In the Image of God

Genesis 4:15

When God and his contemporaries (the son, and the Holy Spirit) gave birth to the concept of creating mankind in the image of God everything seemed easy until they were interfaced with a dilemma.

 The dilemma they interfaced was based on the realization and the understanding that it was impossible for mankind to be in the image of God without having the phenomenon of free- will being instituted with in mankind’s ability to function as an existence in the image of God.

Free-will is mankind’s propensity to act upon his spiritual, mental, and physical existence.

Henceforth with this degree of understanding, mankind becomes an inactive existence without freewill.

In another place you would fundamentally explain that with the obliteration of free- will mankind is only but a passive existence.

Without the phenomenon of free-will mankind can dream, desire, envision and hope but cannot be able to act upon his dreams, aspirations, desires, visions, hopes and passions.

And when mankind can’t act upon his cognitive capacity then it’s all for nothing and void of progression.

God understood that the complex city of instituting free-will within the functionality of mankind in order for him to become a creature in the image of God was of such that free-will is uncontrollably powerful for mankind to handle and to subdue.

God thus discovered that if they were anything that was going to destroy mankind faster than his divine-decision then it was to be the free-will that he was to give mankind in order for mankind to be a creature fully made in the image of God.

Free-will instituted in mankind becomes an element of self-destruction.

Man has no power over his own free-will but free-will has power over man.

 So God figured that for a creature to  be in his image it fundamentally must have free-will and in order to control this self destructive free-will within mankind all God needed to do was to establish a regulation mechanism that would at least regulate mankind’s free-will so that it does not destroy mankind  before God’s designated time-frame.

As a regulation mechanism God had to expose Mankind to his perfect will as a safe-guard from free-will’s ability to destroy mankind or rather lead man on the path of self destruction.

When your free-will is acting upon your emotionalism then you walking down the path of self-destruction, however you won’t realize it till you come full circle to the end f your life, on the other hand, when your free-will is acting upon the voice of God, and the word of God then you walking down the path of life even though you won’t appreciate it till you come full circle to the end of everything concerning your material life.

 The relationship between Cain and Abel is in the fact that they both share the same blood.

While the difference between Cain and Abel is in the fact that Abel is able to engage his free-will with the word and the voice of God, Plus allowing no other element of influence apart from the word of God over his free-will.

Cain on the other hand is different to the extent that the only influence over his free-will is his deeply rooted in emotionalism.

Abel is able to thrive in a theocratic environment because everything he sets out to accomplish is influenced, motivated, and driven by the word of God and the voice of the same.

 However Cain is unable to thrive in a theocratic environment because everything he sets out to accomplish is influenced by his emotionalism and because of the aforementioned he is eventually banished out of God’s presence.

 The thing that guarantees one’s ability to thrive in a theocratic environment is the favor and the unique blessing of God that comes upon an individual like Abel who has devoted himself towards having a free-will that is motivated and influenced by the perfect-will of God.

Without having a free-will that is motivated by the will of God only guarantees God’s watchful eyes over you but no favor and blessings are guaranteed or warranted.

 It’s impossible to master or control free-will with our emotionalism.

We can only subdue free-will by allowing the will of God to influence our free-will.

When God tells Cain to be careful in making sure that the sin that is crouching at the door and eager to control him does not master him, in order for him to commit sin, but even after the aforementioned warning of God towards Cain, there was no way for Cain to subdue the sin that was crouching at the door because sin is deeply rooted in the individual whose free-will is dominated by their emotionalism.

In other words, in order to control sin and master it, an individual’s free-will must be dominated by the will of God, because it’s the will of God with the innate capacity to master sin.

In killing Abel, Cain demonstrated with intense clarity that his free-will has been subdued by sin-nature.

God warned Cain but Cain did not heed to the warnings of God.

Thus in order for Cain to avert sin all he had to do was to do the right thing for God told Cain ,”if you  had only done the right thing then you would have been accepted and you would not be mad at Abel because I accepted him.”

The right thing ultimately comes down to submitting one’s free-will to the will of God.

Sometimes when you do not know the right thing all you have to do is ask God’s direction, guidance.

And whatever direction he God gives, follow it, because in following it you would have demonstrated that that favor and the blessings of God are upon you because your free will is submitted to the will of God.

 Thus the only way God was able to accept Abel’s offering is embedded in the fact that Abel asked God the kind of offering to offer unto him, and God gave Abel direction which directions Abel followed in executing and then he was blessed , favored and accepted of God.

So Cain was bitter because of the favor of God which inundated towards the life of his brother Abel, because he did not ask God for directions as regards the kind of offering to give unto God and eventually be blessed.

In offering to God, Cain only acted upon his emotionalism because his free-will was submissive to his emotionalism and he missed God

It’s impossible to be in the image of God fully if your free-will is not submitted to the will of God

Just keep on Moving

Genesis 32:22-32

It’s about this time that I would like to fundamentally draw your attention thereof to a unique place of imagination.

I want you to imagine that status of Jacob before he arrives at Peniel and after he departs from peniel.

He arrived at Peniel with an individual’s identity and then he then departed with a nation’s identity and a vision.

He arrived at peniel in comfort and with the poise of one that has achieved something remarkable on an individual scale.

He then departed all by himself having been blessed with victory by God but ironically his image was much akin to that of a man who has just been condemned to suffer one calamity to another calamity.

He departs Peniel limping, dirty, sweaty but with joy.

His joy is based on the revelation of having encountered God-face-to-face and having received the blessing of victory.

He is without doubt  moving and walking into his wealthy place even though the people around him are seemingly clueless.

He moves for some time and he suddenly realizes that the journey that was meant to be short is becoming longer than anticipated. It’s longer than expected and on top of all that disappointments and challenges are confronting him from the left and the right.

He stops in the middle of the way and he then flags down a stranger and asks, “Where is the place prepared for me by the Lord God?”

The stranger then replies……….”The place of wealth, health, prosperity , Honor, victory, and Glory as prepared for you by the Lord God is just a head of you……Just keep on moving.

My dear friends, I would like to forth rightly pack over here and reveal to all the children of promise and the covenant of God most especially all of you that have been wholly and faithful unto him.

And you have believed but you have not yet seen nor arrived in the place that God has prepared for you.

 It seems as though you have lost out and as if you took the wrong direction but am here to tell you  to just keep moving, keep on moving because your prosperity , health, and wealth along with your victory, honor , and glory are all ahead you.

The honor , victory, and the glory of God are all ahead you .

The  victory that was seeming so long has now just shortened and if you can only just move on for a short while you will then find yourself in your destiny of wealth, health, and prosperity.

If the Lord God has called you to do something do it with determination, charisma, and passion as much as with consistence because everything is going to pay off eventually to your honor, victory, and glory.

Making a come Back

John 1:1-5

Allow me under no uncertain terms to remark that if God is going to lead then he is going to lead by way of divine instruction.

It’s the instruction of God by which God uses to lead us into divinely appointed places, positions, and seasons.

However it’s never a guarantee that the leading and the following of the instruction of God will always lead you into a pleasant place.

As a matter of fact sometimes (not all the times) God’s instruction   will lead you into unpleasant places, positions, seasons, and ultimately unpleasant experiences.

Oh my God!!! It’s here and now that I want to place my foothold on the unpleasant experiences of life that we endure as a result of following the instructions God.

God is an instructor and if you are going to receive any significant amount of power in the presence of God it’s going to come unto you by way of following and fulfilling the instruction of God.

In addition the best lessons that we learn from God are learnt by virtue of following the instruction of God.

The instruction of God will lead you into unpleasant experiences that you do not want for the life of you but you need those unpleasant experiences into in your life for you to be shaped fully into what God created you to become upon the face of the earth.

It’s the unpleasant experiences that we encounter in God that actually and fundamentally chisel our lives into the will of God for the life of us.

Jesus came from Glory and went ahead to die on the cross on a hill called Calvary because he was obeying the instruction of God Almighty that came unto him in his day and time.

The hill cavalry also known as the place of many skulls was historically a death ground for the most adverse criminals of that particular time in history.

To die on the cross was the only and best way to expose the shame of the one who was supposed to be crucified.

The death of the cross did not only speak to the victim and culprit but it spoke directly to the people present as to how shamefully the crime was and how evil the act is thereof.

Sometimes we come against variegated troubles between time and eternity.

And these troubles many times than not are reinforced by the fact that if you are going to be an existence of time then it’s tantamount to being limited to nature and its natural circumstance.

Conversely if you going to be an eternal existence then it’s tantamount to being limited to eternity and its supernatural circumstance.

The principle of nature is evolution which is motivated / facilitated by the passing of time.

In addition the principle of eternity is revelatory knowledge whose motivation is facilitated by the word of God.

Consequently, it’s here and now that we have got to understand that in the art of making a comeback from operating below the circumstance of nature to operating in the promise of God as a victor and as one that is above natural circumstance then you going to have to completely hold unto the word of God and its revelatory experience.

In the book of St.John it argues that in the beginning the word already existed, the word was with God and the word was God.

He existed in the beginning with God.

God created everything through him (the Word) and nothing was created except through him.

 The word gave life to everything that was created and his life brought life to everyone that was created and his life brought light to everyone.

The light shines in the darkness and the darkness can never extinguish it.”

Contextually, the aforementioned text and scripture mentions the word of God in reference to Jesus.

Once you believe and accept Jesus into your life and hold unto him and his teaching no matter what you are going through in life you will most assuredly come out on top and above every natural circumstance.

You have been up on your feet in the years past but now you are down.

Just hold unto Jesus-the word of God and his revelatory experience because it will help you maneuver your way from down in the dungeons of despair up on the stage of divine glory.