Drawing Closer

Jesus' Love Greater Than Many Realize

Daily reading in the devotional, Jesus Calling by Sarah Young has given me a greater realization of His love that not only has deepened my faith but, I believe, increased my faith.

My instinct has been always one of gratitude and praise, toward Jesus, no matter what. Not only does it feel good to priase and rejoice but my answered prayers have increased since meditating on the devotionals. 

Faith is the power source I believe. And faith taps into love and the ability to truly forgive without any reservations. I think the idea, it seems to me, is to make sure there are no resentments which in turn bogs one down helpless.

All Jesus' commandments are to help and benefit us in my view. And that in the long run, even forever into eternity for all existence and beyond our understanding.

Truly God's ways are not our ways even into all futures of any of our possible conceptions. No one has ever explained such thoughts before. Through it all I do not claim myself to prove anything whatever because God knows that all proofs, were they to exist, would make faith totally unnecessary.

Short is Best

The Quote Blokes Strike Again

I often remind myself it is easier to write a novel than a short story. And it is easier to write a short story than poem, and it is easier to write a poem like a good quote.

In my lifetime however, the best comedy of all is the one liner of comedy, invented in my life's experience by Henny Youngman.

But I love the wisdom of a good quote. Anyone can see that in all things seen come from the unseen. I don't know how that one got a hold on me, St. Paul?

Far as I know only quote I own is the question, which person is worse off? The one who lies or the one who believes it? 

In the Bible there are a host of great verses, but the best of all is found in my favorite gospel, the Gospel of John, 3:16. 

Predictions can be correct but....

Predicting is Not Proving

Proof is only true if it meets my personal degree of satisfaction. This is true for everyone, and everyone does not agree with any set one the others. Like planets everyone is in a slightly different orbit or view. Proof is only true proof for those that can accept it from their perspective. Just because something is widely accepted does not mean anything more than a likelihood. You pays your money and you takes your chances. 

God loves to be loved....

Why God Loves Praise & Worship

Why God forgives me and all of my sins is because He first loved me on the cross and I believe He wants me to return my love for Him. Remembering He first loved me, I am thankful and full of over flowing gratitude for His existence and the existence He has given me.

I enjoy this for my part and never tire of experiencing Him. Even tho when deep in my former ignorance I always felt that I wanted to be wherever Jesus was in my definition of the future.

The reason for my lack of desire for any in the psychic world is simply because I do not, and never did, trust any spirit in the psychic world. Jesus I knew and I only trusted Him. It is growing everyday I believe.

And I believe more everyday that altho I may not now have enough faith to move a mountain it certainly is my desire to be eventually true. It may not be probable today but it is possible with enough faith.

Awareness of.....

...the Spirit within

I have a mind supported by my body. And I have a spirit which was waiting when I was born, for it to be, in a manner of speaking, to be born again. 

My life is spent from tabla rosa to developing this spirit via my belief and strengthened faith. Jesus, the Christ, sent as a messenger from God as His first and only Son, explained this spirit to the world. 

In ancient times, God placed things, convictions of ideas, in the hearts of the prophets. Jesus was given power for us to become sons, or daughters, of God. This, for me, is my capsulized way I am looking at my embryonic life.

Tomorrow is another day

Why does God love worship?

....because only the true creator can love, forgive and forget anything not being loved. There are many things that create a sense of love, but then later turns out to be the opposite.

For instance, I do not believe there ever are any accidental overdoses. In many, if not most, pleasure seekers situations turns the final struggle to achieve, not pleasure, but the abs cense of pain.

God not only forgives but ancient writers tell us He forgets altogether. He forgives because He loves, which is why He creates. On the other hand, for believers, worshiping God is ecstatic.

It is an obvious law that to lift anybody up, one has to in the process lift oneself up, as Booker Washington is accordingly quoted.

Love is most powerfully observed when loving the unloved seems impossible. This is so because it is not just beneficial to the one is loved. This is why Jesus, most holy, died for unholy sinners. Tonight this is my hastily offered take, at any rate. God wants us to follow all His commandments about the unloved for our own sake.  

Once a man....

....twice a child.

Back to my roots?

Tomorrow: predicting is not proving?

Harder in the nut

I sometimes wonder how small things can get before they disappear. Disappear that is for me. I saw a dust mite once that would clean my clock if I were to meet its' size larger than myself in a dark downstairs staircase.

We think we know the universe is expanding, but it may be it is merely our perception that is expanding. How could I be sure? 

Another thing, how did the earth's crust get so beautiful with the core so molten hot? The know there are theories but the truth of the matter might surprise us all.

My mother used to say from time to time, He made the world out of nothing and hung it in an empty space. Oh well, she probably read it somewhere, what does she know?

How some ever, sometimes the most unbelievable nonsense can make a person wonder after the sun has gone down.

Time enough for the seen world

This Way to the Egress

There were so many uncountable days already passed before I was born. There will be even more days flicker by in all their darkness and dawn days to come. And all for my wearying wasting flesh of this seen world I cling to so desperately. 

The truth cannot be told by those who know, so said

the a most famous successful stock trader earlier in the century, after he shot himself in a fancy downtown hotel. 

He was talking about pools, but I can see clearly now that it has something to do with my strange perception of time when I framed a summer as forever when I was young and at blink speed now that I am old. 

How can I own anything at this rate? In that blink I can maybe control something, but I owned nothing at my coming out party, and nothing when I am eventually, too soon, am directed to the egress.

My inner instinct, placed there as well in others, cannot help but believe anything once started is not going somewhere yet unseen. 

Easy with the Hard

The Devil is in the Void

Will we be able to recognize family members when we enter the unseen? That is an easy one. Of course, we will we each see each other the exact way we saw each other in another, other than the present tense we want, time.

This one is harder. What if we would want to see someone in heaven who is not. Now if we wanted to see one's faithful dog in heaven, that is easy enough, but if they had not accepted God, what then?

A heaven without one's loving faithful forgiving dog is not much of an heaven it would seem to me. I listened as an eleven year old boy was told from the pulpit that he could not. Why? Because a dog has no soul. 

I was incensed! I should not, but I was. That preacher did not have as much love as any dog I would say. Twain said it more cleverly, how there was more

Little Butter Pittstin

deserved love in most dogs than in many people. 

But what about a loving mother for her unbelieving son? Now I am getting too close to the nitty and the gritty. We are all going to be born, I believe, after this embryonic life born tabla rosa, to what we believe, what then? 

My view is to accept the fact I do not know the answer for everything. I may later on, but at any rate, not now, and likely not even then.. I am happy with everything God comes up with because He knows the eventual entire circumstance, since He spoke it that way. 

And since He always starts in love I expect everything to turn out there, after all His words will not return to Him void.

Bluster Cannot Hide Itself

What is it the godfather said? To be quiet indicates confidence, to be loud hides fear or uncertainty? Never let anybody know you are worked up, annoyed, or any other similar emotion.

Anyone who shows they are angry should realize their emotion is tipping their hand, letting others know they are out of control and scared. So I am convinced that anger is a weakness that shows one is, not able to defend themselves.

Was Jesus ever angry? Exasperated I would say, so you bet, and I would not want to be in His line of fire because His exasperation had power and truth behind it evident to this very day. If anyone thinks Jesus was murdered then they could not have had their sins forgiven. 

Be unconcerned of the one who can kill the body, be afraid rather of the one who can kill the spirit, He said. Eternity is a long time if we come to think about it. The body cannot out last it. 

Time and Questions are

Revealing Our Ignorance

Why is it when we are young time stretches out before us so forever? When we become old we do not even want to accept it. And why is it those who know the  truth cannot even tell it. The young know all about being old until they get there themselves. The old know all about being young but cannot do anything about it or even tell about it.

I think our perception of time proves the existence of God. Time is always in the present, the present tense because in eternity there is no time. 

Existence is productive and positive. God has to be if He is to exist. Evil is forgotten out of mind, like it is said, as a dead man out of mind.

Every question we answer fauns further questions we did not even know existed before. More knowledge is more questions, revealing we were all along yet again more ignorant than we realized or will realize. 

Without questions we have no possibilities of answers or knowledge. When we will know it, I mean know it all? We all know what know it alls know. Don't we?

I think God has me on a string. And I am the yo-yo. There may be something to be said for relaxing and enjoying it.