Working out my own salvation

Everyone Works Out

Their Own Proof

When I draw any conclusions about how I should view God I remember that I not only, do not have all the information in the matter, but I am talking about Someone who does.

 This is most important, I not only do not have all the answers but I do not even know all the questions. This puts me in a situation where my solving success presents me with more problems that I was aware of than before. 

So then, I am sheep and Jesus is my shepherd. All good things come down from the Father of lights and my only job is to love and trust the shepherd. This is so exhilarating and ecstatic, especially in a large chorus, that I never can get enough of praising and worshiping God.

the word made flesh.....

No Longer Under the Law?

Wondering

The law was given through Moses; grace and truth realized through Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father has explained Him. Open Bible, in John 1:17-18.
The word was made flesh and Jesus said the flesh cannot help us? Later.

Deep in my definitionals

No Figures of Speech

Only Faith

The way anything is presented is the singular definition of art. Art is the way we do anything and is like the song Benny Goodman recorded says, it is not whatca do, but the way thatcha do it. That is the only way of it, not merely my singular view. 

Jesus makes an statement, quoted in the Scriptures where it is translated that if anyone has enough faith they could cast mountains into the sea. 

Jesus says this to me, filtered down to me through several language translations, to illustrate that the power of faith has no limit. So here Jesus is my absolutely very highest authority in this very fact.

First, if Jesus is involved the Holy Spirit is involved. I am treading very softly now. This is not art, this is faith I am talking bout. Only faith pleases God so I am definitely not drawing any lines in this. 

There is no figure of speech in Jesus statement. such as this temple will be destroyed and I will raise it up in three days, as in one instance, nor is Jesus in any figure of speech, a mountain.

My final jump of faith is: If Jesus said it I believe it and I draw no lines nor qualifications. Where or when would I stop? Was Jesus' victory over the Cross a figure of speech? The devil knows I believe in Jesus without reservation so he does not attack Jesus directly, but he attacks Jesus' power.

I believe this power is exactly what Jesus was telling me: the power of faith has no limit. I know there is little faith and there is great faith. Then there is only faith, that is, only faith that is pleasing to God.

I am only a witness to what I believe. God has not told me what to tell anyone else what to believe. I do not dispute my view so I do not dispute anyone else's view.

Unseen World Provides the Power

 Why & How I am Born Again

Once a man, twice a child: The way I believe is that I was born tabla rosa into the seen world and then born again into the unseen spiritual world, from whence I came. 

The first half I improved as a child into a man and then the next half my body decayed again into a child to complete the circle. If I search out this scenario with all my might I will not be turned away. 

God knows beforehand what I will do. He either draws someone to Him or He does not. I m not telling you this, Jesus is, Biblically, telling me. 

If anyone does not chose God to be their God, then they will, logically, have to be their own god. What otherwise? My view.

For every question I can labor hard enough to answer, I discovered there were more questions to answer that I was not even aware. Therefore the more I learned, I learned I was more ignorant than when I knew less. 

God desires only faith. Proof, logic, good works, or anything like these efforts on my part are not pleasing to God. If I am satisfied with proof, for example, then I would not need faith.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, according to the Spirit led author of Hebrews, many assume to be Paul.

All doubts about God give tongue to the devil in my view, who is always attacking faith. He is not alarmed if we believe in Jesus, just so long as you do not believe in Jesus' power. 

Jesus said if anyone had enough faith, enough power, they could move mountains. I have faith but do I have anywhere near enough faith? God knows, but I will not know for sure until I am, what is my term? In the foxhole.

I have thought about all this in long and circuitous routes. I am a witness who, like often many others, are primarily  trying to convince themselves. No one can convince another, we all convince ourselves. In my next entry will explain my view on mountain moving faith as not being a figure of speech. 

I am totally in disagreement  to my taking any credit or discredit for anything any one who has only convinced themselves. I also do not make any judgments for or against anyone. Everyone has to drink their own tea.

More movingly absorbed than film

New Slant on the Old

A new method to experience the old: Bible translations to single words from lists of single words is little different that translations from parable to parable, except that single word translations are so precise they can be manipulated to soften or sharpen meanings in either  direction. 

But the newer scene to scene translations will herald something too I think. Something that will be judged entirely new.

While examples of this preciseness were pointed out earlier, with Jesus Calling by Sarah Young I have a new focus that is more powerful and never before so far dramatically experienced. It will take some time to entirely realize this change.

My Single Best Devotional

 My Only Devotional Ever!

Somehow a host of never read devotionals have found themselves into my library, but after all my time one single devotional has taken me, and apparently a record break number of others, by storm.

Sarah Young has become an astounding record breaking author never encountered before. 

God is my Father

God Created Me

Even in the flesh the father creates the son and gives him existence in the flesh. But I must be born again, this second time into the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. That is  if I am to gain eternity, escape the flesh, and be free of space and time. 

I thank God for His existence and the existence He has given me. So then to create must come because of love. And not only of love but from forgiveness out of love as well, to insure lasting love. The one who loves therefore desires love in return as in a celebration, fueled by gratitude. 

I do not know everything, as God knows more than I know, so I take the unknown or unexplained on faith. And if I have enough faith I can do anything if I have the faith, according to Jesus. 

So if faith is of destruction it will destroy itself. If it is of love it will multiply. Suffering can be a victory over pain or an acceptance of it. And doubt gives tongue to the devil. When Jesus said anyone can do whatever they can believe if they have enough belief for it, then I believe it, mountains and all. 

Meanwhile the only way the Bible mentions to gain faith is to read the Bible. I have to want it badly enough. Seek and I will find, and time in this world is fleeting. 

Struggle with our Maker

How We Got the Dimple in Our Hip?

In the previous entry I was calling into memory the Old Testament Story in Genesis 32:24-32 of Jacob wrestling all night with with God.  

Keeping Up with God

The Struggle with our Maker

Up against the creator of everything, including ourselves, we ourselves are definitely at a disadvantage. But the ranks of the physical scientists are dwindling. More are becoming impressed with the grand design and suspecting there has to be a designer in the mix. 

I might say, if I can be excused, that the random ranks are not standing firm at all. But this is not the end of the matter, only my opinion. Dark days may be ahead on our way to the end times. 

How can the designed keep up with the designer? My effort takes me back to the seen world. But in this I am talking about tracing seen events back to the unseen from where they originated.

Now I am, therefore,  looking closer at the simple example of heavenly bodies orbiting each other with some circling others. Some attract others into their own particular orbits. I might call them the greater charismatics dominating those with lesser mass.

The lesser are lighter weights and the charismatics the heavy weights. Let me say then that the greater mass attracts the lesser. People are like that as well I am thinking so that some attract followers and they follow the more charismatic when they do.

The greater charismatics have greater faith, greater belief. Jesus said that if one had enough belief, greater enough faith, they could counter command, or convince the dormant particularly, and as well the others of the lesser, those of lesser weak faith as well.

3 dimension time

If this is in any way true then this paradigm could be carried closer to the origins of an as yet unlabeled power. When? I imagine easily it will be in at least a thousand years, well before the anti-Christ is seen. The struggle (perhaps) explained next entry.

Burning Bush

Faith: Will Believing Make It So? 

Enough Power? 

Did God create Himself? No, not if there is no beginning and no endings, since there is no time or space. That is what I myself would think.  There is however, he power, I that I am certain. 

The way I see it God had to be always creative to exist because that is what He does. God can not function outside His, what is it,  ethos or authority? I tend to fall back to logos, reason in other words,  He cannot contradict His being. 

Love is creative and our gratitude is His celebration. Where I am is that I do not even know too many of the questions, let alone the answers. Answers that reveal more new previously unknown questions. 

I am surrounded by my own jurisdictions by the look of it to me at this point. There comes a time when I have to face my own ignorance and proceed further on imagination. 

I think that I, like everyone is eventually, and as Einstein is often quoted, is catapulted unceremoniously from knowledge into imagination. I take my next clue from the seen world of charismatically orbiting planets as similarly reflecting people. I will see where that takes me.

Liitle faith and great faith

Where do I draw the line?

 I do not put any limit on the power of faith since all things temporal, that is, seen, came from the eternal, the unseen. 

If I were to do so would that put any limit on power to believe in the resurrection? If I believe in the power of Jesus to overcome death on the Cross, what is that to moving a mere mountain? 

Where do I draw the line? God spoke everything, every mountain into existence. I think God not only moved mountains He moved all the mountains into place. 

What impresses me is that He conceived of mountains in the first place. Since I am constrained by time and space in this world, I want to continue this thread further because it highlights the stark difference between my awareness of the Spirit in the next world after the flesh falls into decay, where Jesus tells me my flesh cannot help me. 

High Priestlly Prayer

John 17 is all about the Trinity. Over and over it is explaining the Trinity. We are one in one and believing that Jesus was sent. This is how the Trinity is spelled out. Everything is worded a certain way for a purpose, that those who are hearing do not. It is spiritual ears not physical ears.