{"id":491,"date":"2015-04-12T02:03:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T02:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/?p=491"},"modified":"2015-04-12T02:03:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T02:03:56","slug":"the-trunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/april\/the-trunk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trunk"},"content":{"rendered":"
To have an experience with God one does not have to wait til he\/she is filled with the Word of God or with miracles or sign following. God is having experiences with ordinary people with no special traits or abilities, with people whose lives are messed up full of sins and wrong doings. And, one might ask why would a holy, all powerful creator would want to hang with messed up people like us? God’s goal is to bring man back to that state of relationship before the fall. Now this might sound foolish and void of common sense, but when we come to God the sense of recognizing our condition\u00a0and God’s immediate action towards change becomes ever present. Then, once our lives are changed his call to serve begin to become real in our lives.<\/h5>\n
Isaiah 6:5-8<\/h5>\n
5\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cWoe to me!\u201d I cried. \u201cI am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips,and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord<\/span> Almighty.\u201d6\u00a0<\/sup>Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.<\/span>7\u00a0<\/sup>With it he touched my mouth and said, \u201cSee, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.\u201d<\/span>8\u00a0<\/sup>Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, \u201cWhom shall I send? And who will go for us?\u201dAnd I said, \u201cHere am I. Send me!\u201d<\/h5>\n

We are an unholy contaminated people like Isaiah who recognized his condition. Isaiah understood his sinful condition once he had his encounter with the Lord, and this he expressed when he said “For I am a man of unclean lips”. Paul said that the unbelieving man is made holy by his wife (1Cor. 7:14), and this he was referring that man is and has been defiled since the fall. He said that we have all sinned (Ro. 3:23). Each and everyone of us has and have at one point or another missed the mark. The people of Israel in Moses’ time though were stubborn recognized their sinful condition (Nu. 14:39), and because of that nature when they went to war they were defeated. There are many of us whose wounds have not been healed caused from the sin we have committed (Is. 1:6).<\/p>\n

God’s instant cleansing and transforming power is active to those who are willing to be transformed. Many of us have been cleansed in the past. As soon as Isaiah understood his condition the angelic being took some coal from the alter and touched his lips and cleansed him. And, so our sinful condition becomes something of the past (1Pe. 1:5-9), once cleansed. The problem is that many of us forget what has been done for us. Jesus healed 9 men who were Leprosy and as they were on their way to the priest one remembered (Luke 17:16-17), and went back to give him glory. So, it is easy for one to forget all that God has done for him. Isaiah’s response to God’s transforming power was simple and true. His response to God was “Here I am” after he experienced what happened. Abraham had the same response to God with his experience (Ge. 22:1) once God called him.<\/p>\n

This experience of Isaiah is a sample of God’s working power in humanity today; a people who is perishing and on the verge to destruction. But, thank God for the trunk, because though we are living in a generation that is deteriorating fast there is a people holding on (Is. 6:13); They are known as the trunk.<\/p>\n

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