Receiving Our Sight

The gospel of Jesus is the gospel of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18-21), however, we have made it one of conciliation. Conciliation is crisis management demonstrated by a dividing of assets in an equal value: thus creating a self-centered perspective. "Were the assets divided equally?" If I went into business with a man named Bob. We made widgets. We had a separation in our relationship and so go to court for conciliation. The judge would assist us in dividing our assets equally. Who gets what and how much. That is the best justice our human court can give. Reconciliation is the restoring of relationship and the business back into it's original intent. Bob and I would be restored relationally and the widget business would be back.

The way we present the western, evangelical gospel is conciliation. We have been separated from God and now He is being nice and wants to rescue poor sinners. But we never ask what is the original intent for God creating us? What have we been restored too? Conciliation produces a vision focused on the end result, in this case, heaven or hell. Reconciliation restores the original purpose lost and therefore the vision of who we were always created to be.

Vision is central to transformation. Most Christians are never transformed into Christlikeness because the vision we have is focused on the end result not the purpose of our existence: thus we live as orphans surviving because we never grabbed the vision of our original intent; to be God's sons.

God has created us to be sons but we have lost our identity (vision of oneself). Therefore, Christ has come to bring "recovery of sight to the blind." Jesus has restored us to our original intent and even provided us with a clear vision of how a son lives. He has restored our vision back to the original vision. Come let us pull the blindfolds off and receive our sight: a vision for who we are and why we are here!

We are a part of a ancient royal priesthood that extends throughout human history including Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, David, and more. We are a holy nation that will clearly put Christ on display that the world will have a clear vision of what the Father is like. We are being built into the house of God that will be filled with His glory and set on a hill for all to see. The nations will come to us and ask us to teach them the ways of the Lord. We are a family, of kings and priest, sons of the Most High God. We will not live to survive, provide, or protect ourselves- that is not the family way- we will live courageously selfless, love unconditionally, and speak the truth boldly. The glory of our Father will be seen upon our faces and we will be known in heaven and feared in hell. We are the sons of God, sent here to be an ambassador of the Kingdom of God, to show the world how extravagant our Father is.

This is the dawn of a new day that brings fresh light to see. Come and see from heavens perspective!