Where there is a grand design

there has to be a Grand Designer

The tree is known by its' fruit. A grand design is the fruit of a grand designer, not the chaos of a random designer.  It is from the design itself that the fruit of designer's laws emerge.

Faith is substance & evidence

So just as all entities of greater charisma attract lesser entities that, as result, fall into their orbit, so it is with individuals of greater faith, of greater substance. 

What are the particular characteristics charisma? It is their greater belief, evidenced from the unseen, manifesting itself in the substance of the seen. This is just as Paul is credited speaking in Hebrews and Jesus when He instructed about moving mountains into the ocean if they had enough faith. 

To Be Like Jesus

God is a Jealous God for a Reason 

According to my view those who commit extreme grievous crimes against humanity are normally, if I may use that word, possessed by  an evil spirit or even a host of evil spirits. 

Just as Satan sends his agents to churches more so than barrooms, he is behind all destruction he can muster and then blame it on someone else.

If the devil cannot convince anyone to disbelieve Jesus altogether, he will chip away instead against Jesus' power.

Jesus is love and love is forgiving all. He drove out demons from people, and as He told His disciples, some demons come out harder than others. He told them the harder kind t requires greater faith to explain to them why they were not successful in healing a man's son. 

Jesus tells us to obey His commandments for a reason. He wants to keep us from being enticed to disobey His commandments because if not there is a penalty that must be paid.

According to Jesus the flesh is weak and cannot help us. Everything Jesus tells me will work out why in the end. For my part, my sincere desire is to follow His instructions for my own sake. 

God already figured it out

For those who do, we will understand everything when we are one in the spirit, which is my hope. The important thing for me is not to judge so I will not be judged, not to condemn, so that I will not be condemned. 

That, to my mind, is so that all revenge will be for God to do, not for me. This is so that I will escape and not be subject to the responsibility of assuming the role of God myself.

Jesus says what He understands is what God tells Him and He told it all to us. John 17 I understand it is all for my own benefit if I trust Him.

Once a man twice a child

Back Where I Started?

I do not have an answer to everything. When I was born I did not know anything. Many of us tabla rosa types start out by examining the other end of things, our toes.

Since everything seemed fino fino you could not talk me out of anything new. But if you had warned me that I would be promptly hung up my bare arse in grande dishabille, spanked to help me breathe, that I would get cold, hungry, and pay taxes, I would not agree to any of it.

So it will be or is now all over again. I hang onto this life resisting change in a world of changes, doubtful of eternity where time is always in the present.

I learned, I studied, I reasoned answers to quite a few questions, but in the end I was stuck with even more questions than I started. All I learned was that I was even more ignorant than I thought. 

Everyone has a different orbit

So what do I do now? I cannot prove anything, except that is, proof to my own satisfaction just like everyone else their proofs from their orbits. 

I believe we all will get just what we believed, if it was strong enough, not just a weakish agreement with someone else. I wonder how come life is so short in view of the fact that we are such a long time gone, gone out of mind, far across the Sea of Lethe?

Most Central Verse

Most Central Chapter

John 3:16 has to be most central verse in the Bible without any further comment. But the most central chapter in the Bible I believe has to be John 17.

Firstly it is translated by the Holy Spirit as every word being from Jesus Himself, first to last verse. Chapter is all red and known as the High Priestly Prayer. 

God Gave His Only Son

The entire chapter is Jesus praying to the Holy Father the night before His crucifixion while His disciples slept. Jesus keeps making the same points over and over.

One is that He was Sent. These have believed I was sent, sent by God. Jesus was sent, also He and God and His disciples are ONE. I know of a believer who started their day every day reading this entire chapter daily until the red print was soaked by their forehead.

If one is one with God and one with God and Jesus, they are one with the Holy Spirit, which is known as the Holy Trinity. Those who agree have their sins forgiven and can approach God without a rabbi tied to a rope. 

Born again believers are all one. Those who do not know what one means are not familiar with the spirit or for that matter, anything spiritual it would seem to me. 

Our Elder Brother Was Sent

We Are All One Together

Power to become Sons

Jesus was given power to make me a son of God. Jesus is the only begotten Son of God. Who gave Him this power? God, His Father, the Holy Father, sent Jesus and gave Jesus, His Son, this power. 

God, as the Holy Father, is the first member of the Holy Trinity, and Jesus, as His Son, is the second. They both are one, they make up together the Holy Spirit. 

The Holy Trinity, is described dramatically and in all respects fully and repetitively in John 17. We are all one spiritually. "One" has to be saved, spiritually themselves, to appreciate the spiritual.

All entries are continually under edited review reflecting the author's understanding and viewpoint at the time posted.

Gratitude is My Love

Why I love Jesus

Bible verses I remember most and more easily is the beginning of the Gospel of John concluding with the observation that the law came thru Moses but thru Jesus came love and truth. There are those who make the law and rules their god. 

Paul, God's mostly unlikely & productive convert, a former doctrinaire strictualist, was foremost in opening Jesus up to the Gentiles.

John 17

Also Paul was very effective in highlighting the difference between the eternal Spirit and the temporary flesh. He made more than one reference to all things seen coming from the unseen. 

Then there are verses that dramatize how Jesus loves and appreciates our gratitude, which is our form of love. I cannot read verses like these without being consumed with praise and worship, carrying me up to Jesus.

One day we will see Him as He is, and we will be like Him.

Our "Barrel" is not All

Our Barrel Not Expanding

When I look evenings above me toward the Father of Lights I am looking at God asking me, His question on display. He is asking me, are you wondering how I ever thought of all the lights up in the sky?

Anyone who does not believe in God
will have to just be their own God.

I don't think I could even come up the concept idea of lights. The physical scientist is learning that the universe is expanding. Our awareness of what already is, is all that is expanding. 

I do not believe there is any size of the universe, only our awareness thinks that way because of our little barrel we are living in.  How could anyone but God ever even think of such an idea of stars and, hung it all on nothing yet?

Certain Bible verses personally impacting

Memorizing & Meditating: There is so much great reading in the Bible that if I selectively mediate on them I believe a person can have a very emotional, even  ecstatic, experience.

I knew one such person who experienced a similar event while reading Galatians. It has become one of mine now, ranking high on my list of favorite verses I print up and read and reread often. For me it is an unlikely verse. It is one of my prayer verses.

In Galatians are the fruits of the Spirit against which there is no law. They said while reading the passage about the fruits of the Spirit they were consumed from their head down to the chest by an overwhelming  sensation of pleasure. 

They pleaded with me to remember the verse because they thought they would not remember it. I forgot it but years later, I do not recall how many, I suddenly did remember not too far back by the key word fruits.

I treasure it for this reason and it has captured me emotionally ever since. What an experience from such a plain ordinary verse! Gal 5:22-23

Belief Both Great & Small

Only Way to Obtain Greater Faith

Agreeing with an emotional subjective sermon does not quite make any great faith in my sense of things. Sometimes the name of Jesus nor anyone else is ever even mentioned as I noted earlier.

But emotion is power even so, when abused in one/s views just the same. This thread is "maybe" finished when a headline is fixed. 

The only way to gain greater faith or even faith at all. is to read the Bible. This is said clearly and simply in the Bible itself. I would only add that one should read often and to reread a list of one's favorite verses over and over, studying them and meditating on them, taking them in, and enjoying them emotionally. 

Skippig the busload for now

There is a time for everything!

Like little Johnny told his Sunday School teacher when she asked who wants to go to heaven & wondered why only little Johnny didn't want to go.

Oh, I thought you were getting up a busload for today.

Good long quotes are rare

Persistence 

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

Manna Quote

Ecclesiastes 7:24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it? from Manna

Deciding If Faith Will Fold

But Not Today

I believe one can be born again while still in the flesh. The idea I am in this changing world of the flesh is for that very reason, to entrance my unchanging spiritual existence.

So I am in this changing world of the flesh but what if I am, even slightly, reticent to fully  embrace or accept the unchanging eternity of the spiritual? I think many wonder, that is that the flesh does not want to lose any life or give anything up instinctually.

But, even if not, can I make it happen true by belief  solely alone, by believing strongly enough? 

So I, as I've observed before, I fully know and accept the fact that I will die someday, but not today! 

I strongly sense I am in a loop, where I unknowingly assume I will live forever. Has God ordained that time is going to fool me every single time or am I going to

Spiritual Power of Belief

fold time and put it in my pocket figuratively, or not?

So if it does not matter, even if it were not pre-true, a charismatic believer could believe it into existence?

The Flesh got me here,

But Can the Flesh Get Me Out?

We can die at any time, starting even while being born with a blank tablet. All blank tablets have mothers. If she is a druggy then blank tablet starts as a druggy. Say hello to original sin.

Jesus reminds us that the flesh will not help us. It is also recorded that God is only pleased by faith. I was always taken by logic but that is not faith either when I get down to it.

Looking for
Favorite Verses

So I live as long as I live. The longer the more likely, if I hit a hundred, that I'll be lonely a very short time. That is to say, not forever, like say from 15 and a half to sixteen.

So thing is, I have a friend We talk a lot, but we do not agree on anything but food. Tomorrow I'll figure out if pain can make any difference.

Manna Redux

Reading Sarah Young's, forever and ever all time best seller, God Calling on my Kindle is redirecting my attention to Manna one the best of my favorite Bible verses. 

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that outwardly out weighs them all. Paul's letter to the Corinthians 4:16-17

God Knows How to take Profits

God Knows How to Pick 'em 

Who would I pick to write the large heart of the Bible? How about someone spending his money, and his time, to kill, too murder even, those who believed in God?

On top of that he was a terrible speaker. Apollos was well regarded as a tremendous speaker on the other hand, convincing many. 

I would have thought the Gospel writer, John, who wrote the love book, so different from the other Gospels. 

Then there is Peter, the first pope remember, who walked on water, asked Jesus about how long John would live, remember that? Jesus told the first Pope to mind his own business. Paul, the worst possible candidate, got the nod from God. 

When Time Disappears in the Wind

All Things Seen 

First Came From the Unseen

I want to be more sensitive to the unseen spiritual events that are inevitably my due offing, while at the same time living out my wasting physical life in the seen world.

It has been said so well before, while crossing the Sea of Lethe, that is the sea of forgetfulness. The more I store up for this changing world the less it will mean anything in the end.   

Sailing Wild Seas
No More

Time fooled me like it does everyone, why would not the necessities do the same? As the unlikely Paul wrote to the Corinthians (4:18) do not fix our eyes on the seen because the seen is temporary.  Rather, search out the unseen because the unseen is eternal.  

Quoteblokes Go Churchy

 All Things Seen came from the Unseen

"While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

Transcending Forces

I like verses that ease me into focusing on the transcending spiritual world rather than the over riding decaying physical world. In this setting Paul contrasts the temporal and the eternal, in 2nd Corinthians 4:18

Why does God show us these things?

Pitfalls Learning to Accept Jesus

I, for myself, am not convinced I am right, nor am I that I might be wrong. We all speak for our own benefit, along with myself as well, of that I am certain.

I think it somehow significant that twice in my life I heard this identical sermon, the first time about to graduate high school and the second time in retirement.

First one was about this chap whose mother scrubbed floors to put her son thru college. She died and he had forgotten all about her. Sobbing, he fell weeping on her grave. 

And the second was about a girl who ran away to the city for the attractions of loose living and returned asking her town to tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree if they wanted her to get off the bus.

Well I tell you these were two classic tear jerkers I've ever heard. No religious aspect was ever mentioned, not the Baby Jesus, nor any other possible religious aspect. 

Yet, still and all, after both these two sermons everyone was suddenly asked whether anyone wanted to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. 

I do not know what happened after the first event, we older kids were asked to step outside. But the second event was greeted with stone silence. That's all folks!

Venus Fly Trap Overdose No Accident

Time to think of going over. I used to think I had plenty of time. I was fooled big time the whole time. I held onto a changing world, a temporary world, and postponed thinking about any eternal world as if it would never appear. But it will appear any time. 

And for many I well knew and knew well, it did and it has. It is just like the poem taught in school, Gather Ye Rosebuds while ye may.... It must be a terror trap like existence to know when I exist, but don't. The flesh no longer helps me there. 

God speaks and it is so

All Good Things Come Down 

From the Father of Lights

It does not bother me that I do not have all the answers, I am satisfied to witness such glory in the universe hung up there on nothing in the night sky. Unbelievably huge worlds moving thru nothing and hinting about everything.

We know the definition of God is a Spirit, the Holy Spirit. God has to be the core of love to create it all and then forgive all those who cannot accept it because they are captive of differing spirits.

I knew the day was coming, but not this soon.....

Where Have ALL,

My Power  Years Gone?

From age 40 to 60 is known as a person's power years. In mid life, the peak actually, many people feel most qualified to advise those younger and those older just how and what they should do. 
The most important thing in my personal existence is that I have to consider what I believe in, is my power verses, as I call them. These verses spotlight the focus in this life into the next. I don't like change and yet I was born into a changing world. Once a man twice a child, that is if I am so lucky. 

I don't like the inevitable decay my body is undergoing after improving for about 50 years now disappearing, headed back where I came in. What was the purpose of all that? 

My power years came and went. As time increased speed I found I was fooled by time, and at that, every single tine. Gradually I discovered the truth. The truth cannot be told by those who know. I was told what it would be like, but I underrated it all until I found out the real truth was quite different all by myself. 

All things I saw in my life came from the unseen. Paul said something like this more than once. All things seen came from the unseen. Paul wrote the Corinthians, the seen is temporary  and the unseen is eternal. 

Definition in time

Heavenish, or Hellish?

Incarnation, that is to experience it, could be good or bad independently by itself.  However, in my view, reincarnation is quite another story. I know many like it the prospects of it, but the sticking point here for me is the prefix re puts me into a repetition sense which is a primary characteristic of a permanent position in a prison, mental physical or otherwise. I would be repetitively stuck repeatedly and eventually it would over control me into an increasing hellish story on the wall of a another mind, in a routine like a prison.

Time has no essence

Time fools us all because it seems more believable. We are born from uncompacting time to hopefully graduate, to be born this time into the eternal of the spirit, leaving the body's shell behind. 

While we speak we gradually frame ourselves to believe whatever our over riding outlook is becoming, or it could be simply  tongue belief.

The gravity of the unseen

Is God Close Enough to be Believed?

Speaking non-theologically with faith measured in, it is easy for me to conceive that if I have intense enough 

Time exists only in comparison

faith, enough faith that is, to believe whatever the  imagination can envision with the faith being spoken, like Jesus told us. Whereas otherwise, man devises all sorts of complex physical science artificially proven, compared to the uncomplications of faith.

Faith is defined as power coming from the unseen, according to how much power one can believe. It is seen physically in the dramatic charisma of planets orbited by others with lesser mass.

Quotebloking in the Bible

When I speak I reveal the fruit of my speech. The saying, I took it into my conversation reading the Bible, is the tree is known by its fruit. I've been hanging it in air around me for awhile  now. 

 Another important to me quote, I do not know where I got it. It just kept coming up in my conversation years ago. It was God is simple, it is man that is complex has turned out to be critical in my thinking right now.

From that another that captured me was that I should not give tongue to the devil. What I am coming to is the idea that persists in my mind that God spoke the world into existence. And God said and it was so in Genesis.

I am watching the clock over my shoulder right now in this moment in my space time life. Only time left to quote from one of my most favorite movies Beat the Devil, time always enters the picture in the end.

Time Fools Us All because it is Temporal

Can I Believe It?

I live in a time/space reality that came first from the spiritual, by the Holy Spirit. God spoke everything and it was so. He placed ideas in the hearts of His prophets, I think of as epiphanies. The word, epiphany was first used describing the heralding of the incarnation of the Son of God. 

The Biblical writer, Paul, in Hebrews, pairs the temporal as seen with the unseen, the eternal.  This is why many think, I believe,that he is the author of Hebrews. But it cannot be proven except to anyone's individual satisfaction like everything else. This is action is called, belief, in this case my belief. 

I've reviewed this before but I tend to bring things together to put my perspectives in action to see if everything fits in the foxhole. 

Just where this thread might take me gives me another viewing point, another objective angle, to test my belief in my effort to strengthen me in the foxhole. 

Devil in the Details

Lifting Up those Weak Arms 

Where would the devil take his newest admirers? I mean those wanting to learn their trade from the father of lies?

I think he would take them to church. For certain it would not be any of the sleepy barrooms, persistently comfortable and pleasantly leaning toward sleep. Now my view isthat his chief point of attack would not be Christ Himself, but His power.

He would take every chance to weaken that power and place doubts in members minds. Similar to the barrooms the devil very likely prefers church members who are side stepping slowly with sleep walkers.

Who could inspire such great writing?

Knowledge on display

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after nigh they display knowledge. Psalm 19: 1-2 (Click MANNA) left column

Ancient Writers Knew More Than We Credit Them for. Some scholars would rather  credit aliens from outer space as telling the ancients how to perform amazing feats left behind for us to wonder over today as to how they were ever accomplished without giant steam shovels floated over the ocean to isolated islands. Again, evidence was later found in Londonium library how Romans elevated huge precision cut stones in the Coliseum, furnish baths with water from far distances without alien assistance. Then again, elsewhere they stumble on  how a city disappeared into the sea or; how the Red Sea could catch a fleeing army, that is if it was once a tidal river at both ends. God is indeed a forerunner. If this satisfies us we find we will need more knowledge than ever just to fall behind.

Changed my mind?

Working out my own salvation? I have to watch my antecedents don't get mixed up with the precedents. Sometimes I feel Jesus is working me out. 

But very seriously, He worked out the precedents and it is up to myself to accept them. I believe the Holy Father, my Holy Father, sent Jesus. How many times did Jesus actually say He was sent by God in the High Priestly Prayer that we read all thru chapter 17 of John?

Muddling on Thru

I think, talk and write for my own benefit, just like I believe everyone else does. If anyone sounds like they are trying to convince anyone of anything, I do not believe it. Rather, I think they are trying to convince themselves.

What I am saying right now I believe, but with the passage of time I reserve the right to change my mind

See Memory Stones site linked above

anytime. I've changed my mind suddenly and slowly. I've circled around and met my views coming back. 

Once a man, and twice a child which is why I no longer trust the flesh. The flesh is like a flower, it blooms then fades and like a mist eventually then, all too soon, is remembered no more, like a dead man out of mind. As for myself, I am working out my own salvation. 

Most obvvious quote of the day

Only offensive people ever take an offense. It is an obvious sign of weakness to get offended. It means someone has your goat and you do not know where to find it. If I do take an offense I throw them under the bus and roll a compliment back over them, like coals on their head. 😉

Playing poker with God?

This is one of my favorite quotes for those who do not yet believe in God. If anyone does not believe in God then they will just have to be their own God. How would I bluff God is my question, since I just got here sooner than I thought likely to cash it in?

Time further out

Does digital time appear more frozen in sans serifs? Does analog time appear more emotional, looking ahead, in fancy serifs?   

Why is Mother Earth female?  Why is the Father of Lights male? How can time run out, if there is any time at all, since time only exists in a comparative state? Creativity demands every question in the mix. Answers appear secondarily. They only reveal more questions.

Working out my own salvation

Everyone Works Out

Their Own Proof

When I draw any conclusions about how I should view God I remember that I not only, do not have all the information in the matter, but I am talking about Someone who does.

 This is most important, I not only do not have all the answers but I do not even know all the questions. This puts me in a situation where my solving success presents me with more problems that I was aware of than before. 

So then, I am sheep and Jesus is my shepherd. All good things come down from the Father of lights and my only job is to love and trust the shepherd. This is so exhilarating and ecstatic, especially in a large chorus, that I never can get enough of praising and worshiping God.

the word made flesh.....

No Longer Under the Law?

Wondering

The law was given through Moses; grace and truth realized through Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father has explained Him. Open Bible, in John 1:17-18.
The word was made flesh and Jesus said the flesh cannot help us? Later.

Deep in my definitionals

No Figures of Speech

Only Faith

The way anything is presented is the singular definition of art. Art is the way we do anything and is like the song Benny Goodman recorded says, it is not whatca do, but the way thatcha do it. That is the only way of it, not merely my singular view. 

Jesus makes an statement, quoted in the Scriptures where it is translated that if anyone has enough faith they could cast mountains into the sea. 

Jesus says this to me, filtered down to me through several language translations, to illustrate that the power of faith has no limit. So here Jesus is my absolutely very highest authority in this very fact.

First, if Jesus is involved the Holy Spirit is involved. I am treading very softly now. This is not art, this is faith I am talking bout. Only faith pleases God so I am definitely not drawing any lines in this. 

There is no figure of speech in Jesus statement. such as this temple will be destroyed and I will raise it up in three days, as in one instance, nor is Jesus in any figure of speech, a mountain.

My final jump of faith is: If Jesus said it I believe it and I draw no lines nor qualifications. Where or when would I stop? Was Jesus' victory over the Cross a figure of speech? The devil knows I believe in Jesus without reservation so he does not attack Jesus directly, but he attacks Jesus' power.

I believe this power is exactly what Jesus was telling me: the power of faith has no limit. I know there is little faith and there is great faith. Then there is only faith, that is, only faith that is pleasing to God.

I am only a witness to what I believe. God has not told me what to tell anyone else what to believe. I do not dispute my view so I do not dispute anyone else's view.

Unseen World Provides the Power

 Why & How I am Born Again

Once a man, twice a child: The way I believe is that I was born tabla rosa into the seen world and then born again into the unseen spiritual world, from whence I came. 

The first half I improved as a child into a man and then the next half my body decayed again into a child to complete the circle. If I search out this scenario with all my might I will not be turned away. 

God knows beforehand what I will do. He either draws someone to Him or He does not. I m not telling you this, Jesus is, Biblically, telling me. 

If anyone does not chose God to be their God, then they will, logically, have to be their own god. What otherwise? My view.

For every question I can labor hard enough to answer, I discovered there were more questions to answer that I was not even aware. Therefore the more I learned, I learned I was more ignorant than when I knew less. 

God desires only faith. Proof, logic, good works, or anything like these efforts on my part are not pleasing to God. If I am satisfied with proof, for example, then I would not need faith.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, according to the Spirit led author of Hebrews, many assume to be Paul.

All doubts about God give tongue to the devil in my view, who is always attacking faith. He is not alarmed if we believe in Jesus, just so long as you do not believe in Jesus' power. 

Jesus said if anyone had enough faith, enough power, they could move mountains. I have faith but do I have anywhere near enough faith? God knows, but I will not know for sure until I am, what is my term? In the foxhole.

I have thought about all this in long and circuitous routes. I am a witness who, like often many others, are primarily  trying to convince themselves. No one can convince another, we all convince ourselves. In my next entry will explain my view on mountain moving faith as not being a figure of speech. 

I am totally in disagreement  to my taking any credit or discredit for anything any one who has only convinced themselves. I also do not make any judgments for or against anyone. Everyone has to drink their own tea.

More movingly absorbed than film

New Slant on the Old

A new method to experience the old: Bible translations to single words from lists of single words is little different that translations from parable to parable, except that single word translations are so precise they can be manipulated to soften or sharpen meanings in either  direction. 

But the newer scene to scene translations will herald something too I think. Something that will be judged entirely new.

While examples of this preciseness were pointed out earlier, with Jesus Calling by Sarah Young I have a new focus that is more powerful and never before so far dramatically experienced. It will take some time to entirely realize this change.

My Single Best Devotional

 My Only Devotional Ever!

Somehow a host of never read devotionals have found themselves into my library, but after all my time one single devotional has taken me, and apparently a record break number of others, by storm.

Sarah Young has become an astounding record breaking author never encountered before. 

God is my Father

God Created Me

Even in the flesh the father creates the son and gives him existence in the flesh. But I must be born again, this second time into the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. That is  if I am to gain eternity, escape the flesh, and be free of space and time. 

I thank God for His existence and the existence He has given me. So then to create must come because of love. And not only of love but from forgiveness out of love as well, to insure lasting love. The one who loves therefore desires love in return as in a celebration, fueled by gratitude. 

I do not know everything, as God knows more than I know, so I take the unknown or unexplained on faith. And if I have enough faith I can do anything if I have the faith, according to Jesus. 

So if faith is of destruction it will destroy itself. If it is of love it will multiply. Suffering can be a victory over pain or an acceptance of it. And doubt gives tongue to the devil. When Jesus said anyone can do whatever they can believe if they have enough belief for it, then I believe it, mountains and all. 

Meanwhile the only way the Bible mentions to gain faith is to read the Bible. I have to want it badly enough. Seek and I will find, and time in this world is fleeting. 

Struggle with our Maker

How We Got the Dimple in Our Hip?

In the previous entry I was calling into memory the Old Testament Story in Genesis 32:24-32 of Jacob wrestling all night with with God.  

Keeping Up with God

The Struggle with our Maker

Up against the creator of everything, including ourselves, we ourselves are definitely at a disadvantage. But the ranks of the physical scientists are dwindling. More are becoming impressed with the grand design and suspecting there has to be a designer in the mix. 

I might say, if I can be excused, that the random ranks are not standing firm at all. But this is not the end of the matter, only my opinion. Dark days may be ahead on our way to the end times. 

How can the designed keep up with the designer? My effort takes me back to the seen world. But in this I am talking about tracing seen events back to the unseen from where they originated.

Now I am, therefore,  looking closer at the simple example of heavenly bodies orbiting each other with some circling others. Some attract others into their own particular orbits. I might call them the greater charismatics dominating those with lesser mass.

The lesser are lighter weights and the charismatics the heavy weights. Let me say then that the greater mass attracts the lesser. People are like that as well I am thinking so that some attract followers and they follow the more charismatic when they do.

The greater charismatics have greater faith, greater belief. Jesus said that if one had enough belief, greater enough faith, they could counter command, or convince the dormant particularly, and as well the others of the lesser, those of lesser weak faith as well.

3 dimension time

If this is in any way true then this paradigm could be carried closer to the origins of an as yet unlabeled power. When? I imagine easily it will be in at least a thousand years, well before the anti-Christ is seen. The struggle (perhaps) explained next entry.

Burning Bush

Faith: Will Believing Make It So? 

Enough Power? 

Did God create Himself? No, not if there is no beginning and no endings, since there is no time or space. That is what I myself would think.  There is however, he power, I that I am certain. 

The way I see it God had to be always creative to exist because that is what He does. God can not function outside His, what is it,  ethos or authority? I tend to fall back to logos, reason in other words,  He cannot contradict His being. 

Love is creative and our gratitude is His celebration. Where I am is that I do not even know too many of the questions, let alone the answers. Answers that reveal more new previously unknown questions. 

I am surrounded by my own jurisdictions by the look of it to me at this point. There comes a time when I have to face my own ignorance and proceed further on imagination. 

I think that I, like everyone is eventually, and as Einstein is often quoted, is catapulted unceremoniously from knowledge into imagination. I take my next clue from the seen world of charismatically orbiting planets as similarly reflecting people. I will see where that takes me.

Liitle faith and great faith

Where do I draw the line?

 I do not put any limit on the power of faith since all things temporal, that is, seen, came from the eternal, the unseen. 

If I were to do so would that put any limit on power to believe in the resurrection? If I believe in the power of Jesus to overcome death on the Cross, what is that to moving a mere mountain? 

Where do I draw the line? God spoke everything, every mountain into existence. I think God not only moved mountains He moved all the mountains into place. 

What impresses me is that He conceived of mountains in the first place. Since I am constrained by time and space in this world, I want to continue this thread further because it highlights the stark difference between my awareness of the Spirit in the next world after the flesh falls into decay, where Jesus tells me my flesh cannot help me. 

High Priestlly Prayer

John 17 is all about the Trinity. Over and over it is explaining the Trinity. We are one in one and believing that Jesus was sent. This is how the Trinity is spelled out. Everything is worded a certain way for a purpose, that those who are hearing do not. It is spiritual ears not physical ears.

No longer under the law

Melchizedek 

Before Salem was Jerusalem After

The law was given by Moses but Jesus gave us the Spirit and Truth. History mentions God but not much of anything about the Spirit before Jesus. 

God spoke to His prophets by placing ideas in their hearts, epiphany-like. They believed these sudden revelations so strongly and they spoke with such authority that I recall reading that Jesus said their fathers killed the prophets and later their sons revered them. I do not have the chapter and verse on it right now, still I recall it right well. 

But I also recall the ancient writers saying that God looked down and saw that man could achieve anything he set his mind to. This was in connection with the building  of the tower of Babel, which only slowed them down until man walked on the moon. 

I think to myself, how did they know they would eventually walk on the moon, even saying that God looked down? 

Now of course we know there is no actual thinking of down or up since all the reflecting lights in the sky are hung, incredibly, in empty space. That is, if we can believe it. 😉

It is easy to focus on this world rather than the next.

 New King James Version

Stepping Out in Belief

All Things Seen came from the Unseen

"While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

Transcending Forces

I like verses that ease me into focusing on the transcending spiritual world rather than the over riding decaying physical world. In this setting Paul contrasts the temporal and the eternal, in 2nd Corinthians 4:18

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God is Existence. Exodus 3:14 

"I am that I am."

This is the name God told Moses He wants to be known by this name forever "into all generations."

Speaking alongside

God Provides for Me 

Another Helper

My Paraclete will stand beside me and vouch for  me so that I can appear before God. This is because God will tolerate no unbelief or hostile views. No, not even to appear before Him. God does not permit evil, we do. Jesus' commandments do not permit evil.

If anyone prays to be healed and they are not, I would not blame this on God. I would blame it on myself. I did not have enough faith perhaps. 

When the disciples questioned Jesus over why could they could not heal a young boy, and why Jesus did heal him, Jesus said: this kind does not go out except by much prayer and fasting. 

A Testimony of God

This means to me that there is such a concept as little faith and great faith, weak and strong. It also reminds me that evil spirits take over individuals completely and speak for them. 

Healing means the evil spirit has to be driven out, freeing the person with the consumed spirit. That way the person taken over is now himself free. We should not hate him, we hate rather the evil spirit living in him speaking and acting for him. Jesus' all consuming love can free anyone consumed by strange spirits. 

This is why I do not meddle with strange spirits but only trust Jesus. I could call this my safe side. 

Not all are sheep of Jesus' pasture

Facing Fear in the Foxhole

I lean toward the idea we will very likely get in the afterlife what we believe in this the embryonic life if they are not born again. If one believes in nothing they will get nothing but they will know at the same time they got nothing which is unbearable they could well find. But then, who knows aforehand?

To not exist and to know it at the same time is I think about as unbearable as it gets. Any definition of hell would in my view would involve the element of repetition. Repetition can fade eventually, if not quickly. 

Since there is no concept of time in the eternal, forever will be an exceptionally concept to believe I would think. One cannot tread too softly in the unknown.

If there is no hope then the future, particularly space time, is full of troublesome complications competing for zero gains. It is enticing as any devilish drug before it turns against the enticed. Faith extended intensely enough may well create one's future according to their little faith or great faith. 

Gratitude: A celebration of Love

There may be more power in faith than anyone suspects. I believe0 there would be no present unless someone knew it. Hello to original sin. So if one had enough faith, like a god, they could predict the future with certainty.

One thing I do know with certainty. The more words that pile up is a strong indication of the less I know. The more I learn the more I learn there is more I do not know than I ever thought. As I've said, if anyone does not believe in a God, that is by definition a benevolent creating God, then they have no choice, they will just have to be their own God. 

Definition of forever

Not Right Now?

I look upon this life in which I was conceived without any future knowledge as embryonic in that it would be my  opportunity to be born... again. 

But I had things perfect in the womb. Why would I want to leave a literal garden of  Eden? What would I think of being told I was going to be kicked out without any say in the matter, and  that I would be unceremoniously hung upside down by my heels in front of everybody publicly stark and spanked, told I was going to be cold, hungry and have to pay taxes?

I would have to be an idiot to take any stock in that scenario. But here I am in space time growing 

Above the daisies.

changing and decaying with time flitting away and no future facing me within the flesh. Soon there will be no time before I will have had to be born again if I had not been already. Time has been fooling me, where did it go? I, like everyone, knew all along I would die someday, but not right now!

God Speaks to us in epiphanies

 Origin of the word epiphany comes to us in the supernaturally spirit state. My understanding is it originated from the incarnation of Jesus. 

Jesus Emanuel, God with us. 

My view is that incarnations can be true while reincarnations turn to hellish in my presumptive definition if only the present tense is the eternal. 

The Flesh Will Not Help Us

 The Flesh Cannot Help Us

The Christian story is not merely unique, it is the most successful in history. So far! Present trends, if maintained, indicate another religion will soon overtake it.

A poll, taken many years ago now. revealed that

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50% of selected seminary professors did not believe in God openly. The other half said they did, but one wonders in that atmosphere how deeply they meant alongside the wide spread views of many in colleges.

I was surprised and disheartened to realize how many books expressed the erroneous idea that the existence of God could be proved. 

God requires faith while proof eliminates the need for faith. The devil is smacking his lips on that one. No one has anywhere near enough information that proves that God exists or does not. My college era atheism was founded on a logical fallacy. 

My favorite subject, logic, I worked out, with great effort, only proved everything was based on my own singular explanation, along with everyone else, theirs.