On Why I Will Die

The Unseen is very Deep

I can sense it, there is a reason I will die, beyond prediction that draws me short of a complete eagerness of  anticipation which is, simply, then but not now.

However, the intricate unpleasantness of this world is passing away and I will be glad of that because so many in it do not wish each other well. 

It spoils the view for strolling at sunset.

On Chances

Time Slipping Into Eternity

It seems to me that I my banana peel, after all this time, were to increase during the first fifty years and decline the next thereafter. 

I racked up my body out of the gate and now my body seems like wanting to rack me up entering the home stretch. 

I just want younger folks to know what they have to look forward to. "Time is going to enter the picture in the end." Robert Morley in Beat the Devil. Next: Crucifying the flesh? 

I Am What I am

What I Speak is What I Get

A tree is known by its' fruit. And it is I found, as I repeatedly forget, the same with myself. So now I refuse to be offended because I not only do not want to be an offensive person, but I try to take watch over my tongue, so I do not create any unpleasant unwanted fruit of myself.

Taste buds change inside time

Success & Happiness

Front End Loading

 To my knowledge Ingrid Bergman gets the most frequent credit for this double quote.

Success 

is getting what you want. 

Happiness 

is wanting what you get.

Like reincarnation. Seems exciting going in but gradually the taste buds turn on the tum tum like in overdosing chocolate.  

I was my own God for a time

On

Being My Own God

I like to remind the casual hits that I cannot persuade anyone, they have to do that themselves, just like I am doing. 

If anyone's understanding of God does not please them then I myself have already been there and done that. I found being God was altogether too much work.

Everything appearing here is my own personal viewpoint on the date entered only and can change anytime. 

I naturally assume everyone has their own slant on things. But I suspect many who want to persuade others are actually, at the core of the apple, primarily trying to persuade themselves, seeds and all. 

The coincident is too intricate

Understanding the Unexplained 

Randomness seems to be at the root of many things but this is only because we do not yet understand many things. As a result not a few say there is nothing coincident at all.

I struggle to remember the more knowledgeable are slow to conclude. Probably this is because they have more to consider, being excessively rich in knowledge.

It is harder to believe in the heaven like spiritually transcendent if one seems to be there already.

The less knowledgeable are quick to speak and slow to consider since for them there is less known to consider. If all this is true then it can be seen why God can forgive. If God knowing all God can forgive all, proves God loves all.

It also proves God cannot permit evil or even tolerate it it in His presence. We all need another helper, a counselor, a paraclete to vouch for us even before God.

By itself it seems then as tho this is not fair to the ignorant, unless they have become consumed by destructive unforgiving spirits speaking for them instead. I walk in the fruit of my own spirit so long as I avoid personal judgments of others. Only God can judge.

Incarnation of God

Million & One Names for God

Recently  have learned of an an interesting I Am Jesus blog entitled Ryan Callahan's Blog focusing on the incidences recorded where Jesus made seven "I am" references to Himself in the Gospels.

Historically there has been a long standing tradition that no one has seen God and to look on His face would result in one's death. 

I have centered my own particular rifle-like attention on Exodus 3:14-15 when Moses talked with God after he was given the commandments and had asked God who shall he say sent him.   

Diligently seeking God

Thru a glass darkly

Deliberately Reading 

Vital Verses

When I was a  college atheist the weak-ish argument was that the Gospels did not agree with each other was well accepted by my newly knowledgeable crowd.

It mercifully ended when it finally occurred to me that if the Gospels did indeed agree with each other, then we could say it was therefore evidence instead of collusion. Aha!

So finally I figured it was that way across the board, and established a different routine using my Kindle, where I can switch easily to my favorite verses betwixt my Jesus Calling devotional and my NKJ. 

Am I on my way to a chapter and verse guy? 

My Foundational Quote

Hebrews 11:1-3 & 6 tells me only faith alone pleases God and here I labored to exhaustion trying to prove logic proved God was existent. Instead even proved proof itself, to a fine point, was only to one's satisfaction.

If I prove God exists then I have proved Faith in God is rendered not needed, zip zero. I did find one could not get one step ahead of God, not even a whole staircase full of steps for my part. 

It appears to me now I may have quite possibly befuddled myself as well into giving a tongue to the devil.  

Future of the Flesh

Think of a pleasantly viewed sweet smelling flower called the Venus Fly Trap.  

Or instead, picture a girl running screaming lickitysplit, while behind her a pre-dead mummified body, entirely bound in tape, one arm taped helplessly to his body, one taped leg dragging uselessly behind him, is almost about to catch her, but never does?

How soon unfamiliar fun and fresh new excitement can turn into a serious, very severe story with unanticipated endings? 

Dreams of the Thrill Seekers!

The question is what do I do with comedy? Can I laugh at myself? Peace may be good for eternity but not all comedy is idle when I've had a good laugh at myself. We learn more from failure than success, they say. Looks to me like a task for a look-see in Ecclesiastes.

The flesh will not help me: Jesus

The Truth Cannot Be Told 

By Those Who Know

What I started to wonder about was that in my lifetime my flesh builds up until it reaches a plateau. Then it passes from pleasure to pain and will so burden me until I leave it behind, itself altogether changed. 

All the seen world changes, it is built into change to change. My body not only changed but my mind did too. Still I am hesitant to change into the unchanging eternity of the unseen even as it is my only hope.

Even Paul wanted to be healed like everyone else does. He left us 2Cor4:16-18.

Swan Songs

A Tree is Known by Its' Fruit

When my flesh was itself born it was designed and created to serve as a temporary vehicle on its' way to deciding to become born again as a spirit. 

This struggle began for me very optimistically and I was enticed by many pleasures which gradually promises to turn pleasure to pain against me.

During this time I never heard anything about being born again in the church I was born into, the church I was married in, nor religious high schools and other prestigious colleges I attended and graduated from where I was told if I was educated then one did not believe in God.

Meanwhile I had previously collected my perfect attendance pins saved from Sunday School where I only heard about Bible stories not being true, since like Santa Claus only the meaning was true, also crafts, coloring books, and pulpit talk largely for the sake of the children.

Now, prompted by Sarah Young's famous Jesus Calling devotional, my favorite Bible verses so far are Hebrews 11:1, Mark11:23, 2Cor4: 16-18 and the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22. 

Quotes Better for Blogs

Blogging Better in a Book?

It is finally glaringly evident to me that blogging is best for short disjointed sound bites rather than as a longer more complicated vehicle. 

I am suddenly somewhat weary of blogging because by blogging I am writing forwards; but it is read backwards unless pervious posts can continually be consulted first. 

How then do I re-explain today what went before yesterday, so it can be understood today without burdening posted entries to a standstill? 

It reminds me that the devil can recite the Lord's Prayer... backwards! I do not want to entangle him in any unnecessary entries, so I will take a breath today to make a better point tomorrow.

People Like Planets

Time Only Exists

In a Comparative State

Therefore can time exist at all? Or, is this why time fools us, again every time? Since I am convinced that all that is seen came from the unseen. 

I wonder if God creates us all equally, or equally each to each ourselves. 

See Specific Theory

It is not a great leap for me to conclude that planets, that is lesser mass planets, orbit greater mass ones more charismatically physical planets. 

This is why time cannot exist by itself alone, but in comparison to another orbited object. This leaves time in a different calculation for each of all similar objects.

Therefore, finally my conclusion is that planets altho all created in the unseen, all not equally seen. Rather, some are more equal than others. It all depends on what our different perspectives ones position has.

So nothing can be equally proved for all, except for each to their own satisfaction.

Specifics for earth size

Only one thing is certain for me. If anyone thinks they know everything, then they must be convinced they are God. I would not anticipate any wide spread agreement. 

I hope one would not find themselves eventually slowly twisting in the wind.

Concept of dark holes

Science fiction writers run ahead of science fact as they become known to physical science which is the science of the seen. 

Isaac Newton was to my mind the first to who may have been early to realize he was observing physically unseen science such it was, gravity.  

Only the meaning?

I wonder how many think that in Mark 11:23 Jesus is speaking figuratively as in a parable, or not, as in a sermon like the one on the Mount.  

From the epiphanies

God is Simple, We are Complex

Wormholes, dark holes, ancient aliens are all complexities of the physical. God is a magnetic Spirit. He draws whom He will. This according to Jesus. 

There is no space sight or sound in the specifics of this transcending spirit action, who draws all things into changing appearances we observe as self consuming energy.

God is Existence. I am like a firefly in the night. I will be gone in the morning, when I will be born again as an attending reflection of the one Holy Spirit in the true light. What comes goes, if I can believe it enough as Jesus said, and throw a mountain into the sea.

Time is fooling us all

I truly believe it is difficult for many people to relate to the transcendent spiritual existence coming in all our futures. I see it this way because it is difficult for myself, even with the second half of my life already in physical decline. The tug of my temporal world is strong. 

If it would be true that when I die my life will all simply turn, like in a movie, to physical black, for me there are  many unknowns fog my view. Suicide itself has a  strong sense of insult to God, who has left us many physical traces of His prior presence. 

Also, who would, of all people, pick Paul, who was murdering followers of Jesus, to write much of the Bible? What a great pick as it turned out! Truly God's way is above our ways.

What Is the reason why

We have to forgive everybody?

My understanding is revenge belongs exclusively to the my Lord. This is the general view. It is easy for God to forgive because He knows everything.

I think when I do not forgive I step outside love and I can be destroyed. My view is only God can judge and He gave this power to His Son.

Only God knows whether anyone truly repents of unspeakable evil deeds. Since we know it is easy for God to forgive because He knows all, there is this for me to consider. 

If anyone is guilty and they have let an evil spirit control themselves then they cannot repent of the penalty since it would appear they are no longer in control of themselves, the evil spirit is, and they do not repent.

The main thing is for me not to meddle in things too deep so I do not step  outside love. I am not God and I cannot judge, so that way judgement, being totally reserved for God, is for my benefit. 

I am thereby protected from evil. I am not glad or even relieved about it. It is still unspeakably sad and over-rideingly depressing.

By those who know

The Truth Cannot Be Told

This is my most favorite quote of all time. Many quotes are credited to many authors. The better the quote the longer the list of credits.

This quote this morning was authored by the greatest stock market trader of his age. It ended a suicide in the public men's room of a fancy downtown New York hotel. 

He did not intend is as a quote but to rather describe pool trading, well known in its' day, but which I will not take time to explain further now.

But I, when a read about it, immediately seized upon it as the best quote of all time, had it been intended for that. It has nothing to do with stock trading. I say will  why later today, as soon I can, but I have to move on right at this particularly moment sudden shot out of tine.

See Spot Run

Up until I was fourteen there was no way you could tell me what it was like to be fourteen that is, until I got there myself.                                     

Things continued that way the rest of my older life. In every case that I observed, the younger thinks they know more than the older. This directly in the face of the older. It seems that we know more when there is less we actually do know. In my case the more I learned the stupider I felt.

Inspired during my current devotional ...

My Future is in the Present Tense

My hope for my future, is to be in heaven. Even so, my future hope in heaven is itself, all this while, in the present, being that heaven itself is without time. So all eternity is in the present.

I finally, as Paul told the Corinthians in 2 Cor: 10:5 demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. And I take captive every thought to make it obedient to Jesus. I write this with unceasing gratitude and praise.

Hi Ho Silver Quote

The Tree is Known by Its' Fruit

I am quite certain this quote came to me from the Bible, but I heard it first on the radio's Lone Ranger when one evening when I heard Jay Silverheels ask Clayton Moore how he knew who the guilty party was, when all the Lone Ranger asked who the guilty party was. 

The guilty always speak up first Tonto the Lone Ranger said. And so it is also, when anyone speaks derogatively against another, they are exposing what is in their own heart, thoughts, and mind. 

Parables are figurative

Great Faith vs Little Faith?

It seems to me that many of us, myself included, want to go to heaven, but not right now. It sounds together like a good enough definition of forever to me if I ever heard it.

As for Matt 21:21 - So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have (enough in some translations) faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done."           

Now according to my own personal way there is no evidence this statement from Jesus now that there is any evidence Jesus was speaking figuratively, as there would be if it were set in a parable. There is no para, alongside comparison as there is in a parable. 

It is a flat out stand a lone statement. In a parable the story is not true but is made up to illustrate the spiritual which is true. In Matt 21:21 there is nothing similar to a parable. '

The setting does seem inspired by Psalm 46 however. My view is strongly in favor of the power of faith here, notice from Jesus Himself. There are many, maybe many more if they thought about it, who do not agree with me but rather favor a figurative view. 

This, I tend to think, weakens the strength of Jesus statement from my personal orbit. When do I stop? Is the Cross figurative as well?

The Beginning & the End

Original Sin True or Conundrum?

It is a instinctual effort that we all seem to be attracted to the effort to, to try and figure everything out. The desire for knowledge leads me back to that tree in the Garden of Eden. 

The desire for knowledge in disobeying God's warning not to eat of that particular tree is wanting, at the root of it, is to be like God. Same as the devil himself. 

I have nothing to contribute to the Melchizedeck thing and Revelation is the opposite, to my mind, full of symbols. So I have decided to step aside of both issues. Instead I am going to work on my ideal of "greater faith". Is it just figurative or only a parable? I myself think not.

Melchizedeck? 

We don't know for sure yet what is coming and we do not know what went before. What to do with these speculations? What does Melchizedeck mean for me?

Neglecting the Power

 Stifling the Spirit

When I was racking up perfect attendance pins in Sunday School I did not believe anything Jesus said about if someone asks me for my shirt to give him my coat also. 

Neither did I give any truth to the story the Rabbi's sternly told Jesus He should not heal on Sunday.

I dismissed it altogether, never thought a thing about it until I discovered much, too much, later that that Jesus' commandment was telling me the flesh could not help me. It was the spirit that was my vital road to eternity. 

Even during the rallies of Billy Graham, never a mention about being born again in any churches I heard about made any a stir. Probably because it was never taught in the seminaries.

Maybe some educate themselves out of faith and into fellowship dinners?

2nd Cor 16-18

Daily Renewing My Inner Man

I, as Paul said it best, pray any affliction I experience now is producing for me an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison to my decaying flesh. This is my hope.

Quoteblokes Doubling Up

It Was a Cold and Dreary Night

If success is getting what you want. Then happiness is wanting what you get. If I ask someone a question and they cannot explain it in twenty-five words or less I figure they do not know a thing about it. 

Reading the tea leaves

If they are still talking after fifty words I reason they know quite bit about it but cannot make head nor tail of any of it. If they in the process have learned how to teach, they likely spent their time learning to teach and forgotten how to learn.

If anyone is educated then they know the Gospels do not agree with each other, and so they have proof it is all due to collusion?   

Power praying

He is not here

Some, hopefully many, are emotionally charged reading the Bible, thanking and praising God. I focus on Jesus, and continually thank the Holy Father. Earlier, sometime ago it was, I received answers from the Holy Spirit often.

Not always but No emotion equals no power is my sense of it. Praying seemed then primarily leaning toward matter of fact. I would have to say aggressively so but with very dramatic consequences for me personally. 

I concentrate solely on faith now with a strong increasing edge on my no matter what attitude. There is a greater sense of emergency in the air that only increasing age brings into the mix.   

Morning on my mind

My Devotional Readding Now

When God impresses me most

I do not stop in my morning devotional, I read until I am satisfied. I, who bought and received devotionals all my life, but never read them, stopped reading in November last night.

Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. Psalm 73:23-24

I often stop when I read a verse too good not to dwell on it further at the time.. I sometimes wonder if I have picked up my cross yet, I have put it back down so many times. I want to be in glory but the body says not right now. However I am further on than before, On the go again....

When my flesh gives up the spirit

Not Easy Shaking Loose the Flesh

If I did not believe after my body gives up the spirit that things will continue to exist, then I am afraid I might not exist, but continue to know it. Not existing is a state of the spirit which once existing knows itself. 

Otherwise to my mind a person never could exist which cannot be true. I believe, as I find many do, that everyone existing exists forever similar to Eternalism. I would know internally that I no longer exist eternally forever. To avoid this problem it seems to me at this point is that the single most primary force I need is not reasonings, but faith.

Seen & Unseen difference

Being  Cautious of Change

All things that are seen are subject to change and are temporal like the flesh. All things unseen are where the temporal are conceived, in a state where there is no change and so is eternal. This is where the transcendent spiritual resides in an unchanging present tense state. 

Individuals are all first born in the flesh tabla rosa and must be born (again) in the spirit to continue into the hope of eternity of what they believed. 

Time appears to be stopped

If they are not, and this is what I personally believe, is that if they are not, then they will get whatever it was that they did believe to unexpected consequences. Unexpected perhaps because of continuing effects of unpredictable unchanges.  Since I do not know all the questions involved, nor even if I did, do not know all the answers, this effort is  continually updated.....  

Jesus said

Everyone is either drawn by God  or not. I was drawn and accepted Him because all His  commandments benefit me. 

Chapter and Verse?

Peek into Manna (click here or in Manna in left column) I would like to find time for my favorite verses again. Thinking of typing select ones in a list to get them together, maybe even memorizing a few just to have a toe in the water in the chapter and verse league.  

Why?

Transcending the Transcendent 

Why do I believe in God? I believe because I enjoy it and I am engulfed in it. I am not encamped round about with doubts or anything else that includes the flesh, nor any kind of information nor knowledge, true or not true, nor anything valuable one of a kind whatsoever.

Even the overly educated stand with empty pockets in the final tally up. Too much knowledge promotes time consuming doubts. Also even valuable objects, simple as they are, are not owned. They are only momentarily controlled. 

Soon, as time continues to fool us all, life will be over getting better and right in the middle of it all, it is time to wear out and break down on an inevitable glide path into incinerated powder. All because the seen is temporal and the unseen is eternal? This is where power is seen because I believe for my part everything seen came out of the unseen.

Anything eternal is eternal for a reason.  

Why Things Circular are Orbital

Every Good Thing Comes Down

From the Father of Lights

 When I arrived in Greenland the sun no longer went up and down, but around and around. Are all things circular orbital in the foundation of things? Why would that be?

No Matter What

I strongly suspect there is a reason but I do not know it. And so what if I don't? It may matter but it doesn't for me. I believe what I believe and I do not know how and I do not know very deeply why. 

I do not care if it is true even. The truth may exceed anything that appears to be so, or not so. Magic now, facts later.

Why I believe updated

Proof Requires "Little Belief"

Everyone decides what proof is to them and whether or not it is satisfying to them. Just like all astral objects they all have different orbits and different views of everything, even if only slight differences.

Thereafter they are then attracted to other objects, like people are attracted each differently, to each other according to their different charisma mass.

So my conclusion is that we all have our own satisfaction conclusion proving everything. We are all like a famous sportsman who could be right, while appearing to be wrong depending on various perspectives. 

Charisma

So I believe all things can be proved or disproved according to each our own satisfactions. However, if anyone requires proof regarding their knowledge of God then they do not solely believe, which is the requirement of God. Belief is silent in the face of proof, is my personal conclusion.

The same stands for logic, or the views of others, which as child among adults influenced me for instance. On the side little belief is a close shadow to a wavering lack of belief. Next: I will describe what convinces me regarding every thought I understand about God.

God not merely scientifically based

Our Rules 

for God to Meet?

There probably are quite a few people who require facts, proof, scientific explanations, logic for the existence of God so that they can believe.

There are quite a few impressive people engaged in that effort and I wish them well.

It is an established agreed upon conclusion that God is not impressed with any of those expectations. Only one fact, faith, pleases the Holy Father. If I have scientific facts to convince me to believe then there is absolutely no need for faith. And only faith pleases Him. 

Jesus also is reported in the Bible to explain that if one wants to believe in God then God first will draw that person to Him, first.

Lastly, I believe we can only prove the existence of God each to our own satisfactions as I worked out logically in previous posts. Scratch that logically business, in case I am too close to being caught in my own figuratively tiny tangle. Still, I am going to believe no matter what. Next: Drawn to God?

How to pick a God

If I have decided not to be my own God because of my limited time on the scene and I realized I do not even know the questions, let alone the answers I am facing what would I want for my God? 

First of all I would find comfort if He was like me and had prior knowledge to benefit me and placed them in my heart so I could recognize them instantly by default. He would promise me this because He cannot lie and I would have to trust Him on it. 

He would promise me every good thing, especially love, so He could create all good things including hope for more than I can ever anticipate. I have found it helps to be somewhat more stupid rather than too smart.

We get what we got

No Matter What

If God does not draw someone to Him then that person is a non believer. If I understood Jesus correctly God is in charge. Jesus lost many followers after this remark. I do not have to understand it. 

God spoke everything into existence and it was so. What He said is on display and there it is. It is all in what anyone wants to believe and they will live with it forever.  

Alongside: the Quoteblokers

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

Quoteblokes

 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.