THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
Contemplating God’s Nature
DRAPER’S PAPER ROUTE
THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
by Adam Carroll Draper
I have recently written about two encounters I had with God. In the first, I came to understand how important it was not to worry. In the second, I experienced Him as happiness itself. Notice that these two experiences with the Lord were tied together with the revelation of His nature, what I have been calling God’s elementary particles. They build on each other. This is how we are transformed into His image, “from glory to glory.”
In chapter three of St. Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, he discusses how Moses put a veil over his face because he did not want the people to see God’s glory fading from him. Then, in verse 18, he says, “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” Whose unveiled faces do we behold as in a mirror? Ours! We see God in ourselves as we are transformed from glory to glory by the Holy Spirit. The “glory to glory” is each encounter with Him, each new revelation of His goodness. We see it in ourselves and in each other – in the “unveiled face” (singular) of the bride!
We overlook the fundamental aspects of God (the elementary particles) to our detriment. In them, we see what we are made of, our substance. When we fixate upon love, peace, joy, faith, hope (the elementary particles), that is where we put our treasure. Yeshua taught us that we become like what we fixate upon – what we worship – who we serve.
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:19-24.
Taking this back to when God told me that He is happiness itself – joy; it was to get me to see that He is what I yearn for whether I acknowledge it or not. He made humans in His image. We are light. The things of God are the things we live for.
Why do I work?
To get money.
Why do I want money?
To buy things.
Why do I want to buy things?
Ahaaah!
Boil it down, and we come to the elementary particles - the gist of the nub of the root. We want love. We want joy. We want peace. We want life. We want freedom. We want purpose. These are the elementary particles – the treasure! We are the light. We have faith and hope to obtain the elementary particles – which we only have in Christ, secured by the blood. What we long for is where we focus our light. Our focus, that longing, is hope; and faith is the substance of that hope. Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” The Greek word hypostasis, translated as “substance” in that verse, also means “confidence, trust, being sure; being, essence.” Strongs Concordance, 5287.
So it can also be said that faith is the essence of who we are.
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