On revenge is the Lord's

Forgiveness is for My Benefit

I am starting to realize at this late date that I should not be disappointed when things do not happen the way I assume I am entitled to expect.

Especially revenge is the Lord's in events when someone has been taken over by an evil spirit. That individual would  however, would have no direction in  the matter no matter how horrifyingly tremendous.

It may be, this is my thinking only, that I would wonder if anyone who allows themselves to be taken over by an evil spirit would suffer for that itself in particular alone. This is why I could not trust any spirit whatever, except the Holy Spirit of Jesus. 

His Spirit to judge was given Him by the Holy Father and Jesus' judgement is true. I cannot bring any judgement to the matter because I would then be assuming the presence of God.

And that protects me from experiencing any resentments or thoughts of revenge, including hatreds and other spirits contrary to a loving  God, who cannot negate Himself. 

On Winnie

 

When the arrow flys by day

Living in My Secret Place

Psalms is for praise. Mostly I read it for comfort. Psalm 91is my focus at this present moment. This when I've lived, at one might say, beyond the half way mark. 

There my flesh reached a plateau, although I wasn't aware of it the time. but everything slowly and relentlessly, turned against me. Jesus warned me but I did not take great stock in it then. 

The flesh cannot help you, He said. Not only that but it can get worse without my even knowing it until I began to wonder, as my mother said before me, another new day, another new pain.  

Worlds Hung in an Empty Space
by the Father of Lights

She was so right! But the truth cannot be told by those who know. Now I see, but I see too late in this world of change. Next is the born again unseen eternity of the spirit. My hope is beside Jesus where all things, now  beyond my knowledge, are new.

On Coincidences

All Randomness Has a Purpose

I do not believe in coincidences, therefore I do no believe in random creations. What appears as random coincidence is simply because I, nor anyone else, understands them.

I rather think that today's scientific knowledge was largely yesterday's magic. A consciousness knows a lot more than we do, including all the why's, when's and what for's. On the other hand, slowly now, the more we know, the more we know there is more than ever that we don't know yet.

Bottom line: Faith! We do not know. We believe what we do not know. Except of course, if everything is to our own satisfaction. 

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.

On God & Comedy

Nonsense & Idle Words

I love to laugh and make fun of the human condition in all its' pretense, my own and friends. I've analyzed the anatomy of nonsense which is some serious stupidity right there. Jesus says to let our words be yes and no. I have not yet figured the full meaning of those words, nor the practical usage of them.

So why do we call Him Jesus? Even more serious and more clear to me, are idle words spoken in vain. Exclamations like Jimmeniny Crickets! are suspect. Not only suspect but they trivialize a serious outlook on life that mocks the Eternal and the Holy. 

On Getting Ahead from Behind

Crucifying the Body

In Favor of the Spirit

 Since my body will not help me, according to Jesus, but will crucify me as I get older, the signals are in gear for me to have faith and no ought against any.

I am getting lingering signals the long term it is to my benefit if I do not drain my time and energy annoying myself not trusting Jesus to for everything, the good the bad and the ugly.

To pick up my cross and follow Jesus is becoming increasingly clearer than I ever conceived previously. In a changing world I am changing for my unseen eternal benefit.

As with everything in the seen, it is the same with time. All I can do with it in the end is to measure it.

On Why I Will Die

The Unseen is very Deep

I can sense it, there is a reason I will die, beyond the accepted prediction drawing me short of a total eagerness for eternity. 

This because the anticipation, simply put, has an end times unpleasantness. Times that themselves, it could be said, are passing away. Maybe I will be glad of that anyway, because so many in it do not wish each other well. 

It spoils the view for strolling at sunset.

On Chances

Time Slipping Into Eternity

It seems to me that I my banana peel, after all this time, were to increase during the first fifty years and decline the next thereafter. 

I racked up my body out of the gate and now my body seems like wanting to rack me up entering the home stretch. 

I just want younger folks to know what they have to look forward to. "Time is going to enter the picture in the end." Robert Morley in Beat the Devil. Next: Crucifying the flesh? 

I Am What I am

What I Speak is What I Get

A tree is known by its' fruit. And it is I found, as I repeatedly forget, the same with myself. So now I refuse to be offended because I not only do not want to be an offensive person, but I try to take watch over my tongue, so I do not create any unpleasant unwanted fruit of myself.

Taste buds change inside time

Success & Happiness

Front End Loading

 To my knowledge Ingrid Bergman gets the most frequent credit for this double quote.

Success 

is getting what you want. 

Happiness 

is wanting what you get.

Like reincarnation. Seems exciting going in but gradually the taste buds turn on the tum tum like in overdosing chocolate.  

I was my own God for a time

On

Being My Own God

I like to remind the casual hits that I cannot persuade anyone, they have to do that themselves, just like I am doing. 

If anyone's understanding of God does not please them then I myself have already been there and done that. I found being God was altogether too much work.

Everything appearing here is my own personal viewpoint on the date entered only and can change anytime. 

I naturally assume everyone has their own slant on things. But I suspect many who want to persuade others are actually, at the core of the apple, primarily trying to persuade themselves, seeds and all. 

The coincident is too intricate

Understanding the Unexplained 

Randomness seems to be at the root of many things but this is only because we do not yet understand many things. As a result not a few say there is nothing coincident at all.

I struggle to remember the more knowledgeable are slow to conclude. Probably this is because they have more to consider, being excessively rich in knowledge.

It is harder to believe in the heaven like spiritually transcendent if one seems to be there already.

The less knowledgeable are quick to speak and slow to consider since for them there is less known to consider. If all this is true then it can be seen why God can forgive. If God knowing all God can forgive all, proves God loves all.

It also proves God cannot permit evil or even tolerate it it in His presence. We all need another helper, a counselor, a paraclete to vouch for us even before God.

By itself it seems then as tho this is not fair to the ignorant, unless they have become consumed by destructive unforgiving spirits speaking for them instead. I walk in the fruit of my own spirit so long as I avoid personal judgments of others. Only God can judge.

Incarnation of God

Million & One Names for God

Recently  have learned of an an interesting I Am Jesus blog entitled Ryan Callahan's Blog focusing on the incidences recorded where Jesus made seven "I am" references to Himself in the Gospels.

Historically there has been a long standing tradition that no one has seen God and to look on His face would result in one's death. 

I have centered my own particular rifle-like attention on Exodus 3:14-15 when Moses talked with God after he was given the commandments and had asked God who shall he say sent him.   

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.

By those who know

The Truth Cannot Be Told

This is my most favorite quote of all time. Many quotes are credited to many authors. The better the quote the longer the list of credits.

This quote this morning was authored by the greatest stock market trader of his age. It ended a suicide in the public men's room of a fancy downtown New York hotel. 

He did not intend is as a quote but to rather describe pool trading, well known in its' day, but which I will not take time to explain further now.

But I, when a read about it, immediately seized upon it as the best quote of all time, had it been intended for that. It has nothing to do with stock trading. I say will  why later today, as soon I can, but I have to move on right at this particularly moment sudden shot out of tine.

See Spot Run

Up until I was fourteen there was no way you could tell me what it was like to be fourteen that is, until I got there myself.                                     

Things continued that way the rest of my older life. In every case that I observed, the younger thinks they know more than the older. This directly in the face of the older. It seems that we know more when there is less we actually do know. In my case the more I learned the stupider I felt.

Inspired during my current devotional ...

My Future is in the Present Tense

My hope for my future, is to be in heaven. Even so, my future hope in heaven is itself, all this while, in the present, being that heaven itself is without time. So all eternity is in the present.

I finally, as Paul told the Corinthians in 2 Cor: 10:5 demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. And I take captive every thought to make it obedient to Jesus. I write this with unceasing gratitude and praise.

Hi Ho Silver Quote

The Tree is Known by Its' Fruit

I am quite certain this quote came to me from the Bible, but I heard it first on the radio's Lone Ranger when one evening when I heard Jay Silverheels ask Clayton Moore how he knew who the guilty party was, when all the Lone Ranger asked who the guilty party was. 

The guilty always speak up first Tonto the Lone Ranger said. And so it is also, when anyone speaks derogatively against another, they are exposing what is in their own heart, thoughts, and mind. 

Parables are figurative

Great Faith vs Little Faith?

It seems to me that many of us, myself included, want to go to heaven, but not right now. It sounds together like a good enough definition of forever to me if I ever heard it.

As for Matt 21:21 - So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have (enough in some translations) faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done."           

Now according to my own personal way there is no evidence this statement from Jesus now that there is any evidence Jesus was speaking figuratively, as there would be if it were set in a parable. There is no para, alongside comparison as there is in a parable. 

It is a flat out stand a lone statement. In a parable the story is not true but is made up to illustrate the spiritual which is true. In Matt 21:21 there is nothing similar to a parable. '

The setting does seem inspired by Psalm 46 however. My view is strongly in favor of the power of faith here, notice from Jesus Himself. There are many, maybe many more if they thought about it, who do not agree with me but rather favor a figurative view. 

This, I tend to think, weakens the strength of Jesus statement from my personal orbit. When do I stop? Is the Cross figurative as well?

The Beginning & the End

Original Sin True or Conundrum?

It is a instinctual effort that we all seem to be attracted to the effort to, to try and figure everything out. The desire for knowledge leads me back to that tree in the Garden of Eden. 

The desire for knowledge in disobeying God's warning not to eat of that particular tree is wanting, at the root of it, is to be like God. Same as the devil himself. 

I have nothing to contribute to the Melchizedeck thing and Revelation is the opposite, to my mind, full of symbols. So I have decided to step aside of both issues. Instead I am going to work on my ideal of "greater faith". Is it just figurative or only a parable? I myself think not.

Melchizedeck? 

We don't know for sure yet what is coming and we do not know what went before. What to do with these speculations? What does Melchizedeck mean for me?

Neglecting the Power

 Stifling the Spirit

When I was racking up perfect attendance pins in Sunday School I did not believe anything Jesus said about if someone asks me for my shirt to give him my coat also. 

Neither did I give any truth to the story the Rabbi's sternly told Jesus He should not heal on Sunday.

I dismissed it altogether, never thought a thing about it until I discovered much, too much, later that that Jesus' commandment was telling me the flesh could not help me. It was the spirit that was my vital road to eternity. 

Even during the rallies of Billy Graham, never a mention about being born again in any churches I heard about made any a stir. Probably because it was never taught in the seminaries.

Maybe some educate themselves out of faith and into fellowship dinners?

2nd Cor 16-18

Daily Renewing My Inner Man

I, as Paul said it best, pray any affliction I experience now is producing for me an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison to my decaying flesh. This is my hope.

Quoteblokes Doubling Up

It Was a Cold and Dreary Night

If success is getting what you want. Then happiness is wanting what you get. If I ask someone a question and they cannot explain it in twenty-five words or less I figure they do not know a thing about it. 

Reading the tea leaves

If they are still talking after fifty words I reason they know quite bit about it but cannot make head nor tail of any of it. If they in the process have learned how to teach, they likely spent their time learning to teach and forgotten how to learn.

If anyone is educated then they know the Gospels do not agree with each other, and so they have proof it is all due to collusion?   

Power praying

He is not here

Some, hopefully many, are emotionally charged reading the Bible, thanking and praising God. I focus on Jesus, and continually thank the Holy Father. Earlier, sometime ago it was, I received answers from the Holy Spirit often.

Not always but No emotion equals no power is my sense of it. Praying seemed then primarily leaning toward matter of fact. I would have to say aggressively so but with very dramatic consequences for me personally. 

I concentrate solely on faith now with a strong increasing edge on my no matter what attitude. There is a greater sense of emergency in the air that only increasing age brings into the mix.   

Morning on my mind

My Devotional Readding Now

When God impresses me most

I do not stop in my morning devotional, I read until I am satisfied. I, who bought and received devotionals all my life, but never read them, stopped reading in November last night.

Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. Psalm 73:23-24

I often stop when I read a verse too good not to dwell on it further at the time.. I sometimes wonder if I have picked up my cross yet, I have put it back down so many times. I want to be in glory but the body says not right now. However I am further on than before, On the go again....

When my flesh gives up the spirit

Not Easy Shaking Loose the Flesh

If I did not believe after my body gives up the spirit that things will continue to exist, then I am afraid I might not exist, but continue to know it. Not existing is a state of the spirit which once existing knows itself. 

Otherwise to my mind a person never could exist which cannot be true. I believe, as I find many do, that everyone existing exists forever similar to Eternalism. I would know internally that I no longer exist eternally forever. To avoid this problem it seems to me at this point is that the single most primary force I need is not reasonings, but faith.

Seen & Unseen difference

Being  Cautious of Change

All things that are seen are subject to change and are temporal like the flesh. All things unseen are where the temporal are conceived, in a state where there is no change and so is eternal. This is where the transcendent spiritual resides in an unchanging present tense state. 

Individuals are all first born in the flesh tabla rosa and must be born (again) in the spirit to continue into the hope of eternity of what they believed. 

Time appears to be stopped

If they are not, and this is what I personally believe, is that if they are not, then they will get whatever it was that they did believe to unexpected consequences. Unexpected perhaps because of continuing effects of unpredictable unchanges.  Since I do not know all the questions involved, nor even if I did, do not know all the answers, this effort is  continually updated.....  

Jesus said

Everyone is either drawn by God  or not. I was drawn and accepted Him because all His  commandments benefit me. 

Chapter and Verse?

Peek into Manna (click here or in Manna in left column) I would like to find time for my favorite verses again. Thinking of typing select ones in a list to get them together, maybe even memorizing a few just to have a toe in the water in the chapter and verse league.  

Why?

Transcending the Transcendent 

Why do I believe in God? I believe because I enjoy it and I am engulfed in it. I am not encamped round about with doubts or anything else that includes the flesh, nor any kind of information nor knowledge, true or not true, nor anything valuable one of a kind whatsoever.

Even the overly educated stand with empty pockets in the final tally up. Too much knowledge promotes time consuming doubts. Also even valuable objects, simple as they are, are not owned. They are only momentarily controlled. 

Soon, as time continues to fool us all, life will be over getting better and right in the middle of it all, it is time to wear out and break down on an inevitable glide path into incinerated powder. All because the seen is temporal and the unseen is eternal? This is where power is seen because I believe for my part everything seen came out of the unseen.

Anything eternal is eternal for a reason.  

Why Things Circular are Orbital

Every Good Thing Comes Down

From the Father of Lights

 When I arrived in Greenland the sun no longer went up and down, but around and around. Are all things circular orbital in the foundation of things? Why would that be?

No Matter What

I strongly suspect there is a reason but I do not know it. And so what if I don't? It may matter but it doesn't for me. I believe what I believe and I do not know how and I do not know very deeply why. 

I do not care if it is true even. The truth may exceed anything that appears to be so, or not so. Magic now, facts later.

Why I believe updated

Proof Requires "Little Belief"

Everyone decides what proof is to them and whether or not it is satisfying to them. Just like all astral objects they all have different orbits and different views of everything, even if only slight differences.

Thereafter they are then attracted to other objects, like people are attracted each differently, to each other according to their different charisma mass.

So my conclusion is that we all have our own satisfaction conclusion proving everything. We are all like a famous sportsman who could be right, while appearing to be wrong depending on various perspectives. 

Charisma

So I believe all things can be proved or disproved according to each our own satisfactions. However, if anyone requires proof regarding their knowledge of God then they do not solely believe, which is the requirement of God. Belief is silent in the face of proof, is my personal conclusion.

The same stands for logic, or the views of others, which as child among adults influenced me for instance. On the side little belief is a close shadow to a wavering lack of belief. Next: I will describe what convinces me regarding every thought I understand about God.

God not merely scientifically based

Our Rules 

for God to Meet?

There probably are quite a few people who require facts, proof, scientific explanations, logic for the existence of God so that they can believe.

There are quite a few impressive people engaged in that effort and I wish them well.

It is an established agreed upon conclusion that God is not impressed with any of those expectations. Only one fact, faith, pleases the Holy Father. If I have scientific facts to convince me to believe then there is absolutely no need for faith. And only faith pleases Him. 

Jesus also is reported in the Bible to explain that if one wants to believe in God then God first will draw that person to Him, first.

Lastly, I believe we can only prove the existence of God each to our own satisfactions as I worked out logically in previous posts. Scratch that logically business, in case I am too close to being caught in my own figuratively tiny tangle. Still, I am going to believe no matter what. Next: Drawn to God?

How to pick a God

If I have decided not to be my own God because of my limited time on the scene and I realized I do not even know the questions, let alone the answers I am facing what would I want for my God? 

First of all I would find comfort if He was like me and had prior knowledge to benefit me and placed them in my heart so I could recognize them instantly by default. He would promise me this because He cannot lie and I would have to trust Him on it. 

He would promise me every good thing, especially love, so He could create all good things including hope for more than I can ever anticipate. I have found it helps to be somewhat more stupid rather than too smart.

We get what we got

No Matter What

If God does not draw someone to Him then that person is a non believer. If I understood Jesus correctly God is in charge. Jesus lost many followers after this remark. I do not have to understand it. 

God spoke everything into existence and it was so. What He said is on display and there it is. It is all in what anyone wants to believe and they will live with it forever.  

Alongside: the Quoteblokers

Fruits of the Spirit Last Forever

At an older time when I was younger I had a yen for excitement and a sense of danger around every little corner. As I got older this got older as well and it was not only a growing wearisome event unfolding one after the other but it was out and out calling for one last screaming  kick out overdose event. 

But it never will come to my satisfaction I am extremely afraid, but even knowing I am not existing must be terrible beyond my comprehension. 

Eternity carries no time except the present and that setting I believe I will need peace, praise, and fruits of the spirit found in Galatians 5:22

Quoteblokes

 If anyone does not believe in God, then they will just have to be their own God.

God Saves Me from Judging Revenge

Only God Knows Just Judgement

Revenge belongs to the Lord but I never exactly realized why until I understood Jesus was in the mix all the way, more deeply than I ever anticipated. 

I am disconnected because God is the only judge, not me because I cannot judge lest I am judged myself. In the first instant because the only judge is the Lord Himself or second, His only begotten Son to whom He also gave that power to as His Son.

I am not only not the judge but I cannot bring judgement even to the extent of revenge. That is unless I want to follow Satan into being equal with God. This leaves me clear of experiencing judgement myself while God, as the Holy Spirit knows the heart in every matter does.

Therefore I am absolved of all temptations of Satan to experience the great continuing joys of the believer. This is the way I see it. I cannot assume the privileges of God since I am not God.

Next: God Protects Me Against Revenge

Not All Repetition May 

Stand Up Against Eternity 

I have said before and it seems appropriate here for me to say it again that I believe that I believe I will get what I believe when I am finally shed of all this seen world and pass into the unseen spirit world where all the greater power propels and holds the seen world together.

I would not be surprised if everyone does not get what they believe as well. But the question is more important than the answer. How long will we all be content within which we find ourselves? 

If God is existence and I do not believe that, then how will I find existing to be while at the same time knowing that I do not exist is in any way tolerable?

If I've plead ignorance, or that I never thought about it much, how long can I tolerate that? Repetition may become the brutal reward of, like a prison, solitary repetition.

Jesus was incarnated, that is once, but to be even reincarnated over and over, how can I be content with myself alone becoming a mind numbing repetition?

Some things may stand up very well however, that is to my mind, love, forgiveness and gratitude and other fruit of the spirit. 

This is my witness

God Sent Jesus

Believers are All One in the Spirit

At the core of my prayer effort, which is essentially becoming more familiar talking to and with, in the name of Jesus, to God, are my favorite meaningful and personally moving Bible verses. So I am back to the Bible in a way, but even so, God is not a Book, so the Book is not God.

Whatever is dominant in my attention is my God. Whatever comes first in my attention is my God. Everything Jesus has learned from God Jesus has made known for me, for my benefit, my safety and my well being.   John Chapter 17, the High Priestly Prayer

there is a better way

I Believe Prayer is the Best Way

The only way to gain or build greater faith, indicated in the Bible, is to read and keep reading on it. Today of course, we have electric printing and there are many of good books on the subject of prayer. 

My reason prayer is better however, is because it is not only simple but emotionally enjoyable. 

Sometimes I even shout! I am so thankful and overflowing with gratitude. This is only me returning Jesus' love and forgiveness. 

When I was initially coming out of the blue funk of being my own god, I prayed sometimes very often all night to the Holy Spirit. Now it is always to Jesus with attendant thankfulness to the Holy Father.

I suppose this is because Jesus was incarnated and God is a Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Father no one has ever seen. But He is like us, a Person and He has given His only Son Jesus the power to do whatever Jesus sees the Father do. 

Faith as a child
the best of all

They are One Spirit, both in each other. And so are we because God gave Jesus power to do for all those who believe on Him.

Right now I am myself overflowing with gratitude and I am making progress with forgiveness and intimacy with Jesus.

Visionettes

Why I Loved Prison Films

When I hit bottom I found that was a good time to bounce back up. In every case, it seemed as though when I gave up in one incident and accepted I was going to drown, that I was saved by an audible voice inside my head telling me, to try one more time.

Later I my parents entertained a subdued couple on the brink of middle age who had lost their only similarly aged son to drowning. Only now as I write this do I realize the irony of it. Eventually I asked God several times why I was allowed to be made aware of similar events.

These similar incidents occurred, first in dreams when I was around five and later in epiphanies I did not understand the meanings of until years later.

When I found out that God forgave David for his sins because David was honest with God, I experienced relief that maybe God forgave me when I chewed Him out for hanging around the adult elders and church pastor who told me the stories in the Bible were not true.  Only the meanings were true, which answered my question at the time about Santa Claus. 

In my lifetime I believe computers have made us smarter, but in a perfectly artificially selectric way. 

For the good of the children

When God was one step 

Ahead of Santa

When Jesus said that only those who were drawn by the Father could be His followers Jesus lost a large number of them outright away. Jesus had no recorded enlightening comment acknowledging the incident either. 

This suggested to many that the idea that everyone is inclusive, not just those who were attracted by the Holy Father. I sort of falls l.into the same category when I wondered if one had to be intellectually able, to qualify as followers instead of everyone qualifying.

Suggests also that God could be judged by those attending church weekly. This is the hypocrite label. If hypocrites go to church then not only is everyone else one, but God Himself as well. 

I also thought the adults were in with God so I was judged God by the actions of the elders and minister which was the logical fallacy of misplaced authority. 

As a child I figured that the adults stuck together. This is a weak excuse but still an excuse just the same and I even scolded God over it. But I carried it into adulthood still and all. I had been also a college atheist and somewhat pompous at it too. 

But when my favorite professor said if one is educated then they do not believe in God, I felt a tinge of doubt sneaking into picture. The little theologian was waking up.

Faith and Foregiveness

Right away this is a tough one

Loving the unlovable and forgiving them to boot is  not easy, I can contest for that. To this day I haven't gotten totally into it either. But I can report a certain meager success.

The wrath of God is incredible to behold. But as a pinned prefect Sunday School participant I held God accountable for telling us not to kill anyone in the commandments and then wiping out a entire populace for His side of the story.

Oh I knew about divine right ok enough, but I had a long time to learn about why it was  it ok to wipe out an entire populace for mere stupidity. 

Another  thing was not healing anybody on Sunday for the super excuse we were not allowed to work on Sunday. Play is clear sailing but work on Sunday was heaven outbound. 

What a load God had to answer to me for!

Without Hope There is No Beginning

Without Hope One is Hopeless

If anyone has a clear hope from and to any positive destination it seems self evident that any success would likely stand in that direction self dependent on the force of ones faith. Now we are in no matter what country. 

Feelings Without Substance

If ones hope is physical then whatever it is, is short term with a changing consumptive future that could turn against one eventually. To be sure of my hope I have to not only know the beginning but the ending success also. 

Next: Faith & Forgiveness

Refuse to Take Offense

To take any offense witnesses one is by the fact itself an offensive person, weakened and wounded along with it. Whatever I do I am a witness with evidence.

The Paraclete alongside

I thank Jesus a lot in my prayers, but this morning I suddenly thanked the Holy Father for Jesus, after all He was the one who sent Him and gave Him up for us so our sins could be forgotten and therefore we could appear before Him alongside our other Helper.     

One generation kills the prophets

While The Next Reveres Them 

As I have said I am only witness to my views, not a prophet predicting. I believe God places revelations in our hearts, the strongest of which is predicting with the fervor of a prophet under threat of death. All predictions of Jesus seem to have been eventually realized. 

Jesus even mentions Jonah, in which not long ago I recall reading Jesus said He would overcome the world in three days. Some of the atheists' view were exhorting the incident as proof that proved to them the entire Jesus story was a hoax.

I recall also viewing cartoons of Jonah playing poker in the belly of a whale with an octopus. The whole point though was Jonah died and returned alive just like Jesus was going to do. So the only point now is does talking of things like this have something to do in time with generating the fact?   

All things possible

There are questions I believe is not profitable to wrestle. Like how long ago did the world begin? The world is full of time gone by and time is hostile to any knowledge of the eternal spirit. 

Just talking about it to that end could weaken one's belief.