It is a dual world

Rules of the Road, Defined

 I may be off target when I normally never start with specifics. Always it is concepts. The time to fill in the specifies will catch up later, that is, if I can follow the trail of generalities to specifics. The next step is to define terms correctly. 

The most non-defined term often debated is the non-definition of God. God is I am that I am, which is to say Existence. If He is God then He should be well equipped to define Himself. Atheists are left out in the cold here, since if there is no god, then the atheist is left to be his own god.

The greatest ill-defined term is art in my experience. Art is a verb, not a subject. Art is not what you do, it is how you do it. We can trust Benny Goodman for his jazz recording on that. 

Peace of non proximity

The seen world is full of so many people. And there are even more passed away already, all of them fading unremembered into the anguish of the past. Those that are remembered were very likely quite different in the passing future than they were in the actual past. We no longer even look like we used to when alive. There are coming times of healing peace that accumulate for purposeful war. Meanwhile we advance technically into a potential world of decreasing humanity until we disappear.

Trusting God for everything

Farming Out Believing God

 The mere expression of believing in God does not satisfy me. I am not so sure it is the greatest way to do it. Neither is agreeing with whatever a pastor says make me think believing in God is all there is too it.  

I heard a woman say they she had someone for everything that could come up.  A plumber for the toilet headed the list, an electrician for the appliances, a mechanic for the car, and a pastor for God. It was he who would keep everything ship shape when something went awry. Oh, then there was the funeral director to handle his duties. He took his place alongside the landscaper for the grass. Somebody for everything. 

I did not trust it. (Unedited)

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