Every architectural design descends from a document in which it's every detail is compiled and expressed from thought. The architect trusts the blueprint, being in the employ of the same designer, and follows it's exact detail precisely to a tee. When the plan has been fully executed; when the idea originating in the Designer's mind that was personally translated into writing by pen-strokes has been given complete tangible expression, the designer's creation is complete. The blueprint is then rolled up and set aside, while the Structure built from it remains the exclusive expression of the designer's original intent, the blueprint itself being only an intermediary destined to perish after use. Despite the care and attention poured into the blueprint by the Designer, and despite the tremendous sentimental value it held to everyone in the designer's employ, the importance of it's preservation expires at the time of it's execution, and the knowledge of it being accurately understood becomes less important than actually inhabiting this newly constructed domicile of delight.
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." -Designer Jesus
We too, being created according to a specific pattern and design, both inwardly and outwardly, were likewise built from a blueprint. The blueprint we were built from is the incarnate image of Jesus Himself, and He Himself is the fulfillment not only of The Designer's mirror reflection, but also of the Old Testament Law, Prophets, and Psalms, revealing them as one and the same! The entire OT Law is revealed as being the written blueprint of the Designer's image, incarnate in Christ. Having totally executed every detail of the law and fulfilled every word of prophecy, the purpose of that written blueprint was finally accomplished. When He expired on the cross, yelling out, "It is Finished!" He declared the accomplishment of that which He'd set out to do, which was to carefully execute each and every detail of His blueprint design. "You must build this Tabernacle and its furnishings exactly according to the pattern I will show you."-Ex. 25:9 Which is why it was written of His death, "...by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees." Eph. 2:15
Our incarnations represent our successful translation from the Designer's thought into the tangible physical expressions we inhabit here today. Or, more accurately, Jesus' incarnation represented our successful translation from the Father's thought into the tangible physical expressions of Him we live, breathe, move, and have our beings in today. We, together with Jesus can say, "SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME." and elsewhere, "For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb." In Him, our Designer ensured that every detail He saw of us in Himself would be expressed in us. Any deviation of our behavior or experience from the details described in the blueprint of the Law and Prophets was removed from us in His dying our deaths. Through grace, we're given the gift of complete inward fulfillment of the law by having been forgiven by Him who died on our behalf. We ourselves are the perfect expressions of the blueprint design of God by having become recipients of His grace in whom His glory is displayed! Being His recipients, image-bearers and expressive of His life as light itself, confirms the blueprint He designed us from was by His inspired response to a mirror. We exist to actively receive the transmission of His image, and reflecting back to Him the same. -f #face2face #blueprint #grace
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