Great Mystery Requiring Unwavering Belief

 How long can I let questions lie?

Question with answers that will provide me the faith to gain the unseen? Belief might not be so easily attained as mere agreement, or just going along with the belief of someone else. 

Thoughts pointing differently

The only path beore me is to speak words repeatedly into my spirit that will lead me to the great mystery that lies before us all. When time is over and that moment is gone..... or is it different if I am in a passage

where time is no more?

Definition of Art

 Art is not what you do.

It is the way that you do it.

Same as on my Benny Goodman

78 record co-written by 

Sy Oliver and Trummy Young

entitled Tain't what you do

For healing, I follow Jesus

Very few, I've found personally, including even pastors, understand very much about healing. This despite having Jesus Himself, as a role model, showing how He healed. 

For many, at one time myself as well, my eyes were dull of reading. Rather than follow His example, even many pastors follow their own natural understandings and apply them to God. This despite purporting to believe God does not change His mind hither and yon.

First of all, God is not going to heal us. Why? Why because He already healed us when He sent His only begotten Son to be the final sacrifice on the Cross. Jesus died and suffered stripes. It is this act right then that healed us, by His stripes! Now is the time then to accept and praise for it. Not healed immediately?

Bedrock of Belief is Persistence!

Then, if not healed immediately, then I keep on praying until I do. I keep on believing. I keep on as if I were already healed, despite any feelings or fears. (Fears are the signal of footsteps in the sand leading to a lack of faith.) Faith is the belief in things that are not as if they were. This is a lie to the world, but for me it is expressing faith in what I want to experience. This is the workings of the Holy Spirit as I believe within me. It could be even for some the spirit of unbelief within. Or I guess it is simply that the Christian looks ahead and the world looks behind itself.

Jesus asked those who wanted to be healed, do you believe I can do this? Upon their answer yes, notice what He said, then be it done unto you according to my faith.  Is that not correct? 

A different view of the same thing.

No!

It is not correct! What did He then say? He said, Then be it done onto you according to your faith. The way I take that is it will be done according my faith in Jesus' faith. Instead, what story do I so often get from seminary trained ministers? My readings revealed that there are quite a few, up to 50%, professors who do not believe in God and are willing to admit a public unbelief in God. One wonders how many there are who will not admit it. That is my long standing understanding in any event and supports my experience right up to the current moment. 

There are many who believe in Jesus, but do not actually believe for a fact in His Power. You have to understand that the story is not true,  just the meaning of the story is true. Meaning is defined as a painted egg, a hidden painted egg yet. There is a reason for hidden decorated eggs, sort of like the reason for the quick erase in Xmas.

According to Jesus....

....God draws those whom He will. Many did not follow Jesus after that. What then if you are oriented toward as many as possible, even everyone, being accepted by God? Or if singularly, you are in the public relations career field, then your heart should've "sank" to discover how many, previously won over to him, now suddenly left His ministry. Jesus lost a lot of votes there! But Jesus first comment did not reveal any such "sinking". 

Outside the fold?

Therein asks the question, should not God want everyone in His fold? This answers the question how anyone who was not even aware of the Jesus' ministry or being completely unaware of the very existence of Jesus being judged as climbing up another way? Jesus also said specifically that there those who were sheep of another pasture.  Wonder how other people handle that? Then what about those who are plain too stupid. Is even that fair? 

I guess it depends on whether I am sheep of another fold myself. If I question God's decision then maybe I should be God since I am better at it? I at one time did actually decide something like that when I blamed God for thinking like the pastor a team of great deacon bowlers in the church league.

I discovered eventually my thinking was a logical fallacy. It is still embarrassing when I think back on  that kettle of fish. My particular fallacy that fooled me was misplaced authority. Not entirely sure as I speak, but it certainly looks like I have the same thing on my hands yet again. The struggle to believe, to strength my faith, is never ending. 

The devil slips in doubt wherever he can. There are places worse than a favorite barroom. I should've watched out for churches. I can lose my faith in a church quicker than W.C. Fields teaching me to play poker. Church and Faith at Pulpit Rock