This is difficult to realize. Yet throughout the Word of God it is underlined.
God was before all: He is the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega.
He is love. He is inconceivable beauty. He is the all. If that is so, then the link between Him and us, whom He has created, is the link between the One and the means of manifesting or making known the One. In other words, our relation to Him is that of containing Him in such a way that He may be recognized. That is why the primary function of all creation, animate and inanimate, is receptivity. Your basic function, and mine, is the same—simply to receive. This is demonstrated, silently, around us all the time. It's never better seen than in the springtime. If there were no receptivity in the trees and flowers and shrubs, we should have a desert around us. These things spring to life because of their quiet reception of the sunlight and moisture poured on them. What they receive they utilize. But utilization is secondary to reception. In Biblical language, we call this faith...Norman Grubb..an excerpt from The Key to Everything...---------------------------
Faith in Action..Norman Grubb
We have been looking together at this ''mystery hid from ages and generations, but now made manifest --- which is Christ in you''; but we have said nothing, except by implication, of the one way , the one Bible way, of experiencing this union with Him. Nothing could be simpler, of course it could not, because we were created to live like that, but the exercise of the one simplest of all human functions. It is the faculty of reception, called in the bible --- faith. ''To as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of god, even to them that believe on His Name''; for believing is receiving. ''Received ye the Spirit by the words of the law, or by the hearing of faith?'' We have pointed out all along that the one capacity with which human beings are endowed is that of receiving. The Creator gives, the creature receives. And obviously nothing is easier or more automatic than its constant exercise. Food, air, knowledge, the stored riches of this world, nothing is ours except by receiving it.
''what hast thou that thou hast not received? asked the apostle of the Corinthians.
God was before all: He is the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega.
He is love. He is inconceivable beauty. He is the all. If that is so, then the link between Him and us, whom He has created, is the link between the One and the means of manifesting or making known the One. In other words, our relation to Him is that of containing Him in such a way that He may be recognized. That is why the primary function of all creation, animate and inanimate, is receptivity. Your basic function, and mine, is the same—simply to receive. This is demonstrated, silently, around us all the time. It's never better seen than in the springtime. If there were no receptivity in the trees and flowers and shrubs, we should have a desert around us. These things spring to life because of their quiet reception of the sunlight and moisture poured on them. What they receive they utilize. But utilization is secondary to reception. In Biblical language, we call this faith...Norman Grubb..an excerpt from The Key to Everything...---------------------------
Faith in Action..Norman Grubb
We have been looking together at this ''mystery hid from ages and generations, but now made manifest --- which is Christ in you''; but we have said nothing, except by implication, of the one way , the one Bible way, of experiencing this union with Him. Nothing could be simpler, of course it could not, because we were created to live like that, but the exercise of the one simplest of all human functions. It is the faculty of reception, called in the bible --- faith. ''To as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of god, even to them that believe on His Name''; for believing is receiving. ''Received ye the Spirit by the words of the law, or by the hearing of faith?'' We have pointed out all along that the one capacity with which human beings are endowed is that of receiving. The Creator gives, the creature receives. And obviously nothing is easier or more automatic than its constant exercise. Food, air, knowledge, the stored riches of this world, nothing is ours except by receiving it.
''what hast thou that thou hast not received? asked the apostle of the Corinthians.
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