Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 27
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life
Ministries International
Littleton, Colorado
Notice: this email is part of a BLOG, called Getting Out of the
Wilderness. Why a blog? So that many can receive the weekly thoughts
I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner.
Michael
begins this section by addressing the biggest dilemma every human being born on
this earth faces…being “dead to God in the spirit” and yet having our greatest
need facing us: satisfying the need to be loved and accepted by God. In this short dialogue, Michael brings us to
three problems every human being faces…
THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SELF-LIFE
excerpt
from pages 75-76 of SIW (5th printing,
March 1998)
excerpt
from pages 71-72 of SIW (14th printing,
March 2012)
(used with permission from
ALMI):
According
to 1 John 4:8, God is love. Since love
must have an object, God created man to be this entity. To assure that His inclination to love would
be met, God put in man’s spirit the need to be loved and accepted by Him. The moment we are born, we are driven to find
our Creator to meet this need within us.
There
is, however, one major obstacle to having God meet our spiritual need for love
and acceptance. We are born dead to God
in our spirits, making it impossible to have the desire consummated. In Genesis 2:17, God said, “But from the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you
eat from it you shall surely die.” It is
an absolute imperative that if they eat of the tree they will die! They did eat thereof, and God said they were
dead, even though their souls were still active (they were thinking, feeling,
and choosing) and their bodies were still functioning. They were dead and yet living; where, then,
did the death take place? There is only
one place left – the spirit. They were
dead to God in the spirit, the result being that it would now be impossible to
have their deepest needs – spiritual love and acceptance that could come only
from God – met. This condition presents
three particular problems for man.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
What
a sad state to live in: dead to God in the spirit, faced with the impossibility
of having their deepest needs – spiritual love and acceptance – met by God, and
yet functioning with a body and a soul that craves everything THE OPPOSITE or
WITHOUT God…and, really not knowing
they are in that condition! (2 Corin. 4:3-4)
It
is incredible that “man” seeks knowledge far and wide, but spiritual truth is at
the bottom of the list that most ever seek.
And those of us who have found The Truth seem oblivious to the one thing
that grasped our attention, the one thing God used to break through to us…He used
someone to answer that question that perhaps we weren’t even asking: How can I
find spiritual love and acceptance?
Man,
in his feeble efforts, has tried to find love and acceptance through the flesh,
missing the point that it is spiritual love and acceptance he really needs. And the church has constantly done a good job
of pointing out the failures of man’s flesh, all the while never addressing the
need for spiritual love and acceptance.
When will we as a whole begin to address this with everyone?
For
as life has dealt many Christians a severe blow, and their response to God has
been incorrect, they now deal with the same emptiness that someone who doesn’t
know God is dealing with. God’s answer
is always the same: JESUS.
Want
to know what the three problems are?
Want to know God’s solution to each?
Michael gets to these and other issues in the next few pages of the book…
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