Diligently seeking God

Thru a glass darkly

Deliberately Reading 

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? 

My Foundational Quote

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.  

Future of the Flesh

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 flesh will not help me: Jesus

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.

Swan Songs

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. 

Quotes Better for Blogs

Blogging Better in a Book?

It is finally glaringly evident to me that blogging is best for short disjointed sound bites rather than as a longer more complicated vehicle. 

I am suddenly somewhat weary of blogging because by blogging I am writing forwards; but it is read backwards unless pervious posts can continually be consulted first. 

How then do I re-explain today what went before yesterday, so it can be understood today without burdening posted entries to a standstill? 

It reminds me that the devil can recite the Lord's Prayer... backwards! I do not want to entangle him in any unnecessary entries, so I will take a breath today to make a better point tomorrow.

People Like Planets

Time Only Exists

In a Comparative State

Therefore can time exist at all? Or, is this why time fools us, again every time? Since I am convinced that all that is seen came from the unseen. 

I wonder if God creates us all equally, or equally each to each ourselves. 

See Specific Theory

It is not a great leap for me to conclude that planets, that is lesser mass planets, orbit greater mass ones more charismatically physical planets. 

This is why time cannot exist by itself alone, but in comparison to another orbited object. This leaves time in a different calculation for each of all similar objects.

Therefore, finally my conclusion is that planets altho all created in the unseen, all not equally seen. Rather, some are more equal than others. It all depends on what our different perspectives ones position has.

So nothing can be equally proved for all, except for each to their own satisfaction.

Specifics for earth size

Only one thing is certain for me. If anyone thinks they know everything, then they must be convinced they are God. I would not anticipate any wide spread agreement. 

I hope one would not find themselves eventually slowly twisting in the wind.

Concept of dark holes

Science fiction writers run ahead of science fact as they become known to physical science which is the science of the seen. 

Isaac Newton was to my mind the first to who may have been early to realize he was observing physically unseen science such it was, gravity.  

Only the meaning?

I wonder how many think that in Mark 11:23 Jesus is speaking figuratively as in a parable, or not, as in a sermon like the one on the Mount.  

From the epiphanies

God is Simple, We are Complex

Wormholes, dark holes, ancient aliens are all complexities of the physical. God is a magnetic Spirit. He draws whom He will. This according to Jesus. 

There is no space sight or sound in the specifics of this transcending spirit action, who draws all things into changing appearances we observe as self consuming energy.

God is Existence. I am like a firefly in the night. I will be gone in the morning, when I will be born again as an attending reflection of the one Holy Spirit in the true light. What comes goes, if I can believe it enough as Jesus said, and throw a mountain into the sea.

Time is fooling us all

I truly believe it is difficult for many people to relate to the transcendent spiritual existence coming in all our futures. I see it this way because it is difficult for myself, even with the second half of my life already in physical decline. The tug of my temporal world is strong. 

If it would be true that when I die my life will all simply turn, like in a movie, to physical black, for me there are  many unknowns fog my view. Suicide itself has a  strong sense of insult to God, who has left us many physical traces of His prior presence. 

Also, who would, of all people, pick Paul, who was murdering followers of Jesus, to write much of the Bible? What a great pick as it turned out! Truly God's way is above our ways.

What Is the reason why

We have to forgive everybody?

My understanding is revenge belongs exclusively to the my Lord. This is the general view. It is easy for God to forgive because He knows everything.

I think when I do not forgive I step outside love and I can be destroyed. My view is only God can judge and He gave this power to His Son.

Only God knows whether anyone truly repents of unspeakable evil deeds. Since we know it is easy for God to forgive because He knows all, there is this for me to consider. 

If anyone is guilty and they have let an evil spirit control themselves then they cannot repent of the penalty since it would appear they are no longer in control of themselves, the evil spirit is, and they do not repent.

The main thing is for me not to meddle in things too deep so I do not step  outside love. I am not God and I cannot judge, so that way judgement, being totally reserved for God, is for my benefit. 

I am thereby protected from evil. I am not glad or even relieved about it. It is still unspeakably sad and over-rideingly depressing.