No eye has seen, nor ear heard, and no mind imagined

 what God has prepared for those who love Him

All things good about God

 Appreciation of Jesus

Why do Christians appreciate Jesus so excessively? I would say it depends how much value they place on God's existence. Specifically, all God's existence and everyone else's existence. It would be of no value if one lived alone, with an unshared existence.  

Everything about God is positive, so positive it is holy, leading us in rejoicing and appreciation of God. Everything He tells us to do benefits us from beginning to end, if there is such. It is written no one has envisioned or looked forward to all He has prepared for our future. All things desirable in proper measure; everything spiritual in unending expansion. 

This changing world

In this world everything is changing

Everything is evolving, and much of it in this world, very dramatically so, even if I close my mind one second. One only has to look at photographs of famous people. Some of them are not recognizable. In my own high school year book us sguys have come to look like little "cromagnons" with our hair lines an inch above our eyebrows. Time to work out my salvation. 

Words are wonderful

Words are for This World

Those in the various disciplines usually develop a lingo to keep other people out. Also, I find it quite amusing that everyone believes their own salvations, if only in a slightly different manner. They often get upset, even if only internally, if they think someone has a slightly different view than theirs. In fact, the pressure is so great that they just as often seem to differ with another's views even when both views agree.

This is because, I think, they are basically deep down trying to persuade themselves. There is no accounting for all the different views people have and another reason could be our variety in the means of communication. Everyone are inside themselves thinking everyone else is understanding. 

Vocabulary is the culprit. Words are powerful but are just not the most accurate way to communicate. Spiritually, is the best, the quickest way to communicate. I think is easily seen that, Wait, wait, oh oh, oh no. Many people are not fully aware of spirit, even if they say they are. 

Jesus spoke often spiritually, although not metaphorically. Words require the hearer to interject much of themselves into their reading.  What we hear tells more about ourselves than those whom we are talking about. Forgiveness is for the benefit of the forgiver. 

Benefactors coming & going

Edge of time.

Something for Extra-Terrestrials

We do not really own anything. We only control it for a time, a very short time. It might be handed down from time to time until it is destroyed, perhaps forgotten, maybe lost altogether. All that until finally, if it does survive, no one will have any idea of how it was built, what it is or what it was used for, especially in the case of impressively erected edifices. Just like today, they will wonder all over again how the ancients became the benefactors of whomever from outer space. Otherwise, they certainly could not have done anything so great themselves. How could they accomplish anything so extraordinary? 

In all future generations, the original owners or creators, will be thought of as myth makers "less than knowledgeable." This is natural for them to think that because they are also without all the facts and therefore themselves less than knowledgeable. 

Life at the carnival

Knowing there is & Knowing there isn't

If I contend the atheist view cannot maintain whether there is a God or not with their incomplete knowledge, how can I contend whether there is a God with my own lack of knowledge? 

If anyone conceives of many Gods, like some ancients did, then they are indicating they only conceive of Gods being not much different than themselves.

I notice that there has long been the view deep in our instincts that God places ideas in our hearts. We did not create ourselves. Correct? Not only that, but we did not even fathom one thing about existence in any form. So how can we envision, with any luck, very much from physical science?

One such scientific fellow however did figure out that there was a 67% chance there was a God. Like any carnival it appears that in some quarters "you pays your money and you takes your chances." 

Moving Over

All things seen came from the unseen

All Our Speaking 

Is Before God

It is easy for me to develop a taste for almost anything. I just do it often enough. Guess it would be the same for many things, such as posting my blog. So, I figure if I want to gain more faith then there is nothing for it but to develop a daily posting habit. It would certainly keep my mind on track. Ideas wandering randomly around in my head go nowhere. And I might not like anywhere it takes me it when I got there. 

Therefore, in my case posting here is like talking in the presence of God. How different that is from privately praying is "off topic" and difficult for me to say at the moment.  But at this very moment it strikes me I do not prefer using the word create when I want to say speak. God creates, right enough, but it seems like a somewhat weak word to describe the doings of God. I would say even doctrinaire.

I am conscious God is in the mix. So, for me, posting is like praying privately, not corporately, before the world. I am not writing in cement. I am reflecting a time locked view of my spirit.  

Instead of the word creation, I most like to use the word speak, God speaks, and it is created, in my mind, already. But speaking is important for everyone, it would not be noticed if it were not in the Bible, when God created. 

I am speaking right now myself, and I am creating, speaking, the reflective words of my spirit. If God creates that way, I think it good advice for me to think the same. Just like if God is your copilot, the better idea is to move over.

One can only believe oneself....

 Demonstrations of the Spirit

Events often occur which totally convince many people there are spiritual events, like today's UFOs, occurring in their lives from time to time. Unfortunately to retell them is to cast oneself into a deep realm of unbelievability that downgrades the reliability of the teller. So, it is better to leave them alone I always thought. Still, there are so many of them accumulating in recent events that I came to suspect there may very well be something unexplainedly quite real to them. But it is apparent it all depends upon to whom it happens.

Moving from the seen into the unseen....

Who can keep up with God?

 I do not know all the questions I'll encounter in what time I have left coming up, let alone fathom any answers. Therefore, I am going to ease up, as best I can on my logic jazz, and leave the rest of the questions to be answered to God. With His record He can deal with them.

Having made all the logical conclusions to satisfy myself, I am going to turn to singularly to increasing my faith. How I am going to do this I cannot rightly predict beyond the lone fundamental way suggested in the Bible. That is, reading and meditating on the Word that I sense will carry me from beyond myself in this world, into the spirit.

It may be that all these calculations I've been making are more of a distraction than I realize. It may be that anything I believe is more important to the truth of anything I've yet considered.

I've always felt previous to this that there was a certain limit to any goal or any satisfaction in my mind. I long felt that the mind is supposed to direct the body and the spirit the soul. When I use the word soul, I suddenly realize I've not yet well enough settled the definition of soul in a logical manner. It may not be so easy moving on.

Churches often test one's faith

I Guard my faith in church

In case I lose it there

 So, as I suggested earlier, there is no telling what one could encounter in the Protestant lineup. Now the Catholic experience is the complete opposite. Anytime someone comes on the scene with a different emphasis, there was no allowance to go off and start a new church. They simply tell offshoots to stick around, and they will give them their own "order."

Therefore, today it is not uncommon for there to be in a single community, one very large Catholic church and a good dozen or more smaller Protestant churches. When a Protestant church accumulates 500 or more members, they will very often just as likely spin off another totally independent church.

Not to say there aren't any, but I have never myself found a terribly harmonious Protestant church. It is certainly not easy. There is a lot of rule or ruin thinking under the surface in my experience, if anyone wants to admit it. This is where I think many of the 'hypocritical' complaints come, from many of the disaffected. 

Hopalong Dare Along

A true agnostic will usually always slide slowly into the atheist column in my view. The reason they often give me is that people who say they do, don't. I made the same mistake as a child and carried it into my college years where I discovered I did. My class in logic finally sank into marblehead. 

So, then I ask how they defined God. Late at night after the goings on of various seminars I've known of several discussions which ironed that nicety out. But I only heard of one minster who did mention, on television yet, that "we" should preach on this.

But never I heard of anyone who did. I love the one about the supreme being, and another about "love." Many give me the "goalong" definition, that is go along with yours truly. That is when I spring my trap, all for the sheer delight of it, I confess. The I ask who does God say He is, that is, specifically? To which they respond again to their first, "according to me, their "all along go along."

One minister, a very interesting guy I discovered, who from pulpit said he did not "believe" in Jesus. It sounded to me like he was saying, like you, perhaps my imagination. So afterward at coffee, I asked him what he did believe. He gave many long and repetitive answers of what he did not believe.

One wonders what he was preaching from the pulpit at all. I finally concluded from his comments that it was because his wife died. I was tempted to tell him, that was a selfish thing she did to him. Likely never gave him a thought, just off and died on him. BTW he gets a salary for this so maybe it was not so bad as imagined. Nothing like a little lucre to clean things up a bit.

Greatest single sermon....

All About Jesus

And God's Existence

I remember a pastor, now deceased, who preached the same sermon every week, albeit in a different setting. Always it was about Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and how he believed in Jesus. He talked continually about the one major theme of Jesus' ministry which was being born again. He wanted more and more about celebrating Jesus. 

How flowers are designed.

The law came by Moses, but grace and being born again came through Jesus. History may be wonderful about the prophets, and other wonderful Bible stories. Stories such as Joseph in Egypt are popular favorites. But one cannot touch any subject more important than Jesus and His ministry, 

Knowing Jesus' commandments and building my faith is my only desire, I think there can be nothing to compete with meditating on the existence of God. That He exists and gave that gift to us, no matter how variably apportioned, is the reason one loves and are grateful worshipping and celebrating the existence of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, all in One. And together one with all believers.