Luke 12:51
“Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division”
The Gospel is bound to bring division, separation.That is God’s first and last work: Separation…He separated light from darkness – His 1st work – and He is going to separate the sheep from the goats – His last work (Mat 25:32). It is difficult, almost impossible to separate 2 things that are stuck together without any damage. The hardest separation God’s people have to face is not with the world but with the flesh, the human nature. It’s there since we came to this world and will be there to the end. Yet, through the Gospel He gave us a new life, another nature, those two are stuck together and separation has to come.
Ps 131:2
“Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me.” A weaned child doesn’t get his food from his mother anymore, he eats something else. The mother is the world… the flesh… It is a great time in our life when we get nothing from the flesh and the world anymore, our food comes from somewhere else…We read in Gen 21:8 that “…Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned” We don’t read that he made a feast when Isaac was born, yet it was a real cause for joy… Not easy to wean a child, sometimes it gets sick even… The same for us spiritually but our Father will rejoice when that time comes in our life. A child has to grow first to be weaned one day.
There will be some damage naturally speaking, but doing that won’t spoil our spirit as it is the only way to bring it to perfection. It wasn’t easy for Abraham to cast out Ishmael, we read that it was “very grievious” to him but he did it. He learnt his lesson from that and did it on his own in Gen 25:5-6. “ And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country”
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