ENLIGHTENMENT LADDER COMPANY

GOOD MORNING TO ALL… as I read the first comment on yesterday’s blog I see that the enlightening part of the ladder must have been the rungs that were under the water. I must say it was a comical commentary but also shows the depth at which the reader chose to understand what was said. Now if a person had taken the time to study what was written in 1 Samuel 16 and then back tracked a little to the beginning of chapter 15 they would have been able to see that Saul had already sinned and lost favor as king of the Israelites before the fact of the spirits. Here in is where the statement which I made yesterday comes into affect ((that he was using the evil spirits to try to get the characters involved to react to change to recognize his powers as the ultimate and trust him. Instead they chose to trust the physical; and met with terrible ends….. And…God uses both good spirits and evil spirits to teach and demonstrate his powers.))))) But this, the reader obviously didn’t choose to understand. The lord knows your heart and he does not cause you to sin…. Yet he also knows, you can not hide your true self from him. Maybe I should not use the word evil maybe I should water it down and say good and bad but all in all the words interchange. If there was no right and wrong there would be no need for heaven and hell. If there was no right or wrong you would have no reason to have a mind and as they say that all would be a no brainer, and that would detract from the reason we are here….. To glorify God and every victory that we have over the evil in life is a glorification unto God. So if you choose to believe that your sin is Gods’ fault, if that is the meaning you get from yesterdays writing, maybe one needs to look a little deeper instead of just hurrying to get out and reading that which one can’t miss. May God Bless you all!!

God verse Man

Good morning or afternoon which ever it is when you finally get a chance to read this. I am rather excited that again I have put out a topic of large discussion. It is my intent to deliver an explanation to my reasoning and statements. First off I would like to say that the discussions and questions are greatly enjoyed and oft times make me smile. God is awesome and regardless of the speculated views of readers I like to take my thoughts and understanding to much deeper and more fulfilling realms of understanding than most. I have found that the only way to do this is to challenge myself and try to delve into a much broader understanding of the whole. The simple and for many hardest to understand fact is that we are spiritual being before and after we are a physical being. Now I am sure that you are thinking the question where does it say that in the bible? Ok lets take it from the beginning, we see in gen 1:26 that god talking with the other parts of the trinity says that man is to be created in their likeness. Then we move on to the next instance where god made the physical apparatus that he called man gen 1:27 and commissioned them to their tasks. This is a quick over view of the events that actually took place as we will see in the next chapter. Gen 2:7 actually shows us the creation process that took place. God made the husk or physical and injected life by giving it a soul or spirit of God. This would simulate the act that with out the spiritual you can not be physical, due to the fact that the spirit is life. In gen 35:18 we can see another example of this as it talks about Rachel’s death and how the soul/spirit left her physical being and she died in the physical. On many occasions in the bible we can see how all spiritual beings good and evil are of God. In our human faculties we tend to look at all in the physical sense and can’t quite understand the spiritual sense, therefore creating an idea on the physical plane that is in reality a false sense of security. Now where did that come from? Well, this stemmed from the discussion about God and his creation of good and evil, right and wrong. I think that many try to get stuck in a closed and self evolving definition of what we are dealing with. Have you ever seen a battery with two positive posts? Is there anything in our physical material world that doesn’t have a life and death cycle? Is there any part of our existence that doesn’t have a good and bad side? All that is in the world has its good and bad positive and negative life and death. Now let’s think about this for a minute, if all that is was good where would that leave God? What goals would you be able to have? How could he show his power and beauty and wisdom unto us and through us? On the physical plane of humanity we would probably take all for granted and no gratification process or praise towards God be applied. Now the argument here would be that if all was good that would be a daily practice. That is exactly correct then why isn’t it? All was created good and perfect yet through our physical limitations and near sightedness we have rather elected to not really relate to our spiritual side and praise our God through it. We tend to praise and elevate our physical /material surroundings as gods. We expect to extricate happiness, comfort or protection out of our material blessings. When was the last time you went out in the middle of a lightning storm and sat down in the middle of the yard and thanked god for his protection and safety! Now you may be saying that this is a redundant idea or a form of trying the lord but is it? Now don’t get me wrong I am not there either but if your trust was in God would you need to sit cowering in your house or other type of physical structure expecting its protection from nature? I say cowering because that seems an appropriate word for our faith in the physical realm. Friends there is no escape from God, no physical structure strong enough to with stand all the power he holds at his fingertips. Now back to my original thought did God created good and evil? In col 1:16-17 it is impossible to say that he didn’t. In my example that I gave in one of the comments I seemed to get shot down and it was expressed that it wasn’t properly used. Well, to clarify the point a little I was not trying to say that he put it here on earth in the physical realm for man did that. But evil was in existence before physical man. God clearly stated the lines of right and wrong, and through the action of Adam and Eve they were manifested in the physical world. Now you may be thinking that there is reason to argue with me but let me tell you that God uses both good spirits and evil spirits to teach and demonstrate his powers. Now here you go again saying that I have lost the right of mind and you may be even trying to throw your hands up in despair and wanting to tell me to just give it up and go and study what I am saying. This friend is not just thought or theory but basic bible fact!!!!! What? You want scriptures? Hope you are ready! When you look at the Israelites and their dealings with pharaoh and how GOD hardened pharaohs’ heart to when GOD is actually named in direct conjunction with evil spirits in 1 Samuel 16:15-16&23, 1 Samuel 18:10,19:9. Contrary to our modern day beliefs and theory that if God does these things then how can we trust him, we can by reading these verses understand that he was using the evil spirits to try to get the characters involved to react to change to recognize his powers as the ultimate and trust him. Instead they chose to trust the physical; and met with terrible ends. We as humans are in fact and reality similar in affect and try by which ever means possible to accomplish the turning of souls to God when we tell them the bad and then the good of things. Trust God and you can and will conquer all. Jesus says that through him all is possible. That means that there is no impossible in life and that if you are for him none can stand against you and that you can conquer all!!! Friends remember God lives in all of us, through us and if you accept him he has promised you great things! Through faith all is possible!! Glory to God and may God bless all! Love and peace