Do You Live Life as A NCIC? #6

NCICs Are a New Species in God, what is Called ‘A New Creation in Christ.’ They Respond More in God’s Way, Not in Their Way, or in What is Called ‘the Flesh.’

NCICs know God doesn’t cause bad things to happen to us. He is a God who loves us, and he’s a good God. We are either guided by a LOVE for God and other people, or by a LUST for change.

The Apostle John calls it being in love with the world, which keeps us ignorant, not knowing God’s love for us (I John 2:15). We’re told that we love — because we were first loved (by God). When his love flows through us, it’s not just our human love we share, but God’s love in us.

This causes us to live in a state of love with God. When we truly know beyond a doubt that God loves us, we respond with love for him.

The rub comes if we live in any amount of LAW. You see, LOVE and LAW don’t mix. They’re like gasoline and water. If we live in LAW, we live in guilt. This keeps us from knowing God’s love. LAW will always make you feel you don’t deserve God’s LOVE. This is why God replaced the OLD law with the NEW gospel.

If we live in LOVE for Abba Father, we respond in trust that he’s involved with us in our world, even if we don’t understand all that happens, and why we hurt so bad at times.

It takes a NCIC to live this way. Non-NCICs often blow it off as stupid.

Knowing God’s love doesn’t make us total “UNDERSTANDERS.” God doesn’t say understand everything. He simply says to “BELIEVE AND TRUST HIM.”

NCICs know that their loving Father will cause things to work out to their good, or at least BETTER than they would work out without involving him (Rom 8:28). This doesn’t say all things will be good. It says they will WORK toward good if we will allow God to handle them. That’s why I say things will be better than they might have been otherwise.

Life doesn’t always dove-tail to our expectations or desires. We don’t always ‘get a better life — the way we define it’ every time we pray. If we could map our route, we might choose a different road than the one we’re on. But God says to stay on ‘THE GOSPEL ROAD’ — paved with his grace, and with guard rails of his love protecting us.

We don’t like the bumper sticker: “Life is just one damn thing after another — and then you die.” We want life to be something far better than this. It often is, but sometimes it isn’t.

We all have preoccupations with things, preconceptions that are most often not valid, and then our perceptions of events are often incomplete. We still live from that forbidden Tree of Knowledge: “Does this make me feel GOOD, or make me feel BAD?” Living life in this way, we never live at The Tree of Life.

We want to avoid the bad and only embrace the good, but the world doesn’t revolve around this philosophy. We don’t like the book: “Bad Things Happen to Good People.” Of course, Jesus says, “No one is good except God.” NCICs know life experience should separate us UNTO God, not from him. Non-NCIC’s often separate themselves FROM God when the going gets hard.

Only the Gospel brings us the blessings of God. Here is a reprint of something I posted on some of the social sites today.