God is all in all and nothing exists except by Him - the earth and heavens and waters and everything in them belongs to Him, He created them by His Word, by Christ and for Christ. He is the Word - living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, dividing both soul and spirit, joint and marrow, discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Nothing in all of creation is hidden from His sight, but everything lay bear and naked before Him to whom we must give account.
In the beginning when God created, He divided light from darkness, day from night, the water above (the Holy Spirit, living water) from the water below (the common spirit, dead water). Through His divine Word all such was created and through the Word all such was divided. We being His new creation in Christ are also being split apart through the dividing asunder right from left, heavenly from earthly, functional from dysfunctional, as a sacrifice unto God, through the sharp sword of His Word by which we too were created anew when He preformed a spiritual circumcision, cutting away the body of flesh when we believed.
God in His wisdom has created twins, some attached to one another and some that are not, by which He shows that one of the left and the other of the right. There is always a better of the identical twins for when there are two that are identical, there will be a comparison. For example, when there is a copy and a real, there always is an inspection of the two to find the authentic because they are so similar. Likewise, we have our mind and our spirit, and these constantly are battling inside us. One side destined for death and another for life (if indeed we have eaten from the tree of Life, who is Christ; otherwise, we have not entered into any war). We see the both of these as similar because the soul and the spirit are alike. At the fall when all humanity gained autonomy in deciding good from evil, we stood in the middle of the two, deciding, but the Word of God is our Truth, and we are undiscerning without Him.
In the case of conjoined twins, it is sometimes necessary for there to be separation to gain life of the one, but the weaker of the two is more susceptible to death after the procedure. Likewise, we put to death the weaker of our nature that results in death by the power of the Spirit so that we may live; for those who live in step with their sinful nature will die, and those who live together with their sin will also likewise perish, but they who crucify the flesh, and the flesh of the mind, will live; so division needs to be had for life. If there is no division, they will live together for some time, but in the end both will perish.
The Word of God is in all the exact likeness of God in all His majesty; Jesus Christ is the living Word. God seen to it that no-one make an image of Him (or any beast in the sky or on the earth) because when He spoke from Mount Sinai, a voice was heard, but no-one seen a figure; when Elijah seen the whirlwind and the fire and the earthquake, He did not see a figure, but only heard a voice — a still soft voice. When the Israelites heard the voice from the mount, they asked Moses to speak to them instead, so that they would not die because the voice was terrifying. Even Moses, later, seen the Lord of Glory but only partially through the cleft of a rock; he fell to His face in terrified reverence. If anyone sees God, they shall surely die because no-one can behold God and live; but the angel of the Lord seen God and revealed Him to us; He has even been seen by some and they have lived to tell about Him; they exclaimed, “We have seen God and yet live!”
Later in the wilderness, God commanded Moses to create an image of a fiery serpent, so that they who had been bitten by the snake may live. And we also know that the image of God is seen in mankind because man is created in the image of God. This brings us to the time at hand now: Jesus Christ, born in the likeness of sinful flesh, to put to death sinful flesh in His flesh, being the perfect image of the invisible God; He is so much so in the Father’s image that we see the Father through Him. He Himself obeyed the Father fully even to death, even death on a cross, so that we would now behold Him through the eyes of faith lest our natural eyes see Him and we die; and to hear Him in our spirit lest our natural ears hear Him and we perish. The Christ — the King of Glory and the Lord of Lords! Without holiness no one shall see Him; and He has created us anew by His Word and is dividing us asunder by His Word for our sanctification.