How do you feel?

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

(Pro 13:12)

Pro 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Ever wanted something so bad or prayed for something to happen or change in your life and it just doesn't seem to happen? I know I have. But did you know that much of this is due to the thought process and how we think on things. I have heard and people say I would like this to happen in my life but I don't see it being possible. God is not a God of impossibles but a God of infinite possibilities. If you can see it in your mind and it is a good thing all that is required of you is to have faith and believe it to be possible. The way to accomplishing it will be made clear to you if you truly look, if you truly desire it and believe it can happen. Much of the time this takes a little reconditioning of the mind such as one saying over and over in your mind that you are a good person and that it is possible. In the bible we are commanded to love our neighbor as our selves, and did you know that every one does. As I watch and observe others I notice that the ones who are loving and kind to others are also this to them selves but those who don't treat others well cant even stand to be with them selves. The bible also says what you sow you shall reap, the moral of the story if you want more love give more love, if you want wonderful friends be more friendly if you want more give more. The bible also tells us that it is better to give than to receive, but it is also a biblical promise that you will get back more than you give.

Love to all

How big is a thought???

It is not just a coincidence but a reality. We were made after Gods image, in his likeness and to follow his lead. If we follow through the process of our every day going ons we can see a clear and stated format that is always and consistently followed with out exception. There is not ever a variance or a wavering of change nor is there a possibility for it. The basic steps to each and ever thing we do is the same, always will be all ways has been. The science called Quantum Physics has taken on and verified that not only are the teachings of the bible true but they are consistent. Now for the most of us we don't need science to prove these things but on the other hand some may wish for a clarification on different things. Science has come to discover that the smallest substance of every particle of any matter is one and one thing only…..thought….. the natural process for our everyday thing all start with a thought then an idea followed by the goal continuing on by the stated path of action to accomplish afore mention goal, and finally completion. If any one of these steps fails to materialize your mission is in jeopardy of failure. God has shown us by many examples that we are to be courageous fearless and devoted before we can accomplish anything. If your mission goes into failed status is this due to Gods unwillingness to bless you or your unwillingness to follow his example. Study each and every single great man or woman in history and you can see how the system works, and begin to understand

Luv to all

Faith and Well - being

Mat 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. In the new testiment we are given many examples of what faith can do in our lives. What are the main steps to faith? Well first we probably need to know the definition of faith. Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11 is the explanation of what faith is and many of the works that have been accomplished through this acting in such a manner. What is hope? Webster defines it as such …….

intransitive verb1: to cherish a desire with anticipation <hopes for a promotion>2archaic : trust transitive verb1: to desire with expectation of obtainment 2: to expect with confidence : trust synonyms see expect

now faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for, ok what is substance? Webster defines this as such..…..

1 a: essential nature: essence b: a fundamental or characteristic part or quality c Christian Science : god 1b2 a: ultimate reality that underlies all outward manifestations and change b: practical importance : meaning , usefulness .

We can see the evidence of the existence of God, we know that he is all around us but many times we fail to do the steps and recognize him and what he wishes for us. Many of your inner desires can only be manifested unto you through your trust and expectation of receiving them. Read matt 9 and Hebrews 11 and look for the essence of God and expect him to do great things in your life! Love to all

 

 

 

The complete picture?

I WANT TO KNOW WHO DECIDED THAT THE SCRIPTURES WE KNOW AS THE BIBLE ARE THE COMPLETE WORKS AND WRITINGS OF GOD ? Is there more?

Circular reasoning

Mar 8:18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? What are you missing today? As habitual creatures we tend to see but not really see. The man that reportedly discovered the cities of Sodom and Gomorra after centuries of being undiscovered said that he had been traveling the same road for months on his way to work. One day while driving along something caught his eye and upon second glance he had to stop he looked and looked, finally going over and looking and upon examination was thoroughly amazed that it was an entire city. As the report goes the city is completely incinerated but the ashes are still in there form of the buildings from centuries ago! Do you think he was the first person to travel that road? Then why hadn't others before him seen this fantastic marvel and work of God? In some of my readings of literature it was brought to my attention that we see but don't really train our selves to see! I pondered that and did a lot of recollecting of personal data and find this to be so true. We really need to train the eyes to see. I had a good friend once go into the mountains with me and as we were driving along he would stop often and say look see there, and me I looked and looked and saw nothing. I would ask him what am I suppose to see. And he would say the particular type of animal. Ok so I looked and looked again and would see nothing, then he would chuckle and say watch …. honking his horn and not 50, 60 yards away a mule deer or elk would jump and take off running. The animal was right there in front of me in plain view but I could not see it! There is a saying that goes like this (with a trained eye you can see…..). The training of the eyes and ears is as important to a Godly life as prayer. Why do I say this because if you don't you wont know how to seek out the truth or know what to pray for!

I heard a lesson recently about how people expect physical signs from God and how wrong these people are for doing this. Silly people, God doesn't work like that, he doesn't do that anymore. The speaker said that we have no need of these signs (he was not talking about the gifts of the spirit either but physical and material blessings) due to the fact that we have the bible and it is complete! We do have the complete scriptures true but the rest was very contradictory to the scriptures!! Then what I thought really silly or redundant was that at the end of the service the gentleman giving the closing prayer says this….. and father be with ---- as she is recovering from her operation and be with ------- as she is preparing for her operation and father be with them and care for them in their times of difficulty, and bring them again soon into our midst healthy and well. I was like huh??? Either one of two things happened here….. One, either the gentleman didn't listen to the lesson or ….. two, the speaker as others before him are confused with the power and love of God and his movements and are unfortunately promoting this confusion. People you acquire nothing in this world!! God has permitted you the usage of everything you have in your possession!! Is this not physical or do you believe you really acquired it through the sweat of your brow? If he didn't wish you to have these abilities or physical material blessings, trust me friends you would not!! My question to you is this if God is the same then, now, and forever, and all through out the bible he uses physical demonstrations to show his power and abilities so that we all fear yet glorify him why would he stop now? If you don't believe in miracles then why pray? To give gratitude to some thing you really don't believe in, to waste ones breath and time asking out of duty, not expectation? Aren't his answers to your prayers works of a physical nature and the fulfillment of your desires for you, your family, and friends? Ohhh ohhh wait not desires! We are to desire nothing more than the needs in life. Wow, how confused can people be!!

 

Gray area….and life…

I heard the statement that life is a gray area. When one thinks about it, it is. There are many areas of life that seem to be mysteries to us yet mystery is what keeps us going; the unknown, the excitement of what is just on the other side of each and every thought and decision which causes every one of our actions and or reactions. Some one once said the world was conquered by actions not reactions. When one takes a minute to think about their lives we can see how they seem to be a chain of reactions and not a whole lot of actions. We have become a society of weak and feeble objects, existing from day to day with a lack of focus and dreams; a lack of courage and stamina to reach our goals. As I read the stories of the athletes on the Olympic tour I see their dedication and energy, the test of courage and sacrifice that they over come to get where they are, and that is really impressive. Friends, God is a God of action, not reaction; not complacently sitting by and watching the world go round and round and just reacting to the different scenarios that play out in this physical realm. The whole ministry of Jesus was a call to action not reaction. Why am I saying this, God gave us a world full of color and glory, full of beauty and opportunity, it is up to us to take our gray areas in life and paint the picture that we wish to see! So dream big, focus on achievement and paint your life full of color as God wishes for you! God gave us the foundations; it is you who is to finish construction. With your desires and his help nothing is impossible!

Love yall

And may God bless you

End of the day

Good morning friends. I was looking today during my studies at different words and their contextual meanings (meaning the meanings pertaining to the languages they were written in) and came across a scripture that Jesus spoke (that I have heard used and I am sure all of you have also) that caught my eye in a slightly different sense. That verse was Luke 5:39. In this verse he talks about old wine and new wine. He says that after tasting old wine nobody wants the new. Well we all know that wine is considered better with age; in fact many sit on some for years and years even to the point that it soon becomes a vintage wine. Well now you are asking how this struck me in a slightly different way. Well we often hear it in reference to the way we lived before we came to Christ in Christianity and how some often look back and prefer to go back to the old ways instead of trying to live in Christ. What strikes me funny is that not only is that true about people of the world but also many of people of or in different faiths or beliefs. Due to the mental state and our individuality we often times tend to read or understand what we have been raised up or instructed to believe rather than to learn for our selves.

Having the same book with the same teachings and the words all meaning the same why is their over 10,000 different beliefs or types of faith? I think that we try to make the way or path of right way to difficult. I personally don't understand why. God is not a God of confusion, disorderly, or difficult. He is a God of simplicity, order, and clearly in control. How can we take a verse and twist it and form the definition to be as we want? We all know the route to salvation, and that is an easy step to start, the difficulties start after the initial steps have been taken. Jesus says that we need to be as a child to enter into the kingdom of God. Now we also all know the characteristics of a child, but we tend to forget some important parts. We know that a child has no worries, that they trust their parents to provide for them and that they have unconditional love for their family. Now you may be asking what the parts that we miss are. How about for starters imaginative? Most children have a tremendous imagination and ability to drum up a wealth of ideas and dreams, not only for the present but also the future. Next we will say how about creativity. Children are very creative and many times ingenious in the way they color and pretend or act out their ideas. Next we will move on to accessible; now another term that one may use is trainable. They accept your firm words as law as one raises them in the best way one knows how. Ok now lets move on to the next one lets say serving. They give no thought to doing what one asks them to do, and a child that is taught to respect his elders they give no thought to helping other either. Next will be forgiving they forgive and forget and continue to love as if nothing had happened. Next let us continue with ambitious; they don't let a small thing such as one telling them no get in their way. They take the time to learn you and they actually know one better than you yourself do.

Now if you will allow me to bring this to you as I see it. God put us here and created us perfect and in his image right? All the above mentioned characteristics are the same ones that God contains except the fact that he needs no training or teaching for he is the teacher. Why have I said all this? You will never create the universe or an animal or humankind, but you are responsible for your life, for your surroundings, for your goals and for your future. One can never change another no matter how dominating one is. One can change the lives of others by being as a child, by giving the unconditional love, by letting their imagination show them who they are and dreaming big dreams with a definite goal in mind. By being creative and ingenious in the forms of executing them and always looking to the future, to always learn and allow others to have access to your heart and love and forgiveness. And last of all not killing ones ambitions or desires thinking that they are not a need for ones life. One of the greatest forms of service to others is by allowing yourself to have dreams and live a happy and fulfilling life. Why? If one is unhappy they carry stress, hate, anger, and just a life that at the end one looks back and asks what did I do with my life? A desire is what guides you, your heart, your life, but if one doesn't allow it to fulfill itself you live with a sad heart for you are not doing what you are sent to do. some may argue that we are not to have desires for that isn't Godly but when it is all said and done if one chooses to serve God that is only because they so desired. You are the creator of your own life, your own future, your dreams and your limitations. Look to God for the way and allow him to show you. He tells us the do's and don'ts but puts no limits to what one can accomplish through him.

Now what did all that have to do with Luke? I am going to leave that to your imagination, and your own interpretation. Just remember when you sit down at the end of the day and look back over your accomplishments and dreams how will they match up? Will they make you smile with the contentment of achievements God desired for you or the sadness of unfulfilled dreams and wonderment if you full filled his desires for you.

God bless!!

It’s a beautiful day!!

Good morning to all and what a beautiful morning it is!! I was sitting out side this morning at the picnic table, sipping on my creamy concoction of coffee, sugar, and a light touch of creamer, and observing the beauty of nature and listening to her song. With a slight breeze coming across the dewy grass and wisping through the tree tops, the birds chirping, the morning sun warming the earth, the horse chomping away at the grass, the rabbits running to and fro, and the squirrels carrying on like old maids. I sat there in deep thought just thinking of God and appreciating his glorious creation. Then it brought into a different perspective as to what God is…. God is a God of beauty, peace, joy, happiness, abundance and love; A God so powerful and overwhelmingly large yet so simple. We may perceive a thing as being large or a task to great or a need or desire too much, but for God (whom effortlessly spoke the world into creation) size is no issue. God is not a God of limitations but a God that loves you and I much more than we could ever love him. He praises every good deed you do and forgives the bad ones, bestows unlimited blessing upon us which many we take for granted. It has been my experience that the more one appreciates and tries to recognize them the more he bestows unto you. In the bible Jesus mentions the flower called the lily. The lily is a highly recognized flower for its beauty and peace for its sweetness and fragrance. If God created so much beauty in a plant of that nature, imagine what he could create through you if you allowed him to. We as humans tend to put self imposing limitations on ourselves due to the fact that as the saying goes we can't see past our noses. Is your God the limited God who works on our level, or is he the almighty and all powerful the great I AM ready and willing to assist you, to bless you, to heal you, to carry you to greater and greater levels of service and abundance. One may say but I don't deserve all the blessing or luxuries in life, and my response to them is in reality we not only don't deserve that but neither do we deserve to live, but through Gods love we are doing that. He doesn't allow us to be here so that we can be like blocks of dirt on the beach of life waiting for the tides of death to just come and wash us back into the ocean of forgotten mankind, but he wants us here to glorify him, to allow him to show his glory through us, and the only way to do that is by allowing him to do it; By allowing him to bestow upon us all his glory and blessings, by allowing him to work through us. Many times in the bible God tells his people that he is doing what he does so that all may see him and his glory. God is not a God of limitations or lack but a God of unlimited abundance, we have yet to run out of our natural resources….gold has been mined for thousands of years in large quantities, as has silver and all the other metals and minerals, crude oil has been pumped out of the earth for over a hundred years and there is no end in site. They say that we have enough under the U.S. to meet the present demand for over 300 more years. So my question to you is who is limited you or God? Jesus told us that with faith the size of a mustard seed we can move mountains, so then what are the limitations that God has put on us? The answer is that the only limitation God has put us under is that we serve him with love, gratitude, and a strong dedication to carry out his will and all the rest will be added unto you. Is it wrong to ask God to bless you with an abundant life? Is it wrong to ask for great things, Beautiful things? No. I find it rather strange that many like to think so. If you look in the scriptures at a little prayer given by a supposedly unrecognized man in the long list of the genealogy in 1 chronicles 4:9-10 you can see that it is not only proper but totally recognized as a great prayer. Why else would it be smack in the middle of a long list of begats? If you read in matt.6:9-13 Jesus almost replicates this prayer but with a little more description. Well I have said enough for today and hope you have enjoyed the thoughts. May God Bless

WELL HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY....

Hello friends, I find it a little strange that no one has any had any comments or ideas to voice on the last couple of posts. One can only speculate as to why, but I won’t due to the nature of speculation. I post here to open new avenues of thought concerning who we are and how we relate to God, not to impose on some ones beliefs. It is great to know how they relate to each individuals belief and to know how they are either good or bad so that they can be elevated in ones thought process or put to rest and not utilized, or continued. I said I wasn’t going to post a response to my last post and to how I see what it says but I will say a few short words here as to part of what I think. I too had to read it several times to understand the depth of what it says but the short version is this when a person tries to be pleasing to God they act and respond as they think their God would through their interpretation of who God is. As adults we create the God that our children try to be pleasing to. We (through our actions) show them how we perceive God, and they being our children follow through as they try to be pleasing to us their parents. Well that is a start for you and MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS

HONEST MAN…..OR GOD…..

Hello friends and dear readersJ I am going to post a cut out of a piece of literature that I read. Not asking for opinions here what I am going to ask is for a depiction of what you see here. I am not claiming belief or disbelief of what the author says, but that we as a group examine it to find it true or false. Once the first round is in I will tell my views and thoughts. Thank you and enjoyJ

Some one has said that "an honest man is the noblest work of God." Ten thousand thousand others have repeated his little speech—with a solemn wag of the head and sidewise squinting which conveyed the opinion that God is chary of his noble works.

Then there came another man who paraphrased that. "An honest God is the noblest work of man," he said. And a thousand or so of us wondered why we hadn't thought to say that! Why, of course. And the other thousands of thousands lifted up their hands and cried, "Blasphemy—stone him, stone him—put him out of the church, where the bogies'll get him!" They put him out. But the bogies haven't got him. And many of the thousands are taking up his cry—"An honest God is the noblest work of man."

Why not? An honest God is of greater value than many honest men, is he not? God is the creator of man; unless God is himself honest his honest man is but an accident, instead of an image and likeness of himself.

But, according to the paraphraser, man creates his God. Well, that is a paraphrase only, and true only in a sense.

Man's creation of God is simply his mental concept of God; it is God as he sees him, or it, from his viewpoint.

An honest God is the concept of a man whose soul recognizes honesty and loves it. A God of power is the mental creation of him whose soul recognizes and loves power. A God of love is the mental creation of him who recognizes and loves love. A God of vengeance is the mental concept of him who loves vengeance.

Perhaps you think your mental concept of God is not so very important, since it is all in your mind and the real God is what he is regardless of your idea of him. But it matters vitally to you.

It is not God as he really is, that is creating you; but God as he appears to you. Your concept of God is creating you in its own image and likeness.

If you think of God as a great man on a throne, with a long white heard and an eye-for-an-eye-and-a-tooth-for-a-tooth expression, you may depend upon being made over into a sour-visaged decrepit old man who will want to die and get away from it all.

If you think of God as a God of power, love, wisdom, beneficence, you will aim to be perfect as he is perfect.

If you happen to be one of the fools who has said in his heart there is no God, your life will be a crazy patchwork and your end that of the stoic who defies earth to do its worst by him; which it probably will, being a willing earth and ready to give each according to his demands.

You are being created in the image and likeness of the Lord your God, the God enthroned in your heart.

What kind of a God is in your heart? Is he small and revengeful and capricious, a sort of policeman to tell your troubles to, to receive consolation from, and by whom to send punishment to your enemies?

Or is your God the Principle and Substance behind all creation, the power, wisdom, love, of all creation, a God who loves all, is just to all, generous to all, favors none?

But no matter how lofty a God you carry in your heart he will do you little good unless he is an "I Am" God.

Most men's Gods are "I Was" Gods. They believe God did wonderful things for the children of Israel; that he performed great miracles for the apostles and disciples of Jesus; but to this age they think of him as merely the I Was God, who stands aloof and lets man run things—man and the devil, or "malicious animal magnetism."

Believers in the "I Was" God are also great sticklers for the "I Shall Be" God, who is coming again to judge the wicked and set up his kingdom on earth. And these believers in the I Shall Be God think that their only business in life is to wait around until the great I Shall Be makes his appearance.

People who worship the "I Was" and the "I Shall Be" are never demonstrators. Between admiration of the "I Was" and anticipation of the "I Shall Be" they fall to the ground and—wait for the I Shall Be in themselves and others.

Only the "I Am" God does things. "I Am" love impels you to love now. "I Am" wisdom inspires you to act upon your ideas. "I Am" power performs miracles, not yesterday or tomorrow, but now.

I Am God is the God who works to-day, in you and in me. His ways are not the ways of the I Was God, nor of the I Shall Be God; they are the ways of the "I Am"—new, different, the ways of to-day, not of yesterday or to-morrow.

I know a dear woman who worships the I Was and the I Shall Be. She entertained Schlatter the healer, and was firmly convinced that he was a literal reincarnation of Jesus Christ. She took Schlatter's word for it. She also accepted his excuses for not immediately setting up a literal kingdom here on earth, as described in the book of Revelations. He told her he had other work to do just now, that he was going away, but would soon return and establish a literal kingdom. She swallowed it all—without a single chew. Schlatter went away, and later a body was found in the mountains which was said to be his.

Since Schlatter's disappearance some years ago, this lady has spent her time in writing about him and looking for his return. The I Was and the I Shall Be absorb her entire spiritual attention.

In the meantime she lives in a small mining town where in the life surging about her she sees no God. Not long ago she wrote me to help her speak the Word of freedom for a man on trial for his life. She said he was absolutely innocent and that a "terrible conspiracy" existed against him. The man was condemned to die, still protesting, not innocence but self-defense. It was a case of mix-up with two men and a woman, followed by a drunken brawl and the usual plea of "didn't mean to."

This lady's sympathies were all with the man, and her letters to me were pitiful. Her heart was wrung with agony for him and his bereaved wife, and convulsed with horror and impotent rage at the "wickedness" of the "wretches who falsely swore away his life." The way "evil" triumphed over justice was awful, she said, and she knew when Schlatter returned justice would be done and the wicked wretches annihilated—or words to that effect.

You see, she has no conception of an "I Am" God, who rules now. She sits in judgment on men's acts and prays to Schlatter to come back and set things right.

She remembers that the "I Was" put 10,000 to flight with Gideon's three hundred pitchers and candles—simply sneaked up and scared them into a panic. She knows the "I Was" hardened the heart of Pharaoh to lie repeatedly to the Israelites. She knows the devil had to ask permission of God before he tempted Job. She knows God said "I make peace and I create evil," and that "The Lord hath made all things himself; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." She knows that "Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all the deep places." She knows all these things of the Great I Was.

But that the I Am works now in the hearts of men; that God now hardens one heart to perjury and another to truth, one to murder and another to lay down his life that his friend may live;—that God now works in these apparently antagonistic ways and thereby works out perfect justice, wisdom, love, has never entered her mind.

She cannot imagine that no man meets any form of death until he himself has ripened for that particular form of death. She has read that eighteenth chapter of Ezekiel, where God explains that every man dies for his own sins, not for the false swearings of another. But the great "I Was" said that, and the "I Shall Be" says it; but the "I Am" is absent—so she thinks.

Peace be still…..

Hello friends all through the torturing and playing on the words and buffeting of the rebukes from others saying that what I said is blasphemous I just prayed and asked for guidance. Here is the answer I received.

Isa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

Isa 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Isa 45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

A Thief and a Dog

Good morning friends, it is a little chilly so I am sure that a cup of coffee is on order and shall be really enjoyed this morning. It is my hope to clear up my reasoning in a way that you will understand. It is also my hope that you will take back your accusations to the blasphemous nature in which you have perceived my writings. In my life I see God as the highest and most sacred of all authorities, as having the greatest plan and intention for you and me on this physical plane we call earth. Gods love and grace being far superior to anything that we can physically imagine or possibly understand. Even though great strides are taken by many on a daily basis to do so it is impossible to fathom its great depths with our limited mentality. I heard on the radio once about a man who locked up his house and went to bed. In the night he awoke to noise being made on the lower level of his home. Being the protector of his family, he arose and went to investigate. As he was passing down the hall way approaching the stairs his son had happened to leave the baseball bat on the floor outside his room so the man picked it up and continued his procession down the stairs. Being as quiet as he possibly could he walked right into the living room where he saw a thief in the process of stealing his articles. Startled the thief jumped and made an attempt to escape. In doing so he fell and broke his leg. The owner of the home then called the authorities and upon arrival they arrested the thief. Now I am sure that you are saying well ok that is great, but friends that is not the end of the story. The rest of the story is that the thief went to jail but filled a law suite against the home owner for breaking his leg on their property and he won and went scott free with an even larger bag of loot ill gotten. Now what does that have to do with the price of tea in china? I am sure that many of you know that the whole scenario presented above is just not right, but in our country the law also states that if you have a dog that is very protective of his owners and you put a beware of dog sign on the fence or gate and some ones decides to go into your yard anyway and gets bit you are the responsible party. It is my opinion that the mentality used to argue the points being written here in the previous posts is the same. We as Americans live in a land that prides itself on freedoms, extensive freedoms of all kinds and shapes with in which we as Americans take advantage of on a daily basis for a more fulfilling life in this country. The gov’t was set up to govern the people setting forth a set of guidelines or laws that we are required to live by. This is so that we all can live in a peaceful and harmonious state of existence. Now not all of the laws are the greatest but most are implemented for the protection of the citizens of this country. God, by divine inspiration, also set forth a set of guidelines or laws into existence for us through the writings and teachers of the bible. Just as if you break the laws of the country there are consequences, so are there consequences if you break Gods law. Now do the laws of the country make the country wicked or evil? No! Just because the laws stated by God create the distinction of good and evil, this does not make him evil. This also does not entail him using evil or at fault because we do it. This is where my stories come into play. If I have it posted that my canine friend is aggressive and it is in your best interest to stay on the other side of the fence from him and you decide not to then, am I at fault? Just because I knew he was aggressive towards unwanted intruders? Unfortunately that is the legal stand point that the folks of this country have taken, when in reality the person who chose to forbid the warning is the one at fault. Therefore is the reason for what I have said. God by creating a law, setting forth a distinction between good and evil, created them both, does this make him evil? Definitely not! There is no form possible that you can create one with out the other, if you define what is good then you also have defined what is evil. Jesus didn’t deserve to die because God created good and evil, he died because he was perfect and made the perfect sacrifice, his life for our inadequacies, or imperfections which by going into the yard with satan we have chosen to commit. If one chooses to break in to another’s house and breaks a leg or gets bit by the aggressive dog does the owner owe the perpetrator restitution? Neither God nor Jesus owes us a thing! But because they love us so much God provided us the perfect sacrifice and Jesus gave his life. Love and peace to all!! May God Bless

P.S.

FRIENDS IT IS PROBABLY the fact that you are reading that he created evil therefore he is and does…. Nothing could be farther from the truth….it could be better said that he created the options of Good and evil….God is not the creator of evil things nor actions, just our free will….which means you and I have the option to select which you want to do. God created the mind and feelings…we are the devisors of our own good and or evil actions.

How you say it….

Good morning friends and readers….now I was going to reply in the comment section but I decided that this was going to be the best form in which to say what I have to say. I am very truly sorry for your misunderstanding of what I said. And perhaps due to my limited knowledge how I portrayed it. You are absolutely correct in the fact that evil is an action not an item and though it may not seem as such as you insinuated I am a little more advanced than that. Now I must respond to you with the same question but not in the same form... for as you have said in earlier comments anger and hate are a complete contrast to what God wishes and through your verbage that is all one can gather. The claim that was laid out in the comments that to which I am blasphemous and portraying God I guess I don’t understand how that is but, if what I say and what you say are the same only put in different terms then does that make you blasphemous also? Now why am I saying this, let’s take a look at what I have said…….. It is up to you to understand the difference and define it through the study of his will……..but unfortunately we implement and partake of it due to our own physical weaknesses…….and there are other ones also where time and time again I have said that we need to study and we are at fault for our sins this goes right along with what you were yelling out to me……that YOU and YOU ALONE are the reason that you do evil (sin), not God. What was different about what I said and your response? I don’t understand…. Now, you made the comment on the fact that evil is an action….. that is a very interesting topic or thought….please explain the difference between evil being an action and lets say love, peace, harmony, humility, goodwill, goodness, servitude, happiness, fulfillment, longsuffering, and the list goes on. All of these to my knowledge are also actions. If they are not let me know, because I would appreciate the knowledge of the difference. In my limited knowledge all of these things are allocated to feelings and mind sets and are to be preferred responses to situations rather than the opposite which is evil. God created us with the option to do right or wrong that does in no way detract from him making us in perfection. The bible states as I have said and you have agreed and tried to reiterate it and resay it trying to make what I say seem blasphemous, that we are created perfect at birth, but after birth God relinquishes his control of our thoughts, therefore you are responsible for yourself. As far as how you picture me and my beliefs, that is your option and should remain to yourself for we all have opinions but that doesn’t mean we need to slander and tear down another in attempt to feel better about ourselves. I know this same action has been done by myself and tends to cause me great distress and results in apologies and learning experiences and a whole lot more love! Now Christian if you wish to do as you say, I will say…May God Bless and love and peace be unto you and yours from me and mine. To all love and peace May God Bless

God is…..

Good morning again let me say that I enjoy your company and discussions. Now, again also let me try to reiterate by a different way of explanation. My view and opinion of this discussion are as such….we know God as the creator of all….that he was before during and will always be…correct? Now when I claim that he created all including evil this does in no way insinuate that he implements it or approves of it. You are totally correct in the fact that he did not put it on earth, but the fact still remains that we as physical human being did not create it. Unfortunately we implement and partake of it due to our own physical weaknesses. We can look at this physical earth or world as our testing grounds, the place where we attempt to place value on our spiritual beings. The bible teaches us that a man shall be known by his works. This statement shows us how to add value to ourselves in the eyes of God. Jesus put a price on us….priceless, he found us worth giving his life for! But, just like when you buy and automobile with a hefty price tag it is known that some are junk and some are good. I like to liken this scenario to a business, when a being hires employees they tend to pay an hourly price for their services, Jesus paid for us in full already when he died on the cross, now you all know and understand that the ones working the hardest and best, with the best ethics and enthusiasm are the ones that maintain their employment, the ones that receive all the perks, and after a length of service enjoy the rest of the benefits, what ever they are. Now I guess my question to you is this if God was first and his angels and he created satan which we totally relate to evil and as the tempter then he created physical form and all that it includes then we know he had a plan for us knowing our shortcomings why does everyone want to diminish his power his creation his plan……I guess I am just rambling on and I can only say this …. I think and to me this verse in the bible says it all very clearly: Ecc 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. Ecc 3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Ecc 3:12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. Ecc 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. Ecc 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. Ecc 3:15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. Ecc 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. Ecc 3:17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. Love and peace to all and May God Bless

God and contrast……?

Friends the question posed to me was why am I ascribing things to God that the bible does not? Secondly why would God need contrast? And thirdly does this contrast with evil define him, meaning God. Well what can I say more than has already been said? I am not ascribing anything more than the bible for there in he created all on earth as in heaven. Therefore what has been ascribed that is not in his word? Secondly the contrast is not for Gods sake but our own. God has no need for contrast but for our sake it is here. Like I said in order for us to perceive the difference there has to be a difference. With no difference where is the ability to think, act, and choose of our own accord? Now thirdly in respect to the question that does evil define God….it does not but, it definitely makes us more aware of his presence when we are trapped in a period of darkness and he brings in the light to show us a better way. I hope this cleared up your questions and if not please….let me know and I will do my best to explain in a better way. Love to all and May God bless!!

God and Company

Good morning friends, just a quick thought to keep the thought process active…..I read this little teaching by an old sage and you may already know this and the concept it portrays but it also might bring into new light other thoughts. SAGE: The Law of Life is God and Company. You are the Company, and you cannot in any sense be an idle partner, if you wish to profit by the partnership. Your part is a big one, and there is plenty for you to do in providing a concrete center around which the universal divine energies can operate. Love and peace to all and May God Bless P.S. I too had to read it several times as it slapped me around. I think that many tend to believe that things just happen, but they don’t. The manna did fall from the sky but the people had to go pick it up!!

My thoughts on….

Hello all sorry for the long time I have been away and hope I can get things back up and exciting. I am sure that all of you have some kind of idea what contrast is….we paint walls and ceilings different colors to gain contrast and stripes on vehicles and so on….well everything in life has contrast depending on the view point. Light has dark, white has black you have open and closed big small high low healthy sick, and the list goes on….and on…and on…. But unfortunately I don’t have the time to type all the different contrasts that there are. I just want to know if something didn’t have a contrast; how would or could you know the difference? If everything was big and white and narrow how would you know that? Everything would be the same? Sure you could put different things to the title but you would no longer have round verse square nor low or high. How could you describe an object with out contrast? It escapes me! But if you could tell me I would have a tidbit more knowledge than I have now, which is very limited to begin with. It is like if I had an object of some sort trying to put it in a place that I want too but….. With No contrast I would not know if it fit or if it should fit….. How could you make the right decisions in life if your life had no contrast to it? The subject of good and evil is the same thing. With out evil you would not know what is good….. Without good you would not know what is evil. How can we define the difference if there is no difference to be defined….this difference my friends was created and laid down before us by the creator….. It is up to you to understand the difference and define it through the study of his will. We would be as robots on a robotic world if he had not created this contrast. It does not mean that he delights in the evil but without its presence we as humans would not understand and appreciate God nor be able to see his glory and power in our lives much less the next person whom we wish to teach or lead by our examples. Love and peace to all May God bless

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