God's Diary

For many Christians the Bible is their only link to God. It is the only means they have to know about God and to learn what it is that He requires of them or the benefits that He provides. This leaves them falling very short of the reality of the life in Christ that has been bought for us through His sacrifice on the cross and subsequent resurrection.
I call the Bible God's Diary but it is a bit more than that in that it is also an autobiography because it records not only God's thoughts toward man and his behaviour but also records at least some of God's activities and reactions. Don't anybody get mad at me for simplifying God's holy Word in such a way but I am trying to illustrate a very important matter.
Suppose this man wants a bride and the only means he has to obtain one is by mail order. He gets a catalog and all that is in the catalog are extractions from the diary's of available women. He begins to read each one which contains some of their private thoughts and a brief but fairly detailed physical description of them. Eventually he comes to one that stands out because her writing also describes what she's looking for in a man. He chooses this one and orders her. Now when the chosen bride arrives he sends a friend to pick her up at the train station and says to the friend, "just keep her in a room at your place and bring me her entire diary".
The friend does as requested and this man asks for a priest to marry them by telephone in a four way conference call while the friend listens in as a witness. Now the two are married and the man has promised to be faithful to her for the rest of his life. However, he spends quite literally the remainder of his life reading her diary and really feels that he loves her and sometimes he takes time to set down and concentrate to talk to her but instead of going directly to her he makes a tape recording and sends it to her and in it he is trying to express the love he feels and how he wishes he could feel her love or know for sure if she really loves him. To make matters worse he struggles with fleshly issues. He sees other women and struggles with lust because his needs are not met but he feels guilty because after all "he is married". He eats poorly because he's a lousy cook and his house is dirty because he has nobody to clean it for him because it is way beyond his ability. Now the shame of all this is that the woman he has chosen is amazing beyond description. She is more beautiful than anyone can imagine or describe, exquisite might be a good word, delicate but strong, wise beyond imagination and full of compassion, loving to a fault and has amazing domestic abilities. This woman could fill his every desire and keep his house so clean that he would gladly eat off the floor. She would wash his clothes and press them to perfection and he would never go out of the house with a hair out of place and what is more , he would be perfectly happy with this arrangement and in perfect peace. His friends and whoever met him for the first time would say what has happened to him? Where can I find a wife like that, I never met anyone so happy and well adjusted. Oh did I forget to mention that this woman is also filthy rich? She is very wise in how she distributes her wealth but all her true friends have never gone hungry or without shelter.
So there we have it, how tragic that this man has settled for just reading the woman's diary and trying to live according to the wishes of the woman without ever coming to know her personally. It is no different than you who read my blog. You may think that you know something about me but until you meet me and spend considerable time with me you should not decide that you can trust me. Would you just on the basis of my writings trust me with not only your life but your eternity?

Now let me tell you what I think about the Bible. Is it God's Word? Yes and is it infallible? Yes it is but when men trust in it alone for their understanding of God we get thousands of different interpretations of the same Bible. It is given us as a confirmation of what God is speaking to us in our relationship with Him. God will never speak anything to us in terms of doctrine that are not already written. They may be there hidden from our understanding until the time of His releasing them to us but were there all along. It is though the man has let the woman out of her room and invited her to come and really be his wife in actuality and practice and she says things to him that he's not sure he really believes. Maybe she tells him how much she loves him and he cannot believe that he's that lovable because he knows himself and how could such and amazing exquisite creature as she love him but then he goes to a room by himself and gets out her diary and begins to read it again and sure enough, it it he reads her most intimate thoughts about him which she wrote even when she thought he would never accept her and it is so full of love and desire that he is swept away with emotion and regret that he didn't accept her sooner.

It is only through daily constant relationship in which he holds nothing back and she responds accordingly that the fullest of the relationship can be realized. As I said she is a world class chef and as long as he stays out of the kitchen she prepares the most amazing meals that are not only delicious but healthy but he may have a tendancy to interfere and wants some control so she just walks out of the kitchen and says go for it and do it yourself. The end result is not only tasteless but at times simply toxic. We meddle in God's affairs way too much. He said "not by might and not by power but by my Spirit says the Lord". And that goes for everything. If man could do it it would have been done and Jesus would not have had to die but man proved he could not do the simplest things and carry them out faithfully and God said "ENOUGH" I will send my Son and do it myself. Haven't you ever said "if you want it done right do it yourself"?
We have got to stop interfering with God's work in our lives and spend our time getting the Word of God into our hearts and constantly asking Him to open our eyes to the truth so that we might see that He has already made the preparations for our completeness and holiness. We just have to accept it as a done deal and stop striving and start believing. He has a life for us in which everything has the taint of the miraculous about it if we will make Him our life and accept no other.
Based on recent experiences I am convinced that most of God's people are like the Greeks of Paul's day that always wanted to learn something new but were never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. Friends it is all about RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP. Get your relationship with Jesus right and every other relationship will come into harmony.
1 John 1:7-10 (New King James Version)
7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Only Jesus can give us the light in order that we can walk in the light. He has committed Himself to that end. From the day we accept His urging to come to Him He has been working and will continue to work to bring us to that place of relationship with Himself that He can work the works of God through us. All we need to do is accept the fact that we are dead and incapable of doing anything and accept His offer to do it for us. You see if He does it all and you know that He did it all then you can't get puffed up and steal His glory. That's enough for now, I have been up since 3:30 am and now it's time to get ready for work.
God bless you all and please pray that He would open your eyes to understand as you have never understood before and He will do it.
john Martin
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