Another Ramble About Belief and Bank Accounts

 I have written about this before, but it has come up again for me over the last couple of days. In order to make use of something, you have to believe it exists. In order to achieve something, you have to believe it can happen. Someone might have a bank account worth billions, but if they don't believe it exists, then it doesn't exist for them. Even worse, if they know it exists but then refuse to use it out of pride.

     Our deliverance (not our "forgiveness," just to clarify in case there is a misunderstanding between the two) requires the belief that leads to action, not just mere mental assent. One cannot merely believe the bank account exists for it to benefit them, One must do something about it. One must go to the bank and receive a checkbook, a debit card, or withdraw cash from the teller. Belief without use is knowing rejection of that bank account. But the bank account exists in reality regardless of whether one believes it does or not, and regardless of whether one uses it or not.

      As in Adam, "all" have died, so also in Jesus Christ, "all" will be made alive. He is the satisfaction, the appeasement for the malfunctioning behaviors of the entire world, not just a select few. Every single human being is already joined to Him and has the capacity to function from the Spirit of Christ instead of their own flesh right here and right now. They only need to let go and, in some way implicitly or explicitly, ask Him to operate through them. Every single human being on the planet already has this bank account whether they know it or not, whether they use it or not, regardless of what they believe. They might stumble into it by accident. They might only use the ATM able to withdraw $500 a day from it, not realizing they can go inside and buy the bank itself with their account. They might walk right past the bank totally oblivious too. But this account already belongs to every single human being.

      There is a song by Lonestar which has become one of my favorites, "I'm Already There." The God who is love is already here. All of creation uses Him as its foundation and building blocks. He is the energy which forms the base of all matter. He is not the forms, He is the substance. He is not the wave, He is the water of which the wave is made. He is not the sound, He is the air through which the sound must travel and without which it cannot exist. One has only to stop, to pause, and to recognize this Being without Whom no other being could exist. And one only has to recognize that this Being is love, and to love is to know Him. To love others is to love Him and to love Him is to love others. One only has to reflect that Love Himself is the foundational substance of which we are formed and shaped, and within which we have our own existence. From Love we came, within Love we already are, and to Love we return.

     The only thing stopping us is disbelief, or even the refusal to believe what already exists. And really the real thing which stops us, fundamentally, is fear. Where love exists, fear cannot. Where fear exists, love cannot be experienced because the fear stops it from being seen and felt in favor of dealing with whatever perceived threat which triggered the fear. It is this fear which keeps us from making use of our bank account.