The Knees Are Involved

If we are God, why are we not like God? He set aside all His divine attributes to become flesh, us. And here we are: Him, unlike Him. We are a monitored lot; we can always ask, and He always hears, because He is always us inside of us. He knows all our faults, all our sins, all our needs, hopes, and aspirations. So why do we work, strive, imagine and affirm, and nothing happens?

Ahem. We are not like Him. We are different in a bad way--way off the mark. He wants us to be like Him, or if you would, He wants to be Himself in us. I hear about some people for whom manifestation and miracles seem to come easily, and about many, many people who strive to imagine and affirm per prescription...and nothing works. At least one difference I think I see is belief. Believers recognize that God really is. They believe He is present, aware, and powerful. Not that they are not still sinners, but He can deal--and is dealing--with that. Believers are God's family. He takes care of His family, His kin, His relatives. He is involved with them. But Himself existing differently as unbelieving rebels, well, He can deal with them differently, too. They want to be separate; He can make them separate.

This is actually a lesson in grace, the grace of God. All we all in the flesh are different and unlike the God we are. There is nothing WE can do to make ourselves like Him, and we all deserve to be treated as different and separated. But God Himself swallowed the wrath we deserved to allow those who would repent/revision themselves (Himself!) as believers to proceed with His program of manifesting Himself in and through them eternally. It is not a bad deal: we don't get whacked or separated, we get what we believe, we get cared for, and Godhood. Such a deal!

But it comes at the cost of believing. I mean really, really, really believing.