Faith is My Focus

All things seen came from the unseen 

Darkness promises the Light.

I've noticed when someone personally significant passes, my sense of clarity is more greatly heightened. 

In our world of change

The older one becomes the greater likelihood someone very close to our age will succumb physically, still, their spirit lingers on in our awareness. However if they are younger then it is especially difficult to weather while in the seen world. God has placed in our hearts the promised belief I will see everyone again, and not only that, but I will have a greater understanding. As the Holy Spirit shared with Paul, we see now darkly, but time comes when we will see understandings and happiness greater than I could ever have imagined in this world of the seen.

Faith is the central most guiding force

Is the physical world of the seen more dear than the promise of the unseen world of the spirit? I think time fools us all. But faith will save us. This is the greatest single most force I must strengthen within our spirit once born again. It is especially not unreliable proof that can direct me, nor anything else, except faith.

Definition of Evolution

Evolving vs Evolution

Evolution is a belief that humans came from ocean slime, and later from menkeys. This, while observational, it has to be said, has never been seen.

Regardless, nothing can evolve from anything different despite similarities, fanciful or not. It reminds one of the fallacy of skipping categories. I have visited Old Ironsides but could not get inside.

Seeing is believing?

I have ducked my head entering colonial houses constructed only a few hundred years ago. I have heard how small Roman swords were, the conquerors of the western world. I am related to a family of five boys, all standing the oldest down to the youngest, only to see them as young men standing together, the oldest up to the youngest. Say what we will, I still find it suggestive that observation has its place.

Everything in the seen world changes despite appearances. Various living trees may seem similar but all trees are known by their fruit. My conclusion is, Christians are losing an evolution debate that is not quite pointless. 

Purpose of prayer

All minds change

As a man on a bucking horse

I hope to remember every time I pray to thank God for His existence, and the existence He has given me. 

The spirit never changes

It is because I love and appreciate existence, even amazed by existence, that I love Him. My purpose in praying is to build my faith in God and in the Existence He has given me. This especially since at one time, many times, I did not do that very thing that matters to me now. In the seen world everything is changing, including my apparently slowing witted mind. 

The answer is simple

Only the questions are difficult 

The answer to every complicated question is simple. But everything simple is more difficult to see, even as it sits right in front of everyone. 

Danger on thin ice

 If  a person knows the questions of life are but not the answers, that perceptive person is smart. But if someone already knows the answers, that poor person is on thin ice. Funny how life can be turned upside down sometimes.

I speak to unbelief

So that I may believe 

To see beauty one has
to first think beauty.

If what I believe will be true for me is based on what I feed my spirit, then what I believe will really become true for me. That is what I have been believing or what my spirit is thinking, will be true for everyone.

In all cases my spirit is the energy driving emotion bringing, either now or eventually, to me according to the diligence of my spirit. And if it is true for me then it must be true across the board for everyone. This then is why and how if I take an offense I become offensive. I should not take it so that I will not be bogged down by negative forces, or so to say, negative spirits.

This is again why I should forgive so that I may be forgiven. This is why I've said before that Jesus tells me what to do, to do for Him for my own benefit. I remember, I think it was Paul, who said there is a continual life and death spiritual struggle going on between opposing spirits. 

The definition and purpose of war, which is a continual struggle between groups evident even in peacetime, is accompanied by rumors of war. It may be, it seems, like peace is building up pressure for war. 

The Trinity "are" one Spirit

We are all One

 Many seem to exist exclusively in the flesh. They deal with their perceptions, and react only to what they see and feel. They have trouble with the Trinity, a word some say itself does not appear in the Bible. 

Is Trouble with the Trinity, difficulty with the Spirit? 

Jesus spoke about the Spirit, meaning one with each other, in the Bible, most especially, to my mind, in John 17. It is of interest that He makes repetitively the point that we were all one over and over many times. We are all one, as Jesus said, are we not?

God is Spirit, Holy Spirit. If some do not grasp that oneness, it has to be because they cannot relate to the concept of spirit. They are more dazzled in a more presently dominating belief in the seen rather than the unseen. The Trinity is three particular Spirits, and all are One, and all are One with us.

old quote redux

 Which person is the more responsible? The enemy who told a lie about you, or the friend who believed it?

Epiphanies may be for those need them

My epiphany might be because

I needed it as a help along the way 

I do not regard an epiphany as an advantage aside someone who has not had one, in fact the opposite. It took me a long time, it seems to me now, to figure mine out. My excuse later was it came to me so young.

Minding my own business 

I think my interest at the time was more in the church, particularly my right to take communion. I was considered too young, but age was never mentioned to me. Instead I was told I was not a member. So I proceeded in that track but was told I could not be a member because I was not baptized. 

So I was baptized, on Pentecost Sunday. So I became a member and then finally could take communion. It was around that time I had my epiphany but was not sure what it meant. The effort finally fell away from my attention and my interest in the Bible and Church was disappointed by the adults who, to someone figuring out if Santa Claus true, realized it was all a putup pulpit talk by adults over us kids. Later the Pulpit Rock on the school lane became clearer to me. It was all pretend church, as I said, by adults for us kids.

Learning that the Bible stories never happened, only the meanings happened, sent me on a course resulting in avowed atheism in my college years. The time consuming trek coming back began when the fallacy of the misplaced authority I'd learned in Logic class finally brought my epiphany into focus. So the epiphany helped, eventually, but I regard it now as help that I needed because of my lazy wittedness in the matter.

Capping it all off was my belief in a fallacy that caused me to blame God for what adults were espousing. When I realized God forgave David for his really horrendous sin because David was honest with God, I, somehow was elated that God perhaps forgave me too for my honesty in lecturing Him as a child. But, I was really hot footing it there for awhile. 

The teachers and the preachers

My Paraclete 

There are those who speak from the pulpit who claim to be teachers rather than preachers. I wonder if they realize that teaching is the most difficult and nearly impossible effort in which to function, much less excel.

The easiest on the other hand, is preaching because it requires emotion, while preaching which is easy to project if one already believes in the power of the Holy Spirit. Teaching is the beginning arena requiring intellect whereas preaching requires emotion which is the Energy generating motion that comes from the Holy Spirit. 

Some call Him the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost. I call the Holy Spirit my Paraclete. My Paraclete is much like my personal lawyer, who stands before God testifying to my sin forgiven belief in Him since God does not want unbelief of any shade to be even in His presence. 

My Paraclete advises me and I seek His explanations. It seems as tho He draws out of me an extreme personal effort before suddenly and finally reveals to me His answers to my spiritual struggles.

My own benefit

Everything I do is for my own benefit, even it ostensibly would ever appear to be for someone else. If, as Jesus said, I am one of those drawn to God it is because God draws me to Him, or it would not have happened. 

A Value to Me 

My intensity in the matter is to gain more of God because He is, according to my epiphany, the spiritual fountainhead of Existence as reported by Moses. I was told of my drawing by Jesus, I did not think it up myself. Although I slept on this realization for, to me a too long time, I am increasingly elated over my awareness of this realization nevertheless. 

Definition of an essay

An essay is a trial of thought. Nothing concludes in thought, it is always ongoing. The question is where. I tested mine out when I objectified them by putting their word symbols outside my thoughts in writing them down.
 

Faith is the root of all Proof 

If we can only please God through faith, then why is that? Is it to require each of us to make our own decision? It was earlier pointed out, more elaborately, that absolute proof is not possible with various witnesses all from various respectives, influenced by different times as is usual in all seen situations, unlike unseen situations. 

And then too, we know that knowledge is too much for us and as we gain knowledge we also gain the knowledge that there is even far more that we do not know than we already know. So knowledge of our ignorance grows faster than our knowledge of what we know. Then to top things off, the known does not always remain the same, as other conditions inexplicably appear in seen situations by the different times, causing even more variabilities to puzzle us further. 

I think it is to stretch our spirit and gain for us more control over our spirit power to strengthen our existence. Existence, in order not to negate itself,  is itself good but we do not appear to be making our nation any better. God has been known to interfere but I would hesitate to explore those possibilities. Such is the case when I get too far afield. 

All future requires faith

Proof only exists to one's satisfaction

The future is brighter than the past.

There are those who will only believe the believable, but not anything that requires faith. Turns out I can only believe God with, in, and through faith. Proving faith makes faith redundant, which is to say, a non-event. Restricting faith restricts everything, halting the progression of all human thought.

God defined Himself

 In Exodus 3 Moses, who is my authority in this matter, asked God who shall he say sent him?

God answered I am who I am and later in Chapter 15 said, This is my name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.

I, for my part, only accept God's definition of who God is, as reported by Moses, especially since it jives with my epiphany. 

Belief in God is an individual decision

All things seen came from the unseen

Many detractors of a belief in the existence of God, that is, God as the fountainhead of Existence, do not believe in the unseen but rather emphasize the seen physical world as the conclusion of everything for everyone, in particular for the individual. This is a politically influenced decision governing everyone, except those who must direct the group effort.

But if there is no unseen existence, how did we get here if all things seen did not come from the unseen? Gravity is now considered a physical scientific fact. When Newton introduced the idea of gravity many other physical scientists were extremely uneasy because it suggested to them a psychically mystic condition unwelcome in the physically seen. To them seeing was believing rather than believing was seeing. This left the avenue for future knowledge in human affairs increasingly closed.

Even if there were no God, unbelievers would be forced to create one for themselves. 

The singular politically oriented were forced to maintain their view that there was no God, which left them the responsibility to be their own God of themselves. They were the sole decision makers, which in turn handicapped them in economical affairs since the decision makers were so few. 

It is well known that the greater the number of decision makers there are, the greater the number of chances for success. Flip side this fact that wrong decisions were not recognized even tho caused by the individual making wrong decisions. They in turn were suffered by people who had no influence or responsibility directing in the economic arena. 

Overlooking this fact narrows all possible views for success, except luck, for those few who took no responsibility but were allowed to continue their mistakes since they had no skin in the game. In other words the unseen clouded the future of the seen. This means the belief in God is an anathema to those who do not believe in God. The thinning hedge around individuals who made a decision to believe in God will be increasingly at threat. Danger in the hallway will be counterbalanced by love of God, since God is Existence.

How could the idea even come about?

Are we hiding inside something?

Everything works together 

In a finely balanced harmony

How vast and awesome the universe is! Where did the idea come from for God to hang the earth on nothing, in an empty space? The mingling colors and the movements, the sounds and the smells? More spectacular than the power bringing everything into being, is perhaps having the singular idea of it all in the first place. Born in a hallway of tabula rosa I could never conceive of it. 

Hope must be very important

Even with other planets
our time is unique.

The mind, without hope, can commit the body to suicide. But the mind cannot commit the spirit to suicide, with or without hope.   

 The spirit knows nothing of suicide in my view, or it would negate itself. Therefore it would not be spirit. Hope sustains my spirit. But the mind cannot help my body with or without hope. My mind cannot even measure time correctly, else how could time be so draggishly slow and later find it so fancy dancy fast? That means my perception is wagging out of tune somewhere. I  think time, being singular, because it exists only in the comparative state everywhere, generates correspondently different signals everywhere, could be one conclusion. So hope must be very important to my existence, should I desire it, as I do.  

Some of the things which puzzle me...

The seen world is all change

So why are we so wary of change?

Why is it that we cling to the seen world so strongly when Jesus says their is no future in the flesh? It is only the spirit which gives life. Even the mind of the flesh will die, even as the spirit continues. Is that right? We can only conclude that God, as the fountainhead of all existence, caused the universe to come into being by the design of His choosing. Enter those whom He spoke into existence who were given awareness of all things including good, and in particular, evil. These things we introduced into the entire mix, much of which quite a few blame God. This, despite our many transgressions that violated the sense of justice God placed in our hearts. It is better to depart this world and be with Jesus in the spirit says Paul.  Later....maybe I should not be thinking of these things. This might be where faith enters into the picture?  

My thoughts fashion my spirit....

Now we see thru a glass darkly
but soon face to face.

I speak of my thoughts rather than of my mind because I link my mind to the service of my flesh. But if I focus my thoughts on making sure I am in harmony with God's Spirit then I believe my spirit will be saved into existence for eternity. In that day I will have overcome all doubt and fear. This is important before the die has been cast and events roll otherwise.

All politics is gossip since it depends on hearsay

Instead of people said being of weak minds I would favor the  term ineffective reactionary talk, rather than weak minds. There is a place for personality but I prefer somewhat lightly on politics as an end game. Incidentally we seem to find everyone and their brother credited with the same universal quote. Origin, it seems, has very little to do with "people said."  

Anatomy of an epiphany...

A man with an experience

Arose from the dead

Is not at the mercy of 
Someone with a theory*

*John Bytheway

Who am I? A nobody! But if Moses, with his reputation, said God told him, Moses, something I should think anyone would listen. But then too if Moses said God Himself told him something, I would think anyone should take it on good authority. 

Stepping beyond that, if God says in the Bible, how He wants to be known forever throughout all generations, I have to believe anyone should take it to some note.....  unless of course... if they believe the Bible amounts to unbelievable myth, with believable meanings, or else they just do not want to believe it, if they do or did.

Reminds me of a Luke 16:31 parable where Abraham was told if someone went to them (his brothers) from the dead, and Abraham replied "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead." Well, I am certainly not going to be the one to wrestle deeper into this issue.