On Trusting Jesus

My walker broke. I look at it this way. Jesus wants me to discover who I trust, Him or my walker.

On the Home Team Winning.....

Or Favoring the Odds

Among people who like sports are those who like to predict outcomes. I wonder if they can do both well at the same time?

Why did Jesus say we cannot serve two masters? There are in my view, not a few who like church socializing  and positions who seldom share or even mention their own personal relationship to Jesus or their being born again. 

Rather, perhaps they think of other things that attract them. Among those who like to predict sports outcomes, one I would think they would focus either on money or whether their favorite home team wins against all odds.   Then there is this to consider. Those who bet on there being no God will, if they are right, win nothing. If they are wrong, they lose eternity. Never bet against God, He has the odds in His pocket.  

Original Sin

Drinking the fragile brew.

Of Artificial Intelligence

Trusting God is not easy to do after one is trapped, albeit enticed, at the base of the tree of knowledge. God placed in the hearts of ancient prophets that He saw man, when he created a building to the sky, that he could do anything he set out to do, due to the rewards of persistence. 

This actual amazing building was interictally designed to bring water to the highest levels. But who believed at the time one day men would  be high step walking on the moon?

Now at the tidal entry of artificial intelligence, it is thought, man will be wrestling with the privilege's and judgements of God.

Even tho it may be thought to be a convincingly good idea that everyone is equal, it is always eventually seen that most are less equal than a few, meaning free decision makers are reduced. So since a few are more equal than others, everyone else ends up in flyover country.

Then enter the perils of play acting God.

Jesus Talking

It is not what goes into the mouth that defies a man, it is what comes out of the mouth that defies a man. This is what I call a power quote by Jesus. Exclamations and idle words can be a problem for their tendency  toward automatic responses taking the power out of my tongue.

I've often heard people calling Jesus' name in vain trying to escape their responsibility by saying they were not referring to Jesus by saying His middle initial was "H'.  The devil I'll bet tricks them by meaning the middle initial is H to be for Himself.

Nevertheless this idle word and vain name ring thru my nose is a hard reflex to eliminate. But I am trying with some success to eliminate such automatic reflexes and it is working to a great extent. It is improving my well being outlook also. 

Jus as the tree is known

by Its' Fruit I Am Known 

All information in this blog is hearsay. Even to myself since with time passing I will change my my outlook as I move along. 

Everything changes in this world, that is what this world is based on. I grew fifty years, then I will also decay fifty years, changing my outlook as I go changing along.

I am watchful I do not appear to lose my composure in the face of hostile belligerence because it is a sign of vulnerability, an indication of weakness. I never want to think I'd would give anyone power over me to make me angry.

The shouting voice is expending its' energy revealing itself while the quiet voice keeps its' power in reserve. 

The tree is known by its' fruit. When I judge someone else then likewise, I am judging myself. Best let God do the judging rather than visit my judgements of another on myself. I write this for my own benefit.

Temples First Restaurants

Or so I have been told. I once entertained a fellow Protestant who thought Baptists were founded by Martin Luther, but argued tenaciously that he, ML, was a Protestant and definitely not a Catholic priest.

Oh yes he was, so I told him it was all founded by a priest of the Catholic Church to spice up attendance. 😉 Later, have to run now.....

Where was I? Oh yes, rise of the city states. To nip this little episode in the bud, there was a lot of fighting going on that inspired me to embrace a climatology view of history weaving everything together decorated with more interesting interludes that would make the well known trivialiteer Tony Randall envious.

At any rate the most successful churches in history have been Christian churches...until now about to be surpassed, it is predicted, in ten years. This includes megachurches. Thread got itself lost but will be picked up again.

Once Exiisted Exists Forever

The Invisible Man

The headline on the previous entry I first saw on a headstone in New Hampshire, I think it was, for Claude Rains. He was an English actor in the Golden Era of stars like Clark Gable and Bette Davis, who said she admired him as an actor. He was the invisible man in that now culture film. Claude Rains

Everything.....

Once Existing, Exists Forever 

I believe my life is only a beginning. It has all the ear marks of a prenatal state. I do not mean I am stuck in endless reincarnations increasingly burdened by hellish repetitions. 

I was born into a body that increases and then decreases like a flower or a mist. Hell in my view is to never exist any further and to know it, forever. 

To continue the only way is I must be born again as Jesus taught. This is into or out of the seen changing world into the unseen eternity, the spiritual. 

And then I have expectations of amazing and wonderful things God has prepared for me beyond anything I could ever ask or think. 

Waiting on the Lord

Persistence Never Gives Up

I am thanking Jesus most of the time and some what less often it is for healing me. As things are, leaning on the arm of flesh has given me more trouble than I like to say.

But I should persist praying for relief more, remembering Jesus said if, as I take it, if I am not healed it is because I do not persist in prayer or, I ask not so I receive not.

Faith like a child

I never consider when or if Jesus is going to answer me. There is no when in eternity anyway. I mustf go by faith not by feelings, which I believe is the direction Jesus is guiding me, even turning set backs into leap forwards. This is my hope and I thanking Him daily in every tiny event no matter what. I sense a vulnerable defenselessness when I have not.   

Praise & Gratitude

Thanking Jesus for Suffering

When I am suffering, as I do 24/7, or afraid, about to be tested to see if my cancer is doing anything, I praise Jesus and thank Him twenty-four seven.

I thank Him daily and constantly, knowing His suffering was unspeakably greater than mine. And not only that, His was voluntary and onto death three days and nights.....for me. 

I recall reading Paul when he wrote he lived with his thorn in the flesh knowing it would be such a short time he would experience it, compared being healed and rejoicing in eternity.

Time runs out

Book with a Singular View

Being too busy is a distraction from reading the sayings of Jesus. I know. I had been reading a book containing only His words until yesterday. Busy time is lost time in the end.

On Being with Jesus

Safe & Sound

I picture myself in heaven, I am sitting just slightly behind Jesus on His left side, listening. I am not saying anything. What would I say to Jesus? He knows everything both now and what is to become.

I am only comforted to be safe where He is, thanking Him in my prayers for everything I know, both it good and bad, including whatever may be reassuring or threatening.

I feel like my little pup dorg Butter, a pug by trade.