Unconditional Existence

6/21/2010    Unconditional Existence

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased." Luke 3:21-22 NIV

God has spoken. And when God speaks, His word is yea and amen.  There is no questioning it, no doubt that it is so, it just is. We can trust the word of God completely and wholeheartedly.  If God says that you are tall, then you are tall.  You do not have to prove that you are tall.  God has created all things and in Him all things exist.  The only way to find out the purpose of something is to ask its creator.  In our case, God created us, and He is the one who tells us who we are.  That is not something we have to prove to anyone.  Including ourselves.

Jesus was baptized just like we are upon our conversion.  When He came out of the water, He heard the voice of God telling Him who He is.  “You are my son...”  There is no further need to prove that Jesus is who God already says He is.  Yet this is exactly what the devil tried to get Him to do in the wilderness. ”. . . If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."  God already said that Jesus is His Son, so why would Jesus have to prove it to anyone?  The devil was using a logic statement to get Jesus to prove what He already was.  We use logic statements in mathematics to prove the truth or validity of something.  How true is this?  This process implies doubt.  “Did God really say that?”  Yet if God said it, how could it not be true?

The devil has used this technique from the beginning.  He uses logical statements that makes you doubt what God has already said. He tries to get you to prove that you are who God says you are.  Yet God speaks from eternity.  When God gives you identity, it existed before you existed on earth.  You are who He says you are from before the foundation of the world.  But it is up to us to walk out this truth in time and to go through God’s process in God’s time.  The devil will try to get you to prove that you are who God says you are, out of God’s timing of it being revealed.  We need to get good at telling the devil that we don’t have to prove anything to him or anyone else.  We need to get good at believing God at His word.  We need to get good at walking in our unconditional existence.  God is not going to change His mind about who He already said we are.  We just have to trust it and allow for His process to have its way.