Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

That’s a tough one isn’t it? I struggle with it. I try and find ways to understand exactly what God expects of me in context of all that He has to say about sin, pigs, dogs, and mostly about sanctification. It isn’t easy to know all that God has to say on all these subjects and pull them all together to act as He would have us act.

Have you seen the movie “The Matrix”? It is a fantasy with no real basis in any kind of world we live in and yet there is a glimmer of an idea that kind of makes me wonder if that might speak to me about the enemy.

Everyone goes about living life in the matrix according to the code. They are all subject to the code, all except those who move about among them who are alive and free. Then there are the “agents”. An agent seeks to destroy the free. Anyone who is not free is subject to be turned into an agent.

Our world is much like that. People go about living their lives not knowing they are dead in their sins. Just as the main character had to make a choice to take a blue or red pill, to have the eyes of his understanding opened, or to go back to sleep, we offer those in bondage the same opportunity.

The choice is theirs, to receive the truth or to ignore it. I know that there are times when we run across those who turn into agents, but all that are dead to sin can turn on us. They are the enemy but just not agents. It is a delicate process to offer the truth without turning a lost soul into an agent of the Matrix.

Another analogy to the movie is that we live in the world/matrix until we are called out.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:18 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Be subdued, be subject, and be all are states of being, conditions that exist. The first two are somewhat familiar to us as we at in that state of being, we are subdued and we are subject but it is God who is all and that is His state of being and His alone. We can only glimpse in part which does not change who God is in all, in His entirety, all that God is and does.

1 Corinthians 13:8-10 Charity (love) never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

I struggle with my limitations. I am sure that I am not alone in those feelings. Maybe you do maybe you don’t, but that is our state of being, our condition. It is not God’s condition. He is all in all and is not limited by our imperfections.

I have had human conversations with friends in which they have said to me, “I didn’t know that about you.” Relationships take time and discovering everything about another person would take a lifetime to reveal and for them to know you another, so given that we are not given two lifetimes, we will never learn all there is about our community of believers much less one person.

Since God is eternal, can you honestly say you know everything about who God is, all in all?

My desire in this devotional is to prevent us from lowering God from what He truly is to only those things we believe to be true.

Our beliefs too are in part.