Written by: Kaia Allen-Bevan
Edited by: James Francis
James here!
This blog for me is very exciting, as I've always wanted to collaborate with other people, but in my mind I have never had the right fit - well, until now.
Kaia is a like-minded Christian writer, and a lot of her blogs contain a plethora of christian testimonials; She's excellently eloquent, and is just such a gifted writer. She wrote this blog, and I'll link her own page at the very end! 😆
Alright, I'm gonna shut up now, and let you enjoy a blog from someone other than myself, addressing the ways in which God Is change concerning humanity. Enjoy! :)
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Change. This concept may be something you fear, something that’ll leave you shocked - it may even be something you’re ecstatic about. Ultimately however, in every season of our lives we’ll experience it. There are multiple accounts of change initiated by God in the Bible...but what’s one thing they all have in common?
1. God never let people down.
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2. People were blessed by the experience.
Change: A Broken Humanity.
God's faithfulness.
God himself wanted change from the very beginning. God intended to make a world without the presence of evil. However, due to our biological pre-disposition and our human nature, the very first and most prevalent sin occurred in Genesis 3. The forbidden fruit was eaten, and Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden; the only place where the cohesion of heaven and earth was visible.
This didn’t stop God’s vision though, one that included us in the very picture. He remained determined to restore the world from evil. As God wishes to collaborate with us sinners in this effort, he singled out Noah to build the very iconic “Ark”. Consequently, God spared Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a world-engulfing flood, in order to eradicate all evil from the earth.
Did this work? Eh, only for a short while. In Genesis 9, Noah, “a man of the soil”, planted a vineyard and later, drank some of its wine. I’m thinking that he was a lightweight, for he became drunk and laid bare and uncovered inside his tent. Now Han, his son, decided to violate his father’s privacy, entering his tent uninvited. Amused by his father’s predicament, he even went and told his two brothers! He failed to honor his father (one of the 10 commandments), unlike Shem and Japheth. Despite this, God still wanted to be associated with us - shown by a covenant he established in the same passage.
Change: Jesus' Story.
Our story.
Before God created the world, He had a plan in place. Mary would be the mother of Christ the Messiah: "the visible image of the invisible God.(Colossians 1:15)", who would save every generation to come, once and for all. An angel descended from the heavens, announcing God’s will to Mary in Luke 1. The angel only left when Mary obediently said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.”, signifying Mary’s submission to God’s will.
In Luke 2, Jesus was born. A star “led” people to him in Bethlehem, revealing Jesus' destiny to lead from the very beginning. He was the ‘seed’ of Abraham, so that all nations would be blessed through him (Galatians 3). He would grow to be superior, one who would lead those away from sin. He would grow to be a mediator for all (Hebrews 8) He would make God’s spirit available for all mankind (Acts 2). He would be a walking temple, one where people could meet with God in Christ as they would if they were in a physical temple. Furthermore, in all His time, Jesus never forced anyone to conform to who he was.
But Jesus wasn't crowned on earth; He was crucified on the cross, publicly shamed and humiliated. But, by Jesus dying on the cross, both his death and his birth acted as a public declaration of the removal of the sins of the world. God allowed this humiliation to occur because he wanted a change so that the earth’s goodness would be restored.
His death finalised the gateway to eternity, uniting heaven and earth - changing the narrative of what believers and non-believers previously thought.
Subsequently, Jesus was resurrected from the dead and, before ascending into heaven, he breathed life into his apostles (John 20). The Holy Spirit could now roam on earth, and continues to do so to this day.
Relational Change
A conclusion.
Thanks to God’s determination to see change, we can still be in relationship with him. He never lost faith in humanity, and he still hasn’t and he never will. This change happened over numerous generations, but “God always does what he plans, and this is why he appointed Christ to choose us (Ephesians 1:11).” Like I mentioned at the start, God never let us down and we blessed by his presence every-time we choose to meet with him and submit to his change.
In 1 Peter 4, it states, “Each of you has been blessed with one of God’s many wonderful gifts to be used in the service of others. So use your gift well.” Let’s highlight the adjective “well”. This word is simplistic, and yet its meaning is accessible and easy to understand. I feel that God has purposefully done this as it challenges us all universally. Can you imagine the world-wide outcome if we all developed our passions and God-given gifts? God is asking us to work together and to serve others...not ourselves. Jesus, the greatest leader in the bible, conducted his whole ministry in serving others in order to glorify God - Why can't we do this too?
Yes, we sin and we’ll never be perfect, for that’s God’s place, not ours. However, if there’s one moral message to take from this, it is that God is simply asking us to be the change we want to see, just as he initiated the change he wanted in the very beginning.
God Bless. ❤️
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