105 Ma’aseh and the Mundane

Remember! When I refer to person in the Godhead in any blog, I am referring either to singular person (one-of-three) or to the collective person (three-in-one) of the Triune.

Returning to human works (ma’aseh):

Most pitiable, at no time has work of humankind been able to significantly compete with the work of the divine. And yet, and yet we live in a time in the worldly arena that chooses to demean the work of God, to discredit and devalue the supernatural accomplishments of God and elevate those of man, much like the individual who is lacking in talent attacks the individual with true talent.

And that is what is going on now.

The Godhead’s works, His ways, His testimonies are significantly under attack. Most pointedly, we attack God when things do not go the way we want them. When we fail or are defeated in some way, we blame God. But when we succeed, we praise ourselves.

Amazing!

And certainly not a behavior we should regularly indulge.

More amazing though is that one little word in scripture—ergon—can throw such light on the dignity of God’s work, the futility of man’s (Ecclesiastes), and the disgrace of Satan’s, dear reader.

With the glorious, the miraculous work (ergon) of the Lord Jesus, the whole of creation heeled over hard on a new course. Creation embarked on an unalterable heading toward the permanent and finished work (ergon) of a New Beginning, of the New Creation and The Glorification—a time, a place, a condition destined to be forever removed from the presence of evil; a time, a place, a condition where the elect forever prosper in the presence of pure goodness—in the presence of God.

Now those are noble accomplishments! Pure marvel is appropriate here!

These works of God are certainly works of enduring and Herculean proportion, and works framed in one Godhead supernatural accomplishment (ergon) after the other. That’s the way it always has been, that’s the way it always will be. Our attack cannot change that. God is not our enemy. Scripture tells us we are our own worst enemy, most pointedly when we turn away from God, when we accept the influence of Satan, when we choose to live independent of God, when we become permanent inhabitants of the mundane.

Understanding these things matters, dear reader.

What we think is what we do.

To be continued . . .