An Expression of Life

You are the expression of your parents. Whether you are an expression of loyalty or an expression of abandonment, whether you are an expression of lust or pride or adultery, whether you are an expression of love or rebellion. You are the expression of your parents. Jesus, as the Lord of Hosts, the Holy One of God, he too is an expression of the Father, and the Spirit of that expression is Life. God is love, and life is the expression of love. The Father did not need life, and nor did your parents need you. Instead, the Father chose to express himself in a manner which exposed his nature. The nature of God is love, and life is the expression of that nature. When Adam and Eve were cast from the garden, it was their desire to express themselves in a manner which described their nature. The first was the expression of survival, named Cain. The second was the expression of struggle, named Able. The third was an expression of rebellion, named Seth. ( Seth was the expression of their rebellious desire to overcome death through life, after the loss of Able). Each generation carries that expression in their character, and whether they overcome or enhance that expression is described by their choices. It was not until much later that God decided that the living were prone to wickedness, and swept clean the region which Cain's and Seth's lineage were. It was one family which was saved from the line of Seth, for they were an expression of hope, and of faith. From this, the generations came forward seeking what they did not know, but believing there was more. That is where belief spawned into various systems, and among those systems was great evil. Enslaved to one of those systems was the Hebrews, who also remained as an expression of hope and faith. All the while, the Father saw that the Hebrews raised their children to defy only what dishonored their beliefs, otherwise they serve those who were masters over them. The rest of the story you know. But I leave this with you: You are an expression of your parents. You may indeed have had children yourself, who are an expression of life through you. Christ Jesus asks us to lay down that life, to be born again in him. Do you know why? Because then you are an expression of him, he who does the Father's will. Consider this.