The television series, Star Trek began airing when I was a mere ten-year-old human. My dad was an avid science fiction lover, so Star Trek became a hit for him in a Vulcan minute. The weirder the episode the more he liked it. In those days I was the remote at our house, so on Thursday, September 8, 1966, at 7:30 PM I flipped to Channel 6, KCEN TV. Who does not remember the epic “come on”? Can’t you hear William Shatner’s voice saying, “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”? You notice that last phrase, with a slight tweak, is the byline for The Rethink Tank. There is one man, and only one, who has gone where we are boldly going—the man Jesus. There is only one who revealed to us what God envisioned when he created mankind. He showed us exactly what the Trinity had in mind when they said let us make man in our own image. He showed us the Father and He showed us true humanity. Jesus was the perfect example of us. In Him dwelt all of the fullness of God bodily. Remember, He was fully human and fully God. He did not dip into his God-ness while on earth; He lived like we do, in dependence on the Father. Our problem is not our humanity, but our lack of God connected living. The endless chatter that bombards our minds, disagreeing with what is stated above, is the result of inaccurate programming of the person you are not. As He is, so are we on the earth. We are settling for far less than our exalted position in Christ. Until we make some drastic belief shifts, we will not move into our inheritance. Until we adjust our view of the Father to align with Christ, the flawless revelation of Him, we will never commune intimately enough with Him to represent Him. We need to be perfected in His love so all fear is removed. He is totally good and trustworthy. The way most of us read the New Testament tells a lot about how we view our identity. Who are you in the stories as Jesus touched people in ministry? Are you in the role of the confident Son walking in authority or the one receiving ministry? If we are here in Christ’s name, we should step up our understanding to align with truth, not our sub-par experience. We were not reconciled to the Father to get ‘beamed up” to heaven, we are here to be the resurrected Christ embodied. Let’s get lined up with the truth as God presents it. Christ-likeness is our “prime directive”. So, with Spock-like logic, I deduce it is time to rethink our way into alignment with the Trinity at “warp speed”.
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