Self Aware- God Aware

Me: Good morning Lord. Thank you for waking me this morning and for a good night's sleep. Thank you for the song of the birds and for the fresh morning breeze. Thank you for this lovely home and for this special time you have given us. I love you Lord.

Lord: Good morning Martin, thank you for joining us this morning. Mornings have always been beautiful like this one, but mankind in general is so busy seeking ways to make money or mischief, he doesn't spent time in quiet with me and does not hear the heart beat of creation.

I want to talk to you about 'being' this morning. I wasn't created like you for a purpose. I am. I always have been and always will be. I created mankind in my image. Man is self aware, and God aware. When I made man I placed him in a special place, a garden made for him. It is an island in creation, a unique place at the heart of all that I have made. It is a place designed for man to be man.

Self Aware 

I spoke of man being self aware. This is very apparent in western culture today, and you live in an age of 'the great I am'. Man thinks of himself as being at the centre of his world, and everything is about getting, owning and self gratification. Most of these things man seeks after, are an illusion, but they have become so important to him that he pursues them relentlessly, blind to anything else, not realising he is a slave to them. In the end the only truth self awareness will bring, is that man is a slave, unable to gain his freedom. Oh even those who think they have control of their lives and hold sway on the lives of others, are hopelessly lost in slavery. All the material wealth in the world cannot buy them out, and when they perish they will be forgotten for ever.

God Aware

But that is not what I intended when I made man. I also made him God aware. There are two ways of being God aware. The first is to be sufficiently self aware to recognise the God shaped hole in everyone, but to be so in awe and fear, that the God who should fill the hole seems far away and someone to be afraid of. A healthy respect and even fear of me is a good thing, for I am greater and more powerful than man can even begin to imagine. However, I am never far away. I am incredibly near, and I do not need to gleefully keep a list of things man does wrong! Indeed I know very well what man can do and it grieves me. Therefore I long for man to do what is right. It is these things I cling to, not his sin.

The second way to be God aware is to know God through the revelation of His own dear Son, Jesus. It is Jesus that fills the God shaped hole inside every man. The kind of relationship I want every man woman and child to have with Jesus, is the close intimate relationship that we enjoy in the Godhead. It's a family bond, a oneness that runs deeper than just friendship. It's intimate, loving and whole. This relationship is not dependant upon others in that, you don't need intermediaries. However it is a shared relationship, just as the relationships in the Godhead. The Son loves the Father, he also loves the Spirit. The Father loves both the Son and the Spirit, and at the same time the Spirit love both the Son and the Father.

Me: So, as we love Jesus and He loves us, at the same time others love him and he loves them, and because of that, we have a family relationship with each other.

Lord: That's right, Our desire has always been to have a close relationship with the whole of mankind. We are working towards a people who will all know us equally.

Jeremiah 31:34
    No longer will a man teach his neighbour,
    or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'
    because they will all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest,"
    declares the LORD.
    "For I will forgive their wickedness
    and will remember their sins no more."

Lord:  I am not interested in a religious system. I am building a family where all men will know my voice and be able to ask of me without the need of a teacher or advisor.

So you see, 'Being' means being truly 'self aware' and 'God aware'. I want you all to be in me and I in you.