Day 59: Living Daily in Reality: New World – New You
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Our Maker wants to fill his universe with beings like himself who give
and receive his love and life. They can be like him only if they are
free not to be like him, so he has made them part of his only Son so that
he can bear the nothingness they choose yet have the opportunity to
acquiesce in their recreation in him. This is why we find ourselves in
a world that has suffered at our hands – (which have corrupted themselves
in the process).

Our Creator wants children who can love and whom he can love, but real
love can come only from a free will.  So God made us part of his only
Son so that He himself could bear the effects if we chose to love
ourselves rather than him.  Our present world and we ourselves are
part of the effects of our self-love.  Both have become corrupted as
we have used the world for ourselves rather than developed it for its
maker.  God has borne the consequences of this independence in his
son, destroyed and remade it in the eternity of a parallel universe, and
allowed us to see a slow-motion replay here on earth.  We’re here so
that we can make a real choice between that eternal life and this present
one. Whenever we try by our own efforts to change the present fallen
nature of ourselves and our world we face the fact that only the Creator
can remake the mass of short-circuits that we have developed between
ourselves and the world. Â

As we try to let his only Son develop the world through us as God had
planned, we find we have so corrupted our nature that our minds and
emotions won’t yield to the spirit of God’s son within us. Although
we try to trust God who feeds the birds and clothes the flowers, we find
we still count up our bank account when we’re worried about money. Â
We want to let the faith of the son of God direct our minds and wills,
but they’re so dominated by what the outside world is doing that we
can’t. Even though God foresaw all this and graciously remade us in
the cosmic death and resurrection of his Son, He waits patiently for us
to see that need and turn from our self-will to his will: this makes
sense of all our present day-to-day experiences.

Divorce causes pain for children and loneliness for adults in almost half
our marriages today.  It happens because we think marriage is for our
benefit – for our comfort, prosperity, and happiness.  But it was
devised by God so that we would fill the earth and subdue it – and
would become like Him in the process. That’s exactly what is
happening when our partner does not understand us or the children annoy
us: Christ within us nudges us to love and be patient, but we feel we
should not have to put up with this kind of injustice.  In our cosmic
death and resurrection in Christ our old self was destroyed and we can
simply accept the opposite alternative version of ourselves that now
exists.  But we will not bow our wills because we keep believing that

this world and we ourselves are the way we were meant to be.  We are
not.  We have become the opposite, but the original version is
available if we simply choose it – it’s Christ as he wants to be –
in us!

Then begins our part in the mighty act whereby our Maker breaks the
barrier of time and translates us into the reality of eternal life where
He from the beginning created you as He meant you to be. That is, of
course, as part of his only Son so he would live with your acquiescence
the life that He planned from before the creation of the world.  This
makes you part of a glorious “teamâ€(cid:157) of individual beings that enjoy
the unequalled freedom of a human family whose Father owns the universe
and who have been equipped to enjoy it and develop it for Him.  This
reality will begin to show through in this life as soon as you die with
Christ to your great rights and let your Creator determine how much of
your partner’s rights can be trusted in His hands and not yours.