Picking offenses and being offended is one of the many easy things to do in our generation. Our societal system has taught us that everyone is perfect, and any room for weakness is an excuse to sentence a man to his death. Not necessarily by the seizure of life, but by disregarding any ounce of weakness, such that is supposedly not expected of a Man. When in the real sense, our very nature of being Man is the emblem of what weakness should be.
I pray that as you read through, may light flood your heart, to understand this that is being revealed.
The scriptures makes us to understand, in the order of what perfection should be, that perfection is a Truth that is contained in a single vessel or entity of Creation. The only entity that singlehandedly embodies perfection is GOD. And that’s what Jesus said that there is no Perfect person except my Father which is in Heaven.
Asides this, to find perfection in any entity, you can only recognize it as a result of the influence of the Divine.
There is a testament of the scriptures stating to us that, as far as Creation is concerned, perfection is not found nor embodied into one entity of Creation. Yes! It is distributed into the faces of what we can be, but perfection is not all that we are. According to Revelations 4:7. We are made to understand that there are 4 faces of every Living Creatures and entity. These are the faces of (1) the Lion (2) the Calf (3) the Man & (4) The Eagle.
It is an overstatement of spirituality, an inflated ego of Man, and a demonstration of the Absence of a perspective of Love. That makes a man look at others, or take offenses at the weakness of others.
It is true that on the strength of knowledge, and by the privilege of Grace, and the testimony of the manifestations of God through a man, it is very possible to see others and judge them of *”who they are, of what they are going through, or what they have refused to do”*. Thinking that such that they are going through is a result of their negligence. And a reflection of their ignorance.
[3/6, 5:51 AM] Versatile Saint: As much as this can be True, when you understand the mystery of the four faces, you would understand that perfection is not a Truth entrusted to be contained in the realm of Man alone.
STATEMENT OF FACTS: What is Man?
(1) Except God helps us as a Man, we are a disaster going somewhere to happen.
(2) No Man is of Himself a reflection of Perfection
(3) The Grace of God upon a Man has the tendency to show forth the Man as a god. But he’s still a Man.
(4) A Man is a Man with all license to weakness like, unless the Divine is present in the equation.
(5) Man is a dimension in God that is used to Ironically reflect the Absence of Weakness in God. So that all Creation may understand what weakness can be, that is not in God, Man is the entity that captures this mystery.
2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
The face of a Lion is a dimension in God that validates and permits the Dominion of man. And at such, it is without apologies a necessary expectation that every man should dominate. But Dominion comes by revelation. If the word of God that a man feeds on has not yet been Crystalised in him. There is a permissible mechanism of the Kingdom that makes provision for that status of a man not yet grown.
This is why the scriptures says the desire of God is they we be in Health. But if you have not yet grown to that level of walking in it, it says; healing is the Children’s bread.
It would be a deficiency of love, to expect that all believers work on the same pedestal of spiritual possibilities, just because they are in the fold doesn’t mean they are grown.
This is why some people have died, falling victim of pursuing power and prophesies because they have stayed with the realm of being a Lion alone, forgetting that a Lion started out as a Cub.
Don’t despise the days of your growth, neither should you expect a seed to become a forest in a day. By putting your Spirit man under the Pressure of becoming what a Man became in a dealing of years in just an approach of hearing it. Pride, and Ignorance would kill any man that camps around the revelation of Dominion alone to get things done. Even Christ, to gain Dominion had to die as a Lamb, before becoming a Lion.
This takes me to the second face of a Calf.
Before that it is needful to note that when individuals do not understand this truth, they would expect perfection from you all the time and would continually take offense at you. And one would wear himself out trying to please men not to be offended. Grow at your own pace. For only God has the yardstick of your growth according to the curriculum of your Destiny.
The Face of a Calf, is that dimension in God that represents “SERVITUDE”. The disciples asked Jesus a question, that who is the greatest. And he said to them that, whosoever must be the greatest must first serve.
Can you imagine that God rules the universe from the perspective of the Lion alone, wouldn’t we tag Him a tyrant? Even though some still do. But imagine He upholds the standard of His righteous alone by expecting that one day we would grow into becoming righteous (perfect so to speak). And in all the accumulated years from the days of Adam, to Noah, down to David, Man has continually been adamant, for weakness (dust) was part of what validated our existence on earth.
If He destroys us, wouldn’t it be unfair on his system of Justice? Knowing that our formation in the flesh is the necessity for weakness.
So, in order to impute perfection in you and I that is not contained in a single Creation, He had to make the Man meet with the Divine. He could only do that by stepping out of the office of a Lion to become a Calf (servitude). And you & I can testify of that dimension by the walkings and workings of Jesus on the Earth. He had to come work out our salvation for us.
Men will definitely take offenses at you, for it is not ordained of any single entity in Creation to carry the burden of perfection. This is why it is possible to see a man of God, who vomits fire, an anointed in any area of Life, that yet has a Weakness, it is not His or Her fault, He is but a Man.
It would be a depth of ignorance on my part and yours, a deficiency of the height, length and breadth of what Love is to Judge every man either by their action or by their situation. FOR WE ARE BUT MEN.
The best of Man is Man, the anointed is yet still a “MAN” of God. The Clause of being a Man is enough reason for us to “understand” (not necessarily overlook) the affairs and actions of any Man. For we have not an High Priest who is not touched by the feelings of our Infirmities.
If you agree with the scriptures that we are Kings and Priests, then don’t camp around being just a King, engage your PRIESTLY office, not only to pray (intercession) but also to understand (Heb. 5:1-3).
Build yourself on understanding the ways of God, as it pertains to the Character of Love. And I can guarantee you, you would take less offense not be offended by the possibilities embedded in the entity called Man; both to Dominate and to be Weak.
WHAT IS MAN?
