When my theophany first happened, I was at a complete loss as to what it meant. I did not know the word “theophany” at the time, and I did not know how to explain to others what happened to me while I was out cutting down a tree. It wasn’t until much later that I learned that my experience on that day cannot be transferred to another person. Moses, for example, could not transfer his experience with the burning bush to another person. That experience with God would always be his alone. For another person to understand the change that came over Moses after his experience, that person would have needed to be standing in front of the bush, too.
My fears that people would think I lost my mind on that day were completely unfounded. The truth is, my theophany is something they would never understand unless they were there, as I just stated. So all anyone could do was hear me out and, through this hearing, maybe gain strength in their personal faith in God. Those who thought I was a little loco and suddenly lost my mental faculties have never said to me personally that I was a nut. Well, in truth, we all know someone a little weird, and we know they wouldn’t take me seriously no matter what I said. Perhaps I am speaking of the lost? Meaning the lost to God!
The more I sat around thinking about what happened to me the more I began to understand that Almighty and blessed God (Also called Adonai by the Hebrews) is the whole universe that man is aware of. When the church says God is Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent they are saying the same thing as me. Using bigger words of course, which require you the listener of these words to sit down and think through what their big words really mean. The word Omni attached to the front of the words Potent, Scient and Present is actually saying God is everything and everywhere and all knowing at one time and at the same time. Which is just like me saying God is the whole universe.
God hears everything you say and think. God watches everything you do, even what you do in private, which is not private to God at all. Which means if you harbor ill will in your heart towards another person, God sees what you are doing in the privacy of your own heart.
It is with this hidden knowledge kept from you that God knows we are all sinners. We are sinners because we lie. We lie to God, we lie to our family, our friends and we lie to ourselves continuously. Suppose we can acknowledge that what I just wrote is true. If we can accept this, we can begin to uncover our lies and even begin to repair the damage caused by all our lying.
The church teaches that we are all sinners because Adam and Eve first sinned against God. Adam and Eve sinned is true. But we must get rid of all our confusion about what their sin really was and how it applies to us today. Their sin is that they lied to themselves and to God and even exited the Garden of Eden never admitting to God that they lied to Him. (Check your scriptures in Geneses).
Our sin is found in looking at the scriptures and acknowledging that, as Adam and Eve were a couple of sinners because of their lying, therefore we are also sinners because we also lie. So yes indeed, Adam and Eve led the way with lying to God, just as we lie to God to this very day and every day. When looked at in this proper light, we can now see that the evil sin that Adam and Eve portrayed in the scriptures truly is handed down to every person born after them. All people are called sinners because all people lie.
I am sure the idea that you and I are liars does not sit right with most of you reading this blog. But some of you will nod in agreement, because we often know when we lie and sometimes even the reason for it. We think that Almighty God does not hear these lies (sometimes for the best of intentions). But I tell you they are heard, and He does judge us daily. We do receive blessings and curses from God based on how we live our lives under our own direction.
We live roughly 78 years on this planet. God says we are allowed to live 120 years. (Check the scriptures) We must come to terms with our lying to be blessed to live 120 years. We must shine the light of Jesus on everything we say and do and see ourselves as we really are, not who we pretend to be. Lies build upon lies. Proper understanding of when we lie and why we lie begins with acknowledging this sin. You may not believe this, but we accept our lies because the adults in our lives lied to us. Lying seems to be a natural condition of life. But God tells us otherwise. To correct this sin takes a lot of introspection. Not many of us want to walk this path.
So there, this is one of the things I have learned about Almighty God since my theophany. I work daily to uncover and correct my lying. Nobody is perfect, ever! But if you love God and His Son Jesus, we must begin our walk with them by stopping our lying. Even the lies we tell ourselves.
Amen,
L.
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