When the unseen takes over
the seen will not help
It is easy to think about the soon disappearing seen and hard to think about the unseen when we are temporarily more dazzled by the seen.
The seen will be soon flutter away when the eternal unseen takes over... forever. The pleasant seen will soon be sad over and over. The joys of the presently unseen will be greater than we can now contemplate. There will be a great reward, tending to the spirit.
Think anyone could say physical scientists generally do not understand time because quite a few do not agree with each other on exactly what time is.
Since time cannot exist outside a comparison, it is a relationship figure independently outside other comparisons. One thing seems to be clear, time passing is sad, no matter how wonderful or terrible it was. Christmas is sad because they are all sandwiched between many memories. Eventually time passing in the flesh is sad.
I am fond of lookbacks of how magnified time was for me from fifteen and a half to eighteen. Next I thought 21 would never arrive until suddenly it ran right over me and no one noticed.
We are a longer time dead than alive. Such a long long time. Who can remember any of the people alive long ago? Julius Caesar was voted the most popular individual by a large historical organization awhile back. But who remembers him as any more than an assassination a long time gone?
It is not very logical to blame God for the way church members act. Polls show Christianity is losing members at a greater rate than any other religion.
The reason people leave churches, in my experience, is that they generally look upon church members as hypocrites. I suggest this is an example of the fallacy called misplaced authority, of which I was guilty myself.
There was very little emphasis in spiritual matters. As a child I learned from the pastor that the stories in the Bible were not true, only the meaning is true. I was questioning the existence of Santa Claus at the time.
If anyone has decided within themselves there is no God, they are instantly faced with the bald fact they do not have anywhere near enough information to prove it, a negative at that.
I am not sure, but personally think the idea may have been placed there in the first place. I don't believe that is hard to believe looking at a clear night sky. Further, it looks to me that if I thought there were actually no God then I'd have to be my own God.
Problem with that idea is I'm not sure I could think the world up from scratch anytime soon.
I Choose My Spirit or I Could Lose My Spirit
There are many spirits, good spirits and evil. They are always contending with each other. I do not trust any spirit unless it is Jesus. Together, in John 17, the Trinity is described as One: that is God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus, as One.
Devotional: Jesus Calling
The reason I read and reread the scriptures is to gain and build my faith. In point of fact, it is the only reason I have reliably discovered so far.
In that effort I've been recently reading the devotional Jesus Calling by Sarah Young because it squares so closely right on Jesus. It rustled up critics I guess, and in the ensuing flap I have a new insight on translations. I suppose I could say she could be translating English into English. Basically, not much different from an ancient language into a younger language.
I, at one time in my idle college days, discovered the mystery type stories of Georges Simenon. I could read and write French at the time. But the thing of it was I eventually discovered not all translations were as exciting or intriguing as others.
I saw clearly that the Bible translations, even if English to English, were similar from one language to another. Certainly, words like conviction and assurance are weaker than ones like substance or evidence that we see in Hebrews 11:1.
Most follow the "seen" very closely, but it is the "unseen" which is the greater, indicating an anticipation of the spiritual.
I admit I do myself, but, to me, the seen world seems, stretching so far ahead of us, closer to an embryonic entrance to the eternal unseen. This is where time looks very short and fools us all every time.
Healing
Jesus asked many times; do you believe I can do this? When the answer was Yes, then He said, "Be it done to you according to your faith."
The Question of Evil
God does not have to answer to, or for, evil, I do. I entered a store, in my cycling days, which said God spelled backwards is dog. Backwards is the key here. The devil spells everything backwards. That is his trademark.
Original Sin Required Knowledge
Reciting the Lord's prayer backwards is his boast. Far as I am concerned the devil answers for himself. I have to answer for the knowledge business. Knowledge seems bold and beautiful, but it is never ending in that it also includes knowledge that expands to include knowledge that I am not, or was not, ever aware of previously.
I've had some tell me God is not Existence. There are those who say Jesus was murdered. This points to a lack of awareness of the spirit. This puts understanding directly in the path of the flesh without any provision for the spirit. The flesh cannot help us Jesus has said.
I believe people accept proof based on their own particular satisfactions, and if it satisfies them, then they are happy. If they have no God, they may also necessarily be their own God. But the flesh keeps changing. First to the good and then to the dust. My hope is not in my flesh, but in my faith.
There are many unanswered questions. That is where faith comes from. God places things in our hearts. Where or how else could we know it? We are then responsible for our choices. My view as I speak.
When Believing Becomes Faith
The seen world is all some only know. What is of ourselves seen, changes before us growing until it seems to regress. Finally, it passes away altogether never to be seen again.
There is a jumping off station, for those who can address it. Despite the changes we each have endured; it disappears as if into a detailed dream quite believable until awakened. Eventually, seeming enough, it then, almost is totally unbelievable. Finally, I am entering out of my changing flesh, into an embryonic spirit. This is what I believe. I will find myself emerged into what I truly believe.
Every Tree Known by its Fruit
For a powerful spiritual l pick me up I find the 103rd Psalm a very readable psalm among many bright stars glimmering in my faith building intent to strengthen my spirit.
