Strength vs. Authority

Me: Hi, Lord.

God: Patrick, I am proud of you.

Me: (incredulous) Why?

God: I love to watch your progress. Every father is proud when he sees his son trying to be like him.

Me: Well, I am trying. I feel like some times are more successful than others. Lord, I have been looking over some of my journaling, and I don't feel confident that they are from You. Take the one about You not being able to live without Your creation. That concerns and perplexes me, and I do not want to go any further in any kind of deception. Can You show me the truth?

God: Yes, Patrick, I can. Of course, I am the beginning and the end, and I created and was, therefore, before all things. But My nature is creative, just as I once showed you. My love is null without you and all creation. Just as I was before all things, I had to create out of love, because there was only Me.

Unless you can nullify time and see all eternity, you will not fully grasp this. You think linearly and cannot see the entirety of I AM. You will come to know Me, but today you only know what you can see of Me. There is no end to Me and that is impossible for you. Do not dwell on this, only know that I love you, and without My creation, I AM not.

Me: OK, I don't understand that at all, and it still bothers me, especially in the light of the new heaven and earth idea, everything passing away, etc. But it does not seem important for today, so I will try not to dwell on it.

What about the whole thing with Adam and Eve?

God: Patrick, a blind man does not know he is blind until he can see. Adam and Eve sinned, and were able to see themselves for the first time outside of My vision. They could discern their condition on their own.

Unless you care that you are naked, why do you need clothes? Adam and Eve were able to see themselves and their condition, having disobeyed Me. Until then, they had no reason to evaluate themselves. When they saw their own condition, they were ashamed of the condition that left them exposed to My wrath. Naked bodies are merely a metaphor for having left My covering. Notice who made clothing for them. I did. I covered them again in a way in which their new eyes could see.

Patrick, do not give up. I am here. Look into My eyes, and focus on My voice.

Me: I just keep getting the feeling that I am coming up with all of this myself. The last thing the world needs is another "christian" with so-called revelation. Lead me not into temptation, deliver me from evil. I want Your kingdom, Your truth, Your will, Your heaven on Earth.

God: Patrick, I am in you, you are on Earth. My kingdom, My truth, My will, My heaven are present within you. Don't forget that. Just hear what I say, and the truth will be according to My word, and you will not be led astray.

Me: OK, Lord. Help me focus.

I have a question. What does it mean for you to be perfectly strong when I am perfectly weak?

God: A man's strength often comes from his determination to perform a thing, or, having received results from an action, a man will trust in his ability to repeat and/or improve upon those results.

Man's strength is a counterfeit for what I created him for, which was to have dominion on the Earth in relationship with Me. The truth is, before sin entered the Earth, man had no need to exert his own strength. He simply had authority from Me, and all creation bowed to his authority. Adam handed over his authority to the enemy when he sinned, and man began moving in his own strength when he tried to re-exert his authority.

So, now, in your flesh, you want to exert strength to accomplish or perform, whereas by My Spirit you have been given authority. However, wielding My authority requires full submission to My Spirit. My Spirit does not respond to strength, but meekness and humility.

My authority was re-established on Earth by an act of humility and submission. Sin entered as an act of acquiring "strength" outside of God. My authority is contradictory to man's self-will.

In the Old Testament, My prophets were killed because of this. Those warriors on whom My Spirit rested were mighty in battle. My authority requires submission to My Spirit, otherwise a man is rebelling against Me, even if his objective aligns with Mine. But, in Me, a man can do all things, so why do so out of Me?