Here’s how I view life. Picture a human body. This would be analogous
to God’s body. Each one of us is some part of that body and Yeshua (Jesus) is
the head. In a healthy body, all the parts are working in harmony with each
other and getting their directives from the brain (Yeshua). The problem is that
God’s body is sick with cancer.
Here is what WIKIPEDIA says about cancer:
Definitions
Cancers are a large
family of diseases which involve abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread
to other parts of the body.[1][2] They form a subset ofneoplasms.
A neoplasm or tumor is a group of cells that have undergone unregulated growth,
and will often form a mass or lump, but may be distributed diffusely.[20][21]
Six characteristics of cancer have been proposed:
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self-sufficiency in growth signalling
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insensitivity to anti-growth signals
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evasion of apoptosis
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enabling of a limitless replicative potential
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induction and sustainment of angiogenesis
·
activation of metastasis and invasion of tissue.[22]
Doesn't this sound like the sin that is in us; we go off
doing our own thing and disobey our normal directives from Yeshua.
I believe that God, The Great Physician, is working to make
His body whole again.
Just like cancer in the human body has to first be diagnosed,
we too have to become aware of our sin. I believe this is a God thing; just at
the right time He makes me aware of my wickedness that stems from my
disobedience. If I but accept it and ask for help, He is right there. Father
God never denies us His help and He has already fixed it all for us through His son, Yeshua, our Lord and our savior,
the Messiah. The sorrow and pain, from the acceptance of what I've done, God
takes away through what Yeshua (Jesus) did on the cross. The punishment that I
so rightly deserve, Jesus took it instead.
Now, to be healed, I must get
plugged into God’s body where my instruction and directives are coming from
Yeshua as it should be.
When I think about Yeshua telling us that we must be born
again, I think this is what He is talking about. It is more than going through
rehab. We have to learn things anew; just as a baby has to learn all things, we
have to learn how to live in this new body, God’s, learning from and getting
our directives from the head (Yeshua).
