Jesus in Mark 10:15

Proof Has No Need for Faith

Assuredly I say to you, whoever does not see the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it. It is very hard for the rich, as Jesus also said, and not merely in money. Those rich in information-knowledge are also faced with likely more doubts, more so perhaps than those rich in merely money.

Underlining Words

Evidence of a Well Read Bible??

Diligently seeking God, it says in the Bible, means constant reading of the Bible. But underlining to my mind eventually, if one reads long enough means nothing will any longer stand out. 

I have not always done what I want to do regularly, so this is an example of how vital I think it is to objectify my beliefs for myself by publishing this. I read a devotional and I am writing my devotional.

Also it is also my witness before everyone. Jesus said if I witnessed for Him in front of everyone, He will witness for me, so it also says in the Bible. 

So what I do is put different colored sticky dots on passages if I want to remind my attention to any verses I think vitally important or personally significant in any way, so I can remember to find them again. 

I use colored stars for chapters and to elevate emotionally dramatic verses that attract me. Different colors also signal various significances they hold for me. 

What I use is a large print red letter New King James Study Bible. I also use removable bookmarks that I can see thru so as not to interfere with my reading the text. I put them in the margins or at the bottom of the page. My hope is this will help me become a "chapter & verse" guy. 

Choosing My Faith

I Believe What I Will Become

My spirit will be according what I believe. So if I believe there is nothing after I die. then I will be born this time  into a non-existence and know it into eternity! Perhaps there are likely many dependent beliefs with which I would have to deal continually.

I instead, for myself believe I was promised being born again, so to speak, and I accepted as I was promised by Jesus who Himself was sent specifically for me by His Father, God as the last sacrifice. It is all too enormous to be fashioned into one sentence. 

But my Paraclete, my Counselor, my other Helper will speak for me before God who Himself will not tolerate nor allow any sin to appear before Him. I, like everyone, speak only for my own benefit. I am a witness only to myself. This is what I believe at the present moment but if I am ever convinced anytime in the future of anything different I will correct myself immediately. Everyone else takes responsibility and the credit for what they alone believe.

Guys don't really understand numbers

Girls Are Better at Numbers

Now once more I have proof, if that is what we must call it, why I am never going to be  a chapter & verse guy. In the previous entry I misaligned the chapter in Mark as 4 when it should have been 11.

I remember words better than numbers even though numbers can be beautiful they are not as understandable as words. This probably accounts for why I loved algebra like a water duck to the lone exclusion of all those ding dong numbers like trig, geometry, calculous, statistics, et al. 

Try that again with eleven instead of four. Ignore that more popular numbers discipline, craps.    

God chose Paul proving

God's Ways Are Not My Ways

The only way to gain faith it says in the Bible and even so great faith is to read the ancient writers writing in the Bible NKJV. 

Stars Hung on Nothing

I want to have them continually before my eyes. Currently Mark 11:22-26 has my attention and recently Paul 2Cor 4:16-18.

Changing world views

And Victory Over the World

Sailing ships dominated transport from the beginning of time  until the White Cloud ships appeared and closed the crossing of the Atlantic to a week or so. Today in a world of airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean is called the Pond.

White Clouds ruled maybe ten years, a mere decade perhaps when engines, totally eclipsed the entire sailing era altogether.

All of this accompanied a change in historical thinking. My point is scholarly views about the final wrap up of the Gospels seemed to have been also changed, by newer observations. This especially since everything appeared to be very authentic judged blending to what went before.   

Jesus Paid it All

This tag along thinking makes me wonder if this eclipsing of Jesus on His Cross that was for us and His forgiving of our sins, since my being on my cross could forgive no one of their sins. It seems to me like edging into the sinless Jesus' honor, which does forgive sins and was the last sacrifice.

When I suffer I think of how much greater Jesus suffered, even onto death compared to any sufferings of mine. This eases me in my suffering and even floats me in a comforting sea of love/gratitude due exclusively to Jesus.

This is not new here, but no matter what I can prove or disprove, everything comes down to what I believe about my belief. I mean clearly that I simply decide to believe what seems rewarding to my future. This is fundamentally hope. My hope is in Jesus. I enjoy this, expressing gratitude for what He has said I can hope for if I believe greatly enough.

Great belief. My sense is that there is great power the spirit. There are a great many spirits however, both positive and negative. Why I do not know? How great they are I do not know. If I did know, I could not know if there would be more to of it to know further up the ladder or down.

Sailing the wild seas
no more/

Final word: I enjoy and am elated praising gratitude love to Jesus, the Holy Father, and the Holy Spirit both before and while or whether whenever, whatever is happening both going off or coming on.

My fingers hurt and my feet are numb. I hope to make entries here but I do not know what about or when. But it will be sometime, someday, again.

Stories told out of school

Some think the Bible was written in English. This is true really. Meanwhile I was taught Latin in school along with how to write my name on a check. As for Jesus He likely spoke Aramaic, but this is loosely speaking hearsay with me and technically gossip in court.

sans et al

I Made My Decision My Way

I can no longer concern myself with what can be proved nor particularly what can not be proved. I am only going t decide what I will believe, no matter what, nor when, nor how, nor any whichever around the sun nor in and out between the stars.

I make this public before everyone. Jesus has said if I do this He will make His acknowledgement of me before the Holy Father, God and man. That is something if I must say so.

The way I put it spiritually

My God is a Jealous God

God is not a book, God is not a building, nor is Jesus a colorful glass window, nor a statue of carved wood or marble. Jesus is not a baby, nor is He a wooden stake nor reincarnated. He was incarnated. He is One with God. They are One in Spirit. The Holy Spirit is Three is One. And many are all One together. So it is for me. What it is for others, only they speak.

Time is Measured

Eternity is Not 

I do not generally ask God or His Son or the Holy Spirit to heal me. What I do is thank Him for healing me. If I ever use the now word it means I am in panic mode. 

But think of it, I talking to Jesus who is in eternity and telling Him there is little time left to rescue me from this suffering fading flesh ending my life in this seen world. 

Rest Beyond the River

No matter how difficult my tasks before me are I want to tidy things up first that will themselves be forgotten in a moment, like a way word breeze in the night. Get ready, I think it is past time to check the oil in the lamps.

On Giving Tongue

To My Life as a Mist

Does it not say somewhere in the Bible do not lean on the arm of flesh? I am not a chapter and verse person. I guess it is the numbers. I only understand words, that is for the most part, less the medical part.