A
family without a father depends on each other, a family with a father
depends on the father. How a fatherless family holds together is by
satisfying the demands of life by distributing the weight among
themselves, lightening the load for one another and measuring any weight
they place on one another, lest any member of the house breaks down and
the unit shrinks, which causes more weight to be put on every
individual member, the increased stress further burdening each member
and multiplying the likeliness of another breakdown. But what happens to
that original member that broke down? That is where the story branches
out into the complex tapestry you're seeing here in me today.
When the reason for the breakdown of a member of the fatherless family has nothing to do with a lack of material strength or physical capacity in them, the inner cause for their brokenness isn't immediately recognizable to the eyes of other members. In fact, such a one is often interpreted as lazy or uninspired by other members, their lack of contribution condemned by words which when associated with the broken member of the family, would further implicate them not just for failing to carry their fair-share of the weight, but also for so petty a reason! Indeed, the pettiest feather upon the weightiest burden does surprisingly break the back of the camel. But is it that really so much of a surprise?
Understandably, the capacity to understand so subtle a thing would likely escape a person still under the duress of remaining under the now multiplied weight of the world upon their shoulders. However, the brokenness of the materially stronger member goes beyond personal flaw and stems directly from their decreased capacity to sustain weight due to having been caught in the energy-depleting, life-draining magnetic field of the world's weightiest-presence of religious obligation. This sense of "religious obligation" is the gasoline on the fire of the dual-lit candle-stick that causes even the strong to break down. So it's much easier to blame the culprit that can be seen rather than the invisible cause behind it, but being ignorant about the condition of the root likewise leads to ignorantly mislabeling the tree according to it's fruit and letting the root-eating religious virus of Sin itself go uncondemned!
But where man failed their fellow men, God succeeded: "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh." (Romans 8:3)
Having condemned the root destroying religious poison of Sin itself, God assumes His rightful position as Father of the human family. God separates Sin from the person whose image has been marred and disfigured by all of it's symptoms, separating the leprosy from the leper and absolving the sin-stricken man of both. Succeeding where others fail, never taking the tone of "the other brother" against "the prodigal son", the legit Father of every human family on Earth continues speaking the same belief concerning His sin-slain son, having separated that sin from His son by His own perfect complete knowledge of His Son. In the Father's heart, the prodigal son had always been himself. The restoration therefore was of the son's image of himself, his transgression marred religiously ascribed fallen self-image now totally restored to the Father's original opinion.
Not a single member of the family could do without this Grace of our Heavenly Father. Every member of a fatherless family fails because Sin limits everyone's capacity to give and makes every body subject to an expiration date! Therefore, by becoming the Father of the Fatherless, Jesus enforces the truth of the Father's opinion in us over and above any contradictions in the world. In the family with the present father, He remains the exclusive Father (from Heaven's point of view) and the weight of the world is taken even off of the shoulders of the father of the household by that father's dependence on his Heavenly Father for the grace to believe beyond circumstances and meet the needs of his wife and children.
By breaking inwardly while still alive and strong outwardly, there may be especially harsh condemnations from certain members who cannot see beyond the surface of things you have more of than them, things they think disqualify you from the claim of "brokenness". Because they fail to see the cause of your brokenness, they're no help to your reconciliation with the Father's opinion of you and could only restore you having first been restored in themselves to the opinion of the Heavenly Father. Such a family, having been freed from having been subject to the bonds of the label of a "fatherless household" now experience enjoyment of the benefits known by the families with fathers in them all along! Except having been shown the grace known only by the humble, God as their Father unlocks life above and beyond the past achievements of descended flesh, having been revealed as descending from Christ alone.
Long story short, with The Father in the house, the family is locked tightly together by their mutual dependence on the same eternal reference as their source. This indeed is a true family, a body of many members sharing the same man as their source and their reference. #ekklesia #eternalfamily -f
When the reason for the breakdown of a member of the fatherless family has nothing to do with a lack of material strength or physical capacity in them, the inner cause for their brokenness isn't immediately recognizable to the eyes of other members. In fact, such a one is often interpreted as lazy or uninspired by other members, their lack of contribution condemned by words which when associated with the broken member of the family, would further implicate them not just for failing to carry their fair-share of the weight, but also for so petty a reason! Indeed, the pettiest feather upon the weightiest burden does surprisingly break the back of the camel. But is it that really so much of a surprise?
Understandably, the capacity to understand so subtle a thing would likely escape a person still under the duress of remaining under the now multiplied weight of the world upon their shoulders. However, the brokenness of the materially stronger member goes beyond personal flaw and stems directly from their decreased capacity to sustain weight due to having been caught in the energy-depleting, life-draining magnetic field of the world's weightiest-presence of religious obligation. This sense of "religious obligation" is the gasoline on the fire of the dual-lit candle-stick that causes even the strong to break down. So it's much easier to blame the culprit that can be seen rather than the invisible cause behind it, but being ignorant about the condition of the root likewise leads to ignorantly mislabeling the tree according to it's fruit and letting the root-eating religious virus of Sin itself go uncondemned!
But where man failed their fellow men, God succeeded: "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh." (Romans 8:3)
Having condemned the root destroying religious poison of Sin itself, God assumes His rightful position as Father of the human family. God separates Sin from the person whose image has been marred and disfigured by all of it's symptoms, separating the leprosy from the leper and absolving the sin-stricken man of both. Succeeding where others fail, never taking the tone of "the other brother" against "the prodigal son", the legit Father of every human family on Earth continues speaking the same belief concerning His sin-slain son, having separated that sin from His son by His own perfect complete knowledge of His Son. In the Father's heart, the prodigal son had always been himself. The restoration therefore was of the son's image of himself, his transgression marred religiously ascribed fallen self-image now totally restored to the Father's original opinion.
Not a single member of the family could do without this Grace of our Heavenly Father. Every member of a fatherless family fails because Sin limits everyone's capacity to give and makes every body subject to an expiration date! Therefore, by becoming the Father of the Fatherless, Jesus enforces the truth of the Father's opinion in us over and above any contradictions in the world. In the family with the present father, He remains the exclusive Father (from Heaven's point of view) and the weight of the world is taken even off of the shoulders of the father of the household by that father's dependence on his Heavenly Father for the grace to believe beyond circumstances and meet the needs of his wife and children.
By breaking inwardly while still alive and strong outwardly, there may be especially harsh condemnations from certain members who cannot see beyond the surface of things you have more of than them, things they think disqualify you from the claim of "brokenness". Because they fail to see the cause of your brokenness, they're no help to your reconciliation with the Father's opinion of you and could only restore you having first been restored in themselves to the opinion of the Heavenly Father. Such a family, having been freed from having been subject to the bonds of the label of a "fatherless household" now experience enjoyment of the benefits known by the families with fathers in them all along! Except having been shown the grace known only by the humble, God as their Father unlocks life above and beyond the past achievements of descended flesh, having been revealed as descending from Christ alone.
Long story short, with The Father in the house, the family is locked tightly together by their mutual dependence on the same eternal reference as their source. This indeed is a true family, a body of many members sharing the same man as their source and their reference. #ekklesia #eternalfamily -f
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