I am now free to move about the cabin

Jesus said to Peter the night He was betrayed, "You are going to deny me" and then in the very next breath "don't let your heart be troubled". In other words, Peter you are a mess but don't worry about it. It's bad, really bad but I'm going to fix you! "

I'm going to prepare a place for you Peter, in Fathers Heart", (He wasn't speaking about a mansion just over the hill top). He was speaking about a place peculiar to Peter....a place with Peter's name on it in Father's heart....the place He had prepared for Peter in Father's heart before the worlds were made, a place that was otherwise entirely unreachable by Peter because of his predicament....so marred by sin....so poor, so weak, wretched man that he was.

Jesus was saying to Peter, "I am going to the cross to fix you once and for all. I am going to redeem your place of identity in father's heart, yours and my place as well.


George Mac Donald, C S Lewis' inspiration writes "Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God. He is to God a peculiar being, made after His own fashion and that of no one else...hense he can worship God as no man else can worship, can understand God as no man else can understand God. This or that man may understand God better than he, but no other man can understand God as he understands Him.... In every man there is an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter. I say not that it is the innermost chamber but a chamber into which no brother nay no sister can come.


From this it follows that there is a chamber also (oh God humble and accept my speech) a chamber in God Himself into which none can enter but the one, the individual, the peculiar man, out of which chamber that man has to bring revelation and strength for his brethren. This is that for which he was made- to reveal the secret things of the Father"...some-what paraphrased with a little old English in it as my memory recalls.


This chamber MacDonald is speaking of was completely unreachable for Peter and for me because sin had so marred me... beyond recognition. But I am His creation, His crown jewel, apple of His eye and His pearl of great price.


The big question?
"What is man that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you should visit him...made a little lower than the angels, yet crowned with glory to rule over His creation."


Restoring me to my fullest potential, my created identity was a particular burden on Jesus heart as he faced the cross. For the joy set before Him (me and my tiny slot in history) he endured the cross. Scripture say's of Him, His visage was marred more than any other man. He actually became my sin.

How He looked on that cross was a complete identification with me and the damage sin had brought about in my identity. He not only spiritually but visually as well identified with my visage, so marred by sin because of love.

You see I am His uniquely crafted child.
There is a place in Father's heart with my DNA on it. It has always been there since way before time...a place He re-prepared for me on Calvary. I call it the Lloyd shaped vacuum in the heart of God.
Whoopie!!!


My and your identity destroyed by sin was fully restored at Calvary. Redemption means we were brought back to our original created value. That's the literal meaning of the word.


What actually transpired there you ask?
Jesus took my particular sins, the sin that so marred my identity, and so easily besets me, upon himself, was made to be that particular sin, and He destroyed it's power over me, setting me free to be a everything He dreamed about me before the worlds were created. (Full Redemption)

Sin now has no power over me. I have been restored to my original created value. I am my beloved's and He is mine and His banner over me is love...I am so loved by God.
I am now free to move about the cabin and grow up in all things into Him.


Roman's seven is no longer my story or Peter's
(Oh wretched man that I am, who will set me free?)


Roman's eight is now our story.
Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

:inspired by association with Dan Mohler and Wayne Jacobsen