From Heaven.

There's no way for clay to make itself good or bad, it's simply defined by how FIT it is for it's master's use. Clay is clay! Mexican clay, American clay, I understand appreciate and enjoy the subtle varieties among the family's of clay's, but whatever is true about the lowest of that clay remains true about all "clay-kind" So really, what's there to boast in? *GASP* Oh but wait... There IS something to boast in, and there's no law against it. Wanna know what it is? God became the lowest of all clay.. er... i mean man-kind, becoming Sin itself on the cross, and from His death and to His ascension, He raised the lowest among us from the guttah-most, to the uttah-most! Oh Yeah! Can you dig it!

Mankind got upgraded from the clay temple, to the temple of His Father's heavenly spirit.

Nothing wrong with clay, the building materials He used included in the category of things God foreknew and approved for this exact purpose in advance. But there is something majorly wrong in the mind of one who reduces the Spirit of God to the temple He resides in. No offense to the temple, but it's been torn down in favor of a more spacious accommodation. How about those mansions in your Father's house? Sonship is the most spaciously luxurious accommodation for in it, everything present in God is made our own as we ourselves are His, fit and fashioned together for this very purpose!

But there's no cause for boasting about what sets one lump of clay apart from another, as glorious as we've all now been revealed as being in the flesh, it is we ourselves who are glorious, the flesh has it's own glory but that is not what defines us, so as to reduce ourselves to a definition lower than that of the most-high. Though fashionable, there would be no practical benefit to an heir pretending to be a slave, or a son wallowing in pens with pigs. In Jesus' sacrifice, it was The lowest among us that was elevated to the Most High. The vehicle through whom God resounded this message (in Paul's life) was likewise regarded the lowest among the apostles and the worst of all sinners, so we're all associated with the Most High regardless of the lowliness of our conditions.

Mold it any way you'd like now, but it's still simply defined as clay no matter what you call it, and you'll still always be a higher and more valuable vessel than it no matter how value you attach to the work of your hands it molding and shaping it according to your likeness. You yourself are in a body was molded and shaped according to the likeness of the Most High God Jesus Himself, how can anything produced by our own hands ever meet or exceed that? But when you DO take one of those lumps of clay and you mold an image of your own body, and it is complete to the last detail, capturing even even the most intimate freckle and the spirals of your finger, something does changed about the nature of that clay. Like a man just given a badge, something of his stature changes. The name of the creation, regardless the material, reveals that the creation is defined by the nature of the relationship the artist has with the likeness it carries. Whose image and likeness do you carry? Your well-being is depending upon His provision and care.

Now, of passion being the very foundation of your being, deeper even than the lowest layer of stone set on the very heart of the Earth itself, I know the one who bothered to mold us so painstakingly into His exact image, form, and likeness, He must have always seen more in our unformed substance, more than that initial lump of clay, more than a simple lump of clay... He always saw infinite possibility... The artist approaches a blank canvas and to just his own eye, it fills before the first stroke. He always saw a perfect union of consistency and variation in us... a carrier of His life. He sees all things according to the fullest and highest definition; He saw the tiniest seeds falling into dirt and resurrecting as the most beautiful trees in the field... Even before you approached the clay, sleeves rolled up to mold a form from set apart lumps of clay, you already saw your own image and likeness reflected upon that canvas... You always saw the end from the beginning, or else there'd be reasonable foundation to start from!

Only an ignorant judgement is made strictly from outward appearances, as helpful as outward appearances have proven to be in our lives in the flesh, surface level communication can only contain surface level thoughts. The new mind is unique in that rather than being restricted to knowing ourselves and one another merely by outward appearances, or by the things we've SEEN each other do and HEARD each other say, hear-say is exposed a foundation made from sand. Our true foundation, the initiative from which His act of building and redeeming us was launched, is the passion of God. You're rooted in love, and erupting forth from His pleasure like an artesian well.

Pulled up from the pits by God's own right hand; you want a mountain as your foundation. His likeness of you, confirmed in your own heart's resonance with the announcement of His grace, shows that truth is only seen by reasoning in accordance with whatever God's knowledge is. Any reasoning devoid of His being present is devoid of His light, and whoever walks in the dark stumbles. As God's own knowledge was the very source and master-blueprint of that thing's design now. How do we learn more about things that God has made? By reading millions of volumes of meandering encyclopedias about every aspect of the detail of the design? Or by Knowing Him?!

Why not spare ourselves the extra work and drink some new-wine thoughts! Everything He approved of and included in His construction of the universe, the planets, the stars, moons is something that in some way expresses His thoughts concerning mankind, and mankind is the expression of His thoughts concerning Himself. Everything that can be known of God is now manifest in man, so with the blueprint reference of all creation contained in your own being. No mountain intimidates you any longer. Water doesn't take away your God given freedom to put one foot in front of another without falling. No area too dark, no level too high, no revelation too deep, no material too challenging because every detail of all of it is already in submission... to you. It exists for you. Creation is yours. The Earth radiates you, and Jesus Christ has taken our flesh and brought it to Heaven. He's the lump representing the whole, what's true of Him is true of you, clay is clay right? Well your clay has been redefined as NOW containing the very God whose image it carries!

You aren't just the appearance of God in the Flesh, but you're also the very substance of God Himself. His Trust in us reveals that what is true in Him is equally true in us. Truth doesn't change across time-zones; He unites Heaven and Earth. The Word became flesh, and as The Word remains greater than and the author and originator of flesh, the greater swallows up the lesser! You're like wood bathed in liquid gold. Only the God that is in you defines you now. In order for anything "else" in you to define you, that thing would have to be bigger than God, that is, bigger than His capacity to contain. Newsflash, it's all in Him... He's Good... and so it's ALL Good. Faith knows this, elevating your eyes from the temporal that your knowledge of the eternal may connect it to Heaven!

Since Jesus unveiled God as The Father and Himself as the Son of God, we know that God's the kind of Father that isn't ever separate from His Son and never withholds His endorsement of His own image and likeness in Him. This equality between Father and Son is the passageway to every drop of wisdom in Heaven; this all-filling Light illuminates even receptors of your brain that have until now lied dormant SPARKLE with vibrant thoughts of life, now having been set free by this Light! The reason why the Father and the Son are equal is because everything that is in the Father is in the Father's seed, and the Son produced by that seed is Himself that Father in the form of His Son. By that logic, we are in Jesus just as the Father is in Jesus and Jesus is in the Father. If the lesser comes from the Greater and the One existing before all things is Himself the source, and He Himself is foundation thought upon whom all things are modeled and based, then He Himself is the light through which all things are understood.