Building Faith and....

Great Belief

I cannot say the methods and the formats I use are interesting or otherwise attractive to anyone else except myself, I am not so sure of it, but I may be trailing along the lines of the sons of thunder. This is what makes me think I may be motivated by building faith out of weakness.

I rush headlong into conclusions. I am perhaps too easily satisfied. Satisfied too easily with explanations lodged in words falling by the wayside. I observe that I too often leave out entire words with the fewer letters. I am wondering if one can talk of strong hope more while the chin trembles than not.

After building my salvation out of logic I accuse it of proving faith redundant. Am I climbing up another way? Maybe it is if I want too strongly, I, exhausted, get too weakly. 

It has not happened for a long time now, but I have spent the entire night wrestling with the Holy Spirit. God is simple, I guess it is we who are complex. Therefore, this is how I can say God makes simple the complex.

No matter what...

Jesus is the Way

 

  

The world is full of fears, and terrors flash suddenly on every side like a fire storm of lightnings. There are those who attack without direction at any time for no reason beyond any purpose. Were skeptics and their unbelief to attract all doubts, the story of Jesus would still by itself   alone, prevail.  Truth would bring out of this swirling, and the true meaning would be true in the flesh. Nothing matters, nothing is shaken by this manifestation of the truth. Jesus is truth Himself in all beginnings of understandings. Belief in the truth, not being subject to time, is the final and first truth for believers. There are no doubts hovering over the shoulder for the believer. 

Change is Evidence of Growth

We keep learning more and more. Lately we are newly aware the universe is larger than we thought previously. I wager there is no end to the universe. And it is not growing either. We know what we know and as our knowledge expands, we think it is the universe that is expanding.

Jesus is the Source

I would see Jesus

There is only one subject that I prefer should be the focus of any and every church and its minister, that is to be always and constantly all about Jesus. 

Jesus is the Way

I only knew of one minister who mentioned Jesus in every sermon. I recorded quite a few of them. He not only focused on Jesus, but he told of his own experiences and personal views of Jesus. There are many ministers who talk about the   congregation's relationship to Christ. Their faults and failures, but nothing about themselves and Jesus, just the congregation and Jesus. That is, when they got around to Jesus at all.

I remember well that verse that tells in the Bible about several, from Greece I think, who knocked on the disciple's door and said, "Sir, we would see Jesus."

When Time is Gone

Time in Time out

 

As time speeds up and the mind slows down one would think that they are approaching the time where the flesh falters, that the spirit beckons. Jesus on the Cross said He felt that God had forsaken Him during that moment. 

Perhaps the incarnate body was passing the bar before the body was to die, and the Spirit would stand alone in the flesh. When the sense of existence is slipping from me, as regards myself, it is faith in my spirit following Jesus that fuels my hope. 

Unbelieving faith senses the end of their speculations is near. But even nothing is something or how could one conceive of it otherwise? So, when the sense of existence forsakes the flesh, I am afraid those that believe it will know they no longer exist. That would be an unspeakable state, to not exist and simultaneously to know it. 

My faith is in my spiritual awareness of God, I have such a short time in the flesh to understand and accept the eternal life offer from Jesus. (Edited)

Back to Basics

Pretending Knowing Too Much

Rather futuristic topics like yesterday's do not appeal to many. but it is a chance to play God like any parlor game. It is also interesting to ask my handheld computer the justifications for God. It surprised me to see how much detail came up with chapter and verse showing answers to like why did Jesus have to die on the Cross.

Skim thru a few of those can make one give their believability a good refreshing stretch. But it can be dangerous for some. 

Expanding Horizons

Simulated Universes Inside the Matrix?

"Scripture is clear that it’s possible for your spirit to be out of the body," according to views by the Institute of Critical Research. As an example, mention of Elton Musk and simulated reality inside a computer are the subject of one of these links. 

These are interesting speculations edited by the ICR which believes in the origins outlined in the Bible, as opposed to natural evolution theories that give science the basis of creation rather than God. 

I like to know the views of various, what I call the physical sciences, that are being offered to young scholars today in place of Jesus as the master designer. Science largely ignores the spirit, implying that our origins are based in scientifically biased evolution. 

In the coming age believers will need to be on an intellectual par with atheists. It is vital that believers are able to make a case for their faith. That is if they want to avoid being entrapped (phased out) in this current developing technological setting where humans are reduced to brains alone. 

Surfing the Net

Interesting Links

I Discovered Some "Expanding Horizons" 

In the left column ofthis page is a group of links labeled Expanding Horizons. I found theses links some time ago but never pursued enough time to learn a great deal about them. I stumbled upon them recently and was amazed how much is out there that I did find worthy of investigation. 

Whenever a Christian needs some boosting in a troubled time , they should get some Spirit in a church. Personally, I never knew that to be the case. Rather I found I lost a little more of my faith in churches. 

I do know churches are losing attendance for a long time now. A long time is measured here according to my experiences. That fact is not a good testimony. To encourage me I have discovered interesting websites in the internet that slipped under the rug. 

Under His Wings

Whenever I sense my spirit struggling it helps to praise God. For that task Psalm 139 is a good place go and shout from the fortress. Manna

Lion and the Lamb

The Law was Given thru Moses

Grace and Love was thru Jesus

I can often tell how oriented a person is by casual disconnected viewpoints they express. Whether I am often correct or not is not all that clearly determined. 

A political pundit was waxing true about whether a little boy's dog would be in heaven with him. He weighted in heavily upon his fact that dog's do not have a sou. 

I was reminded by the sharper wit of Mark Twain. He commented that there was very likely more dog's deserving of heaven than people. Dogs are well known to be very loving and forgiving by nature.

 Our pundit however, being of the doctrinaire stripe, would seal off the joys of heaven. Heaven is apparently a very antiseptic place for him, since he has surely never experienced the devotion of a dog. 

My view is that the little boy's dog will be in heaven with him if the little boy wanted his dog to be with him. As for heaven, a tree is known by its' fruit.  

Churches as Groups

Problems in Groups

I believe there will come a time when evidence from the unseen world will be more seen in the seen world. It seems inevitable this would happen. Nothing stays the same. Utopian political entities zero in on the concept word, same, as an example of their attempt to strengthen the group but which weakens creativity.

The difference between the political and the religious are not that dissimilar. The religious parties have not done a bangup job of teaching their members, young or old, anything much at all. Even in the time of Jesus, Jesus could suggest in the parable of the unjust servant, that the children of the light were not as smart as the children of the world.

When people gather together in groups, they seem to me to hesitate to engage each other as individuals, preferring to form even smaller cliques. Individuals enjoy agreement by in large, this is their 'never quite fatal' flaw. 

Nevertheless groups, no matter their size, never approach the creativity of the individual. Rather the creative individual can be expelled if they seem too far afield. Some churches emphasize singular differences, like baptism while never engendering an interest in any other focus that might naturally follow. This then becomes their distinction.

It is a point to remember; that Jesus ran against a church clique of His day. Reading the history of the early primitive church is less than awesome as when opposition brought martyrdoms. 

War of Words

If God Does Not Exist;

Then Where Did We Come From?

If God shared with us existence, then where did all the evil contentions come from? My hasty guess this morning is that it came from us, driven by debilitating spirits that took over quite a few others of us.

Some like to play God. I heard a well-known person say as such on the television. Those of us who innocently do not believe in God find themselves thrust in this drama directly in the place of God. There has to be a God. Otherwise, did we create ourselves?

It has been recognized that there is a great divide in this world of duality. It seems too easy to blame everything on God's responsibility, for which we ourselves are responsible.