God Speaks; He Lives

It's not a coincidence that reap looks a lot like the word ripe. When the crops are ripe — in Old English, "ready for reaping, fit for eating" — Reap means "action in accordance with the calculation that the seed in the fruit now matches the seed that was sown."

The reaping is a declaration that's accompanied by action, like love's declaration being accompanied by consummation, it's an announcement followed through by the activity that matches it's fulfillment.

Like a barmitzva, publicly declaring the legitimacy of an already legitimate son-ship. The father announces the son as his own, PUBLICLY, just as the Pharoah publicly pronounced Joseph's name "Zaphenath-paneah." Now, any in Egypt who had no inclusion in the name of Joseph or association with the benefits he represented to them from God, became able to associate with him, know him and call him by name! Without ceasing to be the same Joseph known of his father's, He was translated into the lives of a people born from another family name, and in being given a name like theirs, He became one of their own! A Hebrew audience would not have understood Joseph's Egyptian name.

As a wife's takes her husband name and is translated as being his own, the Lord's Right-Hand was given a name that permitted us to accurately understand Him in our own mother tongue.

Jesus translates God's name, "Abba."
His "Abba" translates your name, "Jesus"

The rights and privileges (of knowing faith in God's promise as your inexhaustible inner source) was once restricted to the people of the household of Israel (blood relatives of the Messiah) but the Messiah's measure, rejected by Israel, has now been extended to all men everywhere! His being rejected by His own afforded us an opportunity for inclusion by God Himself! Hooray for picking up God on the rebound! Whoop-whoop!

So by hearing our Spirit's announcement, through our hearts resonance with truth, that the name, Jesus Christ has been translated into your understanding in a more clear and comprehensible way, a nearer, clearer, more present and personally inclusive name is revealed in Him.... A name reflective of our having been given an equal share in His Father's image, as it is in Him. There is no other Fatherhood over us apart from His, because the greater one rules. The Father of all is the Father of all, dethroning every other one called "father" in the flesh. Yes, we've been given the gift of inclusion in the name of Jesus Christ. You don't need a sexy tattoo on your lower-back to reclaim your body; He bathed you in His blood and declared you innocent of it. You're righteous for life, Son!

Today, He addresses Himself as you, His son; and He addresses Himself in you; and He's addressed you in Himself from before. You are, by Him