People use word combinations as simple as "Sticks and Bricks" in the hope of painting images or making "Impressions" on the mind of others.
In other instances and in terms of expounding on a thought, people find themselves having to "Borrow" from the preexisting images from antiquity others have already painted.
Most have heard the phrase "House of Cards" or "Living in a Glass Houses". Yet without expounding and making mention of the slightest breeze or throwing rocks, such images might convey as that of being in balance or the state of transparency?
The nature of the spiritually naked Mind is to lock onto the central or center piece of the words being offered at any given moment much like the hinge the weight a door swings upon that either opens OR closes. The remainder of what's being said must then find a resting place upon the infrastructure already in place as if on a bed of emotions.
Look at How the apostle Paul writes in his suggestive citing(s)?
Heb 3:4
For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
NIV
Many minds have taken hold of the thought that its the physical body alone being referred to as THE temple of the Holy Spirit. In doing so they lay aside the potential value "Words" do have in the development of the individuals mindset which the remainder of our being then follows.
Why the suggestive need to "Hold every thought captive unto the Lord" as well being fore warned when one does believe with ALL their heart, Mind (soul) and strength not only be hearers of the words but doers"?
Matt 12:34-37
For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. 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 ."
NIV
For example, why the need for the "Renewal of the Mind" God speaks of through His messengers? Who is it that also believes what God says do we then allow to aid in that developmental building process?
Many are willing to see the life they now live as if Non-applicable because they are "Saved", meaning they're bodies are simply on "Cruise Control" while waiting on that Day to come that will usher in the Lord and there is nothing they can do outside of physical fitness because God is doing the "Rest". But Read On.....
Yes John 3:16 delivers a beautiful thought but hold on while WAITING there's "More"!
Not intending to lock anyone down like a "One Way" check valve, but the words of God do say Done THROUGH Him and Not what God has done through you. In terms of "Doing" something on behalf of God Is there a difference between those two (approaches) thought processes?
2 Cor 13:8-10
8 For we cannot do anything against the truth , but only for the truth .
We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is for your perfection. 10 This is why I write these things when I am absent, that when I come I may not have to be harsh in my use of authority — the authority the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.
NIV
If god is the One doing all the said "Doings" believers participate in within their post acceptance livelihood(s), then wouldn't that qualify God as doing evil when men DO fall short of His type of Glory?
Keep in mind the words of God were NOT intended to have the same effect on those who DO NOT BELIEVE in Christ, the power of His name nor the power of ones Testimony about Him.
How can one truly worship an otherwise invisible God who also says of himself that He is spirit without Faith that He not only exist, but is and does share in the Life we NOW live out?
Heb 11:1-3
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
NKJV
The saints of God need to cease trying to clump themselves in that same unconditioned category the world offers, otherwise they're doing nothing more than aiding and abetting an unfruitful thought life.
Being transformed begins in the Mind yet NOT the same mind the world offers. A world (realm) that goes to great lengths while trying to CREATE an environment which tries to explain AWAY the divine nature of Gods spirit God says is patiently waiting to indwell ALL Men (whosoever Will believe)
The Fig tree that Jesus passed by didn't wither because it DID have fruit hanging from it's branches
The guidance of Gods words are FOR those who DO believe in what He says is "True". Not only True about the creation that already obeys Him (Stars, plants and animals) but to those He's provided for the reality of Life having given them the presence of "Soul" that is now accompanied by His Spirit instead of the spirit that is OF this world.
The biblical Icons, performers, players or however else you wish to portray them, their lives that have already been lived are no longer tangible. Without our spiritual senses what they've left behind for our benefit can't be touched, smelled, seen, tasted or heard for all that they are with only our natural senses.
Have you ever pondered why the word "Vicarious or Vicariously" doesn't translate/insinuate a life lived as if a "spiritual" existence?
And to think how easy it is for most to believe such things as a "Good and Evil" that hope to enter this world and to live through humanity?
A vicarious (spiritual) life that is lived out through Him beyond that particular point in time (birthday) where He came In as more than just an awareness of being in His presence, but instead a being who does have the HOPE of a continued (eternal) existence. That existence being such that which will also remain in His presence once judgement has passed.
You've heard of a person being comfortable in their own skin, but what about a spiritual personage being comfortable in their own Spirit? Does the spirit Of God dwell "Richly" in You? And how do You identify with that same spirit if it is NOT You who is trying to Live through Him instead of the other way around?
John 3:19-21
This is the verdict : Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 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."
NIV
A starting point where You respond as to how YOU see any life should be lived beyond having accepted Christ as Lord? And as Lord that is above the status of a "Job Site" foreman of your life? A performance consideration that you want to be considered to been IN Christ?
1 Cor 3:10-17
By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder , and someone else is building on it.
But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
NIV
"E pluribus unum" roughly translates from Latin to English "Out of many, One".
What if the essence of the above mantra when it was originally received were "Transposed" in it's interpretation? That to suggest its point of origin were saying, "Out of one, Many"
It sounds sketchy, but wouldn't it first require examining and believing in the objectives(s) of the source? That to men who provided the word structuring?
Bring such a phrase along side "In God WE Trust" and see if it cross translates without finding itself in opposition in its suggestive nature?
Accepting that phrase the way I've presented would now require trying to find a way to merge many other seemingly meaningful phrases into ones present belief infrastructure much like a jigsaw puzzle?
Words are fitting yet only when they depict and/or help depict what already "Is" and that by the Mouth and hands of God. Amen
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