New Light springing forth

Bringing New Life

If the God of Abraham has any pattern whatsoever, it would be that he never follows patterns. "Behold, I do a new thing" is his mantra, he's never the same. If you think studying the works of old will dictate what he's doing next; think again! I see all these churches trying to repeat the book of Acts; as if God was about to repeat himself... and he never does.

He is new every morning.

God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, and life is constantly new, constantly changing; the absence of growth and change equals death. So why would anyone expect the creator of life to be contained in dead ordinances? The law brings forth death, the letter of the word brings forth death, any return to form and religion brings forth death, our God is a shifting wind, sometimes quiet, sometimes still, but never restrained to form or practice, quite unpredictable, and always vibrant with some new activity.

The study of scripture is a study of life. The prophets foretold the life to come; if you get a glimpse of Jesus, you are looking at the spirit of prophecy; it is all about life. Light brings life; and the return of Jesus is the return of light... the breaking forth of a new day, a new way to live, a new way to govern, a new way to follow, and a new way to grow. If your study of the Apocalypse isn't teaching you how to live and walk in Jesus' spirit, then you are lost in dead words, lost in religious exercises of futility that enslave the hirelings; the professional approach for money that God hates, the lie that still hasn't bowed it's head to the truth.

The return of Jesus is the rising sun; bringing righteousness and healing. Just as sunlight brings healing and new life; Jesus recovers the lost, he finds where we have wandered off to, and he brings us back to the light/life. His spirit has been pouring forth, filling the earth, invading the darkness... ending the dark ages. We've been in darkness, we still have pockets of darkness, we are ruled by darkness, but the morning star has become the daystar, and the darkness resists, but can not stop the new light springing forth.

The study of Jesus return should match his actual return taking place daily. To see one or the other requires the same sight; not the old vision of the flesh, the natural sight that man is born with and follows to his death, but the new sight that comes from new life springing up inside us; the living spring of his spirit renewing us; the vision is his gift to us, he shows us what he is doing. His performance of the scriptures is more than just keeping a promise; it is the dayspring of new life that he performs for all eternity, life eternal, not bound by this life with it's forms and rules and pending death. The return of Jesus is the new heaven and new earth, in Christ the old passes away, the form and fashion of this earth fades, the new life in Christ is not bound to this old earth, it is already passed beyond it, it is the same life and spirit that will inhabit the new earth and new heavens; the changing of the universe matters little; the light of Christ does not stream from the natural heavens, it doesn't originate from those old stars, the light that is springing forth from his spirit existed long before the stars and will never be subject to planets, stars, natural time and rotation, or any matter that was created.

In Christ, all things are new.

This is the day of the Lord; a new day, a sunrise of new life. The return of Jesus is the return of light; bringing new vision, new growth, new hope, all of which produces new life. It isn't just a dead study of words and ideas. It is his actual return taking place, his actual spirit returning, his actual presence in our midst. If you look upon Jesus, you see the Father, you see the light, the rainbow of colors, if you walk in his light, you become the light of day.