If anyone does not believe in God, then they will just have to be their own God.

God Saves Me from Judging Revenge

Only God Knows Just Judgement

Revenge belongs to the Lord but I never exactly realized why until I understood Jesus was in the mix all the way, more deeply than I ever anticipated. 

I am disconnected because God is the only judge, not me because I cannot judge lest I am judged myself. In the first instant because the only judge is the Lord Himself or second, His only begotten Son to whom He also gave that power to as His Son.

I am not only not the judge but I cannot bring judgement even to the extent of revenge. That is unless I want to follow Satan into being equal with God. This leaves me clear of experiencing judgement myself while God, as the Holy Spirit knows the heart in every matter does.

Therefore I am absolved of all temptations of Satan to experience the great continuing joys of the believer. This is the way I see it. I cannot assume the privileges of God since I am not God.

Next: God Protects Me Against Revenge

Not All Repetition May 

Stand Up Against Eternity 

I have said before and it seems appropriate here for me to say it again that I believe that I believe I will get what I believe when I am finally shed of all this seen world and pass into the unseen spirit world where all the greater power propels and holds the seen world together.

I would not be surprised if everyone does not get what they believe as well. But the question is more important than the answer. How long will we all be content within which we find ourselves? 

If God is existence and I do not believe that, then how will I find existing to be while at the same time knowing that I do not exist is in any way tolerable?

If I've plead ignorance, or that I never thought about it much, how long can I tolerate that? Repetition may become the brutal reward of, like a prison, solitary repetition.

Jesus was incarnated, that is once, but to be even reincarnated over and over, how can I be content with myself alone becoming a mind numbing repetition?

Some things may stand up very well however, that is to my mind, love, forgiveness and gratitude and other fruit of the spirit. 

This is my witness

God Sent Jesus

Believers are All One in the Spirit

At the core of my prayer effort, which is essentially becoming more familiar talking to and with, in the name of Jesus, to God, are my favorite meaningful and personally moving Bible verses. So I am back to the Bible in a way, but even so, God is not a Book, so the Book is not God.

Whatever is dominant in my attention is my God. Whatever comes first in my attention is my God. Everything Jesus has learned from God Jesus has made known for me, for my benefit, my safety and my well being.   John Chapter 17, the High Priestly Prayer

there is a better way

I Believe Prayer is the Best Way

The only way to gain or build greater faith, indicated in the Bible, is to read and keep reading on it. Today of course, we have electric printing and there are many of good books on the subject of prayer. 

My reason prayer is better however, is because it is not only simple but emotionally enjoyable. 

Sometimes I even shout! I am so thankful and overflowing with gratitude. This is only me returning Jesus' love and forgiveness. 

When I was initially coming out of the blue funk of being my own god, I prayed sometimes very often all night to the Holy Spirit. Now it is always to Jesus with attendant thankfulness to the Holy Father.

I suppose this is because Jesus was incarnated and God is a Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Father no one has ever seen. But He is like us, a Person and He has given His only Son Jesus the power to do whatever Jesus sees the Father do. 

Faith as a child
the best of all

They are One Spirit, both in each other. And so are we because God gave Jesus power to do for all those who believe on Him.

Right now I am myself overflowing with gratitude and I am making progress with forgiveness and intimacy with Jesus.

Visionettes

Why I Loved Prison Films

When I hit bottom I found that was a good time to bounce back up. In every case, it seemed as though when I gave up in one incident and accepted I was going to drown, that I was saved by an audible voice inside my head telling me, to try one more time.

Later I my parents entertained a subdued couple on the brink of middle age who had lost their only similarly aged son to drowning. Only now as I write this do I realize the irony of it. Eventually I asked God several times why I was allowed to be made aware of similar events.

These similar incidents occurred, first in dreams when I was around five and later in epiphanies I did not understand the meanings of until years later.

When I found out that God forgave David for his sins because David was honest with God, I experienced relief that maybe God forgave me when I chewed Him out for hanging around the adult elders and church pastor who told me the stories in the Bible were not true.  Only the meanings were true, which answered my question at the time about Santa Claus. 

In my lifetime I believe computers have made us smarter, but in a perfectly artificially selectric way. 

For the good of the children

When God was one step 

Ahead of Santa

When Jesus said that only those who were drawn by the Father could be His followers Jesus lost a large number of them outright away. Jesus had no recorded enlightening comment acknowledging the incident either. 

This suggested to many that the idea that everyone is inclusive, not just those who were attracted by the Holy Father. I sort of falls l.into the same category when I wondered if one had to be intellectually able, to qualify as followers instead of everyone qualifying.

Suggests also that God could be judged by those attending church weekly. This is the hypocrite label. If hypocrites go to church then not only is everyone else one, but God Himself as well. 

I also thought the adults were in with God so I was judged God by the actions of the elders and minister which was the logical fallacy of misplaced authority. 

As a child I figured that the adults stuck together. This is a weak excuse but still an excuse just the same and I even scolded God over it. But I carried it into adulthood still and all. I had been also a college atheist and somewhat pompous at it too. 

But when my favorite professor said if one is educated then they do not believe in God, I felt a tinge of doubt sneaking into picture. The little theologian was waking up.

Faith and Foregiveness

Right away this is a tough one

Loving the unlovable and forgiving them to boot is  not easy, I can contest for that. To this day I haven't gotten totally into it either. But I can report a certain meager success.

The wrath of God is incredible to behold. But as a pinned prefect Sunday School participant I held God accountable for telling us not to kill anyone in the commandments and then wiping out a entire populace for His side of the story.

Oh I knew about divine right ok enough, but I had a long time to learn about why it was  it ok to wipe out an entire populace for mere stupidity. 

Another  thing was not healing anybody on Sunday for the super excuse we were not allowed to work on Sunday. Play is clear sailing but work on Sunday was heaven outbound. 

What a load God had to answer to me for!

Without Hope There is No Beginning

Without Hope One is Hopeless

If anyone has a clear hope from and to any positive destination it seems self evident that any success would likely stand in that direction self dependent on the force of ones faith. Now we are in no matter what country. 

Feelings Without Substance

If ones hope is physical then whatever it is, is short term with a changing consumptive future that could turn against one eventually. To be sure of my hope I have to not only know the beginning but the ending success also. 

Next: Faith & Forgiveness

Refuse to Take Offense

To take any offense witnesses one is by the fact itself an offensive person, weakened and wounded along with it. Whatever I do I am a witness with evidence.

The Paraclete alongside

I thank Jesus a lot in my prayers, but this morning I suddenly thanked the Holy Father for Jesus, after all He was the one who sent Him and gave Him up for us so our sins could be forgotten and therefore we could appear before Him alongside our other Helper.     

One generation kills the prophets

While The Next Reveres Them 

As I have said I am only witness to my views, not a prophet predicting. I believe God places revelations in our hearts, the strongest of which is predicting with the fervor of a prophet under threat of death. All predictions of Jesus seem to have been eventually realized. 

Jesus even mentions Jonah, in which not long ago I recall reading Jesus said He would overcome the world in three days. Some of the atheists' view were exhorting the incident as proof that proved to them the entire Jesus story was a hoax.

I recall also viewing cartoons of Jonah playing poker in the belly of a whale with an octopus. The whole point though was Jonah died and returned alive just like Jesus was going to do. So the only point now is does talking of things like this have something to do in time with generating the fact?   

All things possible

There are questions I believe is not profitable to wrestle. Like how long ago did the world begin? The world is full of time gone by and time is hostile to any knowledge of the eternal spirit. 

Just talking about it to that end could weaken one's belief. 

Power of Faith

Prediction Perils Coming Up?

It is hard to find out a good pick up post, but I suppose the best is to review my personal reaction to Jesus comment that if anyone had enough faith they could move mountains.

I was surprised at how many personally I found felt the entire quote was speaking figuratively. I reasoned it did not meet the requirements of figuratively speaking found, for instance, in Jesus' parables. May 25 No figure of speech....

Original Sin? For my part there is danger whenever we try to compete or actually replace God as the Eden story emphasizes. It seems to me to be yet another lure of the devil. 

But if I am pursuing the power of faith to greater heights as Jesus is suggesting this is quite different. I just do not know how different which can only be identified in ones spirit.

Anyway most agree I think, and it is not disputed, that a constant struggle like a war is going on between the two. And, that is not in anyway figuratively speaking. Since I intend all my decisions are to the satisfaction of God, and so it is for everyone's satisfaction to each their own. That is as far as we can go.

 I believe I can move on from here with everyone agreeing to the proofs of their own satisfactions.