Harder Questions?

Easier Answers! 

Reading in Psalms recently, as I often liked to do when I was formerly diligent tin my past, I came across where one Psalmist wrote that God did not require sacrifice and offerings.

Think of it! As far back as David yet, and they were still doing it in Jesus time. I was already at the time a little uncomfortable recalling when Jesus got so angry with the temple clergy, with me thinking Jesus loved and forgave everybody.

The answer for me was easier than I could expect, right there in front of me. It was the same answer as when. Jesus wanted everyone know He could forgive sins after He healed a woman and told her to sin no more. It is right there in the theme of the text. 

He just wanted them to know He could forgive sins. And I thought it was sins that made her sick. I was complex and Jesus was simple.

I tend to relate to words and let the numerologing go. What matters is that I know few answers to a myriad of questions. There will always even more questions to know that I could ever answer.

It is like living  in the little barrel thinking it is the entire world. The universe the physical scientist discovers it is expanding when it is only his awareness that is expanding. 

The universe is not expanding, it is our awareness that is expanding. How simple can it be more than that? I used to say here that God is simple, it is we who are complex but I did not know the half of it.

The answers for me are only easier because I cannot prove answers. I have to decide what answers to believe. Can I see gravity? Can I see even electric? What about electro-magnetic? One can see what it can do but not how. Everything seen came from the unseen.

My view is it is the Spirit that is the sole source of greater  power. 

Choosing My Faith

I Believe What I Will Become

My spirit will be according what I believe. So if I believe there is nothing after I die. then I will be born this time  into a non-existence and know it into eternity! Perhaps there are likely many dependent beliefs with which I would have to deal continually.

I instead, for myself believe I was promised being born again, so to speak, and I accepted as I was promised by Jesus who Himself was sent specifically for me by His Father, God as the last sacrifice. It is all too enormous to be fashioned into one sentence. 

But my Paraclete, my Counselor, my other Helper will speak for me before God who Himself will not tolerate nor allow any sin to appear before Him. I, like everyone, speak only for my own benefit. I am a witness only to myself. This is what I believe at the present moment but if I am ever convinced anytime in the future of anything different I will correct myself immediately. Everyone else takes responsibility and the credit for what they alone believe.

Time fools us all,

Everyone, as I've said before, knows they are not going to live forever. It is just no one is going to die, now. Then too, I at one time thought summers were forever, and I was shocked to find that my mother said I had to go back to school. Seems like time gets us in the end.

I say that because no one wants to leave the life we know any more than we got a kick out of being born. But there came a time when we are born again, that is, everyone is. The flesh as it slowly became evident, there was good no doubt about that.

But after a good spell on the jolly roll seemed to flatten out. Then life pointed in the other direction until there was no way out. No matter how long we live it gets lonely out there alone, without anyone to echo our memories. What great fun is it to struggle to their 100s if that is when one dies? Not much future into continuing to grow old.

I think life in the fading flesh is like an embryonic experience. Then we are born into the spirit, a spirit that we believed in. The spirit is very difficult for many to get a grip on, since there is no time to be born, like now.