Day 69: Living Daily in Reality: Between Two Worlds
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Our Maker designed each of us to express a unique part of himself through
his only Son to whom he has entrusted the completion of his creation.Â
Our willingness to let his son express himself through us will determine
what our world is like and whom we are like. He has foreseen both of
these outcomes, and Christ has borne the corruption of the world and our
nature along with their redemption outside time in eternity. In this
present time we are therefore between two worlds – in us and around us
is the nature and the world which we have corrupted, while ahead of us in
a parallel universe is our new nature and world graciously re-created by
our Maker in his son’s death and resurrection.
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In this life, you are living either in the reality of our corrupted
nature and world or you are living in the reality of our new nature and
world that our Maker has already remade outside time. Who determines
which nature and world you are living in? You do – you throw the
switch – then the cosmic death and resurrection expressed at Calvary
actualize here in your life! Just as even our crude high-frequency
trading computers can analyze in a milli-second hundreds of buys and
sells and send hundreds of alternative offers to the stock exchange, so
our Maker can in a millisecond arrange thousands of events which protect
the exercise of your free will yet move everything a step nearer his own
plan. But you alone determine how long you spend crucifying or exalting
your Maker.
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While you are in this world as part of the Creator’s son you are
therefore either letting the spirit of his life shape your nature and the
world or you’re succumbing to your nature to exploit the world. The
uncreated spirit of his son applies the eternal work of real change
wrought by the Maker himself in his son’s death, whereas our nature
applies a temporary band-aid; the first deals with the actual corruption
whereas the second deals with the symptoms. The first forms Christ
within more fully, the second tries to imitate his nature.

Both require human action but one is based on the final renewal of the
world wrought by God in Christ’s resurrection while the second is based
on man’s own attempts to save the world. The first is initiated by
Christ within, the second by man’s best thoughts – your will is the
pivotal-point for both.  Moses tried to free the Israelites by killing
the slave-driver; then he freed them by the effect of the plagues wrought
in Christ’s resurrection in eternity. Later he had to stretch his
staff over the Jordan, but it was Christ’s supra-time power over the
world of nature that divided the waters.

So in our twenty-first century we will continue to see the deterioration
of our human nature and our world repeatedly exposed as abnormal and
unintended by the creator.  But alongside the encroaching chaos there

will persist the counteracting effects of the uncreated spirit of the
maker’s son in things like the bacteria-killing penicillin discovered
in fungus, the power of non-violent resistance in Mandela and Gandhi, and
the built-in capacity of an angry man to be calmed by a soft answer.
As we begin to apply reality to the diverse ways in which our world seems
to be going wrong, let us see how this real power of our Maker’s
uncreated life in his son can work through us.  As we do that we may
find there are two ways to “leave the world a better placeâ€(cid:157)…  Â
But more importantly, you may find why your Creator has made you so
different from the rest of us – and you may grow up into the fullness
of Christ.