Cares & Worries of this World

A Strange Nigh Out Tonight

Life in the Happy Lane;

Does God Place Ideas in Our Heart?

Where did ideas of the prophets come from? Did God place them in their hearts? Where do dreams come from, sudden revelations?

I understand as one gets older that it has more to do with losing than not. That would be the flesh going silent bit by bit until we forget that we forgot or are forgot. 

Not all of us, but it is enough for the young to write off the old. The young worry they will not have enough for when they are old. They are saving for a time when they will be too tired or disinterested to benefit the way themselves hoped. 

What did B. Franklin say? When one needs money they don't have it.  When they have it they work harder to enjoy it? What does that say? We can't have money, we can only control it.

Accepting is my part

I usually recall a previous problem I've had and rethink it. I never fell for the gospels do not agree routine. If they do not agree that indicates a complete lack of collusion. I could see both sides of that ring a ding.

Once I stopped judging God for the testimony of my then church leaders I was sort of home free. It never occurred to me that I was falling for the misplaced authority fallacy even after I elected logic as a subject a long ago semester. 

After all they were adults, they were elder church leaders and one was even the pastor. They were my then authorities all right but I should of gone directly to God Himself.    

Ins & Outs

I have regretted ever since misplacing my own authority as well. And that is one of my problems I have yet to solve. I may not be entirely accepting God's forgiveness. It may be easy for God to forgive since He knows everything.

I have to learn to fully accept and strike all my other regrets  from my memory also. So I have work to do there.

God hung all the worlds on nothing

Is Time True?

Time is always different. As measured, to us time can only exist in a comparative state. Time cannot stand alone unless it is eternity. Then there is no time except the present tension. 

Time is soon gone...

The point of my interest in time is that when my flesh is in final decay will my belief in the unseen world be  great enough to carry me out of the seen world and into the unseen. One that is, with Jesus, the Trinity, including the Holy Spirit. God knows my spirit and I am counting on the other Helper we were promised, my Paraclete, to speak for me before God. No one has ever seen God. This is my understanding and my belief. That is, that Jesus was given the power to make me a son of God. 

I just want to be where Jesus is. 

When a Day is a Thousand Years

Time to Die

Ever notice a day can seem like a thousand years? It makes me think of it that way. Isn't that like God's way? When the day ends we lie down and go to sleep. This is when we are as close to death, during the night, when our bodies close way down from the exhaustion of the day.

Then when the final day comes it seems like life was over way too quickly. I think I would feel that way even if I really did live a thousand years.

When it comes time for me to die I am certain it will come too soon. Like Rutger Hauer in Bladerunner, I would think of all those days lost, like tears in the rain. 

No Matter What

After figuring it all out to my own satisfaction my conclusion is I do not care what argument is presented. I am confident the Christian story, right into the core of every detail, is true. no matter what.

I used to study a great deal in the Chinese tradition which was and are very impressive, but all I am left with today in my memory of it all is that while carrying a pail of water at night the moon is reflected in the water. Get it? The moon is in the pail.

Oh well, then I turned to a somewhat scientific approach and got quite deep into that but abruptly lost interest when a spokesman, was quoted in print about interest in mind over matter. It had to do with a carnival trick of diving into a pail of water, while riding a horse I think it was. 

There was a west coast idea of this view. The current thinking among the youth at the time was anything goes. They joined one of these churches and until they could vote the sedate elders out, taking over the entire shell of the church for themselves.

So it goes, as someone forgotten famous out of mind liked to say. I say the Christian story is in my very certain mind to be very complex and very true. There are no lose ends. What catches my mind is that Jesus died and rose again. But no other religion has ever even tried to duplicate this twist! 

For Sale

Meanwhile Christianity is the most successful religion we have in the crowd. But there are dimming shadows on the red sails in the sunset. Christianity is not the fastest growing. There is another growing faster. I have to say it, reap for the night is growing. 

My Favorite Bible Chapter

Caught Up in the Reading

My favorite chapter is in John. I like to read it often and last night it was with electrical emotion. Reading is the only official way I understand to gain faith ... is to read the Bible, and keep reading. 

My favorite verses are in Chapter 17 of John, also my favored Gospel. I read it more often than any other. This is the High Priestly Prayer by Jesus. John 17 is engraved on our family cenotaph.

More Action in my Foxhole

All Things Seen 

Came from the Unseen

There is a war going on, without let up in intensity, between this world and the spirit. It is mentioned in Galatians, 2 Chronicles, and elsewhere. These verses are on my favorites list. I have them bookmarked in my print Bibles and in my Kindle.

This world is temporal and the spirit world is eternal. These are the seen worlds and the unseen. If I am on the right track my flesh is decaying day by day while my spirit is growing. Jesus said the flesh would not help me. 

When I was in the womb being born I had no attraction whatever with the information I had at the time. Who needed hunger and cold with the perfect situation I had then? 

Now it is as if I am once again pressing up against a similar series of events taking place. I made my decision. My Granzeemother often reminded everyone, I am told, that everyone should work out their own salvation decisions.

1 Corinthians 1:21

God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find God through human brilliance. 

As I alluded  last post, I can only please God through faith. 

Love and Hate

It is better to love than to hate. But the difficulty I've had in the past, as many people have, is Jesus loves and is willing to forgive all. This was formerly to me a problem when it came to the devil and anything evil, most especially to the utmost evil.

Yet Jesus actually loves all, and top of things is forgiving all in the bargain. He is love but He knows the laws of love and the laws of His Father, God. He will not and does not hate. 

Those who do evil are due payment in kind. Since God is in charge of vengeance, and not me, evil doers reap their own reward themselves unless they repent and ask forgiveness. Forgiveness unless it is against the Holy Ghost. 

Hate by itself, does not do good things to our flesh. And this is only a side issue. Even so, hate seems justified against many criminals in their crimes. They are completely consumed by spirits of Satan.  

Their acts of choice have been completely taken over by demons. So while they must be contained in that state,  I would say, there are some who unwisely actually want to release them to do further damage while still in that state.

To be like Christ, I must do like Him to be like Him. This, however, is a picture of how I deal with this question right now. It is as far as my understanding takes me. Still, my faith carries me where my understanding falters.

The verb vibrates

God is not existence itself. He fundamentally simply exists. He exists from beyond existence itself, like a verb. A verb generating vibration, and is not anything like an inert subject, such as or similar to, an idol. If I knew the extent of the knowledge required to understand the desire to exist I would be speaking beyond myself like a "rushing wind".   

Questioning belief and faith

If anyone disbelieved anything about anyone else it would have be to only to the extent of their own belief, or the lack thereof. So even if something entirely unbelievable did happened to anyone else it would have to be very convincing. 

Beholding Eye

Indeed quite a bit more convincing than I could ever imagine, that is for Jesus to do what He did if it were not true and instead just the mere meaning were true.

I think the entire story turned out too perfectly believable for it to be anything than exactly what it all turned out to be, that is to say, to my view it is, and continues to be so.

The rear end of things by the fact itself

I always advise it is not a good policy to at any time take an offense, because if I do I will therefore become ipso facto  an offensive person myself.