Never enough time

 If anyone worships and celebrates God they are entering a time where they are enjoying all that is good for themselves on into the future, that is providing they have not given up on existence as they define it.

We are alive in the seen world such a short while compared to even our sense of the future. Time fools us all, and at that, many times over. What if in the spirit there would be no time whatsoever?

I recall an entry on a stone of long-gone famous actor which said something like the following. A life once lived is a life forever. 

Seeing is Believing?

 Believing is Seeing!

Everything seen came from the unseen. Every person seen has a charisma. The greater the individual charisma the greater attraction of lighter weight charisma entities drawn them. 

Time is a multi-Measurment

There is no time by itself, but rather time is a duality between lesser charisma mass and how long it takes the lesser to circle the mass of the greater. Time is unseen and is not uniformly confined within other times, reflecting many near similar times within even greater mass combinations of time. 

This is perhaps why Jesus could say that lighter weight entities would not be drawn to God since God will not draw from lesser who think they are greater. It does not pay to have rules for God. God makes His own rules.                                                          unedited

Praise and Worship

From the Mind of God

God is Existence here means ALL Existence. Once existing any created entity can, apparently, change their mind as Satan did. 

Without digressing into that entire area where I suspect it is not entirely without inaccuracies and debate, there is only one place any evil spirit would focus. And it not the barroom, it is the church. If the devil cannot persuade anyone against Jesus' existence, then it would be to question His power.

Another would be to blame God for his, the devil's, workmanship, since he is the originator, that is, father of all lies, by undisputed definition.

Time eventually runs out but not now....

It is not easy to think beyond this changing world to the spiritual where there is no time and think within the absence of time.

The Bible mentions this physical world as temporal and the spiritual as eternal. The current world shows great promise at first but then decay sets in from which there is no escape. Time fools us into thinking there is plenty, but time eventually runs out for everyone, fortunately.   

The seen world warns us, somewhat like a train we must get off and into the unseen. Most completely miss the difference and stay rooted in the seen world where time and flesh cannot to help us, according to Jesus.   

Keeping up with God isn't easy

 If someone were to say and believe there is no God, then he would have to be God himself to say it.

No one has enough information to say it, nor can they logically prove a negative.

So then they have to be their own God with a lot of explaining to do. As for myself I believe the mind is a physical organ and in time will decay along with the rest of the body. When the full spirit is come to us and along with answers, what if there are likely still questions remaining?

I always wondered how God could hold accountable anyone who did not have the brains to figure things out. First, Jesus said for anyone to figure things out they would first have to be drawn to God by God. Then elsewhere attendant to this I believe He said there were many not of His pasture.

He lost many followers after saying this and the assumption was left in force and continues among many today. I suspect this is another arena where one's faith becomes dominant. One day when questions become answered we will find ourselves left with more questions than we expected.

Mayve we might get just what we believe in

To believe that one will not exist after this embryonic lifetime, and then to know it at the same time, sounds dangerously close to something like hell to me. 

Nothing cannot come out of nothing without self-knowledge. I might have to say one is dealing with a sort of anti-spirit working against itself, but a spirit nevertheless. Isn't that something?

Praising Togerther with Gratitude

Praising is an elevation of the spirit within. Praising the only God known as the great I Am is exhilarating because I Am that I Am is the Creator of Existence itself.

Therefore, I thankfully praise God for His Existence and the existence He has given me. 

There are many unanswered questions for another time now, but when we are one with Him and He is one with us who have Faith; even though no one has seen God at any time now because He is a Spirit, I believe we will know answered questions, even as the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost are all One Spirit.

Nothing will be hidden, and all will become known when in eternity those who love Him will see things face to face.

Spirit Overrides Everything in Time

 I find the spirit that grows within, over time can build a reflex that settles me in one overriding direction or the other. 

Thinking positive is well known, among others. In stock trading it is common knowledge that if someone is predominantly optimistic, they will be significantly more successful than otherwise.

This is an act of the will and if one can keep to it constantly, they will very often find it is true. Praising God can be wonderful, showing gratitude for His directions my life, can achieve long term results. Everything God favors, when lodged in my spirit, is there as it is to help me, and at that long term as well. Everything God points to is for my benefit. 

If we only had known

 The wise speak slower and more quietly because of their vaster knowledge of their ignorance. 

When one is tabla rosa

Trees are Known by their Fruit

If someone does not believe there is a God they probably do not believe in anything but their worldly view. They are left with only this world's physical science and flesh of this world, without any sense of spirit.

There are those who believe something can come out of nothing, or there is no purpose in their existence by what they give and take out. They can do anything they want without any sense of identity. I find evidence for another view.

The brain, I believe, is an organ as any other. Our entire physical existence is one of growth, whether or not it visually takes place. If there is growth it soon declines. Not only that, we physically change from our early appearances until everyone we ever knew has proceeded us and we are left alone. Making friends with all younger people, I claim, will eventually be a Dorian Grotesk failure.

We can see other people clearly but when a real emotionally close person dies, suddenly we can see our own weaknesses so much more clearly as well. This opportunity fades, but the flash of the truth is there. I think that that experience is a hint of seeing things as they are, that comes out of an insightful flash of the spirit.

So, it is easy for God to forgive. He knows all, well ahead of time.  But we should forgive for our own sake even if we cannot see all in the end. 

Taking everything on Faith

Depending on someone's love of existence in turn depends on how much they value God. 

If someone does not value God or does not believe in God's existence, they necessarily must be their own God.

I myself cannot escape this view since we do not have all or anywhere near enough information to decide whether or not there is a God or not. 

So I thank God for His Existence and the existence He has given me.

Bringing everything into the seen

When the unseen takes over 

the seen will not help  

It is easy to think about the soon disappearing seen and hard to think about the unseen when we are temporarily more dazzled by the seen. 

The seen will be soon flutter away when the eternal unseen takes over... forever. The pleasant seen will soon be sad over and over. The joys of the presently unseen will be greater than we can now contemplate. There will be a great reward, tending to the spirit. 

Christmas Time

Think anyone could say physical scientists generally do not understand time because quite a few do not agree with each other on exactly what time is.

 Since time cannot exist outside a comparison, it is a relationship figure independently outside other comparisons. One thing seems to be clear, time passing is sad, no matter how wonderful or terrible it was. Christmas is sad because they are all sandwiched between many memories. Eventually time passing in the flesh is sad.  

I am fond of lookbacks of how magnified time was for me from fifteen and a half to eighteen. Next I thought 21 would never arrive until suddenly it ran right over me and no one noticed.

 We are a longer time dead than alive. Such a long long time. Who can remember any of the people alive long ago?  Julius Caesar was voted the most popular individual by a large historical organization awhile back. But who remembers him as any more than an assassination a long time gone? 

Jesus as Santa Claus

It is not very logical to blame God for the way church members act. Polls show Christianity is losing members at a greater rate than any other religion. 

The reason people leave churches, in my experience, is that they generally look upon church members as hypocrites. I suggest this is an example of the fallacy called misplaced authority, of which I was guilty myself.

There was very little emphasis in spiritual matters. As a child I learned from the pastor that the stories in the Bible were not true, only the meaning is true. I was questioning the existence of Santa Claus at the time. 

God from scratch

If anyone has decided within themselves there is no God, they are instantly faced with the bald fact they do not have anywhere near enough information to prove it, a negative at that.

I am not sure, but personally think the idea may have been placed there in the first place. I don't believe that is hard to believe looking at a clear night sky. Further, it looks to me that if I thought there were actually no God then I'd have to be my own God. 

Problem with that idea is I'm not sure I could think the world up from scratch anytime soon. 

Together as One

I Choose My Spirit or I Could Lose My Spirit

 There are many spirits, good spirits and evil. They are always contending with each other. I do not trust any spirit unless it is Jesus. Together, in John 17, the Trinity is described as One: that is God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus, as One. 

Translations from faith to feeling

Devotional: Jesus Calling

The reason I read and reread the scriptures is to gain and build my faith. In point of fact, it is the only reason I have reliably discovered so far.

In that effort I've been recently reading the devotional Jesus Calling by Sarah Young because it squares so closely right on Jesus. It rustled up critics I guess, and in the ensuing flap I have a new insight on translations. I suppose I could say she could be translating English into English. Basically, not much different from an ancient language into a younger language. 

I, at one time in my idle college days, discovered the mystery type stories of Georges Simenon. I could read and write French at the time. But the thing of it was I eventually discovered not all translations were as exciting or intriguing as others. 

I saw clearly that the Bible translations, even if English to English, were similar from one language to another. Certainly, words like conviction and assurance are weaker than ones like substance or evidence that we see in Hebrews 11:1.

2nd Corinthians 4:18

 Most follow the "seen" very closely, but it is the "unseen" which is the greater, indicating an anticipation of the spiritual. 

I admit I do myself, but, to me, the seen world seems, stretching so far ahead of us, closer to an embryonic entrance to the eternal unseen. This is where time looks very short and fools us all every time.

Be it done to you according to?

Healing

Jesus asked many times; do you believe I can do this? When the answer was Yes, then He said, "Be it done to you according to your faith."

My Answer to evil

The Question of Evil

God does not have to answer to, or for, evil, I do. I entered a store, in my cycling days, which said God spelled backwards is dog. Backwards is the key here. The devil spells everything backwards. That is his trademark.

Original Sin Required Knowledge

Reciting the Lord's prayer backwards is his boast. Far as I am concerned the devil answers for himself. I have to answer for the knowledge business. Knowledge seems bold and beautiful, but it is never ending in that it also includes knowledge that expands to include knowledge that I am not, or was not, ever aware of previously. 

To say God is responsible for evil is to negate any definition of God, an impossible event logically and I would think, is in itself an obvious fallacy. But, as noted, it is not only never ending, but is also, growing to increase my ignorance of knowledge I do know.  

Do not rely on various proofs

Everything Lives from Faith

 I've had some tell me God is not Existence. There are those who say Jesus was murdered. This points to a lack of awareness of the spirit. This puts understanding directly in the path of the flesh without any provision for the spirit. The flesh cannot help us Jesus has said.

I believe people accept proof based on their own particular satisfactions, and if it satisfies them, then they are happy. If they have no God, they may also necessarily be their own God. But the flesh keeps changing. First to the good and then to the dust. My hope is not in my flesh, but in my faith. 

There are many unanswered questions. That is where faith comes from. God places things in our hearts. Where or how else could we know it?  We are then responsible for our choices. My view as I speak.

Believing is more than Agreement

When Believing Becomes Faith

The seen world is all some only know. What is of ourselves seen, changes before us growing until it seems to regress. Finally, it passes away altogether never to be seen again.

There is a jumping off station, for those who can address it. Despite the changes we each have endured; it disappears as if into a detailed dream quite believable until awakened. Eventually, seeming enough, it then, almost is totally unbelievable. Finally, I am entering out of my changing flesh, into an embryonic spirit. This is what I believe. I will find myself emerged into what I truly believe. 

Psalm 103

Every Tree Known by its Fruit

For a powerful spiritual l pick me up I find the 103rd Psalm a very readable psalm among many bright stars glimmering in my faith building intent to strengthen my spirit.  

I try never to take an offense, so I won't be an offensive person...

"Never criticize or condemn - or it will all come back on you." Luke 6:37

Anything is possible if you have faith. Mark 9:23. 

yanked my post

Working Out My Own Salvation 

The opening definition of this blog says I am interested only in issues and not personalities. So, I finally woke up and yanked it all back. How easy it was to unintentionally slip off track. No names were actually mentioned but I felt one could figure things out if they tried, right or wrong. 

I hope not to intend getting mis-directed into controversies. People are politics, and politics is bare bones largely gossip. Therefore, no matter what the subject, even those not named would provide the slippery opportunity to take things entirely off the subject into an emotional sidebar. 

Blogs are arranged in reverse of their timelines. If one has not read the previous positions, then the writer is forced to repeat things. Even if no personalities are involved, even then it tends to cause the writer to write heavily with a legal slant since subjects were part of a long list to be explained.

It is certain that personalities gather greater interest, but I am not interested in persuasions. Everyone is responsible for their own ideas, and they alone deserve the credit for them. I am working things out for myself.

Lawyers and my Paraclete

Here are my bare bones. I do not know what will happen to me when I die, but I tend to think that I, like everyone else, will get what I believe.

First, God will not, even cannot, allow before Him any sin. He is not the author of it, and He will not allow any sin to even appear before Him.

However, He will permit me to appear before Him because of my Paraclete. My Paraclete is of the Holy Spirit. He will vouch that I have faith in God and that I accept Jesus. Therefore, my sins are forgotten by God as if they never happened. 

This is because of Jesus, who took them away, as the last sacrifice, on the Cross. From thence forth, for the first time, there was no one any longer between God and man. No one any longer...the curtain was rent from top to bottom.

Proof and faith do not mix

 There are quite a few book titles that claim to prove the existence of God. If that is so, then there is that much less room left to please God. 

God is pleased with faith, not proof. Sometimes one proof takes center stage, then some other kinds of "proof" make their entrance.

I proved God existed to my satisfaction via logic. It all worked out nicely, but I found the trip self-absorbed to a fault. Physical proof to one's satisfaction is sandy ground that left a hollow spot. 

Next

Power was needed, as if like electric emotion. Enter my Paraclete to represent me before God.

Hope in the spotlight

Stay on the positive track

There is a risk between not predicting hope and predicting hope. There is a risk to attributing a lack of hope because of any lack of respect displayed among those who do hope. Those who hope, even tho they hope, may not know how or even what to hope for. Only by staying on a positive track can one predict hope. Negative hope can still exist, but not by any negative act. Realizing this is when hell enters the picture, cancelling oneself and realizing it at the same time.

Speaking too Soon?

I believe if I had enough faith, I could move mountains, that is, if I could only demonstrate enough faith. I understand I speak ahead of the crowd when I say I do not believe Jesus was speaking only figuratively when He said this.  

First there is, to my speculative view, an element of insight that overcomes some. It happens where one is able to see themselves in a brighter & greater and revealing light when someone of emotionally intense significance passes ahead of them. Where does that insight come from, to see oneself so clearly? 

It suggests a future life of the spirit, a flash from an embryonic stage, a completing stage, that is the seen world suddenly spiraled into a sudden glimpse of the unseen.

The next thread

All things seen came from the unseen

My Epiphanies' 

A key word in my definition of epiphany is manifestation, normally of a sudden unexpected nature. It is like a sudden burst of awareness, at its root and is of religious importance. (The "ph" in the word pronounced as an "f".) There is an entire history to epiphany which one can google out if they are so inclined. 

There is a sense, from its religious origins, that it is a message from God, or His angels delivering a message from God. This is how I take it, which made it all seem private and supported the idea that God places things in our hearts. 

I also felt it was all sort of private and not to be witnessed. Of course, one has to be wary of unfriendly quarters that capitalize on any such experience as loony, which is what any hostile spirit being sent to accuse would do. 

This is where my old friend logic steps in. I am going to try to stick to my threads in the future and make it my witness. My friendship of logic frees me of the mis-entanglements of others. (Thank you Dr. Sahakian.)

My compulsive desire to rejoice

The reason I find I should praise God and particularly, worship God, as well as desire to be where He is, is because He, as one in the Trinity, authored existence. 

That is, He created the universe as we encounter it, and more. And He did it all, everything, for us, even as us. It is reported exactly how He wanted to be called, into all generations, to Moses. Anyone who does not favor existence I would think be more likely be more attracted to the opposite, into the excitement of fire and consumption. Alongside this many seem to blame God for evil spirits that are permitted to gain dominance, even right alongside expecting free will.

 Anyone who is rejoicing in existence, no matter how hard or doubtful, will want to exist, no matter what, in my mind. Worship is celebration and gratitude. I believe, as it is written, that it is greater than it can be known what God has prepared for us beyond this embryonic manifestation. That is this physical life that grows and slips back in the dust. 

Any emphasis of the physical, the seen, reveals, to me, a stark unintentional slant on the spirit, and especially the Holy Spirit. 

Eric Arthur Blair

I write experimentally, to discover puzzling questions, that is, interesting to me. I only write for my own benefit, like everyone else. Anyone who claims that they are writing to persuade anyone else is in my view more than usually and firstly writing to persuade themselves. 

I write to objectify my thinking and as well to find out clearly what I am thinking and believing. Luckily for me, my mother accidently taught me to read around three by pointing her finger to Thornton Burgess Peter Rabit word by word every night in the local newspaper. She later told me she would no longer help me carry all the books I chose to take out of the library.

Somerset Maugham said he like to read so much he would read anything available even if it was an out-of-date bus schedule. I think Maugham was the among the very best of the long-distance writers. He wrote laboriously by hand, but I would not say he met my central casting choice. 

There I would necessarily choose Papa, known as the Hemingway of course. But then he shot himself, (thoughtfully in the front entry of his house). I never appreciated his longish novels as much as the very best of writers, George Orwell. Not his real name, he wrote a handful of more briefish novels that appealed to me in my yoot. 

A socialist (not yet then moved to the left) the famous pigs explained equality as admitting everyone to being equal. It was only that they were more equal than anyone else. Now there is a famous quote for us that is exclusively credited. I think for me he is the most famous of all. He could have called 1984, 2084 instead however. 

The little black book

The majority is not always wrong. Herbert Spencer. There are fewer right answers than wrong ones. Spencer Corkum 

Mathematics is against us. I am for algebra because algebra, I was early convinced, knows the unknown and is sure of it. Only numberized charts pointing upward are good charts. Knowing that could make life well worth living in the stock market. In fact I know a great number that will shoot me to the moon. If it doesn't go up then don't buy it. 

Where things take me

Star Gazing the Universe

All I observe in the universe seems to constantly move, in all instances and it is, I suppose, probably related to some such universal vibrations, as if mockingly matched to some mysterious violin. 

I suspect everything vibrates even when it seems not to do so. Entities I also feel certain to again suggest, seem not to vibrate even when they vibrate so violently, they appear not to move at all. Physical scientists unwarily rely more strongly on personal sight than is comfortable, from senses placed within us?

It is, as Jesus said, possible to move mountains if one has enough faith. There it is, believing is seeing, rather than seeing is believing. The unspoken looms over us, if we could somehow respeak it in our minds. Could it be just a matter of choice? The seen world must then learn to see more of the unseen.

Myself

Working Out My Own Salvation 

There are millions of spirits and more than quite a few mediums I should imagine. Many of them have great powers I can also well imagine. That seems certain I can assume myself, so myself only trusts one Spirit. 

Jesus 

There are also many poker players even better than I am. So, if Manolete could invent more dangerous passes and be gored to death in the bull fighting arena it is for double certain sure I would not wind up a stone stature in the square. 

Parlor Tricks

I do not feel comfortable with mediumship and reincarnations. Why should anyone talk at all to anyone they know through someone they do not know? 

And living more than one life one after the other sounds like debilitating confusion. Hell, for instance, is repetitious. This is what boring does.

This is what boring does to anyone who tells someone else to do what someone you do not know said what you should do, and all this to a stranger yet?

My spirit is forming itself within me

Time Does Not Exist Alone;

Only Comparitively

 My life is like living born in an egg, surrounded by handicaps. I sense, planted within me, that when I die this shell will grow only to continue to change deteriorating and I will be born into my spirit. Each day is a rehearsal for the final "lifetime". 

Morning to night again and again I am born into lifetimes that were rehearsed daily. There will be no more time to exist since time requires separate and independent comparisons. There are millions of times, all separate and uniquely measured.

Fear is not a friend of Faith

Fear is afraid of faith. No surprise, fear is afraid, since it is destructive so that is all there is to it. Hey! Why choose it at all? There is also no hope in it, just to scrape the barrel along with the entire ticket. 

No hope is a worthless give up it seems to me. And all before the game even starts. Faith before the fact is the substance of things hoped for. That means to me that the actor in the piece already takes the things hoped for in an actual hard events turn out. How else is it to come to existence otherwise? Of course, if it is just a feeling then that is likely the only hope one will ever get. The translator reveals the true tale his future really will shoot for. After all, there is great faith and little faith we read in the Bible, according to Jesus.

Time ends in the foxhole

I will only know what I finally and truly believe in the foxhole. Then it will be too late to change. If I see anything now in the shadows, I am really seeing something forming in my fading mind of flesh. I perhaps live in my own galaxy. I will find out what I really believe when I get in the final foxhole. But then it may be too late to change. This is because my spirit may not be able to change when it is eternal and therefore out of time. This is why I have to figure out my own salvation now as my GranzeeMother so often said. In the spirit my father will appear to me as my father and to his father he will appear as his son. I wonder? 

Fan of quotes

"Growth is the only evidence of life." 

I like this quote by someone, I forget who, doesn't overly much matter who, since I find it common to see several people credited for the same quote. 

As far as growth is concerned, it strikes me growth itself is an indication of death along with it. The fewer the words the harder it is to come up with anything notably significant. Writing a novel may be hard but it is harder to write a short story' It is easier itself to write than a poem. Quotes are even harder. There are a lot of fatuous quotes, some so called said by famous people which are quite, I should say, trite. Henry James I think is one. Oh well, I suppose we all will be a long time trite soon enough.

We learn only to discover our hidden ignorances

Nothing faster than the speed of light? It seems hard for us to recognize we know so much about science while we seek desperately for things that can be proved. Still, it always comes to me quietly in the corners of my mind the truths we fathom within our ignorance are hiding so much we do not yet know.

I suspect the spirit is faster than any speed of light we can calculate. It might even be impossible to reason outside the speed of time. Often, when someone is no more I've seen truths I never thought of when they were alive.

The Devil Whittles His Way in Wherever He Can

 Where would the devil send his workers? 

To a bar room or to a church? If there are those who insist on believing in God, then their instructions likely to attack, not Him directly, but only His power?

Only the King James.

The Wishy and the Washy;

Life in My Backbone

Some verses are more important than others. Anything about faith has to be of the most important.

Hebrews 11:1 ranks right up at the very top. Ever since the original King James, most translations I have ever read, have weakened the power of faith in my view.

 What do you think? Are translations to be translating-ly true, or grammatically true, and of lesser strength spiritually? 

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This is a stronger kind of faith, in the King Janes, is it not?

Defining Ourselves

 The flesh, according to the future, is always fading and cannot help us... this according to Jesus.

Both giving and taking

 Everything is taken in faith, including proof, according each to our own perceptions. In short, I will get what I am giving.

Greater knowledge reveals greater ignorance.

 Nothing can be proved, except ultimately....that is, to our own satisfaction. New answers reveal new questions, themselves revealing our even greater ignorance, not previously known. 

The spirit vs physical science

All things seen, came from the unseen.

Finding our destiny

 I believe everyone is going to get one day what we really believe we are going to get. 

When we find out what that really is, there is an actual undebatable question whether or not we will be happy with our understanding of it. 

Born Again, Into What?

I am more and more completely convinced we are all going to get what "we believe."  And again, I also believe the atheist view is not comfortable believing in "someone" else.

If one believes in Jesus, for instance, one has to believe in the Spiritual Existence of God. Then the more we believe in that existence, spiritually, then that is why we would naturally be deeply grateful. 

Worshipful even.

Definition of Forever

 Everyone Knows 

They Will Die Someday

But Not Right Now 👌

The QuoteBlokes 

Too Many Possessions Warps Desire For Heaven

Rich Have Difficulty, whether in money, or knowledge. Too much knowledge creates an excess of doubt. Too much money creates an illusion of power. Time may be money, but one never knows how much time they have. We never really own anything; we only control it, and at that, only temporarily.

Purpose of this Blog

 

 IS TO DEFINE GOD 

THE WAY GOD DEFINED HIMSELF

God is Existence

Exodus 3:14 

"I am that I am."

 

This is the name, it is written, God told Moses 

He wanted to be known. Known by this name forever 

"into all generations."

The More to Find, the Longer to Find It

 Dealing With Only What We Can See

cuts off an entire category that we cannot see. If we work with the unknown in order to know it, how would we know when we knew everything? Is it even possible to know it all and still contend with it?

Even if we did see it all how would we know when we could see everything clearly? If I knew everything all at once would I be smart, or crazy?

Computers are exactly constructed similar to the human brain to avoid this condition. 

Quoteblokes

Those Who Would Be God

Clarence ? Spurgeon(sp) Eighteenth Century writer-preacher is credited with saying, "those who do not believe in God, wish there were no God." 

Choice!_ 

A Law of God... Reaping What We Sow

The Accuser and the Forgiver

Accusers seek their own destruction, just as forgivers seek and gain, in addition, forgiveness for themselves.

Jumping Categories is a Logical Fallacy

Evolution Only Speaks to Things 

Changing Within Themselves

Trees are only known by their fruit. This is why figs do not grow from apple trees. Grapefruit, at one time, was bitter and still is, but combined with oranges has now a different sweetness than either of the two.

Fruit, meanwhile, still does not grow from nuts.

The eye of an ape functions, but it cannot and does not evolve from a bird, or else it would be something else altogether. 

Sowers Reap What They Sow

 The Tree is Known by Its' Fruit

When my spirit is released on its' own, I will find then what I truly believe. If my words were far from my heart, I will either contend or be content with that, whatever it is.

If I believe there is no existence, nor any God, when that happens then I believe I will know it. 

So, if I did not believe in God, or something like nothing at all after my evolvement into the death of my body and mind, it is far from certain I would not know it. 

To know I do not exist and still know that very fact is very close to my expectations of hell. Even nothing to be nothing has to be something to be known, and especially be experienced. 

Or, for instance, if I believe in reincarnation, and that then I would be stricken to believe in lives lived over and over, This sounds interesting at first, but the ultimate descent would, like a drug, bore me into an untenable state of the extreme.

Logic Can Only Point to Passion.

Passion is the Energy

That Produces Motion

One can only prove God to their own satisfaction. I can prove or disprove God, but it is all only death in the water without faith given by God's Grace, and witnessed by the Holy Spirit who draws whom He will. This according to Jesus.

Energy is first, and then follows Emotion.  Believing is not Logical. I am never a certain judge of my Faith, either great or weak. The Holy Spirit convicts and the Paraclete testifies in defense. God does not permit His presence to sit in front of evil unless His grace has gone before where there is no more sin. Or in our terms, entirely forgotten, out of mind by God. 

There is no time in nothing....

God Created Our World and

Then Hung It in an Empty Space

God created this world of change, since He is the eternal world where there is no time. Time only exists in untold comparative comparisons.

Definition of the Future

Secret Things Belong to the Lord

Prophets predicting the future are told so by God. If a prophet predicts a future that did not happen, then they are by their own definition a false prophet.

Strong Belief Rules the Mountains

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. The strength of the substance reveals actual evidence of the unseen, according to one's belief.

Faith is how and where the future comes from....

Spirit Not Under the Law

Doctrine Law vs the Spiritual 

My new devotional is entitled Jesus Calling, not God Calling. I bought it because of the title as I am very easily focused on Jesus even tho I have yet to buy a Red-Letter Bible, with only the words of Jesus quoted in it.

Since Jesus is quoted in the full Bible mentioning Jonah for example, this gives greater authority to that prophet, one might think. This could give some stumbling blocks. Those concentrating heavily on doctrine are often found less attentive by the spirit than the physical in my view.

Nevertheless, since Jesus agrees with the Bible He is quoted in the devotional as author of it. For those troubled by this difficulty, I can only suggest giving more emphasis to John 17. The spiritual is highlighted there. 

Manna Has Awakened

 

Preaching Jesus for everyone who receives

Jesus is Christ in Us

The Hope of Glory

Spoken and preached by Paul through the Spirit of Christ, is a mystery incarnated for us by Jesus from the will of God. What God places in our hearts is the perfection of Jesus that we might gain the richness of that glory. 

Definition of faith

I Will Get What I Believe

Jesus is quoted as saying I will reap what I sow. This is why I think I will get what I believe. If I did not believe in God, then I would have to be my own god. Rather I think it more likely that God created, but some turned things to trash, then blamed it on God. I don't have every answer which is why I need faith, Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. At least not seen so far at this point. 

Watering down belief

 When faith is substance....

then I will trust substance which is more real to me than any personally drummed up conviction of faith. (see Manna.)

Trending....

Only Enough Proof Exists

to reach one's own personal satisfaction.  

The reason for this is because the observable world is changing and there are so many different viewpoints. Every star seen in the sky that blinks is another sun. If it does not blink, then it is reflecting light. (Is that correct? (I may be at the coming stage of transposing, which all we all have to look forward to in these short lived bodies.)

Odds are small on 100% proof.

Trending...danger

Believing Predictions of Dread

Leads to More Faith in Fear

We only believe in what we believe if it happens that way, one way or another eventually, when enough faith and correspondent belief is believed strongly enough.

There are different grades of belief, as Jesus put it, oh ye of little belief and that of greater belief. If we had enough, we could move mountains. And there could come a day when we could do even greater things that Jeus Himself.

Doomsday dialogue

Fear is the Strategy of Defeat 

If enough losers believe in dooms day I suppose it could actually happen that way. But first comes the widespread crowd belief in doom sucking one in. First is the heralding unseen of the doomers and gloomers. We finally get our projections as they become our desires one way or another. Stronger leads to the stronger. 

Everything Jesus tells us to do is designed to help us. We are to forgive so we ourselves do not become involved in unforgiveness. So, I do not take an offense (if I can possibly avoid it) because if I take an offense then I will by possession of it become offensive myself.

Welcome to defeat.

Trending...

Recently previous entries are introducing a reaction to the first devotional to catch my eye. 

Working on the view words are revealing a technically oriented shift long evident in language. This shift demands an awareness of faith in the unseen influencing of changing forces in the seen.

Red Letter Bible

Being Like Jesus

My faith has to run ahead of my proof. That is what makes it my faith. Once anything is proved, if it could ever be proved at all, there would be no need for faith that could influence the future. 

All things seen came from the unseen.

Did the Red Sea really part so the Israelites could escape the Egyptians? Unbelievable event? Not particularly, not if at one time the Red Sea was not only a tidal river from the south but also another fast-shifting tidal river from the north, from to the Mediterranean. Weather experts have suggested this event.

The map of the earth is always changing. We can see that ourselves, just as even today the US map if the coasts are shifting. The west slowly toward the Pacific and the east away from the Atlantic. 

 In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus correctly predicted the world would run out of food. That is, he was correct judging the food production of his day. Today living physical scientists are predicting we will run out of food 27 years from now.

The accuracy is amusing...

All predictions are treated similarly by the future today even as Malthus' prediction was. True from all the facts of today but not from the future. They do not have all the facts that make an accurate prediction. So, how can one predict the existence of God from an incomplete knowledge of all the unproveable facts in the future? 

Definition of a Devotional

Jesus Calling by Sarah Young 

Enjoying peace in His presence...

Since Bibles have been published nothing in my framework has surpassed the 1700s King James Bible, especially the New Kin g James Version with all the thee's and thou's tucked away in memory.

What does it say in the old unwatered King James? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen? That is not the same translator talk that followed the NKV, revealing an unaccomplished spiritual belief than that followed.

I've never been drawn to devotionals until now, encountering Young's Jesus Calling. First of all, since the King James was published, language has changed significantly, turning toward a more exact scientifically laden communication. 

So Indeed! How Can One Be Born Twice?

Jesus wrote one word, and it was in the sand unreported Everything He said was new, as He introduced the spirit to the seen world. One can easily see afterward that Jesus was speaking in the spirit while his hearers were listening in the flesh. It is hard to think outside the boxes from which we appear. 

People get attached to the semantics they were born from and into.  Many often fail to grasp the powerful meanings that are subsequently lost to them. I see indications, since my science fiction days, that the physical sciences are changing as significant members are gaining respect for the limitations of the known vs the unknown.

The original King James reader, it clearly seems to me, accepted their belief as already happening. This is the big jump faith demands. Everything seen originally comes from the unseen first. The physical sciences ask for proof before it even exists, for them. This will fade further into the background as we all gain greater awareness of the vastness of the unknown.

As for as Sarah Young is concerned, her translation is the best yet in my view, despite doctrinaire reservations. (Second edit)

Something that comes out of nothing

Believing in Nothing is Something

Even nothing is something, the second it is defined. Anything once existing cannot change but will always exist, in that case, as nothing and know it. To know one believes in nothing, they know they are nothing. To know one does not exist and to know it sounds like being wedged inside unspeakable hell well outside the bell of time.

Foxhole Belief

Believing Afterward As If

I am Already Dead Beforehand

 When I can believe something under extreme pressure with the same intensity as if I were conversing in the comfort of a drawing room, then can I guess what I really believe. 

While it is true that I am not required to answer anyone truthfully unless they are entitled to any particular truth, the truth in this case is what my confession is. And it is written that if I confess Jesus before men, then Jesus will confess me before God.

I will receive what I actually believe. I cannot avoid myself, any more than God can negate Himself. Edited

Definition of a spirit....

Those not drawn to God are drawn

With lonely hope to themselves

The spirit, once existing, never dies. A spirit is whatever the spirit believes. Some have many differing spirits within them, all contending against each other in a complexity beyond any conceived burdens.

The strongest spirit is simple. The greater complexity the greater chance for destructive forces to be further multiplied, all of whom cannot even reliably understand themselves.

Anything that can be seen can change or be changed. The seen is the fruit of the unseen. This difference cannot negate itself. 

Therefore, there has to be a God to produce the positive, the existence we reflect upon. God places certain evidentiary truths within us which produce the benefits necessary to function within. Therefore, we have to take celebration from our existence. 

If we do not, then we act against ourselves in the role of being our own god. Others will have to accept it or threaten one's existence. Each would struggle for dominance, the goal being destruction as their only tools to produce their existence. This is an impossible task.

The more we learn, the more we know that there is so much more that we do not know. Since we did not create ourselves, nor even the world itself with all its' unfathomable limits, do we learn anything that would change even any concept of God.

Over the Shoulder Redux

I've Not Always Been Right 

from@sunsetstroller  

Oct 8, 2013

When I was a youngster I was a communist. If our house burns down, I reasoned, the firemen would build us a new one.