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Fruits of the Spirit Last Forever

At an older time when I was younger I had a yen for excitement and a sense of danger around every little corner. As I got older this got older as well and it was not only a growing wearisome event unfolding one after the other but it was out and out calling for one last screaming  kick out overdose event. 

But it never will come to my satisfaction I am extremely afraid, but even knowing I am not existing must be terrible beyond my comprehension. 

Eternity carries no time except the present and that setting I believe I will need peace, praise, and fruits of the spirit found in Galatians 5:22

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 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.

Laughing at the Banana Peel

Will Idle Words Weaken My Faith?

I am fresh still off a weekend so it is jus as good a time as any to take a break reflecting on when I at first wondered what Holy Mackerel was about.

When Fish on Friday day was big this occurred to me. But even so it was obvious as What the Heck. I never thought of it amid Ash Wednesday and the rest of it, which was extensive. 

It is still a bit shocking to me what it was a euphemism for. One hears this rarely today but it was more common at one time.

I am full circle now and I correct myself on all of it because I feel such reflexes could be a hinderance to my faith I am trying to build since I take Jesus more seriously now. 

As a student of words and lover of language, by the way just a technicality but, Christ is not Jesus' last name. Such things in my view, very well may be rooted in a final oh ye of little faith judgment. Humor seems to be less serious to the young than the older.

Some day I would like to get into the role of comedy since it seems to be essentially nonsense.

The tree is known by its fruit

All things Seen came from the Unseen

Chaos produces chaos and design is produced by the designer. I do not know the how or mechanics of it. But I take what I do know from the design of it, so from the past I trace the future forward from there.

All things seen

It is true these findings will be logic based but this is not the path to the success harnessing of the power involved in their manifestations. So that is the path I am taking at the present. From now on I will see how this works out with digestive breathers along the way. 

From the earliest conceptions

Like Everyone Else

For My Own Benefit

If all things seen did indeed come from the unseen, as I believe self evident, then this material universe came from the spiritual. It follows then that there was a designer long before anyone in my position that ipso facto knows more than I do or I can ever know.

I think it good that I rehearse my meager beginnings to keep firming up the fact I cannot know all the answers since I am at a loss when it comes to the questions  well before I can address answers.

First, in my orientation, is the Father, then the Son and their Spirit together combined make up the Holy Spirit as in John 17.  My position in that Triumvirate today is as a little pup dog to Jesus. 

My dependence on Jesus is total gratitude and I have complete acceptance of this now. From the beginning I have been dumbfounded, thrown time into the wind, in denial, at times hostile, questioning why did You show me this?

I have made an effort to say goodbye to logic but moving to faith without any supporting reasons for doing so. Faith as a child is not far from my pup dog analogy. 

The more knowledge one has, or the more success financially and otherwise anyone has, makes it more, and a good piece more, harder to look forward to heaven, since one could easily think they are already in heaven. 

The more knowledge one has the more doubts one would have. I hope I am not too much of a know it all to not be able to build a strong belief, strong enough to call into shaking any mountain into the sea as of the enough kind of which Jesus spoke.

Choosing among the invisible

With a clear hope

Unseen Power That Sanctifies

It is intimidating to review all the many religions and their differences, even to the slightest, between similar beliefs. Who can comprehend so many different variances among so many? I guess the majority go along with whatever they were born into. Essentially they go along within the collective they find themselves I suppose.

Factoring in all the different translations as well makes me wonder about any eventual worthwhile personal purpose in my efforts. So then apparently the dividing of tongues by God is working even into this day. 

Therefore perhaps the search of power is well into its' ongoing. That is, not a complicated mechanical physical power, but rather a spiritual power. 

If gravity is unseen then so can other forces be as well. Faith is unseen, and God is accepted as a Spirit, and further no one has seen Him. So the working spiritual word I chose at this point is, sanctifications, with hopefully a clearly understood hope. 

Working outside the next barrel

Funny How Fiction Becomes Science

Isaac Newton was, in my world outside the barrel, was first to open the door saying hello to artificial science, as I think of it, intelligently. 

He wasn't the first to write about it, science fiction writers of course were. And they were sometimes mocked as late as the fifties, nineteen fifties, about dark holes. Only now the new wrinkle, it is said, they can photograph them.

Yesterday's Magic is Today's Science

Voice Recognition by Whom?

Artificial Intelligence seems to be our latest attack to be like God, which originally came from Satan. The first indication given by God that He could see this was coming, came when ancient writers revealed that someday man would build a structure into the sky.

God placed it into the heart of His prophets when men were building the tallest known building at the time. This was termed the Tower of Babel when God slowed things down. 

Telling people at that time they would be soon walking on the moon would be better received by a language explosion to scatter the future further out. This newest science could lead to similar eventuals.

Tomorrow is soon today

Jesus Has Prayed the Father 

Will Send Us Another Helper 

The Helper will be with us forever, The Holy Spirit is not seen by the world nor is known by the world.

But the Councilor will be with us and in us. And a new recognition, I believe, is coming alongside, within us as well. 

Perfect timing is success

All Timing is of the Devil's world

Further more....since time is the measurement of the seen world, the world of change it is the unseen world which is eternal. 

Smart Spence Strikes again

I used to be told I was quite smart, to which I was quick to agree, I am indeed smart, I am so smart that I have out smarted myself many times. 

Many are the thoughts of the flesh

A little somethings extra is often I think just because many can think only of what they know, that that is al there is to know. So and so is so smart he knows everything. Everything is only what they know. We only know what God wants us to know. It is called an epiphany, a sudden awareness of a truth no one ever heard tell of before. It inspires a strong sudden unquestioned belief. 

Peter walked on water as long as
he believed as Jesus believed

It is so compelling that it is not questioned. They will even risk their lives against the majority and are eventually often martyred as prophets. A prophet is someone who knows the future and predicts the future. Correctly it is later recognized. If they were not correct then they are a called false prophets, over taken by the seen world. My key word here is epiphany which first arose surrounded by the appearance of Jesus, known as the Christ. 

Worth the While

The wind blows where it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. John 3:8

I don't have the patience to look it up, this idea about being born of the Spirit is Jesus speaking, speaking using a figure of speech. The wind is the obvious figure of speech. There was no figure of speech mentioned by Jesus when He spoke of those with enough faith could move mountains into the sea. To me one is as powerful as the other.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatian's 5:22-23

Now here in a different setting, we are witnessing Paul saying that Moses gave us he law but the only begotten Son of God gave us love and truth. Our gratitude is our love returning to Jesus for His forgiveness. This gratitude kind is our love, that is of the rejoicing kind which generates an inner spiritual exuberance. To see more click Manna

Where there is a grand design

there has to be a Grand Designer

The tree is known by its' fruit. A grand design is the fruit of a grand designer, not the chaos of a random designer.  It is from the design itself that the fruit of designer's laws emerge.

Faith is substance & evidence

So just as all entities of greater charisma attract lesser entities that, as result, fall into their orbit, so it is with individuals of greater faith, of greater substance. 

What are the particular characteristics charisma? It is their greater belief, evidenced from the unseen, manifesting itself in the substance of the seen. This is just as Paul is credited speaking in Hebrews and Jesus when He instructed about moving mountains into the ocean if they had enough faith. 

To Be Like Jesus

God is a Jealous God for a Reason 

According to my view those who commit extreme grievous crimes against humanity are normally, if I may use that word, possessed by  an evil spirit or even a host of evil spirits. 

Just as Satan sends his agents to churches more so than barrooms, he is behind all destruction he can muster and then blame it on someone else.

If the devil cannot convince anyone to disbelieve Jesus altogether, he will chip away instead against Jesus' power.

Jesus is love and love is forgiving all. He drove out demons from people, and as He told His disciples, some demons come out harder than others. He told them the harder kind t requires greater faith to explain to them why they were not successful in healing a man's son. 

Jesus tells us to obey His commandments for a reason. He wants to keep us from being enticed to disobey His commandments because if not there is a penalty that must be paid.

According to Jesus the flesh is weak and cannot help us. Everything Jesus tells me will work out why in the end. For my part, my sincere desire is to follow His instructions for my own sake. 

God already figured it out

For those who do, we will understand everything when we are one in the spirit, which is my hope. The important thing for me is not to judge so I will not be judged, not to condemn, so that I will not be condemned. 

That, to my mind, is so that all revenge will be for God to do, not for me. This is so that I will escape and not be subject to the responsibility of assuming the role of God myself.

Jesus says what He understands is what God tells Him and He told it all to us. John 17 I understand it is all for my own benefit if I trust Him.

Once a man twice a child

Back Where I Started?

I do not have an answer to everything. When I was born I did not know anything. Many of us tabla rosa types start out by examining the other end of things, our toes.

Since everything seemed fino fino you could not talk me out of anything new. But if you had warned me that I would be promptly hung up my bare arse in grande dishabille, spanked to help me breathe, that I would get cold, hungry, and pay taxes, I would not agree to any of it.

So it will be or is now all over again. I hang onto this life resisting change in a world of changes, doubtful of eternity where time is always in the present.

I learned, I studied, I reasoned answers to quite a few questions, but in the end I was stuck with even more questions than I started. All I learned was that I was even more ignorant than I thought. 

Everyone has a different orbit

So what do I do now? I cannot prove anything, except that is, proof to my own satisfaction just like everyone else their proofs from their orbits. 

I believe we all will get just what we believed, if it was strong enough, not just a weakish agreement with someone else. I wonder how come life is so short in view of the fact that we are such a long time gone, gone out of mind, far across the Sea of Lethe?

Most Central Verse

Most Central Chapter

John 3:16 has to be most central verse in the Bible without any further comment. But the most central chapter in the Bible I believe has to be John 17.

Firstly it is translated by the Holy Spirit as every word being from Jesus Himself, first to last verse. Chapter is all red and known as the High Priestly Prayer. 

God Gave His Only Son

The entire chapter is Jesus praying to the Holy Father the night before His crucifixion while His disciples slept. Jesus keeps making the same points over and over.

One is that He was Sent. These have believed I was sent, sent by God. Jesus was sent, also He and God and His disciples are ONE. I know of a believer who started their day every day reading this entire chapter daily until the red print was soaked by their forehead.

If one is one with God and one with God and Jesus, they are one with the Holy Spirit, which is known as the Holy Trinity. Those who agree have their sins forgiven and can approach God without a rabbi tied to a rope. 

Born again believers are all one. Those who do not know what one means are not familiar with the spirit or for that matter, anything spiritual it would seem to me. 

Our Elder Brother Was Sent

We Are All One Together

Power to become Sons

Jesus was given power to make me a son of God. Jesus is the only begotten Son of God. Who gave Him this power? God, His Father, the Holy Father, sent Jesus and gave Jesus, His Son, this power. 

God, as the Holy Father, is the first member of the Holy Trinity, and Jesus, as His Son, is the second. They both are one, they make up together the Holy Spirit. 

The Holy Trinity, is described dramatically and in all respects fully and repetitively in John 17. We are all one spiritually. "One" has to be saved, spiritually themselves, to appreciate the spiritual.

All entries are continually under edited review reflecting the author's understanding and viewpoint at the time posted.

Gratitude is My Love

Why I love Jesus

Bible verses I remember most and more easily is the beginning of the Gospel of John concluding with the observation that the law came thru Moses but thru Jesus came love and truth. There are those who make the law and rules their god. 

Paul, God's mostly unlikely & productive convert, a former doctrinaire strictualist, was foremost in opening Jesus up to the Gentiles.

John 17

Also Paul was very effective in highlighting the difference between the eternal Spirit and the temporary flesh. He made more than one reference to all things seen coming from the unseen. 

Then there are verses that dramatize how Jesus loves and appreciates our gratitude, which is our form of love. I cannot read verses like these without being consumed with praise and worship, carrying me up to Jesus.

One day we will see Him as He is, and we will be like Him.

Our "Barrel" is not All

Our Barrel Not Expanding

When I look evenings above me toward the Father of Lights I am looking at God asking me, His question on display. He is asking me, are you wondering how I ever thought of all the lights up in the sky?

Anyone who does not believe in God
will have to just be their own God.

I don't think I could even come up the concept idea of lights. The physical scientist is learning that the universe is expanding. Our awareness of what already is, is all that is expanding. 

I do not believe there is any size of the universe, only our awareness thinks that way because of our little barrel we are living in.  How could anyone but God ever even think of such an idea of stars and, hung it all on nothing yet?

Certain Bible verses personally impacting

Memorizing & Meditating: There is so much great reading in the Bible that if I selectively mediate on them I believe a person can have a very emotional, even  ecstatic, experience.

I knew one such person who experienced a similar event while reading Galatians. It has become one of mine now, ranking high on my list of favorite verses I print up and read and reread often. For me it is an unlikely verse. It is one of my prayer verses.

In Galatians are the fruits of the Spirit against which there is no law. They said while reading the passage about the fruits of the Spirit they were consumed from their head down to the chest by an overwhelming  sensation of pleasure. 

They pleaded with me to remember the verse because they thought they would not remember it. I forgot it but years later, I do not recall how many, I suddenly did remember not too far back by the key word fruits.

I treasure it for this reason and it has captured me emotionally ever since. What an experience from such a plain ordinary verse! Gal 5:22-23

Belief Both Great & Small

Only Way to Obtain Greater Faith

Agreeing with an emotional subjective sermon does not quite make any great faith in my sense of things. Sometimes the name of Jesus nor anyone else is ever even mentioned as I noted earlier.

But emotion is power even so, when abused in one/s views just the same. This thread is "maybe" finished when a headline is fixed. 

The only way to gain greater faith or even faith at all. is to read the Bible. This is said clearly and simply in the Bible itself. I would only add that one should read often and to reread a list of one's favorite verses over and over, studying them and meditating on them, taking them in, and enjoying them emotionally. 

Skippig the busload for now

There is a time for everything!

Like little Johnny told his Sunday School teacher when she asked who wants to go to heaven & wondered why only little Johnny didn't want to go.

Oh, I thought you were getting up a busload for today.

Good long quotes are rare

Persistence 

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

Manna Quote

Ecclesiastes 7:24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it? from Manna

Deciding If Faith Will Fold

But Not Today

I believe one can be born again while still in the flesh. The idea I am in this changing world of the flesh is for that very reason, to entrance my unchanging spiritual existence.

So I am in this changing world of the flesh but what if I am, even slightly, reticent to fully  embrace or accept the unchanging eternity of the spiritual? I think many wonder, that is that the flesh does not want to lose any life or give anything up instinctually.

But, even if not, can I make it happen true by belief  solely alone, by believing strongly enough? 

So I, as I've observed before, I fully know and accept the fact that I will die someday, but not today! 

I strongly sense I am in a loop, where I unknowingly assume I will live forever. Has God ordained that time is going to fool me every single time or am I going to

Spiritual Power of Belief

fold time and put it in my pocket figuratively, or not?

So if it does not matter, even if it were not pre-true, a charismatic believer could believe it into existence?

The Flesh got me here,

But Can the Flesh Get Me Out?

We can die at any time, starting even while being born with a blank tablet. All blank tablets have mothers. If she is a druggy then blank tablet starts as a druggy. Say hello to original sin.

Jesus reminds us that the flesh will not help us. It is also recorded that God is only pleased by faith. I was always taken by logic but that is not faith either when I get down to it.

Looking for
Favorite Verses

So I live as long as I live. The longer the more likely, if I hit a hundred, that I'll be lonely a very short time. That is to say, not forever, like say from 15 and a half to sixteen.

So thing is, I have a friend We talk a lot, but we do not agree on anything but food. Tomorrow I'll figure out if pain can make any difference.

Manna Redux

Reading Sarah Young's, forever and ever all time best seller, God Calling on my Kindle is redirecting my attention to Manna one the best of my favorite Bible verses. 

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that outwardly out weighs them all. Paul's letter to the Corinthians 4:16-17

God Knows How to take Profits

God Knows How to Pick 'em 

Who would I pick to write the large heart of the Bible? How about someone spending his money, and his time, to kill, too murder even, those who believed in God?

On top of that he was a terrible speaker. Apollos was well regarded as a tremendous speaker on the other hand, convincing many. 

I would have thought the Gospel writer, John, who wrote the love book, so different from the other Gospels. 

Then there is Peter, the first pope remember, who walked on water, asked Jesus about how long John would live, remember that? Jesus told the first Pope to mind his own business. Paul, the worst possible candidate, got the nod from God. 

When Time Disappears in the Wind

All Things Seen 

First Came From the Unseen

I want to be more sensitive to the unseen spiritual events that are inevitably my due offing, while at the same time living out my wasting physical life in the seen world.

It has been said so well before, while crossing the Sea of Lethe, that is the sea of forgetfulness. The more I store up for this changing world the less it will mean anything in the end.   

Sailing Wild Seas
No More

Time fooled me like it does everyone, why would not the necessities do the same? As the unlikely Paul wrote to the Corinthians (4:18) do not fix our eyes on the seen because the seen is temporary.  Rather, search out the unseen because the unseen is eternal.  

Quoteblokes Go Churchy

 All Things Seen came from the Unseen

"While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

Transcending Forces

I like verses that ease me into focusing on the transcending spiritual world rather than the over riding decaying physical world. In this setting Paul contrasts the temporal and the eternal, in 2nd Corinthians 4:18

Why does God show us these things?

Pitfalls Learning to Accept Jesus

I, for myself, am not convinced I am right, nor am I that I might be wrong. We all speak for our own benefit, along with myself as well, of that I am certain.

I think it somehow significant that twice in my life I heard this identical sermon, the first time about to graduate high school and the second time in retirement.

First one was about this chap whose mother scrubbed floors to put her son thru college. She died and he had forgotten all about her. Sobbing, he fell weeping on her grave. 

And the second was about a girl who ran away to the city for the attractions of loose living and returned asking her town to tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree if they wanted her to get off the bus.

Well I tell you these were two classic tear jerkers I've ever heard. No religious aspect was ever mentioned, not the Baby Jesus, nor any other possible religious aspect. 

Yet, still and all, after both these two sermons everyone was suddenly asked whether anyone wanted to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. 

I do not know what happened after the first event, we older kids were asked to step outside. But the second event was greeted with stone silence. That's all folks!

Venus Fly Trap Overdose No Accident

Time to think of going over. I used to think I had plenty of time. I was fooled big time the whole time. I held onto a changing world, a temporary world, and postponed thinking about any eternal world as if it would never appear. But it will appear any time. 

And for many I well knew and knew well, it did and it has. It is just like the poem taught in school, Gather Ye Rosebuds while ye may.... It must be a terror trap like existence to know when I exist, but don't. The flesh no longer helps me there. 

God speaks and it is so

All Good Things Come Down 

From the Father of Lights

It does not bother me that I do not have all the answers, I am satisfied to witness such glory in the universe hung up there on nothing in the night sky. Unbelievably huge worlds moving thru nothing and hinting about everything.

We know the definition of God is a Spirit, the Holy Spirit. God has to be the core of love to create it all and then forgive all those who cannot accept it because they are captive of differing spirits.

I knew the day was coming, but not this soon.....

Where Have ALL,

My Power  Years Gone?

From age 40 to 60 is known as a person's power years. In mid life, the peak actually, many people feel most qualified to advise those younger and those older just how and what they should do. 
The most important thing in my personal existence is that I have to consider what I believe in, is my power verses, as I call them. These verses spotlight the focus in this life into the next. I don't like change and yet I was born into a changing world. Once a man twice a child, that is if I am so lucky. 

I don't like the inevitable decay my body is undergoing after improving for about 50 years now disappearing, headed back where I came in. What was the purpose of all that? 

My power years came and went. As time increased speed I found I was fooled by time, and at that, every single tine. Gradually I discovered the truth. The truth cannot be told by those who know. I was told what it would be like, but I underrated it all until I found out the real truth was quite different all by myself. 

All things I saw in my life came from the unseen. Paul said something like this more than once. All things seen came from the unseen. Paul wrote the Corinthians, the seen is temporary  and the unseen is eternal. 

Definition in time

Heavenish, or Hellish?

Incarnation, that is to experience it, could be good or bad independently by itself.  However, in my view, reincarnation is quite another story. I know many like it the prospects of it, but the sticking point here for me is the prefix re puts me into a repetition sense which is a primary characteristic of a permanent position in a prison, mental physical or otherwise. I would be repetitively stuck repeatedly and eventually it would over control me into an increasing hellish story on the wall of a another mind, in a routine like a prison.

Time has no essence

Time fools us all because it seems more believable. We are born from uncompacting time to hopefully graduate, to be born this time into the eternal of the spirit, leaving the body's shell behind. 

While we speak we gradually frame ourselves to believe whatever our over riding outlook is becoming, or it could be simply  tongue belief.

The gravity of the unseen

Is God Close Enough to be Believed?

Speaking non-theologically with faith measured in, it is easy for me to conceive that if I have intense enough 

Time exists only in comparison

faith, enough faith that is, to believe whatever the  imagination can envision with the faith being spoken, like Jesus told us. Whereas otherwise, man devises all sorts of complex physical science artificially proven, compared to the uncomplications of faith.

Faith is defined as power coming from the unseen, according to how much power one can believe. It is seen physically in the dramatic charisma of planets orbited by others with lesser mass.

Quotebloking in the Bible

When I speak I reveal the fruit of my speech. The saying, I took it into my conversation reading the Bible, is the tree is known by its fruit. I've been hanging it in air around me for awhile  now. 

 Another important to me quote, I do not know where I got it. It just kept coming up in my conversation years ago. It was God is simple, it is man that is complex has turned out to be critical in my thinking right now.

From that another that captured me was that I should not give tongue to the devil. What I am coming to is the idea that persists in my mind that God spoke the world into existence. And God said and it was so in Genesis.

I am watching the clock over my shoulder right now in this moment in my space time life. Only time left to quote from one of my most favorite movies Beat the Devil, time always enters the picture in the end.

Time Fools Us All because it is Temporal

Can I Believe It?

I live in a time/space reality that came first from the spiritual, by the Holy Spirit. God spoke everything and it was so. He placed ideas in the hearts of His prophets, I think of as epiphanies. The word, epiphany was first used describing the heralding of the incarnation of the Son of God. 

The Biblical writer, Paul, in Hebrews, pairs the temporal as seen with the unseen, the eternal.  This is why many think, I believe,that he is the author of Hebrews. But it cannot be proven except to anyone's individual satisfaction like everything else. This is action is called, belief, in this case my belief. 

I've reviewed this before but I tend to bring things together to put my perspectives in action to see if everything fits in the foxhole. 

Just where this thread might take me gives me another viewing point, another objective angle, to test my belief in my effort to strengthen me in the foxhole. 

Devil in the Details

Lifting Up those Weak Arms 

Where would the devil take his newest admirers? I mean those wanting to learn their trade from the father of lies?

I think he would take them to church. For certain it would not be any of the sleepy barrooms, persistently comfortable and pleasantly leaning toward sleep. Now my view isthat his chief point of attack would not be Christ Himself, but His power.

He would take every chance to weaken that power and place doubts in members minds. Similar to the barrooms the devil very likely prefers church members who are side stepping slowly with sleep walkers.

Who could inspire such great writing?

Knowledge on display

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after nigh they display knowledge. Psalm 19: 1-2 (Click MANNA) left column

Ancient Writers Knew More Than We Credit Them for. Some scholars would rather  credit aliens from outer space as telling the ancients how to perform amazing feats left behind for us to wonder over today as to how they were ever accomplished without giant steam shovels floated over the ocean to isolated islands. Again, evidence was later found in Londonium library how Romans elevated huge precision cut stones in the Coliseum, furnish baths with water from far distances without alien assistance. Then again, elsewhere they stumble on  how a city disappeared into the sea or; how the Red Sea could catch a fleeing army, that is if it was once a tidal river at both ends. God is indeed a forerunner. If this satisfies us we find we will need more knowledge than ever just to fall behind.

Changed my mind?

Working out my own salvation? I have to watch my antecedents don't get mixed up with the precedents. Sometimes I feel Jesus is working me out. 

But very seriously, He worked out the precedents and it is up to myself to accept them. I believe the Holy Father, my Holy Father, sent Jesus. How many times did Jesus actually say He was sent by God in the High Priestly Prayer that we read all thru chapter 17 of John?

Muddling on Thru

I think, talk and write for my own benefit, just like I believe everyone else does. If anyone sounds like they are trying to convince anyone of anything, I do not believe it. Rather, I think they are trying to convince themselves.

What I am saying right now I believe, but with the passage of time I reserve the right to change my mind

See Memory Stones site linked above

anytime. I've changed my mind suddenly and slowly. I've circled around and met my views coming back. 

Once a man, and twice a child which is why I no longer trust the flesh. The flesh is like a flower, it blooms then fades and like a mist eventually then, all too soon, is remembered no more, like a dead man out of mind. As for myself, I am working out my own salvation. 

Most obvvious quote of the day

Only offensive people ever take an offense. It is an obvious sign of weakness to get offended. It means someone has your goat and you do not know where to find it. If I do take an offense I throw them under the bus and roll a compliment back over them, like coals on their head. 😉

Playing poker with God?

This is one of my favorite quotes for those who do not yet believe in God. If anyone does not believe in God then they will just have to be their own God. How would I bluff God is my question, since I just got here sooner than I thought likely to cash it in?

Time further out

Does digital time appear more frozen in sans serifs? Does analog time appear more emotional, looking ahead, in fancy serifs?   

Why is Mother Earth female?  Why is the Father of Lights male? How can time run out, if there is any time at all, since time only exists in a comparative state? Creativity demands every question in the mix. Answers appear secondarily. They only reveal more questions.

Working out my own salvation

Everyone Works Out

Their Own Proof

When I draw any conclusions about how I should view God I remember that I not only, do not have all the information in the matter, but I am talking about Someone who does.

 This is most important, I not only do not have all the answers but I do not even know all the questions. This puts me in a situation where my solving success presents me with more problems that I was aware of than before. 

So then, I am sheep and Jesus is my shepherd. All good things come down from the Father of lights and my only job is to love and trust the shepherd. This is so exhilarating and ecstatic, especially in a large chorus, that I never can get enough of praising and worshiping God.

the word made flesh.....

No Longer Under the Law?

Wondering

The law was given through Moses; grace and truth realized through Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father has explained Him. Open Bible, in John 1:17-18.
The word was made flesh and Jesus said the flesh cannot help us? Later.

Deep in my definitionals

No Figures of Speech

Only Faith

The way anything is presented is the singular definition of art. Art is the way we do anything and is like the song Benny Goodman recorded says, it is not whatca do, but the way thatcha do it. That is the only way of it, not merely my singular view. 

Jesus makes an statement, quoted in the Scriptures where it is translated that if anyone has enough faith they could cast mountains into the sea. 

Jesus says this to me, filtered down to me through several language translations, to illustrate that the power of faith has no limit. So here Jesus is my absolutely very highest authority in this very fact.

First, if Jesus is involved the Holy Spirit is involved. I am treading very softly now. This is not art, this is faith I am talking bout. Only faith pleases God so I am definitely not drawing any lines in this. 

There is no figure of speech in Jesus statement. such as this temple will be destroyed and I will raise it up in three days, as in one instance, nor is Jesus in any figure of speech, a mountain.

My final jump of faith is: If Jesus said it I believe it and I draw no lines nor qualifications. Where or when would I stop? Was Jesus' victory over the Cross a figure of speech? The devil knows I believe in Jesus without reservation so he does not attack Jesus directly, but he attacks Jesus' power.

I believe this power is exactly what Jesus was telling me: the power of faith has no limit. I know there is little faith and there is great faith. Then there is only faith, that is, only faith that is pleasing to God.

I am only a witness to what I believe. God has not told me what to tell anyone else what to believe. I do not dispute my view so I do not dispute anyone else's view.