Mark of intelligence

Most intelligent people respect those with great intelligence, but the most intelligent people respect their own ignorance. 

Why we cannot outsmart God

It takes considerable knowledge just to know the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell

What does "again" mean as in being "born again"?

The mind can only influence my body that is seen, but only the spirit can influence both the seen and the unseen.    

Notice the spirit influences both seen and unseen but it takes substantial faith to dominate the seen body while I am seen. Otherwise I do not know. The again as in born again is a term can be problematical it seems to me. 

Our mind and our spirit

Confusion can stumble in to the mix with the word "again" because the spirit is, I think, born additionally when the body is born and is not connected to the heart as such. So if one is born again that means the spirit is born within and the mind is born, as it is,  of involuntary physical control of the physical body. 

My mind tells my body what my body wants

So if the spirit is born with the body I guess you could say it is born again, but it seems to me the spirit is making its presence known for the first time. That would mean the word again lumps it in with the body, suggesting to my impression at least, that the spirit was born previously, as the word again suggests.

In all events, the mind influences the body while the spirit controls the body once it is born, either for the first time or again.

The mind con influence the body, not with its own power, but only as the spirit being in harmony with the Holy Spirit. I say harmony because there are many negating spirits with various amounts of power and control that can take over the mind along with the body easily. (All published entries are continually subject to constant editing at any time.)

This is my name forever

 the name you shall call me

from generation to generation

I am who I am. This is what God

said to Moses, who was the first to report who God said He was.  Exodus 3:15

This was God's definition of Himself and by faith I believe the report of Moses not only because Moses was the first, in my view becoming an authority in the definition, not because it makes complete sense to me, not because of Moses reputation, but because I was told in an epiphany, "God is Existence".

Celebrations praising existence

Well being...

All things will be new

Like a butterfly the Spirit is born in those that believe. The flesh prospers, but unhindered, disappears into decay. Therefore I must continue to concentrate on the laws of God, the commands of Jesus, and the peace beyond all understanding, delivering the advice of the Holy Spirit. 

Jumping ship of flesh

Born in time

Becoming aware of our spirit...

First we are born into time then into the eternal where there was never any time.

Many are never born into the second birth  perhaps because they never understood it. The first was the seen life of the flesh and the second is the unseen life of the spirit. The first to explain the spirit and this second birth was Jesus Christ. As far as many of us go, like myself, we did not think of being born again until we saw the first birth leaving us with a failing body, suggesting to ourselves it was closing in on its final course. Only then do we think of another birth, this time onto eternity beyond the flesh. 

Definition of time

Not by chance computers

Modeled on our brain

Time is fooling us all. Perhaps every single one of us! Many live as if there is a future but as we get older we will be just older but won't notice all that much. In order to keep my longer term viewpoint active upstairs in my puzzle factory, I have best advised myself to read the Bible.

Eternity is compared only to itself?

Reading the more meaningful verses, relevant to myself, is the only way I am told I will gain faith. There is an instinctual idea in my brain that we can control the seen world with our psychologically spiritual tools, like faith, attributes of the unseen.

All the seen worlds hang on nothing. They are attracted by those bodies that have a greater mass. Just like us human beings. There are those who have greater charisma than others. It is the others who are attracted into the orbits of those with greater charismatic mass.

I feel certain the similar tendencies involving the seen bodies apparently hanging on nothing are extended similarly in the unseen world. Meanwhile my eye is on the clock, time for me to (get ready) to go. It is better to keep a footstep ahead of the clock than to wonder where the time went.

Definition of the future

Now we see as through a lens darkly

But soon face to face?

The course of things warlike

Is each day a rehearsal for our entire lifetime? And while we sleep, everyone dreams, even if it is soon forgotten. And these dreams seem so real at the time. But upon looking back on remembered dreams, 

I wonder why it appeared so real then and afterward so sparsely plausible upon remembrance. It is just like, I believe, we are being shown each day a lifetime. We are living now in a strange dreamlike scenario telling us how it is going to happen going forward. Is it preparing us for the future in some way? We see now as through a lens darkly but soon face to face?

Hanging on to the Holy Spirit

Understanding importance of the spiritual 

All things seen came from the unseen

Some people cannot conceive of a spiritual situation, I guess because they cannot see it. 

Still, they are quite often found in church circles. Strong believers in various viewpoints they nevertheless cannot relate to the existence of spirit. Everything for them is seen. The unseen they cannot see.

Inside of the cup

Beware murky spirits.

The theme of Jesus ministry was the Spirit, both each person's spirit and the Holy Spirit. There are many benign spirits but predominantly one is concerned with the very good spirits on a continuum to the very bad, including the worst spirits, demons. They can completely take over an unguarded person's spirit and their personality entirely. Demons can recite the Lord's Prayer backwards because they are the opposite.  For this reason I lean away from anything backwards.

I do not myself want any truck with demons or throwing out demon possession. Lewis in the Screwtape Letters is as far as my curiosities go with all that. 

There are those with psychic abilities but I advise anyone not to engage any interest in the entire field because it is not only unfruitful and dangerous, but anything not connected directly to Jesus I would not trust whatever. I also regulate much of the benign portions of mediums as parlor tricks and essentially entertainment.

Speaking, like God "says"

 I think it best to follow whatever you believe in. If I believe in God, than I think and do things the best I can just like Him. 

Observe Jesus how did He act and talk when someone wanted to be healed. I think it best to try and follow His lead. 

Lou Gehrig Headstone

 Long after his headstone was erected, when he was 38, visitors have left mementos. I learned upon my visit that the grounds keepers clear it off monthly. Everything has been left at one time or another. Ball caps, baseballs, scorecards, etc. 

You can view the full Mt. Kensico Cemetery scene in Memory Stones, if you scale down, you will find the Gehrig stone, shown there among other celebrities. What is curious I thought, was that his and his wife's ashes are said to be contained the center of the stone inside, in what appears to be a copper enclosure. Unusual, if true. 

Notice the top of the
Gehrig Headstone in Mt..Kensico

Also, I recently became aware that he played after Babe Ruth left the Yankees, which never occurred to me, During this period, before the disease struck him down, he played better than previously alongside Ruth, it was said. (See Sportspence for mention of his slugging percentage records alongside Ruth, Williams, and Foxx.)

End of the day

 Rambling Road

The road gets darker toward the end of the day. And, as I am likely to do, constantly on watch if change should come suddenly, since no one knows, I cannot avoid, when the blow may fall. I think I would be more confident in my belief if I not had so much time idly spent. But how impressed can God be without time on His heels, like I am now. 

It is good to have hope

I remember being quite impatient with the Holy Spirit who did not seem to be the kind to waste words. My answer, all the time, was sitting there right in front of me and I had no idea it was so obvious. I am so thankful for this late chance to work things out. 

The rapidly increasing painful  road getting there is where the dread lies waiting. Unbeknownst to me, the flesh was fading from the beginning. Time fools us all, and time is fooling me at this very moment, even as I realize it is so. But even as Job declared, tho he kill me yet will I trust Him.