I'm a fanatic for a good sci-fi movie especially those that involve activities which take place in outer space. I personally enjoy the story line where there's only One shot at saving the day which leaves little to zero room for mistakes.
Those scenes where the astronaut is tethered and then launched from the space craft with just enough oxygen to accomplish the task at hand and with the added twist that when they launch themselves toward their target they use all the jet pack fuel getting there with no room for miscalculations.
That's talking about "Science "Fiction", but what I want to take a look at today is something many opinions consider to be "Fiction".
In the mind of the person that is willing to believe there is hope, yet is it this same "will" which leads us to believe that somehow then brings what we have believed into manifestation?
Would it not be more accurately observed that we too who have "Agreed" (believed) would then get to enjoy "Seeing" what was prophesied come to pass?
Why were the biblical prophets of old also called "Seers'?
What caused them to be able to "See" into a realm where the things of the future then "Took or Assumed" their rightful place within the coming time(s)?
Did they always get to enjoy what came to pass?
Wouldn't that depend upon how we who are examining that same question as though in their stead also define as our present understanding concerning what "Joy" is today?
There is Almighty Power and there is the pursuit of power that looks to suppress, displace or overthrow the joy of the Almighty and those who hope to bath in its beauty to include the timing of all that the Almighty has appointed to assume its rightful place in time.
What a believer should want is for the "The One" that was sent from the Almighty (and that to include everything He did prophecy) to eventually come to pass. It is His prophecy that we as believers should also want to enjoy as such that we place our hope in. .
We hope not only as though what He says is true, but as such that becomes our reality that is real in that it becomes a "Hope" that speaks "Now' (today). This same hope that has little regard for the things which cause the fears of a surrounding world.
The fears, cares and anxieties presented by a world which all but looks to suffocate their dying spiritual condition as though breathing air that has NO life in it much like a fire that laps all the oxygen out of the air.
In terms of there being said "Different" realms and all those that are outside the said realm of a present reality, how many of those realms exist because of a lie and how many of those realms otherwise invisible to the naked eye are tried and have proved to be true (real)?
Is it once again back to square One, as in "What is the "Truth"?
I want to talk about a word that has been traditionally taught as though the bedrock of Christianity.
It's a word that most Christian's want to hear as though a statement of closure as if to say "It is done" or "Mission accomplished".
The root word is "Saved" and the expanded version of that is better known as "Salvation".
When You hear someone suggest they're "Saved" what do you hear being spoken? Is it something you've found nestled between the realm of 'Hope" and what you are willing to accept as "Reality"?
Let me ask this, where is truth in the midst of what you have hope for?
Assuming your hope IS something of greater worth than all you possess, is it a beautiful picture of "Hope" painted upon your heart which cause others to at least pause as if able to see something peculiar?
Having been found peculiar and attractive even if in an odd way and that only because of it's surrounding contrast?
If you were to attempt to render God on a canvas who would it look like? If you asked a thousand people to render God what would their portrayal of God speak?
We joke when we see the rendering of a person on a wall whose eyes move when someone walks past. We can look at our own image in the mirror yet forget that our eyes require staying fixed no matter the attitude our bodies might twist and turn in order to see the "Rest" of ourselves.
Ether way both speak that what we're looking at is also alive.
Unfortunately there are many Gods in the minds of men , but how has the God that you serve touched your heart?
Does your picture of God and savior only display YOU going to heaven?
People being the humans that they are, we seem to have become addicted to hearing things the way WE want to hear them in our efforts to maintain our unique mindset(s) or comfort zone found "our Way"!
Some have to hear what they want to hear as though listening to their particular genre' of music. Some like it country, some like it jazzed up, some like to rap it and some like to hear a choir sing it.
Have you ever shared something with someone and they'll disagree to then assume the posture as though their willing to stay engaged yet only under the terms where their version gets equal air time and stated as though the Gospel?
After hearing them out as if a rebuttal to what you just said "your" next thought is, "I thought that's what I just said"?
What is it that truly gets revealed through these type of exchanges?
In terms of the everlasting or eternal perspective, is it that Jesus saves You because of your personal understanding concerning the relationship you have with Him or are you saved because Your ability to relate to Him has been opened and made available?
If your life testimony were being recorded in the mind of God as though fire and spiritual relationship where others can find warmth, how hot is you flames?
Picture the apostle Peter standing around the fire barrel where he denounced knowing Christ when asked if he was with one of those with Him (Jesus)?
Just imagine the things of this world as if they ask of us daily, "Are you with Him"?
What if someone's grandfather followed Christ, but their earthly father didn't?
Where would such a consideration then find us today if both had since passed away leaving you with nothing to consider?
What do you do now? What would you then look to as if a picture of God?
Will you leave behind words alone or words that are alive and active?
Do you feel like a slave to this world and the things that seem to dominate the minds of mere men that are of this world who have failed to show forth the genealogy embedded in Faithfullness towards the one true God
Neh 9:32-38
"Now therefore, O our God, the great, mighty and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes — the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings and leaders, upon our priests and prophets, upon our fathers and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
In all that has happened to us, you have been just; you have acted faithfully, while we did wrong.
Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our fathers did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the warnings you gave them. Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways.
"But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our forefathers so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces.
Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.
"In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it."
NIV
Now take the essence of what's been expressed above and transplant that into a mutually understood classroom setting
What happens when the voice of authority in a contemporary setting loses it's said strength or power within that setting?
I can almost hear someone saying, "That would depend on the age and or the level of maturity of the students?
Alas, we've hit pay dirt!
Now, copy and paste that over to a bible study setting most rely upon as the venue where what they believe is shaped and molded.
Same dynamic' in play with teacher and students, except in this setting it's been clearly broadcast the context as though the only requirement is Spiritual Maturity?
What is automatically assumed?
Put the lid on that thought and set it to the back burner for a few as I want to now apply something a little more foreign to some.
Now, lets add life to this classroom and invite Jesus as the teacher, and some of His faithful witnesses who can testify to His teaching. What do we then believe when all other voices are silenced?
It should only be the flesh which finds a GOOD mystery as such that remains a mystery.
I encourage you as you make the choice to believe. Stop trusting only in what you feel and instead trust only because of the authority you've given unto Christ that now causes you to believe and continue to learn so you CAN truly feel His Love for you.
Trusting the dead will rise is where the battle begins and that because you see yourself as though dead without Jesus Christ.
1 Cor 15:50-54
I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
NIV
Ask yourself this before you read this next segment "Who are They and who is he talking to when the author says You"?
2 Thess 1:9-10
They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
NIV
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