A right way and a wrong way

Son, tell me about your day.

Father, it was a good day and somewhat of not a good day. First the bad--> I got angry with a teammate and said something I shouldn't have said which was a sin. I cursed some guy under my breath when he cut me off in traffic; which was another sin I committed. Now the good--> We played softball, lost 2 games, but it was so much fun to be out there playing and doing something I loved to do. I was able to get more of my room finished for school! I am very excited about my upcoming school year. It is going to be a wonderful year. I love so much to see the new students I am with and the challenges it is going to bring. But most of all I am excited to see how You are going to work in their lives this year. It is going to be wonderful. Wait, why are you wanting to know about my day. Lord, you know everything! Why do you want to hear me talk with you about my day when you already know my thoughts? There are bigger and better things you could talk with me about then my silly old day. Father, I know you have much more important things you want to speak with me about than about me.

Son, would you like me to talk to you through a quoted bible verse? Do you want me to tell you "thou shall not murder?" How about this-- you really need to focus on not sinning anymore. You need to repent and feel like you are unworthy of communing and fellowshipping with Me. Son, what I just said sounds so silly because those words in that last sentence I spoke to you are contrary to My character. Would you like me to speak on something I know nothing about--> this something being the sins you claim to commit. Son, do you not yet understand that I do not see you as a sinner anymore? You were saved by grace and that means that you are now operating under a new nature, a new flesh. I keep telling you that I don't see you as a sinner so why do you see yourself as a sinner? Your new flesh, your new nature is perfect just as Jesus (the Christ) was and is perfect. You were blood-bought when He died for you. You received perfection as your new nature when you receive My Spirit inside of you. So, tell me son: why do you keep condemming yourself by telling me about things you claim to do that I cannot see or hear?

Father, I don't understand.

Son, it's like this: let's say you show one of your students how to add numbers. Your student learns to do it the right way (your way) but then proceeds to subtract the numbers instead of adding them together. You ask her what is wrong and show her how to add the numbers correctly. She says she (again) knows how to do what you showed her but then continues to subtract instead of adding. This goes on over and over and over again. Finally, the student asks you what she is doing wrong. You tell her and show her correctly how to do it. She refuses to listen to you know matter how many times you show her how to add the numbers. Son, this is what it is like when people continue to see themselves as sinners instead of perfect--> just as I am perfect.

Father, why do you keep talking with me about this? This is like the 20th time this year you've talked with me about this.

Son, why do you keep acting like a "poor pitiful beat-down sinner?"

Father, I'm not doing that. When have I done this?

Son, (laughing) do you see the error in your thinking?

No, Father, I'm afraid I don't.

Son, you claim you are aren't acting like a sinner, but when you were telling Me about your day I (for a moment) could not hear what you were saying to me. Son, I know you better than you know yourself and I know your nature for this nature is the nature that I gave to you. I know when you are operating in your new nature and when you are operating in your old (unsaved, Adamic) nature. When you aren't operating in your new nature (the nature of the Christ), then I know you are operating in your old nature. See, a person is not able to operate under both natures at the same time. They either operate out of their new (redeemed, perfect) nature or continue to operate out of their old nature. Son, I neither can understand or hear the words you speak to me when you are operating out of this old nature. Sadly, many of the times Christians cry out to me asking for forgiveness, I cannot hear them because they are not speaking to me out of their new nature but rather their old nature. In a sense, they are blaspheming the very life that My Spirit breathed into them. This puts My Spirit out of them and causes them to cling to their old nature (the flesh).

Father, you ask me about my day and now you tell me about this? Why aren't you talking to me about more important things?

Son, and what would be more important than to talk to you about you? After all, I created you. I breathed life into your soul. You were and are made in My image. My son came down to earth as a fleshly human and not a donkey. You are the reflection of Me to those who don't know Me. So, wouldn't it make sense for Me to talk with you about you because (in a sense) I'm really talking with you about Me! Does this make me sound egotistical? (laughing)

Father, (laughing) you have a wicked; er I mean a wonderful sense of humor.

Son, (laughing) wicked sense of humor? Actually that would be Satan who has that. I am always amazed at how My creation does not see that humor comes from Me. They think of Me as some beast who lives on a cloud looking for evil-doing sinners to destroy and condemn. If Christians would simply being willing to lose their minds, they wouldn't be so stupid!

wow Father..... That was pretty deep.

And eternal, son! (laughing)