Jesus in Mark 10:15

Proof Has No Need for Faith

Assuredly I say to you, whoever does not see the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it. It is very hard for the rich, as Jesus also said, and not merely in money. Those rich in information-knowledge are also faced with likely more doubts, more so perhaps than those rich in merely money.

Underlining Words

Evidence of a Well Read Bible??

Diligently seeking God, it says in the Bible, means constant reading of the Bible. But underlining to my mind eventually, if one reads long enough means nothing will any longer stand out. 

I have not always done what I want to do regularly, so this is an example of how vital I think it is to objectify my beliefs for myself by publishing this. I read a devotional and I am writing my devotional.

Also it is also my witness before everyone. Jesus said if I witnessed for Him in front of everyone, He will witness for me, so it also says in the Bible. 

So what I do is put different colored sticky dots on passages if I want to remind my attention to any verses I think vitally important or personally significant in any way, so I can remember to find them again. 

I use colored stars for chapters and to elevate emotionally dramatic verses that attract me. Different colors also signal various significances they hold for me. 

What I use is a large print red letter New King James Study Bible. I also use removable bookmarks that I can see thru so as not to interfere with my reading the text. I put them in the margins or at the bottom of the page. My hope is this will help me become a "chapter & verse" guy. 

Choosing My Faith

I Believe What I Will Become

My spirit will be according what I believe. So if I believe there is nothing after I die. then I will be born this time  into a non-existence and know it into eternity! Perhaps there are likely many dependent beliefs with which I would have to deal continually.

I instead, for myself believe I was promised being born again, so to speak, and I accepted as I was promised by Jesus who Himself was sent specifically for me by His Father, God as the last sacrifice. It is all too enormous to be fashioned into one sentence. 

But my Paraclete, my Counselor, my other Helper will speak for me before God who Himself will not tolerate nor allow any sin to appear before Him. I, like everyone, speak only for my own benefit. I am a witness only to myself. This is what I believe at the present moment but if I am ever convinced anytime in the future of anything different I will correct myself immediately. Everyone else takes responsibility and the credit for what they alone believe.

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?

Red letters calling

I am starting to become intensely interested in red letter Bibles. I want large print and just the red letter text by themselves. Why?

Jesus Calling by Sarah Young has given me an altogether different perspective. It is really much like a translation in that she says what Jesus is quoted as saying in the Bible but in her own words. 

I might call it a colloquial  translation. Instead of translating every individual word, she is translating every group of words comprising their ideas, the ideas of Jesus. 

The publication numbers has made the author the number one Christian writer of all time. It is the only devotional I ever read right thru. It's secret, I believe, is that it conveys the emotional atmosphere, sort of like a spiritual atmosphere engulfing me that I am listening to Jesus Himself myself.  

All things seen are temporal, while the unseen is eternal...

I marked in my Bible a favorite verse with a color sticker in my NKJV. It is a great Bible verse, I mean really great verse to me, because it spotlights the conundrum to my faith of praying for healing of my flesh that by itself stalls off going to be with Jesus, which is supreme.

It is 2nd Corinthians 4:16 & 17. It goes like this, Paul is saying for me to not lose heart because altho my body is decaying daily even so my inner man is being revived day by day.

That's right! And time is right smart speeding along too, making all the vital things of today of eventual minuscule remembrance, if even that, I would say.

Paul goes on to say momentary light infliction is today building for, this is building for me too, an eternal weight of glory far ahead of all comparison. 

I believe it!

Learning about the spirit.....

As the outer man decays day by day, the inner man is being renewed day by day. 2nd Corinthians 4:16 Paul

a design observed requires a designer

Evolution theory is fine and agrees with the description of it found in the Bible recorded by the ancient writers. Confirming knowledge, when it arrives after the truth is already known, continues to have a lesser after the fact status,

It is more important to the individual, as opposed to the collective, to believe before even knowing, if that is in anyway necessary. Belief comes through diligent continuous effort, if you are rich in knowledge, because knowledge by itself will begat doubt.