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 THE TWO HANDS OF GOD For the past few months we have emphasized the truth that in the Scriptures we find the right hand of God mentioned a great many times, and the left hand of God is mentioned on a number of occasions. The word "right" as used with "hand" is generally the Hebrew word "yamiym" meaning STRONGER, MORE DEXTEROUS. The word for "left" is "smowl" meaning DARK. From the meaning of these two words it is very easy to understand that God's right hand is His strength and dexterity, or His wonderful ability to do all things. The implication is that the right hand of God is the GOOD HAND of God, doing GOOD things. The Psalmist confirms this when he says, "In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your RIGHT HAND are PLEASURES for evermore" (Ps. 16:11). But the left hand in the Old Testament means DARK and from this we can readily understand that it signifies the opposite - what we call bad or evil. The left hand represents the DARK SIDE OF GOD. This is the hand of God so little understood. It should not seem strange that God, who made man in His image, should have both a bright side and a dark side, manifested through the works of His two hands, in blessing and glory on the one hand, and in discipline and judgment on the other. The right hand of God, as we have seen, bespeaks God moving and acting through POSITIVE FORCES, while the left hand of God signifies God moving and acting through NEGATIVE FORCES. This reveals the beautiful balance in God's nature, as in all His works, and the whole creation is a revelation of this balance that exists first in the Creator Himself. There must be a balance. There must be the negative as well as the positive. That is but a natural law, established by God Himself, and we see it all around us. All nature is a revealing of the Creator as Paul explains in Rom. 1:20. "For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity have been seen and made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made - His handiworks" (Amplified). The universe unmistakably reveals the awesome fact that there is polarity in God. What exactly, is polarity? Webster defines it as "the condition of having magnetic poles, one positive and attracting, the other negative and repelling; the contrary qualities, powers, etc., as both wrath and mercy." Polarity more than simple duality or opposition. For to say that opposites are "polar" is to say much more than that they are far apart: it is to say that they are RELATED AND JOINED - that they are the terms, ends, or extremities of a SINGLE WHOLE. Polar opposites are therefore INSEPARABLE opposites, like the poles of the earth or of a magnet, or the ends of a stick or the faces of a coin. Though what lies between the poles is more substantial than the poles themselves - nevertheless the three are undivided, constituting a single whole. The correct understanding of this principle gives the answer to the all-important question, "Is God this, or is He that? Is God a God of wrath, or is He a God of mercy? Is He absolute love, or is He absolutely just?" The answer to such questions is simply that He is BOTH! God is not one OR the other. He is the perfect harmonization and balance of POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. God has TWO HANDS! "The works of HIS HANDS are truth AND judgment" (Ps. 111:7). We will never understand God or His dealings alright until we grasp the truth that many experiences, values, qualities and powers which we have believed to be contrary and distinct are, after all, TWO ASPECTS OF THE SAME THING. God does not pit His judgment against His mercy, neither does He show ONLY MERCY to some and ONLY JUDGMENT to others. The sweet singer of Israel intoned these enlightening words: "I will sing of mercy AND judgment: unto You, O Lord, will I sing!" (Ps. 1O1:1). The prophet Isaiah, speaking of the ministry of the Christ, declared of Him, "A bruised reed shall He not break, and the smoking flax shall He not quench: He shall bring forth judgment unto TRUTH" (Isa. 42:3). Judgment unto truth - how unspeakably blessed! This kind of judgment can never be characterized as unrestrained, unappeasable, implacable, sadistic rage inflicting purposeless, merciless, unending vengeance upon mankind - but CORRECTIVE, REDEMPTIVE JUDGMENT to break the rebellion of men, and BRING THEM ALL INTO TRUTH AGAIN. As the apostle so beautifully confirms, "I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for ALL MEN ... for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who WILL HAVE ALL MEN TO BE SAVED, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth" (I Tim. 2:1, 3-4). We do not minimize the workings of wrath, but we do rejoice in the beautiful BALANCE and PURPOSE between the work of God's LEFT HAND and that of His RIGHT HAND - both leading to righteousness. "For the Word of the Lord is fight; and ALL His works are done in TRUTH. He loves righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the GOODNESS of the Lord!" (Ps. 33:4-5). The "rightness" or "leftness" of a thing, however, exists not in the thing itself, or in the space it occupies. It exists rather in the thing's RELATIONSHIP TO US. Let me illustrate. If we are facing each other, what is on the right or the left of me hasn't the same meaning for you. Its meaning, in fact, is exactly reversed in each consciousness. The things on your right are on my left. If we are talking to each other on the phone, however, left and right have no concrete meaning at all in the absence of a common reference point. They exist only abstractly. When God Was A Woman (Merlin Stone), She too had two hands. Kali, in particular, standing with one foot on the corpse of a man (symbol of the masculine ego in both men and women), holds forth both Her hands and says: "I destroy, fear not." One may continue to ask "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" But one might also ask, "Is a zebra white with black stripes, or black with white stripes?" The zebra, image par excellence, of the mystical, magical union of opposites in one sentient being. Zebra as god. Source of text: http://www.theshop.net/gjess/twohands4.htm Click here to return to MASTER LIST http://zwap.to/Anim0n |
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