The Unseen is very Deep
It spoils the view for strolling at sunset.
It seems to me that I my banana peel, after all this time, were to increase during the first fifty years and decline the next thereafter.
I racked up my body out of the gate and now my body seems like wanting to rack me up entering the home stretch.
I just want younger folks to know what they have to look forward to. "Time is going to enter the picture in the end." Robert Morley in Beat the Devil. Next: Crucifying the flesh?
What I Speak is What I Get
A tree is known by its' fruit. And it is I found, as I repeatedly forget, the same with myself. So now I refuse to be offended because I not only do not want to be an offensive person, but I try to take watch over my tongue, so I do not create any unpleasant unwanted fruit of myself.
Success & Happiness
Front End Loading
To my knowledge Ingrid Bergman gets the most frequent credit for this double quote.
Happiness
is wanting what you get.
Like reincarnation. Seems exciting going in but gradually the taste buds turn on the tum tum like in overdosing chocolate.
I like to remind the casual hits that I cannot persuade anyone, they have to do that themselves, just like I am doing.
If anyone's understanding of God does not please them then I myself have already been there and done that. I found being God was altogether too much work.
Everything appearing here is my own personal viewpoint on the date entered only and can change anytime.
I naturally assume everyone has their own slant on things. But I suspect many who want to persuade others are actually, at the core of the apple, primarily trying to persuade themselves, seeds and all.
Understanding the Unexplained
Randomness seems to be at the root of many things but this is only because we do not yet understand many things. As a result not a few say there is nothing coincident at all.
I struggle to remember the more knowledgeable are slow to conclude. Probably this is because they have more to consider, being excessively rich in knowledge.
It is harder to believe in the heaven like spiritually transcendent if one seems to be there already.
The less knowledgeable are quick to speak and slow to consider since for them there is less known to consider. If all this is true then it can be seen why God can forgive. If God knowing all God can forgive all, proves God loves all.
It also proves God cannot permit evil or even tolerate it it in His presence. We all need another helper, a counselor, a paraclete to vouch for us even before God.
By itself it seems then as tho this is not fair to the ignorant, unless they have become consumed by destructive unforgiving spirits speaking for them instead. I walk in the fruit of my own spirit so long as I avoid personal judgments of others. Only God can judge.
Million & One Names for God
Recently have learned of an an interesting I Am Jesus blog entitled Ryan Callahan's Blog focusing on the incidences recorded where Jesus made seven "I am" references to Himself in the Gospels.
Historically there has been a long standing tradition that no one has seen God and to look on His face would result in one's death.
I have centered my own particular rifle-like attention on Exodus 3:14-15 when Moses talked with God after he was given the commandments and had asked God who shall he say sent him.
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Vital Verses
When I was a college atheist the weak-ish argument was that the Gospels did not agree with each other was well accepted by my newly knowledgeable crowd.
It mercifully ended when it finally occurred to me that if the Gospels did indeed agree with each other, then we could say it was therefore evidence instead of collusion. Aha!
So finally I figured it was that way across the board, and established a different routine using my Kindle, where I can switch easily to my favorite verses betwixt my Jesus Calling devotional and my NKJ.
Am I on my way to a chapter and verse guy?
Hebrews 11:1-3 & 6 tells me only faith alone pleases God and here I labored to exhaustion trying to prove logic proved God was existent. Instead even proved proof itself, to a fine point, was only to one's satisfaction.
If I prove God exists then I have proved Faith in God is rendered not needed, zip zero. I did find one could not get one step ahead of God, not even a whole staircase full of steps for my part.
It appears to me now I may have quite possibly befuddled myself as well into giving a tongue to the devil.
Think of a pleasantly viewed sweet smelling flower called the Venus Fly Trap.
Or instead, picture a girl running screaming lickitysplit, while behind her a pre-dead mummified body, entirely bound in tape, one arm taped helplessly to his body, one taped leg dragging uselessly behind him, is almost about to catch her, but never does?
How soon unfamiliar fun and fresh new excitement can turn into a serious, very severe story with unanticipated endings?
Dreams of the Thrill Seekers!
The question is what do I do with comedy? Can I laugh at myself? Peace may be good for eternity but not all comedy is idle when I've had a good laugh at myself. We learn more from failure than success, they say. Looks to me like a task for a look-see in Ecclesiastes.
The Truth Cannot Be Told
By Those Who Know
What I started to wonder about was that in my lifetime my flesh builds up until it reaches a plateau. Then it passes from pleasure to pain and will so burden me until I leave it behind, itself altogether changed.
All the seen world changes, it is built into change to change. My body not only changed but my mind did too. Still I am hesitant to change into the unchanging eternity of the unseen even as it is my only hope.
Even Paul wanted to be healed like everyone else does. He left us 2Cor4:16-18.
A Tree is Known by Its' Fruit
When my flesh was itself born it was designed and created to serve as a temporary vehicle on its' way to deciding to become born again as a spirit.
This struggle began for me very optimistically and I was enticed by many pleasures which gradually promises to turn pleasure to pain against me.
During this time I never heard anything about being born again in the church I was born into, the church I was married in, nor religious high schools and other prestigious colleges I attended and graduated from where I was told if I was educated then one did not believe in God.
Meanwhile I had previously collected my perfect attendance pins saved from Sunday School where I only heard about Bible stories not being true, since like Santa Claus only the meaning was true, also crafts, coloring books, and pulpit talk largely for the sake of the children.
Now, prompted by Sarah Young's famous Jesus Calling devotional, my favorite Bible verses so far are Hebrews 11:1, Mark11:23, 2Cor4: 16-18 and the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22.
