On Coincidences

All Randomness Has a Purpose

I do not believe in coincidences, therefore I do no believe in random creations. What appears as random coincidence is simply because I, nor anyone else, understands them.

I rather think that today's scientific knowledge was largely yesterday's magic. A consciousness knows a lot more than we do, including all the why's, when's and what for's. On the other hand, slowly now, the more we know, the more we know there is more than ever that we don't know yet.

Bottom line: Faith! We do not know. We believe what we do not know. Except of course, if everything is to our own satisfaction. 

On Trusting Jesus

My walker broke. I look at it this way. Jesus wants me to discover who I trust, Him or my walker.

On the Home Team Winning.....

Or Favoring the Odds

Among people who like sports are those who like to predict outcomes. I wonder if they can do both well at the same time?

Why did Jesus say we cannot serve two masters? There are in my view, not a few who like church socializing  and positions who seldom share or even mention their own personal relationship to Jesus or their being born again. 

Rather, perhaps they think of other things that attract them. Among those who like to predict sports outcomes, one I would think they would focus either on money or whether their favorite home team wins against all odds.   Then there is this to consider. Those who bet on there being no God will, if they are right, win nothing. If they are wrong, they lose eternity. Never bet against God, He has the odds in His pocket.  

Original Sin

Drinking the fragile brew.

Of Artificial Intelligence

Trusting God is not easy to do after one is trapped, albeit enticed, at the base of the tree of knowledge. God placed in the hearts of ancient prophets that He saw man, when he created a building to the sky, that he could do anything he set out to do, due to the rewards of persistence. 

This actual amazing building was interictally designed to bring water to the highest levels. But who believed at the time one day men would  be high step walking on the moon?

Now at the tidal entry of artificial intelligence, it is thought, man will be wrestling with the privilege's and judgements of God.

Even tho it may be thought to be a convincingly good idea that everyone is equal, it is always eventually seen that most are less equal than a few, meaning free decision makers are reduced. So since a few are more equal than others, everyone else ends up in flyover country.

Then enter the perils of play acting God.

Jesus Talking

It is not what goes into the mouth that defies a man, it is what comes out of the mouth that defies a man. This is what I call a power quote by Jesus. Exclamations and idle words can be a problem for their tendency  toward automatic responses taking the power out of my tongue.

I've often heard people calling Jesus' name in vain trying to escape their responsibility by saying they were not referring to Jesus by saying His middle initial was "H'.  The devil I'll bet tricks them by meaning the middle initial is H to be for Himself.

Nevertheless this idle word and vain name ring thru my nose is a hard reflex to eliminate. But I am trying with some success to eliminate such automatic reflexes and it is working to a great extent. It is improving my well being outlook also. 

Jus as the tree is known

by Its' Fruit I Am Known 

All information in this blog is hearsay. Even to myself since with time passing I will change my my outlook as I move along. 

Everything changes in this world, that is what this world is based on. I grew fifty years, then I will also decay fifty years, changing my outlook as I go changing along.

I am watchful I do not appear to lose my composure in the face of hostile belligerence because it is a sign of vulnerability, an indication of weakness. I never want to think I'd would give anyone power over me to make me angry.

The shouting voice is expending its' energy revealing itself while the quiet voice keeps its' power in reserve. 

The tree is known by its' fruit. When I judge someone else then likewise, I am judging myself. Best let God do the judging rather than visit my judgements of another on myself. I write this for my own benefit.

Temples First Restaurants

Or so I have been told. I once entertained a fellow Protestant who thought Baptists were founded by Martin Luther, but argued tenaciously that he, ML, was a Protestant and definitely not a Catholic priest.

Oh yes he was, so I told him it was all founded by a priest of the Catholic Church to spice up attendance. 😉 Later, have to run now.....

Where was I? Oh yes, rise of the city states. To nip this little episode in the bud, there was a lot of fighting going on that inspired me to embrace a climatology view of history weaving everything together decorated with more interesting interludes that would make the well known trivialiteer Tony Randall envious.

At any rate the most successful churches in history have been Christian churches...until now about to be surpassed, it is predicted, in ten years. This includes megachurches. Thread got itself lost but will be picked up again.

Once Exiisted Exists Forever

The Invisible Man

The headline on the previous entry I first saw on a headstone in New Hampshire, I think it was, for Claude Rains. He was an English actor in the Golden Era of stars like Clark Gable and Bette Davis, who said she admired him as an actor. He was the invisible man in that now culture film. Claude Rains

Everything.....

Once Existing, Exists Forever 

I believe my life is only a beginning. It has all the ear marks of a prenatal state. I do not mean I am stuck in endless reincarnations increasingly burdened by hellish repetitions. 

I was born into a body that increases and then decreases like a flower or a mist. Hell in my view is to never exist any further and to know it, forever. 

To continue the only way is I must be born again as Jesus taught. This is into or out of the seen changing world into the unseen eternity, the spiritual. 

And then I have expectations of amazing and wonderful things God has prepared for me beyond anything I could ever ask or think. 

Waiting on the Lord

Persistence Never Gives Up

I am thanking Jesus most of the time and some what less often it is for healing me. As things are, leaning on the arm of flesh has given me more trouble than I like to say.

But I should persist praying for relief more, remembering Jesus said if, as I take it, if I am not healed it is because I do not persist in prayer or, I ask not so I receive not.

Faith like a child

I never consider when or if Jesus is going to answer me. There is no when in eternity anyway. I mustf go by faith not by feelings, which I believe is the direction Jesus is guiding me, even turning set backs into leap forwards. This is my hope and I thanking Him daily in every tiny event no matter what. I sense a vulnerable defenselessness when I have not.   

Praise & Gratitude

Thanking Jesus for Suffering

When I am suffering, as I do 24/7, or afraid, about to be tested to see if my cancer is doing anything, I praise Jesus and thank Him twenty-four seven.

I thank Him daily and constantly, knowing His suffering was unspeakably greater than mine. And not only that, His was voluntary and onto death three days and nights.....for me. 

I recall reading Paul when he wrote he lived with his thorn in the flesh knowing it would be such a short time he would experience it, compared being healed and rejoicing in eternity.

Time runs out

Book with a Singular View

Being too busy is a distraction from reading the sayings of Jesus. I know. I had been reading a book containing only His words until yesterday. Busy time is lost time in the end.

On Being with Jesus

Safe & Sound

I picture myself in heaven, I am sitting just slightly behind Jesus on His left side, listening. I am not saying anything. What would I say to Jesus? He knows everything both now and what is to become.

I am only comforted to be safe where He is, thanking Him in my prayers for everything I know, both it good and bad, including whatever may be reassuring or threatening.

I feel like my little pup dorg Butter, a pug by trade.

On God & Comedy

Nonsense & Idle Words

I love to laugh and make fun of the human condition in all its' pretense, my own and friends. I've analyzed the anatomy of nonsense which is some serious stupidity right there. Jesus says to let our words be yes and no. I have not yet figured the full meaning of those words, nor the practical usage of them.

So why do we call Him Jesus? Even more serious and more clear to me, are idle words spoken in vain. Exclamations like Jimmeniny Crickets! are suspect. Not only suspect but they trivialize a serious outlook on life that mocks the Eternal and the Holy. 

On Getting Ahead from Behind

Crucifying the Body

In Favor of the Spirit

 Since my body will not help me, according to Jesus, but will crucify me as I get older, the signals are in gear for me to have faith and no ought against any.

I am getting lingering signals the long term it is to my benefit if I do not drain my time and energy annoying myself not trusting Jesus to for everything, the good the bad and the ugly.

To pick up my cross and follow Jesus is becoming increasingly clearer than I ever conceived previously. In a changing world I am changing for my unseen eternal benefit.

As with everything in the seen, it is the same with time. All I can do with it in the end is to measure it.

On Why I Will Die

The Unseen is very Deep

I can sense it, there is a reason I will die, beyond the accepted prediction drawing me short of a total eagerness for eternity. 

This because the anticipation, simply put, has an end times unpleasantness. Times that themselves, it could be said, are passing away. Maybe I will be glad of that anyway, 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.