Who's watching over my Soul while the worlds cooking?

What is it about death where many make daily and possibly "Life" decisions that have been steered primarily by the assumed "Worst case scenario"?

The fear of death of course being at the top of that list, I'm of the opinion the further one moves away from the fear of death, the more available they've "Become" to think of others.

Many see salvation as though a 'Way" of circumventing what's going to be an otherwise ugly event for many, yet when one someone considers their salvation as though an "Escape" how do they reason through the evaluation where they see themselves doing the same things the unbelievers do on a continued basis?

Who's lied to whom and what has been tried, proved and tested for its purity?

Is it the objective of God whom saves us so that we can continue doing what we've done to the best of our own ability OR is the godly objective more about maturity (purification) to the point of not only hearing, but also "seeing" a real change within ourselves?

Many see the word "New Creation" and then move forward talking "new" yet acting old. As if managing or rearranging their thought life in order to "Improve" upon what they still observe about themselves.

Many never hear the truth which then limits what they can or can NOT see and those limits being the result of what they've been taught. How do you hold every thought captive unto Christ? How long does that take in order to see results? A week, 6 months or a year?

What "Good" is prophecy or the thought of becoming a prophet if you do NOT believe what you prophesy will ever become a reality? Many only see salvation as if from the wrath of God, yet what is anyone being saved from if NOT their enemies?

What does an enemy of God appear as?

Someone who can NOT be trusted? Someone sent on a mission yet then does something different once they arrive?

Someone who does not "Listen"? Someone prevents themselves from being asked to go and do by way of refusing to be prepared to go? Someone who makes God to look like a liar? Maybe someone who continually makes excuses why they can't do what God says is possible with Him?

What possible good can come from being prepared? Contrary to what many believe, there is a difference between being tested, tried and tempted.

Because we do know and believe that it is impossible for God to lie and that He tells us God will not be tempted nor will He tempt any man.

1 Thess 2:4
On the contrary, we speak as men approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please men but God, who tests our hearts.
NIV

In terms of being taught, Mom and Dad, Grandpa and Grandma, friends or relatives may have provided what THEY thought was right for You. Right meaning in a season where they felt compelled to provide care for you, yet as it pertains to being "In Christ" they do NOT determine who your "Shepherd" is as a "New creation In Christ".

That eternal consideration belongs to the One that has become YOUR Lord and Savior.

How does a man find out who his spiritual (guide) shepherd is here in this world? Is it only the Holy spirit unto each man? If yes why do we look so different based on what we believe to be true?

All anyone outside of yourself can do is lead you to the ONE that can save your soul. The same can be said of the Priest, Preacher, Elder, Bishop, Deacon, Pope or for that matter the entire "Body of Christ" that also hopes to influence or persuade you in the things which pertain to the One true God.

Much like King Saul's armor offered to a young boy named David that armor did NOT fit the young version of soon to be "King David". Have you ever stopped to consider David as King yet while there was still an attending King on that same God appointed throne?

Many did not know (realize or believe) that young David had already been anointed as King yet why? Because He did not bear the signet ring of the King? Because the battle forces were still responding to Saul?

How different is Christ in the mind of many today? Especially when we can't "See" the physical evidence of His Kingship or Kingdom yet we're told He has been given all power and ALL authority in heaven and on earth?

How long did David have to wait, run and hide from his adversaries before He realized the full power of being placed on the throne as King?

And what is a kingdom of Priest that can't be seen or realized, "Yet"? Even more who has been prepared to reign as such with Christ?

Eph 4:22-24
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
NIV

2 Cor 5:17
Therefore, IF anyone is in Christ, he IS a new creation ; the old has gone, the new has come!
NIV

1 Peter 4:17-19
For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

And,

"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"

So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.
NIV

Rom 8:13-15
For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God .

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.
NIV

Some of the lessor decisions we make in life are made as though the end results have already been weighed and determined which then become the dominate commentary that gets "Heard" and followed because they've been "Observed" as though the very things which cause us to be considered "Righteous" in God's sight.

Heard because of what I call the selfish concern(s) of the soul which focus upon the three P's of life..

Common things to us all which fall under one or a combination of these three categories, "Provision, Protection and Prosperity".

All of which are usually "Seen" (envisioned) as though the potential to directly impact either the functionality of our bodies and on a heightened level which we try to observe as though our "Righteous" soul (thoughts and trailing emotions) which then lead us.

1 Cor 10:12-13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man.
NIV

What most get duped into focusing on maybe in fact be the thoughts concerning their soul, but only about the souls "Present" condition, location and comfort.

Very little concern plays into the eternal picture concerning the address, condition and comfort of that "Soul" once it arrives at wherever "There" is?.

If you can allow it, let the simplicity and innocence of the question below to sink and settle in the depths of your soul before you try and defend "Everything" else you think you have truly believed in terms of Godliness.

2 Cor 6:15
What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
NIV

If we were to camp there would that be enough to satisfy our thoughts concerning eternity as we continue on in life and meet even greater challenges that go beyond the consideration of our own soul?

1 Peter 4:15
If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler.
NIV

I want to challenge the reader.

How many decision's do you make that have been based on "Who's" on board with you when You do make decisions?

Not so much how you see the results affecting them, but how much do you "See" the result of your decisions made affecting "You" in a meaningful relationship with others?

You see we can make decisions based on our emotions, emotional status (feelings) as well how we see others affected by their feelings (their emotional status) based only upon how we relate to those same feelings, yet how much of our feelings or the feelings of others have been based on the "Truth"?

How much of what we say we "Feel" has been based on what is NOT true as well "WHO" presents these "Lies"?

Now ask yourself based on what you say you believe to be true and that by the same faith you're depending upon as if same participates in the eventual saving of your soul? Short question, yet a DEEP consideration, "Is Christ inside of you"?

Lies consumed as though a life time of chicken nuggets eaten which then produce the girth we carry around our waste? Enough to where we condition ourselves to "Believe" in a moment without notice, what we've maintained and stored having been told as though ALL true which then becomes our default life preserver?

Sound like comfort food?

Lies which then steer and effect nearly ALL other non pressured decisions made?

Believe it or not we all operate from our own little book of "Creeds". Things, notions, sayings, beliefs and such that we've accumulated over the years. Who's filled this ledger of sorts with the information we've allowed to accumulate?

Even fewer make decisions based only upon how the end result(s) affect our "Own" soul". Meaning how is this going to affect me

Decisions made "yes" but where does the consideration of our soul rank on the food chain of our priorities?

Many love to talk about "Morals" or a moral "Compass", yet how little has been considered when one truly sits down and considers what compels the needle of that compass to face due "North" (Christ)?

In other circles we might hear the buzz words, "Priorities, What's important or Character" yet does any One of those describe the entire "Personage" we say we're watching over?

Let's visit the words of God for a minute so we can take a bearing read on where we're headed.

The following, "Is it a suggestion or wisdom being expressed because of what God already knew about humanity as his propensity to forget"?

Considering the full scope of a beginning and end as if you would both ends of a gauntlet or maybe a telescope, that might seem like a fairly long line of sight, yet is it truly that far when you find yourself able to weigh the result of only one thought and or one decision made at a time?

Especially so IF you've been properly taught not only the way you should go from your youth but also the clear picture and true meaning of the life cycle of a seed planted as a seed that never dies.

In terms of "Talking" and that only ABOUT the Love Of God, that to me doesn't leave much room for too much of anything else IF we're trying to include such a consideration as though "Separate" or apart from what we're doing at any given moment.

If one were to first be truthful with themselves, you have nothing to talk about without a relationship FIRST being in place. Add to that if what you talk about participates within building a relationship which then "Last" how important then is what you talk about as if "The Relationship" that's built?


Deut 6:5-9
Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.Impress them on your children.

Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.
NIV

Here's a acid test to see how deeply you've peered into what many have tried to manage as if their neatly bundled "Moral" values.

The particular beauty of a Christian based blog is that it doesn't include include secular oriented opinions which of course for the most part keeps the focus one one central thought process.

 In terms of victory, how does the mind that embraces imperfection comment on the promises of God?

Does the mind of imperfection cling to what it knows more about itself historically or or does it look to the otherwise invisible qualities of God that have yet to manifest by way of the same spirit we profess indwells our being?

If the word of God is thought to be declared through the mouth of mere man, when has perfection completed it's work within such a man enough that God is then heard from the mouth of that same man among others?

That is the point and place where the content of what each man says (as if from the mouth of God) is then received as if from God? Who is righteous and why the consideration of the said "Unrighteous" that will forever be lost?

To suggest even further at what point is the messenger "Believed"? The message that's been relayed to them as if from God as well through the personage of yet another man?

Many might ask, "Why doesn't God simply speak directly to everyone based on the commonly understood and desired rules of equality which follow the assumption that "All men are created equal"? Created equal maybe, yet in pursuit of God to the same degree of due diligence NOT so much.

Is this a Good question or one that's been bogged down over time as it's been snagged, torn and frayed having been drug through the muddied (Poorly understood) lives of humanity?

No, I think it's quite simple and "Just" as God has already stated the final verdict concerning the whole of humanity when they choose to deceitfully handle the things which pertain to "Godliness and Holiness". Both also understood as the light of "Truth".

As a good and faithful builder of God, the Apostle Paul spoke this during the early days of the introduction period of body of Christ as it was initially being established (built) here in the earth.

Paul's continued delivery of the Gospel included the same basic principles of the Kingdom of God which agreed with the preaching of Christ concerning this same kingdom when He was here.

Yes, Jesus said as we can all easily read when we choose to, "It is better that I should Go", yet what was He preparing our minds for in saying such a thing?

It's as if He was carving out a recess (space) within our minds so that we COULD accommodate something else that would come.What was to come in order to fill this void which He then presently stood in while here?

Many today are saying, "Oh how I wish Jesus was here today and that be true in part, yet have they forgotten what He said in that it is better that He Go"?

What could be better than the presence of His person?

His person which dwelled (Among) men externally in the minds of most?

Some try to discredit Paul, because if they can somehow discredit the messenger, that would leave the message of this man creating more doubt rather than accomplishing what Christ cam to establish.

Much like what goes on today in the courtroom of doubt, "Simply discredit the witness and his testimony gets tossed out with him"!

If it can be accepted, Paul was one of the executors of the will of God as is all those that are obedient to Christ beyond His death on the cross.

Why? Because of this salvation which came to all mankind also requires that each generation has need of executors to continually "Dispense" the benefits contained in the "Will" left to mankind.

I don't know if you've ever been at the reading of a "Will", but what is required when a will is read? Do the recipients have to do anything when they take ownership of their inheritance beyond proving they are the rightful heirs of the one who wrote the will?

Acts 26:20
I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds.
NIV

What did the person of Paul have to prove to man or God before being entrusted with the message of Christ? That he (Paul) would faithfully dispense at all cost the full intentions of God or just the rosey colored picture which says "On your terms you will be received by God"?

If that were true why preach repentance? Repentance from what?

Repentance from what man alone views as the offense against God?

1 Cor 4:1-4
So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. 

Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.

I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. 

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God. NIV

Today its as if the will of God is being contested. The will left behind that must not only be delivered, but also read and upheld in the highest court which is in heaven.

Good question...

The same words which contain the prophecies concerning Christ believers reach towards, contain way more insight than credit (value) and emphasis has been given.

Still waiting on this day? What did Jesus have to say along the lines of this consideration?

Some see no value in prayer and some pray and they attach the name of Jesus to their prayers as if a stamp applied which somehow ensures their mailed (sent) request then gets received by the attentive eyes and ears of God.

1 Peter 3:12
 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."  
NIV

Many want to see God's hand at work in their lives yet they'll forget what God desires even more as the result of answered prayers. What is that God wants though? Could it be the type of "Faith" Jesus ask if He would find upon His return?

God wants the full cycle of faith to finish its work in those which say they believe not only in Him but also in the one He sent so that we COULD know Him (God).

Know what though? To know that He is God? The word He also gave us said even the demons know this as a fact and shudder

This is a biblical accounting of a man that found himself weighing the "Why" as it pertains to the hand of God at work within his life.

Job 42:1-6
Then Job replied to the LORD: "I know that you can do all things ; no plan of yours can be thwarted.[You asked,] 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?'
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

["You said,] 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.' My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."
NIV

Did God create you to be a robot or son? If a robot then where does the requirement of faith come in and that by way of hearing the words of God?

A son does what with the words of his father? And if a brother does not come from the same womb what is he in relation to you?

Wouldn't the truthful answer depend upon the value of Gods words spoken? Wouldn't the answer also depend upon the identity desired by the one(s) listening?

Does the Son first see himself as a son in order to find God's words applicable?

Is it only a matter of acceptance or finding Gods word exceptional or is it greater matter of finding God righteous whenever He does speak?

And what of the red ink which declares, "My sheep hear my voice" and those words also having come from the mouth of One that does NOT Lie?

When does judgment begin?

I want to open with two huge questions. The first being, "What is a Liar in the sight of God"?

The second question is one I too had to respond to as if a "Common" consideration in the house of God.

Before I did respond as if unto the Lord, very little of the Gospel (Good News) also interpreted as though it were "Good News".

Responding is not always the truth as it is more often a measure taken that serves the one asking with the response you think THEY want to hear.

And to those who take pride in always saying what's on your mind as if "The Truth" don't assume the one listening isn't filtering (redefining) what they've heard you express through the use of words. Words are only a "medium" used and more such that gets "Abused".

More often what's being weighed (listened for) is whether you are "For" or "Against" the one you're exchanging words with. And that because the spirit in a man knows how to taste "words".

The difference being in a word exchange with God is that He knows not only what's in your heart, but also how those things found their way into your heart having navigated through the mind of your soul and in turn the response from your mouth in the form of words.

Taming the tongue is more than NOT saying words the world has considered to be "Bad", taming the tongue comes by way of allowing the Spirit of God within you to speak as if your first "Nature".

I'll give you an example, many parents relate to their children all the reasons "Why" they should not have sex before marriage (as if Law).

They'll tell them all about the concerns related to sexually transmitted diseases & pregnancy should they choose to engage in this activity.

That child will then take that advise and go out and one by one find an immediate remedy for all the above. They'll go to the counsel it's taken them weeks to establish (said "friends") and they'll find the remedy, namely a "Condom". As if a note to themselves, "There that was easy "Problem Solved"

How the parent fails their child is, they fail to share with them the type of devastation that follows those type of shallow relationship instead of the latter resulting in emptiness and the "Lost" sense of trust that makes any TRUE relationship "Real".

Why is it so hard to teach them? Could it have anything to do with them NOT having a True example to follow or being exposed to other people that Truly have a "Trusting" relationship with God that's obvious?

Listen to the example a great man of God recorded for our learning yet what and who are we also being asked to Follow in terms of "Building True Relationship"?

1 Cor 10:33-11:3
For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.

Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.

I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the teachings, just as I passed them on to you.

Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
NIV

Here's the second question, "Do you consider yourself as "Saved" or as one that is "Being" saved in the sight of God?

Why the word "Persevere" if the whole trickle down affect of Gods teaching is a done deal after having mimed a short sentence some other person thought up and then taking a bath with your clothes on in front of a bunch of people?

People look for change in other people, yet God looks for His "Identity" in His people which they since find as the New Creation in them. And what is "Faith"?

Heb 10:35-39
So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. For in just a very little while,

"He who is coming will come and will not delay. But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved .
NIV

Notice I did NOT ask if you still sin, instead do you "Continue" to consider (see) yourself AS a sinner?

What is the difference between "Past Tense, Present tense and Pretense"?

Most know what past tense and present tense mean, but I've found not so many the word "Pretense" enough that it has become a common understanding. I've borrowed from Merriam Webster as seen below in order to keep us flowing in the same direction:

pre·tense

 noun \ˈprē-ˌten(t)s, pri-ˈ\

: a false reason or explanation that is used to hide the real purpose of something

: an act or appearance that looks real but is false

: a claim of having a particular quality, ability, condition, etc.

There are things that are obvious and there are also things not so obvious, yet how you do find when we copy and paste or cast the light of "Truth" onto that these type of questions? Many claim they are saved, yet what does God suggest the saved also "Look Like"?

Why does God as THE creator go to such great lengths through the use of images created to be seen in order to convey His thoughts? It would also make sense why those opposed would also have you to doubt ONE common creator of ALL mankind as if One capable of painting these pictures wouldn't it?

Have you ever stopped the madness long enough to consider how much of what you believe to be "True" as if it does concern God also participates together with God's mercy?

Don't confuse mercy with God's Grace just yet, because there is a "Distinct" difference between the two, yet also know one can't be "Realized" without the other also being present...

Now let me ask the question this way, Has the consideration of being saved proved to be a false pretense in terms of what is "True" and that according to and in agreement with the Words of God?

In agreement to mean certain things are now so obvious to where many of these pictures are not only painted, but also interpreted in terms of contrast?

I once had an unbeliever speak these words to me at a time when I was struggling with authority while in the military. He was also a my superior that took it upon himself to befriend me.

He said to me in simple earth tone terms, "You take care of your Boss and your boss will take care of You"! At a glance that was what I thought a "Captain Obvious" one liner, yet it took me years for that statement to dredge the bottom of what I thought I "Knew".

Only years later did his words reverberate once I (realize) believe that he too was yet another created object by the hand of God through whom God can also "Speak" despite what that man believed to be etrenally True.

He surely understood what he was talking about I later found out, yet he only understood this principle as it had to do with worldly governed matters.

Prov 27:18
He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.
NIV

How long have you been looking for the evidence of your being saved and where have you been Looking? As if looking for something you also hope has become "Obvious" as if a tree that's now producing "Fruit" that can be eaten AND enjoyed by others?

For the sake of mentioning it, there is also difference between unripe fruit and mature fruit that can be eaten without being bitter to the taste.

Many only read and observe this recorded instance of Jesus (Matt 21) interacting with a Fig Tree from the miraculous vantage point, whereas Jesus being the "Master" teacher that He is in all instances how much does the context of Him as though a man being "Hungry" factor into the lesson He was teaching?

Many fail to "see" the direct correlation and importance between Jesus The Son of God - The son of Man and by doing so they fail to SEE the very example they were intended to reach out an touch in their quest to be "Like" Him.

Talk about a "Win-Fail" observance instead of a "Win-Win" scenario when we only see Him as the Son of God....Not to mention the importance of his leading example of "Obedience" in which our hope is planted we trust leads back to One and the Same Father....

Also when reading the Gospel one need also recognize the authors are writing from a reflective vantage point that has been "Inspired" by the "Holy Spirit" as if the "Interpreter".

When it is suggested today that "Holy Writ" has been "Inspired" by the Holy Spirit that is also to suggest the undiminished "Advantaged" perspective of the Lord.

As if that perspective remains the "Objective" He intended to teach as if that perspective has been found trust worthy enough as if YOU were there with Him as an "Eye" witness. Hence the need for one to "Meditate" on such things.

Take notice it doesn't say He saw fruit from afar, but instead He recognized it as a "Fig" tree but found no fruit until he drew closer (went up to it).

Matt 21:18-19
Early in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!" Immediately the tree withered.
NIV

What is the fruit of the "Vine" as many love to sing along with that old hymn? Has it become a spiritual song you now sing as if only you, the Lord and those you've chosen to harmonize with truly understand what's being sang?

If God is believed in that He has made himself Known through all that he has created and that Jesus Only does as He see the Father doing, at what point does the likes of a Fig tree become a spiritual "Bill Board" the Lord also uses to reveal Himself and His ways? As such that need only their "Righteous" interpretation while being observed?

How else can a man hope such things will then speak what needs to be heard?

Luke 21:29-31
He told them this parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees. When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near.

Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
NIV

Was Joel a prophet of God? How does a prophet of God also Know (hear) how to interpret all that he sees? 

What of Joseph who could interpret the images of God created things as "Seen" and then described in the mind of another man? Other men to mean ungodly men who can only reflect upon what they saw and failed to understand as if "Without" the mind of God to interpret them? 

Why else the need for a man of God to "Interpret"? Does a man have any TRUE hope of interpreting a sign in the earth or a sign God has hung in the heavens?

Whether in the form of a fig tree that bears no fruit or a pattern of stars that reflect a Dragon swallowing a child if that man has failed at coming to realize the language of God through images seen?

Could that be why the bible is so hard to understand? Have we stooped looking, because we don't know what we're looking for?

Why would God tell man Eternal Life is to "Know God and the One He has sent" only then to make it impossible for that same man to make such a discovery for himself about all else the Gospel makes available to mankind? 

Especially when we understand God speaks through "Images"? Images much like a song can have a multitude of "Interpretations" especially if we don't "Know" the "Original Author" and their mindset?

As just a side bar, but have you ever deeply considered why the Art of some only seems to increase in value once the author departs this world? As opposed to when they were alive it was just another piece of representative "Genre'" in some remote gallery or maybe closet somewhere?

That is until the story behind the "Story" gets out!

John 16:7-8

But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 

NIV

How would you think this type of wisdom would affect the words Jesus leaves for mankind to consider? How far will we allow sayings such as, "Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder" to take us?

Many found no beauty in Jesus when He was physically here on earth but that's not ONLY to mention his physical presentation. In terms of His real beauty, in so much so that it is written that He came to His own yet His own did NOT receive him". 

You can say or mimic profound things all day long, yet until said "Pro-found" also interprets as something you've 'Found" as if "For" you, what have you seen as if in the midst of everything representative of the "Truth"?

Don't you hate it when you lose something, only later to find what your looking that has been right underneath your nose all along?

Joel 1:12
The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree —
all the trees of the field — are dried up. Surely the joy of mankind is withered away.
NIV

If all that a man leaves in this world once he dies is the evidence of his own history, how much of his "His story" prevents and/or stands in the "WAY" of others from Hearing, Seeing and then Understanding everything "Truth" hopes to prevent and/or present?

1 Tim 5:24-25
The sins of some men are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others trail behind them. In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even those that are not cannot be hidden.
NIV

While here in this world men say and do many different things, yet there is only One reason which also qualifies those things as if the "Goodness" of God. When a man errors it is when he assumes "Everything" he says and does is also "Justified" as though the goodness of God.

I don't think Jesus would have warned against causing another to sin without reason. For the sake of comfort many have tried to redefine the full scope of sin as if only between themselves and God, yet why would Jesus warn about the "Cause" of "Sin" of another?

Mark 9:42
"And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.
NIV

My thoughts would lean towards, "That would depend upon Who's doing the judging"!

It continues to be heard today, "Don't Judge me" as if a stiff arm or defense mechanism put up when or if someone other than self disagrees with our person, yet is that a Godly principal?

Once again wouldn't that depend upon who's not only the One judging, but also the One doing the teaching as it concerns all that "Judgment" accomplishes?

When a person says they believe, are they not also judging? Wise judgment proves that God is righteous when He speaks.

1 Peter 4:17-18
For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And,

"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"
NIV

In terms of One being right and two or more being wrong as if opposed, does it truly matter how many agree with the wrong thing?

Despite the controversy the bible seems to attract, does that also mean the bible is responsible for that controversy?

The beauty and trustworthiness of God and His spoken word(s), is that they will NEVER contradict each other because they are "One" and have been written with One purpose in mind that all men would hopefully choose NOT to perish.

Hence the perfect example of Jesus the God sent Christ example of "Obedience" that was "Made" prefect by the things He suffered.

Everything God expresses about His person suggest all things created were intended to point to one and the same thing.

Jesus also having come from God also preaches every attribute of His person is also ONE with God.

If that can be accepted why then does man (generally speaking) love to fall in love with his own sense or image of  "Uniqueness" as if an awareness of self that is entitled to be different in the essence (spirit) and efforts of all his doings?

And who are we as if yet another expression of God He also created for His purpose(s) and intentions? Even less "Why are we Not" such an expression as if a "Mindless" fig tree that bears no fruit?

Rom 1:18-20

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse . 

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Don't be fooled by thoughts of privacy

I can't suggest with certainty that I'm the only one, but somehow I know others have encountered the type of person I'm about to describe.

This person begins everyday with the minimal thoughts about how their physical presence will get interpreted once its been decided the world might see them.

Yet do they concern themselves with how others will see their skin covered spiritual man as if there physical appearance could somehow become a distraction?

Though maybe not totally aware of it at all times, they've allowed themselves to be compelled by the daily bombardments of images and words that have saturated the airwaves. Both of which has helped shape and form the person they choose to present to the world each day.

Yet does this person ever concern themselves with the images "Their own" physical presence also broadcast to that same world as if it DOES have an all but silent voice? And what is that God says is common to man?

1 Cor 10:13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man  NIV

These images most of which have literally been "Modeled" by someone other than themselves and the words they've listened to have been well thought out in the not so clinical world of psychology. Both within the hope of stimulating specific types of thoughts and responses.

Do they only use words that work or words that hurt or hinder the things God would otherwise have influence those that have been called of this world unto the higher consideration of eternal life?

This person only vaguely contemplates the things about their person that might repel someone else, because their main focus is on the things that will hopefully "Attract" the attention of others.

This person has been conditioned to rely heavily on the Hope that others have also seen, heard and believed the same things they too have been practically been spoon fed by their surrounding world.

Sound like anybody you also "Know' that does not take or keep a "Truthful" inventory which reports on the affects of their physical presence while in this world? A physical presence which was intended to reflect on the spiritual presence within a man. Talk about bending reflections or cooking the "Books"...

Rev 13:8
All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast — all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world. NIV

1 Cor 6:13
The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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I consider the essence (spirit) of a persons "Attention" to be neutral in the absence of a specific "Desire".

One of the things this world has nearly mastered is the power that's found in statistics often referred to as "Probability". Not as though ALL people in this world are somehow being forced to do things they don't want to, but more pointedly the things people do nearly by "Default" and that due primarily to "Affects" this world does have on them where otherwise the words of God do NOT?

We can accept suggestions such as "Sound affects, Visual Affects or maybe Ground effects, but how about something being ignored such as "Word Affects"? One step further in that same direction would be to ask the same thing about "Truth Affect"?

If we were looking back through history it might seem as if there were certain rules, laws or principles which protected the English language when it came down to the "wide" acceptance and use of a "New' word being introduced into this language.

Not so much these days as if every word has found a new home.

Have you ever stopped to think just how much of who we are as a people has been embedded in the words we use? Somehow I think God does...

Gen 11:5-7
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." NIV

Man has proven the things he does are primarily centered  around his "Sense" (awareness) of his "Own" accomplishments. Those accomplishments also come in many different shapes and sizes.

Everybody loves to be the Gate keeper of words heard yet how many the gate keepers of words that get spoken? And exactly what does said "freedom" afford us?

Matt 12:36-37
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."
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If there be a heavenly language (which I firmly believe there is) what does it sound like? How does one work out the spelling and grammar of those heavenly words and who will interpret them if NOT the same Holy spirit which heard them?

Exactly how does a desire of the "Heart" then become a word 'Spoken"and who watches over that process?

How loud are the "Groaning's" or growing pains within a man and who can sooth them?

How does the abundance of a mans heart then speak? How does what's in a mans heart then find its way into the realm of this world?

Does mankind only communicate through the use of words?

What is the significance in the difference between the spelling of Sara verse Sarah? Even further Abram and Abraham?

Obviously enough that God changed their names in the telling of their life story.

Exactly how much content finds its way into our minds because it's come in under the guise of some other "Affect" in this world?

Why would the prophetic Psalmist suggest what he had to say as though it were a riddle?

Ps 49:4
I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I will expound my riddle :
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Why did Jesus make the statement that He spoke to some in parables? Was He only referring to those at that time of his presenting those words? Or is He an equal opportunity Lord and Savior as though true towards ALL that have sinned and fallen short of his Glory?

If the spoken truth is perceived as being only applicable to those back then, how then can we today become partakers of those "Same" promises made back then? Exactly who are the "THEM" Jesus IS referring to?

Matt 13:13-14
This is why I speak to them in parables :

"Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 

In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: 

"'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
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Could it be that we as said "Believers" who are In Christ were intended to "Understand" what we hear and see by way of our hearts? And how much of that has to do with obtaining the "Mind of Christ" or the "Outside" possibility that our own mind needs to be renewed?

And what is discernment, intuition and insight? What are we "looking" into if NOT into what does matter to our soul "Eternally"?

Yet if we refuse to hear anything about our hearts that's also True, how can we have any true Hope of Hearing what needs to be heard and seeing what needs to be seen while here? Is that ONLY Gods job description while seated at rest in Heaven on His throne?

And what are the gifts that are of and from the Spirit of God intended for? God alone? How does the will of God brideg the gap of what man refuses to accept as the Truth?

What did God take from in order to give what was been given to men? Wasn't it God to whom ALL things belong also the One that gave those gifts to "Men"?

Think on it this way, since the invent of media and the more complete implementation in it being broadcast, how much affect would you suppose radio and TV have had on the psychology (reasoning) of mankind? 

How much has those things negatively affected the spiritual mans "Insight and Discernment"? Negative to mean 'Taken" away from Godliness?

More specifically in Post modern civilization where most believers of this day have become convinced such gifts are no longer needed today?

How many times do you have to watch or hear the same thing before you hear it ringing like the appropriately named "Jingle" in your head?

If you can allow it, has religion found and gone the "Way" of the Jingle? More specifically "Christianity"?

Everybody likes to suggest God is a Matter and the master of our hearts, yet if He is why do we seem to care so little about what He has to say not only "About" our hearts but also all that we Believe" to be "True" which does have to do with the concerns and the condition of our hearts?

Matt 13:15
For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.' 
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If you don't see yourself as having a sickness or a poor condition, are you the type of listener that only goes to the physician once the condition has become "Undeniable" and in it's latter and sickly stages of progression?

Reality is on its way

How easy is to find ourselves convinced  when we tell ourselves that we're being "Truthful" with ourselves?

These times when we find ourselves doing the very thing that "First" had to "Meet With" our own approval'?

Only later to find that we're "Now" also in our own opinion one of if not "The" most unhappiest persons you could meet on that particular day?

In the vein of truth I'm also suggesting something that's worth emulating...

What is really taking place when we find ourselves undecided about something we also deem as "Meaningful"

Just how much of the word "Meaningful" revolves around what is pleasing to God?

Often times I think the people we have also decided to be our personal counsel are also the one that helps us to decide who our own "Personal God" is.

That being said on the back side of knowing that "We' were the varied ones that also "Allowed" them "into" the realm of everything we "Believe" to be true. True to include everything as it concerns what somany are presently trying to "Mutually" understand as a way of "Life?

When it becomes obvious to you that God Knows you, is that all there is to a True relationship?

Have you concluded that God Knows you or that You Know God? Because if YOU knew YOU the way God knows YOU, wouldn't you also understand WHY He also provided a Savior FOR You and that well in advance in having created YOU?

Isa 43:7
Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth - everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."
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John 17:3
Now this is eternal life : that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
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Some are willing to accept that God created them, yet what they're not willing to accept is that God is still Making you who He intended you to be, yet that will only occur through Faith in Him which then produces the evidence of His FULL intentions for You.

When those who "Say" they believe in Christ are they not also confessing themselves willing to become and be made Joint heirs with Christ? Jesus the son of God AND the son of man who is the FIRST born of the beloved of God?

What comes with that consideration of inheritance? Have said believers In Christ NOT truly considered what He told us before His departure? Or have we concluded He was ONLY talking to His disciples at THAT time?

And what Time is it "Now"? A different Time? A time now being defined by man alone as though "Different"?

Exactly what does make the times were in no different? What has shaped and molded what we now see? Is it all "Good" as most like to suggest? Or is God still the Only one that is "Good"?

That's not to suggest You can NOT do Good or it is Impossible to realize goodness, instead that is to suggest that only God defines what is Good and not a democracy found in the absence of God.

Matt 19:17
"There is only One who is good
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Mark 10:18

 "No one is good — except God alone.

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Heb 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. NIV

And what is the reward of God?

Mark 10:26-27

The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, "Who then can be saved?" 

Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God."  NIV

Does the word say "With God" or does it only suggest a created object here in the earth that has no free will or means of strength in order act outwardly as it so chooses while here?

John 15:20-21

Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me , they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me.
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Why is it that makes obeying Jesus seem so hard today or any day for that matter? Is it only because of the condition of those who tell our person they are also speaking on "behalf" of Christ?

Jesus and His disciples, were they only persecuted for what they "Believed" OR were they persecuted because of the WAY they lived?

You can believe most anything while in this world and it NOT affect anyone else. That is until what You BELIEVE then becomes an "Outward" way of life which reflects on all that you do BELIEVE to be true.

As such the world around you then has to consider or choose to ignore.

How easy is to ignore the significance of the "Minority" yet how hard is to Ignore the influence of a NOT so apparent "Truth"?

And what is the role of a "Parent" enough that same then becomes "Apparent"?

You cant' give away what you don't have

In terms of a "True" relationship, how important is it to get feedback from someone other than ourselves?

DO you believe that people are born with the "Full" potential to Love someone else or do you "Believe" people have to be "Taught' how to Love the way God defines Love?

Are we living in a world where people are finding they have to verbalize and "Tell" everybody else how and exactly how much they love them as if a "Measurement" of Love?

Could that be an indication which speaks more about the absence of this thing called 'Love"? As if it's not otherwise "Obvious"? Or is that many don't truly "Know" all that love is and "Wills' itself to do?

And what is a self fulfilling prophecy as seen in the dim light of selfishness?

Who is the prime example in your life that not only teaches about "Love" but also informs you that His Father taught Him about Love?

Love is the expression of obedience unto the Lord, yet obedience unto a God who's also "Believed" to be Perfect. When someone says they "They Believe" truly what are they suggesting that they believe with ALL their heart?

Many can claim they're not perfect in an attempt to defend themselves, and even higher that there is only ONE who is perfect yet IF we believe God, how was the "One" also made perfect in obedience if NOT by the things He suffered?

Wouldn't that consideration require knowing AND believing also (as if there is a difference between those two), that Jesus was made through God by the things He suffered?

God is not only faithful but He also will NEVER ask of a man to DO what He has not already Done himself.

If man wants to Pay God to do anything the first thing man should pay is, "Attention". The part that man doesn't get is that True Love should compel man to give unto the Lord our undivided attention.

Even the world around us has this one figured out when we hear, "I'm ALL Ears"?

John 3:21
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God ."  
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Many like to see Jesus as perfect when He arrived, yet if God is believed as the "Creator" we must also believe him when it is said of Jesus that he was "made" perfect and that to include his suffering as if part of that completed creation process?

As believers In Christ we'll easily enough allow ourselves to be called human "Beings" yet how quickly do we then turn and strike down the mere suggestion we too have been called to "Obedience"?

Are men reluctant to follow suit only because they don't know how to said "Love" and that because No ONE has taught them?

Or would it be more accurately suggested because they do not "Know" how to "Respond" to everything that has been "Done" in the Name of Love?

Where do we then find everything we tell ourselves we also "Believe"? DO we find such things when they're ONLY applicable to the said hand picked "Apostle's" of Christ? And where would that LEAVE everyone else as if PART of that same relationship?

2 Cor 1:5
For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. NIV

2 Cor 1:3-4
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
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And who is your teacher? Do we simply reach the point to where we find ourselves having to blame someone else as the reason "Why" we (ourselves) don't know how to love? 

Once again, who has been "Your" teacher?

John 14:24
He who does not love me will not obey my teaching.
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I wish I were talking about everybody in this world, yet as much as it does have to with expectation I'm only talking to those who also claim they "Believe" the ONLY one whose able to teach about His own example provided.

Not only what did He teach, but "How" did he teach about himself?

Is love something that just falls out of the sky on you one day? Do you just wake up one day and find Love pumping through your veins because you believe you also have a "Heart" you've also never seen before?

Is man being tempted should he find himself comparing what he assumes is love to he True standard of all that love is?

Why can't believers In Christ see through the reason why a corrupt world would "Love" to retell the story of Jesus but to also depict him as if sexually engaging woman as if a part of the expression of Love?

If the world could prove Jesus on any topic fallible (able to Fall) as does man everyday, wouldn't that also undermine or open the door for an assault on "Everything" we trust and believe about Him as though "All True"?

We do see Jesus giving, and we see Him watching others give as if teaching instruments in the presence of His disciples, yet how much of all that He gave is "Related" to money? Didn't He only give away of what He possesed?

If ALL the world does believe in one thing, that ONE thing is the ALL that money can purchase

And what "Possesses" You to give from what He gave to You? Did He only give you money? Did He only Give you time?

In terms of True Authority that's been given, what else CAN anyone give to the ONLY one that's also able to "Teach"? And when I say Teach I'm talking about the ONE thing we ALL need to "Know"? 

That is if we all have ONE and the same thing In Mind?

And exactly what is the "Mind Of Christ"?

If God truly does have the ability to create through the use of words He speaks, what do we hear from His son who has ALL authority in Heaven AND on earth?

Luke 8:8

When he said this, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."  

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And what is Faith and where does Faith come from?

Rom 10:17-18

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. 

But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: 

"Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."   

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