When God created us, He created us out of nothing. We were given a share in the life of the Word - that is Jesus - and in union with Him we have existence.
When Adam and Eve sinned, they began back down the path toward nothingness. This was the plight of humanity that Christ took upon Himself to undo. Life Himself secured our existence by taking into Himself our non-being death and destroyed it, overcoming it in His resurrection.
What I am at present trying to get my head around is the idea of nothingness. If the truth of our existence is that we exist in loving union with the Son who is in fellowship and union with the Father and Spirit, then to live out of any other center than that union is to not truly exist.
Evil is non-being, the "negation and antithesis of good*" and a lie is a vapor - the absence of reality. When you don't abide in the embrace of Jesus you are a ghost and the "real you" doesn't appear.
Any living in rejection of the love of God is destined to fail, not because of a fiery judgment at the hands of God but because lies and nothingness can't prevail. On the last day, anything that is not real will be consumed by the fire and the only thing that will remain is the real you - the you loved and embraced and accepted by the Father, Son and Spirit.
Why wait until that day and go through this life not really being? Why waste the time and gift of life by going around living as if you weren't already made right? In Jesus Christ you will always find your true self. Whenever you approach Him you will hear your true name - Beloved!
Leave your nothingness and live in Reality.
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*Athanasius - The Incarnation of the Word of God
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i had a dream last year that i was interviewing people who had gone to hell. they told me that it wasn't the burning that was so awful...it was the nothingness.
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