Conformation
By John Gavazzoni
In all things, the Son of God is perfectly conformed to the Father. He, as the Son, is like the Father in every way, and thus He is the perfect image of the invisible God, so much so that Jesus could say, "he that hath seen me hath seen the Father." This relationship is at the center of all reality. Everyone will finally be judged, i.e., evaluated, in accordance with that relationship. Out of alignment with that relationship? Then you must undergo realignment. The word, "disfigurement" came to mind as I contemplated writing this article. Man has suffered a disfigurement of his essential God-likeness. That was inevitable given a vulnerability inherent within the experience of creaturehood. There has never existed a possible escape from that vulnerability becoming behaviorally actualized.
Eve was basically defenseless against the wiles of the serpent, and there is nothing in the record about God coming to her aid in those moments of temptation by an injection of saving grace. She was meant to come face to face with how she would act when left to herself. Left to herself, and consistent with being thus left, she acted autonomously, independently. Independence is at the heart of sin, of missing the mark. We simply can't shoot straight on our own. Paul declared that we all were netted, penned, corralled into disobedience, and while it stretches theological credulity, the Garden of Eden was that pen, that net, that corral within which the subjugation of all creation to futility began.
The serpent, interpreted symbolically, was the pressuring thought claiming that she was faced with the necessity of making a decision, and acting upon that decision, in order to become Godlike. We are, you know, intended to become like God, but only God can make us like Himself. Only God can conform us into the image of His Son, which is, I hasten to say, our certain destiny....all of us: "predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son." There in the garden, the foundation of mankind's dysfunctional society in all its forms was laid, yet beneath each of those forms lies the same basic disfigurement of our true being.
Since then, all mankind has lived within a system constantly demanding conformity to itself...."Itself," unlike "Himself." God, by His grace, intends to, and most certainly will, bring us into compliance with our destiny to be conformed to the image of His Son, whereas the dominant system of this world is always at work to make us compliant to its demands. There have been times in history when this has been especially evident, and this is one of those times. I've laid the biblical foundation above to finally impress you, my readers, that this is exactly what's really going on with the coronavirus scare....and that's what it is, a scare tactic meant to instill in us that spirit of fear that is the opposite of the spirit of power, love, and of a sound mind that is ours in Christ.
Aren't you suspicious about being told to avoid contact with one another, to isolate ourselves, to fear gathering together to worship, and to look to the government to save us from what is really a contrived pandemic? A cadre of sociopaths who believe they belong to a special category of human whose destiny is to be the kings and priests of a new world order is behind this manufactured, monstrous, malevolent agenda. The training of people to be conformed to this world has reached an audaciously arrogant and blatant stage. Every attempt is being made to drown out the voices of sanity, to marginalize every attempt confront the public with real medical science.
Listen, this is the summation: they're trying to dumb you down to believe anything the system tells you, to the point that you'll accept a police state to guarantee your safety from what they, themselves, create. It's a super-sized version of the Mafia's protection racket. Don't fall for it. "Be not conformed to this world," wrote Paul to the Church in Rome. We are a kingdom of priests unto our God, to reveal to mankind Who is really in charge no matter what is the present appearance. Stay free in your heart. Keep a sane mind while the world is becoming unhinged. Twice I've heard from the Lord as I found myself beginning to entertain, in the first instance, an anxiety concerning what evil men were up to, and in the second instance anxiety re: what lay down the road for my wife and I in our old age. In the first instance, the Lord said, "You need to focus on what I'm up to," and in the second instance, He whispered, "see down the road where your looking? I'm already there."
