true lasting way that produces genuine good. It will always invent a negative form upon which to base his choices. The subconscious mind consistently champions the day for it governs the thirty thousand thoughts that enter our head.
As G. K. Chesterton said, “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” Albert Einstein said no problem gets resolved by ignoring what created it in the first place – the heart of man. (Jer.17:9) Consequently, your outer life (conscious) reflects your inner beliefs (subconscious) about you. (Matt.15:16-20)
G K Chesterton
Subconscious Like ‘Gravity’
Think about the law of gravity. We grow up discovering how to compensate for it as we learn to live within the limitations it allows us. All our acts and movements are done to compensate for it, so much so we give it no second thought. We live with the force which produces gravity without giving conscious thought to it. We take gravity for granted, and becomes second nature to us. When we are up on a high elevation, we automatically find something to hang onto for we are well aware what gravity is capable of doing to us.
In a real sense, our mind has its own “gravity” – it’s our subconscious mind. Our conscious thoughts, all thirty thousand of them, have to compensate for this “gravitational” pull of our subconscious mind and what it is telling us to do with our conscious thoughts. It happens in our minds involuntarily like we have grown accustomed to physical gravity. We gravitate to our subconscious-sponsored thought unconsciously – that’s why we sometimes wonder why our plans don’t turn out the way we imagined. In other words, if there is a clash of thoughts between the conscious and the subconscious, the subconscious will win every time.
Money?
For example, a person may have a long-held belief that it is wrong to be rich. Perhaps his idea of money stems from his mistaken understanding of a passage from the Bible which states, “For the love of money is a (not ‘the’) root of all kinds of evil; for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves with many sorrows” (1 Tim. 6:10, NKJV). His belief and idea about money is soldered into his subconscious mind – ‘money is evil.’ That’s how the Unbeliever’s thought in his fear-based thought process. It is the person’s sponsoring (subconscious) mindset.
Yet, in his conscious thoughts, he plans many lavish and grand things for him and his family for which money is its conduit and means? However, in order to achieve those ambitions, he needs money without money he cannot achieve his/her goals. The person’s subconscious (sponsoring) mindset is telling him it will be something ill-gotten, due to his/her sponsoring beliefs about money.
I’m not saying the Unbeliever (Bulumanriver**) will not achieve his aims, he can, but he does it battling his conscience, and he will not acquire them in a good faith, much less in a truly abundant way. His conscience is seared and only the Spirit can change him through repentance and forgiveness. I will not meddle with the stress and anxiety that accompanies the person. But, O the joy that could have accompanied him, if only! I hope we have our own bearings about money focused in the proper way – through the Believer’s (Bulamanriver*). This happens not only with money, but every other aspect of a person’s livelihood.
God is the richest Person in the universe, He declares, “The gold is Mine, and the silver is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills, the fowls and the wild beasts are Mine, the earth and its fullness and all that dwell in it” (Hag. 2:8; Ps. 24:1; Ps. 50:10-11). Yet He is Spirit and does not need to be defined by them to prove His super-abundance. He declares Himself super abundant in His Love – in His Triune Being of Love. So, if riches are not evil because they are God’s creation, our thoughts about money and riches ought to change with holy thoughts. If we fail to control our thoughts and channel them in a constructive way, then our fear-based environment will control us. It’s that simple.
Money is not Evil, A Person’s Heart Is!
Money is not evil by itself – it’s the wrong use money for evil. It starts in out thought process. The bottom line on money is this: if money is a defense, and it is, and Jesus is our true defense, then money and Jesus are one and the same. (Psa.118:14) Money becomes something virtuous for it is used to reflect Jesus, not our fallen self in Adam. (Gen.3:1-6)
Money and riches are there to reflect Him in us in a self-giving rather than self-centered way. He is reflected in us through the right thoughts of money through our subconscious mind. We don’t adore money but Jesus, our true defense (Eccl. 7:11-12). It would be pointless to have as much money as you would like if it cannot protect or defend you. True defense comes from Jesus, not money.
Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” (Matt.6:24) Therefore, money and all material things are supposed to help attract us to Christ, not extricate us away from Him. He must sit on the throne of our lives, not any material stuff, most of all, not money. Ultimately, Love is the true source of all abundance. (1 John 4:16).
Of what use are material riches and things in the spiritual realm and regime of God? One day all material riches will be of no value, because the only valuable thing that will remain is God’s Love in His spiritual kingdom. God’s Love is another word for super abundance. (1 John 4:8, 16)
Think about it, how did money or riches came to our consciousness? It was created by man’s thoughts. Man created the economic system of goods and service with currencies (money) to keep it turning. Who gave man his thoughts? It is fashioned after the mind of God to make choices about how man will live life. (Gen.1:26-27) So, the ability to think and make choices is the gift of God’s Love. He calls us to amend our ways out from a self-centered orbit, to His Love-centered universe. All material riches of the earth was created by God who is Love.
God’s Love – The Human Spiritual Gravitational Force!
Let me now share how the believer controls his thought process. For the Believer (Bulamanriver*), Love is the spiritual “gravity” in our thought environment. We don’t learn to live within Love’s spiritual gravity as quickly as we do with our physical gravity. Living within Love’s spiritual gravity is a process of thought and thought forms. On the physical level, we learn very quickly that we need a chair to break our fall when we sit, but fail to equate the Spirit’s Love as the ‘chair’ in our hearts that will break our spiritual gravity when we need God to help us succeed.
Love Is the Champion of The Divine Subconscious Mind!
The Believer’s (Bulamanriver’s*) sponsoring (subconscious) thought is God’s Love. Love is the subconscious mindset that should govern all our thoughts. Love is the super-abundant thought-process – it is the factory where all our conscious thoughts are the raw material which create forms for decision-making and acted upon. Therefore, the sponsoring thought through which all our 360,000 conscious thoughts are sifted always ends with joy, peace, abundance and Love.
Jesus warns us, “Those who have – more will be given; those who don’t – what they have will be taken” (Matt. 13:12 emphasis added). He is speaking of our underlying philosophy about life that’s welded to our subconscious mind. In other words, abundance (Love) breeds plenty, while lack (fear) breeds scarcity.
The subconscious-sponsoring thought of God’s divine Love is the sieve that filters all our conscious thoughts to produce one inevitable form – abundance (Love). The subconscious (Love) mindset determines if your thoughts (seeds) fall on “good and rich ground” or “stony and poor ground.” Love is to our subconscious thought environment what gravity is to our physical environment. No matter how high we aim, our foot will rest ultimately on the ground of our sponsoring thought (subconscious mind – Love).
Like a Jig-Saw Puzzle
It’s like a jigsaw puzzle where you have seen the picture of the end from the beginning as shown on the image of the jig-saw box. The picture symbolizes your subconscious mind – it’s the picture of God’s Love, and His personal gift and calling in your life. (Read my blog titled, “Gifts, Abilities, Destinies, posted at: http://bulamanriver.net/2185; and http://bulamanriver.net/3145
Life is like a Jig Saw Puzzle with Many Thoughts to Sieve Through
When you pick the right pieces (thoughts), they fall magically into place and the picture of God’s Love comes through. Unlike a jigsaw puzzle which has all the correct pieces in the box, we have all kinds of thoughts including ones that don’t fit the picture, enter our minds. Our subconscious mind assists us by filtering our thoughts to find the right pieces that fit the picture of Love. When we have the right picture (subconscious mind enveloped in God’s Love), your brain is always on autopilot, picking the right pieces which fit the Love-picture.
As I said earlier, it’s not as daunting as the number of thoughts that bombard our conscious minds each day, all 30,000 of them. Love puts your subconscious mind on autopilot to sieve through them. It happens at lighting speed so we are not even conscious of how this awesome miracle of the mind works.
The question is what mind picture do you possess? That’s the key! You must get the picture (subconscious Love mindset) right first. When your picture is Jesus, you will use only the right thoughts (jigsaw pieces) that fit into the picture, with the help of the Spirit (Love). Then you form Godly decisions to be acted on based upon the process of His Love. Jesus said, “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness (Love), and all these things will be given to you as well” (Matt.6:33).
Six Human Senses Are Tools for Raw Material of Thought!
Love-forms are the result of “creative thinking” which leads to “creative action” and materializes into “creative works” (Eph. 2:10). So, forms or visions materialize as plans and goals birthed in our thoughts. We perceive form through the six human senses – sight, smell, ears, tongue, skin for feeling, and might I add a sixth sense – emotional response from the mind and heart of a person. The senses do not create form. Only thoughts do, through the subconscious mindset that’s motivated by the Spirit’s Love. The five senses are tools of the mind factory, and thoughts (all 30,000 of them) are raw material you use to help create Love-forms to enable you to live positive realities in life.
Do We Live Through Our Senses?
Do we live principally through our human senses? Some do, however, many of us do not, or seldom, live that way. That’s to say, we let our senses do our thinking and create forms for us. In other words, we can allow others to influence our thought processes through our human senses.
If we do that, then we have allowed our inquisitiveness and imagination to be taken over by the glamour and appeal of others like the latest scandal, public frenzy, the captivating drama on our television – whether real or fiction, or the entertainment element plastered all over our media. Have we given our minds to other mediums such that we cannot think for ourselves?
Our six senses ought to be restrained so as to follow where our Love-thoughts lead us, not the other way round. The senses are supposed to live in joyous excitement of the creative thought activity of the subconscious mind dominated by Love. (1 John 4:16) Perhaps inadvertently or through ignorance we have become prisoners of our own making by letting our human sensory perception lead us, instead of allowing our creative thinking through Love dominate our lives.
The Word – Our Foundation
God thinks Trinitarianly and shares His Triune thought process with the Son and the Spirit, and with us by saying He knows our thoughts before we think them. (Psa.139:2) The Spirit’s thoughts of Love show us how we are to think and live as Believers (1 Cor.13; Rom.12 & 13; Gal. 5; Col.3 & 4). It’s a way of living that produces creative forms on a consistent basis and never fails you because you are a river and the ecology of the “living waters” (Spirit) makes fertile and rich whatever, wherever, and whoever you come into contact with. The Scriptures tell us, “Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not” (Lam.3:22).
And the river (Spirit in humans) does this consistently every single day. The river (humanity) comes as a new beginning each day—consistently. That is abundance as defined in the life of the Believer (Bulamanriver*) (1Cor.13:8, 13; John 7:37-39). If the Bible can be defined in one word, it is Love. (Matt.22:37-40). God’s Spirit is the divine Love deposited in believing humans. “God’s Love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” (Rom.5:5)
Rivers of “Living Waters” – Holy Spirit
Therefore, the Bible is the groundwork of Love from which we create forms of thought that lead to greater benefits, and they come to us without apology because they are founded on the principles of God’s Love. The Bible says we should pay heed to the foundation upon which we build our lives – whether it is on shifting sand or on the solid Rock, Jesus Himself. (Matt.7:24-27) The foundation determines whether the structure will stand the test of time and remain secure well into the future.
The Bible is the foundation of our thoughts for creating plans, desires, goals, and objectives – in one word, basic form of the Love of God. The Bible brings form and stability to our lives as long as Love is in our subconscious mindset and shapes our thought processes. Love is “creative action” because it is deliberately formed in the thought and acted out.
To think like a Believer (Bulamanriver*) is to have the thoughts of God. To think like God is to think Love in all its manifestation (1Cor.13:1-13; Rom.12 & 13; Gal.5; Col.3 & 4). Then we are to maintain this sound mind that comes consistently from the Spirit to keep our thoughts motivated by Love’s fruits. (2 Tim.1:7; 1 Cor.13:1-12)
Make Rich the “Valleys”
The river (Spirit in human) exists to make the valleys fertile for the sustenance of all who depend on them. (John 7:37-39) For the Believer (Bulamanriver*), the valleys represent the community of people with whom you come in contact daily. There is your family valley. Then there is your church valley. There is your neighbor, community, and village, valleys. Furthermore, there is your work or occupation valleys. Then there is your school valley, your national valley, and so forth. Each of these valleys requires different responses from you.
Here is the crossover: we have a mind to think good thoughts that form “abundance” (Love), or to think damaging thoughts that form “lack” (fear). To think super “abundant” thoughts is our inheritance given us by the Creator, who is Love by nature. Lack is the place of fear, and to think in “lack” is to live in the river of fear, strife, rebellion, and greed—the Unbeliever.
We are called with our divinely bestowed gifts to make rich our valleys we come in contact with. When we do, we likewise become rich too. The Bible says, “He who waters others will himself be watered.” (Prov.11:25, NASB) Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed himself. That’s how the law of Love works.
The Bible tells us “be you transformed by the renewing of your mind (your thoughts.)” (Rom. 12:2) Your subconscious thought is the key. Your thought is to be harmonized with the literal Word of God, and the Personified Word of God, Jesus. The Personified Word (Jesus) manifest Himself by living in us in the Spirit’s power, and His literal Word, the Bible, guides us with the Spirit’s inspiration.
God miraculously creates circumstances for those who believe in the promises of His Word. Your actions will always follow the forms your thoughts create – whether for good or bad. You are to first “think abundantly good.” You have to “grow” to be abundant. You have to “increase” to be abundant. That’s Love. Love is abundance. Jesus said, “Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you.” (Matt.5:48, The Message)
Fight the Good Fight
Paul said, “The weapons we fight with are not weapons of the world. On the contrary, we have divine power to cast down imaginations [demolish evil thoughts and arguments] and every pretension [posturing thought] that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we bring captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Cor. 10:4-6 emphasis added).
So, Paul reveals an enemy who wants to change us from the Believer with the Spirit’s “living waters” and take us back to the Unbeliever, the river of fear and want that we have renounced, disowned, and left behind upon the cross of Jesus. (Gal.2:20) He says the battle lines have been drawn, and the enemy has been identified, so we have no doubt or misgivings about how, when, why, and where this battle is going to be fought – in our minds, for the controls of our thoughts!
I will close with this fitting quote, “Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t, either way you are right!” (Henry Ford) I certainly hope you will never undervalue your thoughts for pennies. That’s all for now! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to write me in the space provided below, or email me on bulamanriver@gmail.com. I invite you to visit my web site, www.bulamanriver.com for more resources.
Just as God is faithful to go out from Himself in Love, may the Church in its communion and reliance on the Triune God, go out in Love as well, fully cognizant of its role as true masters of our own thoughts in Christ. (2 Cor.10:5)
Until we meet again in my next post, may God bless you with the faith of Jesus His Son and may the blessings of the God who ceaselessly expresses Himself in His dependable Triune Love, be with you always. O God our heavenly Father, please feel the hearts of those who need Your help and be strong for them and keep them safe. May the Spirit enliven your spirit and make you a master of your thoughts in every way, make all things concerning you possible as you live the “Triune Life” as a Bulamanriver.* Be strong in the Lord’s joy.
Blessing
Kiang (Your Servant in Christ)
* The “Bulamanriver” is the metaphor describing the believer who is the union of man with the Love of the Triune God flowing in humans, making possible the “Triune Life” – the source of the miraculous life in man. “Bula” is a Fijian word which means “life.” To read the many facets of life of the Bulamanriver,* go to my website www.bulamanriver.com where you can order a copy of my Book.
** The “Bulumanriver” is metaphor for a non-believer. “Bulu” is Fijian word which means “burial” or “death.” This river produces want and death in the person. Bulumanriver is the union of man with his fallen, unsaved self who lives under the deception and sway of the devil. You can also read my blog post titled “Who is The Bulamanriver?”
*** The “Love-Fruits of the Holy Spirit:” *the fruit of patience, *the fruit of kindness, *the fruit of contentedness, *the fruit of modesty (unboastful), *the fruit of humility, *the fruit of honor, *the fruit of unselfishness, *the fruit of calmness and dignity, *the fruit of forgiveness and compassion, *the fruit of delighting in good and shunning evil, *the fruit of tolerance, *the fruit of responsibility, *the fruit of enduring hope, *the fruit of steadfast perseverance, *the fruit of joy, *the fruit of peace, *the fruit of goodness, *the fruit of faith, *the fruit of gentleness, *the fruit of self-control, *the fruit of zeal and spiritual fervor, *the fruit of friendship, *the fruit of sharing and generosity, *the fruit of prayerfulness, *the fruit of hospitality, etc. (1 Cor.13; also Gal. 5:22-23; Rom. 12:9-21). These attributes may seem ordinary and mundane, but when empowered and propelled in the Spirit’s power, they are transformed into divine elements of transformation.
**** “Triune Life”: Relationship with God has no meaning without Love. By its very nature, Love cannot endure in solitary existence. So, when God said “Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness…” He was revealing Himself as existing in His trinitarian existence. That is, His Tri-Personal Being as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Gen.1:26; Matt.28:19; John 14:10, 16; 16:7) The Hebrew word for ‘God’ in the creation account is “Elohim.” It describes God in His plurality, as the Trinity – the Tri-Personal Godhead, which other scriptures attests. (Matt.28:18-20; 1 Pet.1:2; 2 Thess.2:13; 2 Cor.13:14) So, God is Trinitarian in His Love nature. He is also clothed in Freedom. For the three Persons of the Trinity are three distinct and free Persons in the triune Godhead. Love and Freedom by nature is relational as God is in His Tri-Personal Being. Hence, a human being was created a relational being possessing freedom.
Adam was solitary and incomplete until God made Eve. He said, “It is not good for the man to be alone (solitary). I will make a helper suitable for him” (Gen.2:18, italics mine). So, God gave Adam a family to raise composed of a father, mother, and offspring, to reflect Himself in His plural Being. The Bible states that the Church’s or humanity’s destiny is to marry Christ, the second Person of the Triune Godhead, in the new age to come which will be an everlasting divine relationship. (2 Cor.11:2; Eph.5:23-27, 32; Rev.19:7) The Bible is abundantly clear about God’s nature and declaration of Himself in His relational Triune Being from the past, the present, and the future. God has never lived as a solitary Being, but a Tri-Personal Being.
It’s noteworthy to understand that Eve was not created an individual creation from the dust of the earth as was Adam. She was not created apart from Adam as an individualized separate human being, instead, she was taken out from Adam’s side to show she was biologically one and indivisibly part of Adam, like God is in His Tri-Personal Being of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit. Eve was not detached (solitary) from Adam, but intrinsically inseparable from Adam’s innermost humanity, as God is in His divine triunity. When Adam saw Eve, he said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man” (Gen.2:21-23) God created humanity to reflect Himself in His unified Tri-Personal Being (Trinity)
Rublev’s Icon of The Trinity (Wiki Commons)
Each one of us was created as an indivisible relational human being incubated and given birth from Adam’s mold as one species, for God created humanity to reflect the eternal likeness in His triunity. We are born for relationships with the divine triune Love as our guiding principle. All this show that humans were created to be indivisibly one to reflect God’s Tri-Personal image of Oneness (Trinity), not solitary separateness. When God sent Jesus His eternal Son, He became human in order to unify humanity spiritually to the Triune Being of God through Christ once for all time. Hence, when the prophet Isaiah proclaimed Jesus’ coming, He was given the prophetic name, Immanuel. (Isa.7:14) The name means “God with us” (Matt.1:23). Humanity is ‘organically’ one with the Triune God through Christ, just as humanity is one with Adam. (Gen.1:26-27)
Most religions believe God as some solitary being. The true God is not solitary by any means, He is the one Triunity in His Tri-Personal Being. God consist of three Persons in One divine triune Godhead. (Matt.28:18-20) They exist in One “homoousion” meaning consisting in one substance, or “consubstantiality.” The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit exist in One hypostatic union, One substance, like Eve was biologically part of and never physically separate, but of one substance from Adam, for she came out of Adam. Likewise, humanity is made of one spiritual substance with the triune God through Jesus Christ who took our humanity upon Himself and joined it to the divine triune existence forever.
The three-dimensional Triune Life/Love is opposed to living the one-dimensional solitary life of the fallen humanity inherited from Satan through Adam’s rebellion. For additional information about the Triune Life: http://bulamanriver.net/?p=8036. Also at: http://bulamanriver.net/9092.
**Bulamanriver: is the metaphor describing the union of man with the Love of the Triune God flowing in humans, making possible the “Triune Life” – the source of the miraculous life in man. To read the different facets of the life of the Bulamanriver, you may obtain a copy of my book, “Bula” Man-River, from Amazon.com; xulonpress.com, barnesandnoble.com, and other online book stores. All proceeds will go towards furthering the work of Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world.
“Bulamanriver” Book Cover
Mission Statement: Read the Triune Love Mission, Vision, and Value statements at: http://bulamanriver.net/8664
All scriptures are taken from the NIV Version 2011, unless stated otherwise.
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