Jan. 7. 2019

During my time with The Lord in the morning He leads me to Genesis.
It wasn’t the scripture I’d clicked on from my Bible app – but I’d tried clicking on the designated “Daily” scripture twice – and both times I landed in Genesis 1:11. Assuming that’s where The Lord needed me to be, I read through to verse 12: “And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind and God saw it was good.

A Dual Mystery

And I thought about how the earth brought forth herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself.

And wondered at the dual mystery that we are God-yielding seed after our own kind planted in the earth. And who is our own kind but The Father. So, we bare His essence – beyond just His image and are created, designed, and called to reproduce that in the earth.

Concurrently, there’s the undeniable metaphor – the tree symbolizing God, and Him yielding the (first) fruit Jesus the Christ [1 Corinth: 15 20-23] who was God and with God (was in itself). And now you and I children of both the Father and of The Fall – no longer spontaneously capable of producing seed after Our Own kind; now entirely reliant upon the seed of the Tree-yielding First Fruit –Yeshua, The Messiah.

Being Established in Him

These scriptures lead me to what it is to be rooted in Christ – and He has much to say about growing deep roots, but for now the focus will be a similar concept which The Lord has been reiterating for a time now. Namely, the pre-requisite of being established/rooted in Him – – as a visual, for me in this season it means essentially positioning myself – situating my inner man in a prepared position in The Holy Spirit, taking for my defense (the God-head bodily) that is taking Him on; wearing Him; girding myself; suiting up with Him – as an impenetrable exterior-structure that I would actively put on and settle into – reminiscent of the Power Loader that outfits Segourney Weaver in the movie Alien, or the Iron Man suit encompassing Robert Downy Jr. Those fantastic man-made devices are somewhat symbolic of the Whole Armour of God. The Holy One is our Whole Armour. He is our shield and our weaponry – fully equipping and empowering us with a kind of agency for defense against the oncoming foe – agency that we couldn’t possibly hope to marshal or engineer on our own.

Yet it’s also truth according to God’s Holy Word that His Holy Spirit resides within us (when we believe and receive Him as Savior and Lord; by the extension of his grace). So, then we are fortified both within AND without – for battle within and without.

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