Seven Days of God’s Process: 8. Day Three

Day Three, Arriving at Seed Time and Harvest:

First Day:

God Moved by His Spirit on the Deep

He Spoke and Created

Second Day:

He Established Boundaries for His Creation –

He Brought Division between things above and things Beneath

He Called and Declared a Fixed Vision of What He Created

Third Day:

Seed Time and Harvest

In the second day, God created the expanse that would contain His creation. He then established boundaries and division between the waters above and the waters beneath. Observing what He has wrought, He then called it in order to create a frame of reference that could identify and define it. These are things that had never been done before. They are concepts so fundamental to our understanding, that we don’t realize that they in themselves were created by God’s hand as a message to you and I. God is conveying truth to us about Himself. He didn’t do all this with a wave of His hand. He could have, but He did not. He wants us to know something about Himself in order to identify His handiwork in our lives, that we might cooperate with Him and emulate Him as dear children.

When you are facing difficulty, what is your response? What is to BE your response? The world is immersed in situational ethics and a relativistic viewpoint. In other words, the world says, whatever your response is, that it is validated by the fact that you chose to respond to the challenges of life in the manner that you have. The world says, “to each his own, as long as you don’t impinge on the individuality of another”. The only way the world can conceive of harmony and peace is to call all of mankind to worship at the altar of individualism. Man is so committed to his individuality that he excludes anything higher than himself, and in so doing, has isolated himself and cast himself into the chains of a world where he has nowhere to turn but to himself for help.

The Christian worldview on the other hand, is that there is a God in heaven who bids us to run in the way of His commandments. In the Old Testament, the commandments were laid out in minute detail. In the New Testament, God takes Jesus – the personification of His law, and causes Him to dwell in our hearts by faith to initiate in our lives a process – a spiritual discipline whereby we cooperate with His process in hopes of seeing an Edenic entitlement restored to us that was lost in the fall.

When you see chaos in your life, as God looked out on the formless deep, what is to be your response?

[Eph 5:1 KJV] 1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

We are to do what God did. We are to move by our human spirit upon the face of that deep and to speak as God spoke. He considered the chaos and the darkness that was upon the deep and He spoke the thing desired:

“Light be..”

What are you saying about the darkness on the face of your deep (your life)? Are you saying “it sure is dark out there?” Wrong answer! You are to be a follower (imitator) of God. You are not God, but you are to be a follower or imitator of God. You have no power in yourself to back up what happens next, but we are to ridiculously look out upon that which we have no control over and say, “light be!” Guess what happens next? God endorses your will and your words, because He has ratified a covenant with you to do so, in the shed blood of Calvary.

That’s all we have to do, right? Just speak it out and that is the end of the matter? Some think this is the teaching of the “word of faith” movement. Just say it and that is all that is necessary. This is the “blab and grab” criticism that in some ways has been justified to the extent that many in the faith movement stopped with saying it, and didn’t go on. Saying it is only the beginning of what God did. He first brooded, and moved or “fluttered” over the face of the deep, discerning it and determining what He was going to do. He wasn’t speaking blindly. When you speak, if you want your words to have power, you must first move upon the face of the deep, by your human spirit, to discern fully what must happen next in the light of God’s promise. Most people presumptuously speak their faith, not discerning the circumstance, but denying it, and that is why they never receive.

Having then moved on the deep and spoken over it, what did God do next? He created a firmament – a boundary for that which He had spoken. Are you willing to acknowledge your boundaries? Do you understand the parameters in which you are exercising the God prerogative in your life? There is a jurisdiction within, which you have the authority to act as God acts. To see everything you say and do be as effective as if God said it and did it. This is the humility we are called to. You might think the key to this is merely to know all things are possible – that there are no boundaries. However, as important as it is to know that all things are possible, you must also accept that there are boundaries. There is jurisdiction. This is what Paul referred to as his “measure”, being an apostle to some, but not to all.

So, God moved, He spoke, He created a firmament, then what? He divided. Jesus came not to bring peace but a sword. Many people in their own households, put up with any depth of depravity, sinfulness and darkness because they don’t want to rock the boat with their family or create division. They live in fear of not being able to see their children or grandchildren. They tremble at the consequences of creating a separation between light and darkness, as God did, or between the waters (Spirit) above and the waters (spirit) beneath. Therefore, their lives are a hopeless mixture, and they wonder why they never receive from God. You must have the courage to follow through with God’s process, for after the brooding, the speaking, accepting of boundary and jurisdiction, there is then division. When you ask God for an answer, He often doesn’t simply dollop a deliverance on your head like whip cream – He rather initiates you into a process that is discernable and learnable, but unfortunately, most people bail out of the answer (process) that God sends when they pray. It is only as we cooperate, that we come then to the next thing after brooding (discerning), speaking, accepting boundary, and enduring division. We THEN come to the CALLING. What then?

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day

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