Today, points are shared on divine rest as an aspect of balance and sacred process for Creation. The fighter at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Love Unites” (Level 7 with 31,726 points, a member since May 08, 2013) posted the following:
In the Biblical story of creation, God rested. Why would an all-powerful god need to rest?
THE GOLDEN ARROW: If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. (Isaiah 58: 13-14, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Sabbath Transferred to Sunday? (04/05/2015); Divine Sleep (03/28/2014); The Storm-battered City? (03/29/2014); To Keep It Holy (02/23/2014); 7 “Godly” Sins? (02/24/2014); About Sabbath (10/16/2013); We Shall Behold Him (10/17/2013)
“Love Unites”, all created beings and living creatures must undergo permanent change as an aspect of approaching and having access to divinity. The carnal and finite tools they regularly depend upon can not provide them with complete, correct sacred knowledge. The needed change is so all-encompassing and extensive, we simply say, You must be born again. Ones awareness must be altered to continually acknowledge that GOD is a spirit, who must be known through such features of the divine makeup as faith, holiness, longsuffering, wisdom, and wrath against sin, rather than through such limited human tools as emotion, logic, intellect, philosophy, and science. Please consider the following points:
(1.) The holy writings are more than simply a mix of informal accounts and official records regarding secular events and human history. The Scriptures should be received as a peculiar manifestation (we say, appearance, form, incarnation) of divinity. Readers who have been properly prepared through such sacred operations as baptism, contemplation, fasting, and prayer receive a peculiar consciousness that may only come forth from GOD.
(2.) Deity operates upon a cosmic scale. The holy writings provide a divine point of view, so to speak, where the active presence of GOD is demonstrated through thousands of events using thousands of lives over the course of thousands of years. Given these things are intended to edify, permit connection, and strengthen the living, many details and features that appear are only for the benefit of those who make full commitment to GOD, and are not for casual readers.
(3.) Despite being those who receive spirit content from the makeup of divinity (we say, the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Prophecy), born-again believers must gradually develop and mature meeting the same life challenges as others upon the earth.
(4.) With sacred consciousness there is also new meaning, new understanding and new value for multiple actions, ideas, and expressions of language. Believers gradually put aside the frameworks of time, space, material dimension (we say, measurement), and sense experience (e.g., hearing, seeing, tasting, touching). The presence of GOD becomes known through such attributes as holy boldness, hope, humility, love, obedience, and unselfishness.
There is far more that should be said, correctly understood, and spiritually taken into account. (For example (5.) Sabbath, power, and rest are aspects of eternal perfection that pertain to immortality, immutability, and permanence. Many are unknowingly anchored in an awareness that is ego-centered (we also say, self-centered), exalting mankind as the most important and necessary aspect of existence. Such persons naturally impose upon GOD their expectations and limits including exhaustion, fatigue of ones muscles, hunger, lapses of attention and mind, weakness, and need for sleep to recover, recuperate or regain lost divine substance.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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