There are many different kinds of systems that are put in place for various purposes. A water system is intended to hold the water into place and send it to one specific reservoir, but imagine if that system began to unravel when corrosion ate away at one of the pipes. The guardian of the system is at this point extremely important because this guardian must identify the corrosion, and correct it before it gets further down the pipe and the corrosion spreads. It is important that the said “guardian” remove the corroded area and replace it with good new pipe so that the entire system could work properly. It only took that one piece of pipe or that one area to corrode the otherwise good and functional system.
We in the body of Christ are a system. God created us to work that way, together as a system. It is a system that intends to love Yahweh, to worship and be a reservoir of His glory. Together we are to be glorious and beautiful in a way that is not worldly. It is through the power and working of the atonement of the Messiah (Yahshua) the One and Only, through whom we are created, rejuvenated, washed, beautified, purified, sanctified, glorified. He calls this system, this unit, you could say, “Beloved,” “Jerusalem,” “Redeemed,” “Chosen one,” “His Bride,” “His Follower,” “The Apple of His eye,” “Elect,” “Sheep,” “the Clay,” and “the Church.”
Yet as a whole unit, ... have we have traded our beauty, which is His glory, for a much lesser garment? The garment of praise for garments of pride, division, self importance, and other lusts?
How do we go about being the Called and Chosen and doing all that He has sent us to do? Becoming a unified body and working as a regenerated and reborn people who have been born into a family much greater than what we had been born into on earth? Do we live as a reborn family, or are we sickly and false, only putting on the show of rebirth, while truly an imposter of earth struggling to belong in a society that is full of reborn and sincere children of God?
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