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By Gloria Pierre Dean
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The earthlings slowly realized that they needed to change their capacity.
Capacity to receive firstly a King, but a King comes with Authority, an Emissary and Ambassadors.
Spiritually and physically the earthlings had been living under punitive laws.
They were humanly unable to keep the Laws perfectly as they were written,
so lawlessness reigned. No one was holy enough.
In despair they created leaders like judges who would lead them and punish offenses.
They formed groups like the Pharisees who policed their every act.
Even their gowned priests were flawed.
The earthlings’ hearts were dark and they despaired of ever seeing the Light that they had been promised.
Long ago, a Light was promised to this people.
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. {Isaiah 9:2}
He would rule justly and cause their society and the world to function in love, righteousness and in peace.
One day the Light came but it was not as they expected.
The Light came humbly, born in a stable, and made little impact for thirty or more years until it was noticed that He was different.
News and rumors started to trickle out of Nazareth, Galilee and Bethany about a Man who did only good and He loved people. He loved men and women and children.
He did not `meet out’ Laws and He broke the Sabbath. He was not a strange hermit but He was a man and He lived with people, He ate and drank with sinners, He healed the sick, raised the dead, and cast out demons.
The earthlings were now in the time of Grace. ".....by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." -Ephesians 2:8
"The goodness and loving kindness of God" is s synonym for Jesus.
Titus 2:11-14 - For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Grace!
What is the Grace?
How could this be?
This idea was too simple and divergent. Please just think of it, it was so utterly effective!
It required the earthlings to expand.
The earthling needed to expand in their spirit to receive this Grace; and they needed that if they are to live like Him; if they were to love their neighbors and to be ambassadors to The King.
It meant freedom from shackles, and yet this Grace had a cost.
Grace was this new Kingdom’s `law’. This Kingdom was larger than the old one.
Thinking patterns changed; the ability to receive increased so the earthlings could love. In many ways it was just so simple. No more studying books of rules and laws. No more Scribes and Pharisees. Gowned priests would need jobs. The Temple now served no purpose. This Grace took love to the streets and crossed racial and tribal barriers.
All the earthlings needed to do was believe, receive and love.
The King did all the work, and His Emissary the Holy Spirit is still doing work so that the earthlings who follow His Way. They found that they could see and do things differently.
The earthlings now had women in their group; they spoke in tongues, healed the sick, raised the dead and cast out demons.
His Kingdom came, quietly at first, without sound, but it changed everything in the earth.
The earthlings grew and expanded; they received the Holy Spirit and became `sons of God’.
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Yes, when we are baptized for the forgiveness of our sins, we receive the Holy spirit and become a child of God.
Interesting way to include all people by using the name you used for people.
This is a bit choppy for prose and yet not quite a poem. If you intend for it to be a story or devotional, I suggest you make full paragraphs and include a specific story to illustrate your thoughts.
Good thoughts - keep writing!