A Telescoping Study of Life and Fulfilment-1-7-9-12

UV 1577/10000 A Telescoping Study of Life and Fulfilment:
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Exodus 3 v 14

We can telescope the revelation of God through His name Jehovah or “ I Am Who I Am” to the seven manifestations in Jesus when He claimed that He is the Bread of Life, the Light of Life, the Door, the Good Shepherd, the Resurrection and the Life, the Way, the Truth and the Life and the True Vine. All our quotidian or daily need as well as eternal need is met in these seven manifestations. Further, let us telescope to Jesus’s statement that “rivers of life-giving water will flow out of our hearts” through the indwelling Holy Spirit. These rivers are manifested in the nine fruit of the spirit: love, joy , peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility and self control. These are like nine streams flowing through our lives every day. Our spiritual being dries up when these rivers cease to flow.

Let us now telescope the vision to the final manifestation as revealed in the book of Revelations: As the nine rivers or stream flow unceasingly in our souls, twelve types of fruit are produced, one every month, implying that our lives will neither be vain, empty or barren but productive, creative and blessed. In these visions and manifestations, the Lord promises that all of our need- spirit, mind and body will be met in full. Our faith should have the quality of patience that even Abraham’s faith lacked- to wait till His will is revealed and His will is fulfilled. His will was revealed in a promise to Abraham and Sarah but His will takes time to get fulfilled at the divinely appointed hour. Many of us are not willing to wait during this gap period and try to jump the gun as Sarah did in offering Hagar her slave
as a kind of surrogate mother. Hagar’s son can only be Ishmael and not Isaac. He is not fully a legit son to Abraham but a “kind of” or a “ make do”- a substitute. God always does what is fully legit. He does not deal with a “kind of”. Sarah and Abraham did not have the fullest revelation of God that came with the manifestation of the seven identities of Jesus. They did not know that Jesus could bring her dead womb to life when she was close to hundred. They decided to go for a natural and rational substitute. Today, every need of every human being, every leader, every manager can be met fully in one or other or combination of the identities of Jesus. We have the Light of Life in us and hence,we are the light of life, we have the answer to every problem of darkness. We are God’s answer in today’s world to every problem of darkness. Since we have the light of life in us, we have the rivers of peace, joy, goodness, love flowing in our hearts. God gave the outline and Jesus filled in the details of our life and its fulfilment. The alternative is to go for less than legit natural substitutes like Abraham and Hagar did.

Prateep V Philip