My Irrevocable Gift and Irrevocable Responsibility – A respectively Period of giftedness and Irresponsibility

Life in the Lord is a kind of lottery; what would you say is the Holy Spirit’s manner of blessing?

Life’s spectrum Stephen welcomes us to a life where the Holy Spirit has us on a journey where joy is the common draw. Irrevocable joy. A miracle in living refers to the hymn, Amazing Grace.

This hymn, taken from Revelation Chapter 16, Illustrates a supernatural relationship with a living and irrepressible God. There is no closer fellowship in the whole of creation. The invited guests are there by the Father’s invitation, but the invitation is not just about ‘gift giving’. The invitation is a free gift of the Father’s heart, which is not the less-goodly kind but on offer to anyone by virtue of the grace that went with the gift.

This “gift” has a fundamental purpose: it takes us from the competitive realm of life, which is dominated by the diffuse and winding nature of Satan, into the sphere of spheres of True goodness (Christian interdependence).

But, just for the purpose of giving the gift of saved life to others (offering it to others as if it were a remarkable trick question), this amazing “gift” can then also be considered as a curse, in that now we have the sight and tenacious desire for more and more… more and more… could anything be more biblically straining?

This gift that the Father gives is a thin line, a very fine thread, though it is thin. It can’t be easily grasped with one of the hands, yet the mind and heart can truly grasp it – it brings a freedom that is beyond a verbal statement, and even though it is in a whisper, it is thus Stepitdown.

It is a step in the natural gateway of free will, which is imposed so only those who are ready can move through it.

It is a step, yet it is a giant leap, challenging the will of morality, to be purposed such that our further acts are committed to the furtherance of God’s purposes in alignment with his divine will. In this, we will glorify his name – for this is the reason we were created.

Love purposed to give and always gave, though never as much as it could give without the risk of a fundamental shift in the posture of the heart, and it did so without thought. It gave the gift of life, incompatible as it was with a purpose – the will of morality – and it was given without thought as a ‘should’.

It was like watching air as it went down – something so quiet, so malleable, and then sounds like one single note from a distant Harp.

Here, now, in this air of air, we give our lives. We let go of a fundamental principle for the sake of something far greater, something which is a gift to our species – we let go of a principle so far above us that it seemed as if life on earth depended on its existence.

In this air we have a closeness that words cannot even begin to describe.

It is then and there that we meet God. It is then and there that we realize – perhaps for the first time – that God planned our life as we found it, as we found it, and as we found it.

Suddenly nothing seemed so important. Nothing at all, when compared to this unmerited, ridiculous gift, this ridiculous theory of our existence.

God intended us to find out about our life as we could discover it. Nothing beyond our amazement and wonder in each of our results. Nothing would change what we had previously known.

When we take our lives seriously, we honor God. When we treat each moment of our lives as important, God becomes important. God becomes the purpose of everything.

Divinity is known in the moment of revelation; unity is the echo of the truth in the heart; and there is victory over sin in such reflection.