When does the mind of a person stop "Repenting"?
Let that simmer in the back of your mind as we hopefully move along in this mutually edifying and lengthy thought below.
What is it about the birth of a child most parents (those assumed adults) love to marvel over when we see a "New Born"?
Is it only the scent of their skin as though the clean and fresh aroma or is there more?
Is it more about the depth of their person we're somehow momentarily able to peer into when we SEE them as though small? Small which somehow allows us to gauge at least one end of the spectrum? May the front end of the full spectrum as the consideration of their "soul"?
As though a soul with a clean slate that has yet to "Observe" sin?
Observed to mean something heard? Heard to mean something that can Now be seen. Something seen because it's been brought "Into" Focus and pondered?
Something pondered upon which then becomes the desired. Desired to the point of being conceived. Conceived and then gestated unto the "Birth" process as something which then takes on a life of its Own.
Sounds like an alien movie plot doesn't it...
As a side bar, don't ever under estimate the lengths to which God will go in order to get His view (vision) across to the otherwise blind or seemingly dead (sleeping) spirit and soul and that because of the Love He does have for the spirit and soul He also caused to manifest at the address he gave them (YOU).
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
NIV
Matt 18:14
In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.
NIV
Do we somehow look at this infant in hopes to catch a glimpse of all that's been stored within this little bundle of joy that God has already placed on the inside of this compact package?
Who is "Able" to open this gift as though it has a "seal" in order to bring forth the "Potential"? As though the essence of this gift that's been placed within it? Just as importantly who is NOT able to open and bring forth this same potential?
Exactly how many parent child interactive studies need to be conducted before one could answer such questions?
Most people would quickly assume I'm talking about "Physical" ability which then produces long term monetary success, fame, fortune or tangible virtues which I'm not.
Instead I'm only speaking in terms of the otherwise invisible contributors. Contributors that man and his sciences will probably never be able to measure as the "Absolutes".
For now many will choose to leave such things where they "Leave" them to be and without a proper "Name".
They get treated as though the X factor in an unsolved algebraic formula because nothing else has been given an assigned or identifying mark (Name).
In my opinion and because potential has no proper name, it will in the life of many continue on and remain misunderstood as simply yet another "realm". Please take notice that I intentionally did NOT define potential as either being something negative or positive.
Why? Because when it becomes something considered measurable it can then be qualified and assigned a name as though something that takes up time and or space.
Have you ever noticed that most invisible considerations usually fall under the category of "Influence"?
Things most every one have encountered yet no two can ever seem to agree upon as it pertains to labeling such things?
We don't understand them so instead we give them fictitious names which then allows them to hide or remain hidden as if they just "Drift" around us.
Influences which then have an affect on whatever faculties our individual being has yet never really comes to "Know" much more about these invisible influences beyond doubt before their person exits this world?
Considerations such as, does the individual ever truly recognize where the potential within themselves comes from? What causes them to recognize where such things come from?
Who was originally intended to aid in finding ourselves "Able" to recognize inner potential? What can affect this potential? The importance of who judges potential whether it's to BE considered positive or negative results or maybe good or evil while in this world?
Just a side thought but have you ever taken notice that few can talk about good or evil without somehow getting around to splitting them with a topic that has them opposed to each other?
I want to now give the this said potential a little more shape and form by attaching the word "Spiritual Potential".
Does the release of this gift's spiritual potential first require a "Vision"? Is it simply a matter of not hindering the potential contained in this gift which will then recognize for itself its "Full" potential as though brought to fruition?
As though this potential has it's own vision as if its inner strength?
How much of our spiritual vision is based on what we "Hear"?
What if there is no "Vision" for this spirit potential? What if vision is the spiritual potential (power) that has yet to exist within any child?
What if this spirit potential is much like ones "Faith" which God says comes by hearing and that by His words has yet to be placed within this small vessel? Who can see and who can see enough to bless another?
Rom 10:17
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
KJV
Surely parents can pray that God bless THEIR child, yet what if he already has?
What if they prayed Lord help ME to be a blessing to this Child by providing me with the words that will draw out the vision you intended for this child so that I might Help as a servant and NOT hinder what you intended to be FOR them? (Emanuel)
What if the goal of parents that are also spirit "Filled" as Christ ambassadors is somehow getting the effects and "Affection" of Gods word into this vessel as though the ultimate expression of God's Love?
And we who believe call God our Father....?
Many try to MAKE their children either to be their servants or to be their friends. Those that have taught a worldly type of Friend-SHIP treat them (children) as friends before they've been taught How to be the type of Friend God defines as a "Friend".
Those that teach the way of slavery teach them slavery unto the world as they've truly teach them little to nothing about the Fathers business except how to approach God as though a slave.
John 15:13-16
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit — fruit that will last.
NIV
2 Cor 6:1-2
As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. For he says,
"In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you."
I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.
NIV
How many Live's and how many RECORDED life examples will God use in order to show us (Mankind) the One each also pointed to in the future as the Christ (Savior)? How many will he send in order to point "Back" to the One that has already "Come" as the ONE?
How effectual do you suppose the thought of Noah's sons and there wives hearing as the reason 'WHY' they were building the ark when Noah was asked Why?
Did he simply say to them, "Because I said so" or maybe was He as though full of Gods grace truly able to SEE and share what He could continued to SEE?
Could he have said by way of words of His own choosing "Because God Loves and has chosen us because WE have believed Him"?
Do you suppose his sons already had the notion in their hearts and minds that their father was righteous in God's sight? If yes and and by way of what tangible things did they gauge (measure) their thoughts? If we paint them out to be Super humans, how can their lives touch us where we find ourselves?
How much more Christ who saw the importance to present himself in the same Flesh we wear today as hope filled "Living" beings within that same flesh handed down from the Garden (Adam)?
Is it possible that maybe they had seen as well received a portion of God's favor upon Noah as their father all long up until this point? Evidence which then "Helped" persuade them to "Believe" and follow his example?
Unless man is different today, how would the life of Noah as well his "Son's" existence play out in terms of the parent child relationship of today as both were striving in order to believe what God told them was headed their way?
Would they stay faithful to not only each other but towards the cause as if the NEED of building a SHIP because it is was the SHIP that would also save them and the ones they've loved from God's coming wrath?
What is coming as if any different in terms of results? Is what IS coming Forever lasting or is it soemthing that will simply pass like a bad case of Intestinal Gas?
Why the emphasis on everlasting (forever)?
Because no one within all that frames the "Truth" can say, "I did NOT know" such a day was coming.
Instead in all truth those that did not know can only say, "I did NOT know such a day was coming because I did NOT believe in the ONE that was sent to warn and SAVE me such a day that was coming"....
Why only ONE?
Because it is Impossible for Christ as the ONE sent to Lie.The ONE in whom "No Sin" was found to be IN Him. Once again the chicken or the egg?
Which came first, the lie or sin as the result of the lie?
Matt 24:37-39
As it was in the days of Noah , so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.
That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
NIV
Destroyed yes, though not by water this time, but wrath and fire that will destroy what we understand as the physical existence of humanity and the world that's surrounds our NEWLY born identity?
Our identity that's going to be kept safe within the relation SHIP that's being built by Jesus the Christ as our Father?
Would believing our father suffice today especially if all that do believe Our father were also staying and working to help building a mighty 'ARK"?
How important then is the said "Example" pro-vided when we (believers) then consider Christ as our example having become said "Adult's" (matured) and that not only in Christ but as though an integral part of Christ?
Are children building things these days? Are they helping to build anything these days? Have they been prepared to participate in the building process? If so for the building of what? Who has taught them and who is blamed for NOT teaching them?
How long does it take to build a spiritual Ark when the labor force is made up of nothing but prodigal children? Just because we see what we do does NOT mean all that we see was also as though The will of God in action and that while in the flesh.
Only because Jesus has been given the 'Authority" to answer what we consider the tough questions can He then also "Provide" us who do believe with the answer we 'Need"? Authority on any level must first be given before it's true power is the direct result of someone having "Realized".
Truth is authority, yet individually in the life of a person is "Believing" also the GIVING of that authority to the One that is "Righteous" in all that is said?
Even further all the above because of an even greater authority GIVEN to Him?
Luke 13:2-5
Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?
I tell you, no!
But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them — do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?
I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
NIV
How important then does the SAME type of obedience then become which then SERVES as the benefit of both parent and child as it plays out in their day to day relationship? Who will inspire who in moments of weakness if Children remain children in the mind of the parent?
It's easy to be on the outside when considering one mans relationship to God, as we can see how the world around Noah SAW this same thing.
What about those that look at this same relationship from the "Inside"? Wouldn't they have to be on the inside too? How can they preceive as though from the inside if they're never brought INSIDE?
Noah's wife was one consideration as His wife as though an opinion made from the inside, yet what about his sons within and as though a part the relationship Noah and his wife had and shared?
Sons who not only believed but also believed enough to to convince their wives to "Stay" and help Noah because they too believed in this God and the cause as the Need for an Ark built?
What could they "SEE" as though a mutually shared vision and what helped build (establish) that vision within them all?
Is it all only to remain a "Great Mystery" or are we willing to look "Into" the matter?
Did they all have the same vision?
If yes, how did they come to share this same vision?
We can see today from our vantage point in time and know that God so loved the world before it was populated. We also know that God still gives men free will as we can witness this as those who heckled Noah and His sons while building the Ark.
Stop and think not only of the faith Noah must have had as though his ability to hear God, but also His sons as compared to what most see today as rebellious children?
We can blame the world today, yet was that what Noah did while in a world that soon to be destroyed while in the midst of behavior bound for hell?
Did Noah persuade His sons and their wives because He alone had such great passion for the things of God?
Noah knew something and possessed the ability to persuade His sons AND their wives to stay the course. Think for a moment just how many years while the ark was being built did his sons stay vested in the undertaking? How would that look in your life today?
See not real threat on the horizon of tomorrow? Just because we can't SEE any threat that's also thought REAL, what does that speak? I personally see it as the sank of ignorance.
As if "Glance" at something you can't see which then becomes the manifestation of what WAS once was only the likes of a "Nightmare".
I'm not coming down on parents or preachers because I too am a parent who (like it or not) stands in the office of a preacher of sorts at times which enables me to also SEE what frustrates otherwise GOOD preaching from the pulpit.
What I'm suggesting is that the preacher needs to believe and that same believing then interpret however need be effectual and that Only done out of Love for all that Christ is and has accomplished on the cross.
Love certainly does alot, yet even more when it's been interpreted as Love as God alone see's it.
Especially in light of learning, what learning is, being apt to teach, where learned behavior comes from as well the understanding and power of words spoken, which are then "Observed" in action as though the "Truth"?
Dare I now ask "Do you consider yourself ready to have Children" if any of the above is deemed as true?
Prov 5:22-23
The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold him fast.
He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
NIV
Rom 5:12-14
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned— for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.
When the apostle Paul uses words such as "AGAIN" in his speech (writings) it's as if he's hi-lited a very specific and important point of "Context".
I want to draw your attention to what Paul said concerning the full "Accounting" of sin. Paul made it a point to present sin as though "One Sin" and that by way of entry into this WORLD through "One Man" as if all that followed that one man until the time of Moses.
Rom 5:15-16
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.
NIV
Is it a matter of simply getting ON the boat as I'm sure many tried to DO in the day of Noah?
Is the world going to burn or is the righteous going to come out from the furnace having been thrown into the furnace?
No matter how you see what you NEED to see unlike your spirit and soul you presently are not able to SEE, what are you hoping to preserve?
Just because you do NOT have children or may have chosen NOT to produce children still does not escape the reality of how you as though your spirit soul and body came into being.
Is this life only about everything Your flesh and all that it enjoys or will make it your concern to be about Your soul which God not only gave to you but as such you should love enough to also see it saved?
Is it only preserving people or is about saving souls?
Start with your own. Love your own soul enough to see that is gets saved, but in order to be saved you must also come to know why Saved and the Amen, but also saved from WHAT?
There is only one Sin that will send you to hell, and that is the Sin of Unbelief in Christ Jesus.
How the word Believe" interprets in the life of a believer is also framed ONLY by what Jesus alone says Love is and Does as did His father who not only told Him but also demonstrated through Him those same things....
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