Great and small gender aside (Part II)

We left off in the previous posting working in the vein of thought that hopefully depicts the people of God who today are hopefully SEEN "Enjoying" not only being in the presence, but the "Obvious" working benefits of the Holy Spirit in the book of "Acts".

I'm sure you've heard before, "The Mind is a terrible thing to Waste" yet how broad is this suggestion when considering how to engage and apply a "New" type of Mind? The type of "Mind" that a believer In Christ not only needs in order to be victorious, but is said to have willingly "Put On?

The same type of mind that has an "Unlimited" amount of resources "Available" that we're ALL surrounded by as if a vein or well waiting to be tapped into? Just think how long electricity was around before reality "Dawned" in the mind of someone who found themselves not only willing to recognize TRUE "Potential" but purse it.

Many are perfectly comfortable with what God is capable of doing, yet how many have stopped to reconsider what may or may NOT take place if God is Only being seen or being cast in type or sense of a "Dim Light"?

Exactly how limiting or maybe transparent are these type of considerations that might otherwise impede those who fail or are 'Unwilling" to SEE anything or anyone for ALL that they truly are (otherwise) in the sight of God?

Many dominate attitudes today seem to be comfortable viewing their said world around them in what they've deemed to be a  "Certain" type of Light, yet who's casting not only God in a false sense of Light but the very things God said He created in His Likeness? And because "Certain" things often do get cast in a dim light, what might also might happen to any type of Reward that only presents itself under the terms of certainty that do or were "Intended" to make things clear or "Clearer"?

How many today would you suggest under supposed "Normal" circumstances would also shrink back when and if they did 'See" someone else suffering for doing something? And if suffering it is also assumed they've "Done" something 'Wrong" which "Apparently" resulted in a most "Certain" sense of suffering?

Eph 3:10-13
His (Gods) intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
NIV

Truly what has God chosen to hide in Jars of Clay?

Col 1:24-29
Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints.

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. 29 To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me. NIV

If that's Not the only RIGHT question, WHO has God hidden ANYTHING from for ages and generations in these jars of clay and maybe more importantly WHY? Have you ever encountered the type of people who are so oblivious to the reality of their surroundings that if you ever did to want hide something from Captain Obvious, the best place to hide it would probably right beneath their nose?

My wife and I both enjoy the pleasure of eating chocolate. I'm the type that might buy a candy bar and only eat half and will (TRY) to "Save" the other half for later. Not so with my wife. If there's chocolate Anywhere in the house her "Ant' like senses pick up on the fact. I'll state my case like this, after 20 plus years of living together I've yet to find 'Safe" hiding place. Often times I try to have fun with this "Unsolved" mystery. I'll move my 'Stash" to some pretty ridiculous places. Nearly without fail and when given enough time she will "Sniff Out" my hiding place.

The funny part is she won't eat the whole thing at one setting. She'll usually nibble away at it and try to leave it as if "Undisturbed'. Many parallels could be drawn from this picture, but instead I choose to accept it as One of her "Meaningless" weaknesses in the flesh and move on.

Have you ever considered within any real degree of certainty what exactly happens or NOT when Christ is seen (envisioned) from a worldly "Point of View"? Much less all others who may not be convinced they too were destined to share in the "Inheritance' God set before the First Born of the Beloved of God?

In terms of what we suggest we're willing to believe, how would you also suggest a dim hope might also affect a persons ability to see further into an otherwise uncertain type of darkness? A type of darkness where we can only SEE others "Aimlessly" groping around? Groping as if hoping to somehow take hold of something "Stable" in order to somehow orient their proximity?

In the dark is it possible some have taken hold of the wrong tail? Hoping to take hold of the Lion of Judah who will lead them out of darkness only to realize they've taken hold of a roaring Lion whose been lying in wait hoping to devour the unsuspecting? And what is false light if not "Darkness"?

2 Cor 5:16-17
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view . Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
NIV

Having Put on this New Mind in order to not only learn from but also be taught 'How and Why" there is a Continuous need to train the soul and body how to participate in whatever it is God would have the "Whole (corporate) Body" do in this world?

The phrase "Par for the Course" is a commonly used analogy when often weighing circumstances and/or people in general terms, yet who establishes what Par is for the said "Course" of Humanity? The word par in Golf speech suggest what a "First Class" player should expect of their performance on a particular course. "Par" is also an often misused word term that is relative to what "Mean Value" or set "Average" suggest in terms of what can be expected.

Wouldn't it depend upon the abilities or gifting's of each individual whose also knowingly 'Engaged" in the 'Same" effort or NOT? As if to suggest the "Given" capacity of each?

What if instead of the word "Humanity" as applied above were replaced with "One Spiritual Man"? By the exchange of these three very simple words, how different does the context or vein of thought somehow translate?

Think on it this way, What if as One man this body were told to "Clap"? Yet the one who instructed this man to clap was NOT aware that one side of this mans body were Paralyzed? This same imagery would also interpret how if this man were tasked with not only walking or running but somehow winning the race? Even if this person wanted MORE than ANYTHING else in this world to WIN the race, what would the statistical wisdom of most people forecast?

In terms of One body, One Christ, One Spirit what does the word of God say about what happens whenever One Part of One body suffers? What happens to the rest of the Body? And when this same potential applies to the success of same who gets to celebrate?

What would you suggest will be the outcome or destiny of ANY Kingdom, Household, Team or double minded "Individual" that's divided in terms of what each hopes to accomplish? It's easy to suggest to an Individual they NEED to stay focused, yet HOW does this same FOCUS find a body made up of many "Members"? Many members that refuse to Cooperate with One and the same HEAD?

Why isn't the lack of cooperation also being seen as though some type of impediment or paralysis?

Would you suggest the One man that's also attempting to identify his person as if THE entirety of the house of God in the earth today is NOT being seen TODAY doing the type of work ONLY the hands of God can do ? The same type of work that also requires agreeing with the type of verbiage that says it is "My Grace That Is Sufficient"?

If God were wanting ONLY to discuss His likeness within ANY group of people, how many other physical considerations would he have to make leave the room before He could even begin to address this SAME likeness? Would he find that He would have to insist thoughts of money would have to be removed? Thoughts relative to Gender, Food for the Belly, Pesky skin color differences or maybe the adverse impact sibling rivalry hopes to present?

All the above before He could cut to the chase and get down to REAL business at hand? Who would be left to meet with if He did?

And without those same hands of god being TOLD or instructed what to do how can those same hands meet with the expectations of what the Head otherwise WANTS those hands to accomplish?

Is it "Possible" non believers who also do NOT believe in the Glory God has given to mankind can join together and collect money to feed hungry Children, Build Hospitals or homeless shelters any better than those who claim they believe "EVERY word (Promise) that has come from the mouth of God"? Exactly "What" does their collective performance also depend on? What each member believes or hopes to accomplish by being a part of these type of 'Organized Efforts"?

Picture this same man as if One Man trying to run a race? The same man who for whatever reason is paralyzed on One side of his body? At what point would you suggest this man could hit "Full" stride within the HONEST mindset (hope) of somehow 'Winning" a race?

Have you ever sat and truly contemplated the differences between a One Man sport verses Team Sports and who the Glory of the victory gets awarded after the so called big "WIN"? Whether comparing the performance of the Race car driver to include His "Pit Crew" or the Golfer and His Caddy?

If you can allow it, what would you suggest a person not only looks like but "Acts" like having failed to "Receive" ANY benefit the Holy Spirit of God has made available? Do some fail to receive the FULL benefit(s) because they've also failed to understand WHO the gifts were given "To" and WHY?

Gifts given to and for the sake of specifically "Intended Recipients"?

Dependent upon what you believe, who would you suggest the gifts of the Spirit were were given to as if the intended recipients? Gifts given to men, yet for whose sake? The individual who's received these said gifts of the Holy Spirit or namely gifts given for the development and maturation of the "Body of Christ?

I think the defining of what every person who's also involved suggest they also Believe to be True is well worth the inquiry? It's easy to say "Yes I Believe" in a group setting for MANY different reasons, yet what is ANYONE truly saying Yes to this side of a soft "Maybe"?

The word maybe to suggest this person may need More proof before they're "ALL IN" or Totally On Board with ONE godly Objective in Mind? What happens when any consideration proves to have become an "Every man for himself" environment?

Who usually devours who in the end where the woman and children are also considered "First" in line ? While also truthfully acknowledging we're living in a world that also insist on making it not only plain and simple that only the Strong will survive but also whose likeness we're supposed to be pursuing because of what we do "Believe" to be True.

Dependent upon Who we individually Choose to "Believe" what has any ONE truly accomplished in the sight of God?

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'Distinction or Extinction"

A loving brother does not forget to "Bring" the words of God with him to a meaningful assembly. He knows not only WHAT it is God is assembling but just as great WHY his brother(s) have need to see for themselves in order to be "Reminded" of what the Father has "Said". sw

Have you ever wondered how the words "New" and "Improved" seem to have a long history together? The type of Words that seem to agree with meanings such as 'Reinvent" or the "Makeover" whenever people suggest they're going "In" some where for an external "Rework"?

Going in for a makeover while forgetting what still might be coming "Out" of our mouth? The very nature of whatever it is that has taken up residency in the heart?

What exactly are the signs that might reveal someone who does not truly believe there is such a thing as an "Internal do Over"? Who also truly believes despite what they repeatedly encounter to the contrary there is a realm or status where 'All" wrong doing has been "Forgiven"?

As such that begins to manifest without the approval of surrounding personalities? The same type and repeating notion of those who find it as though a "Need" to reminding you otherwise such a consideration is NOT "Possible"? As if they TOO might somehow be made, seen or cast into the  "Light" differently should this SAME awareness become wide spread and accepted as though possible?

When will it matter most in terms of the spreading message that does speak to those who have been forgiven and those who have NOT? Either of the two without everyone around you also knowing beyond doubt not only what you AND they have been forgiven OF but also WHY and HOW?

Exactly how deep does the proverbial waters of this type of baptism need to be in order to wash OVER, completely submerge AND cleanse the sins of everyone involved at the same time? Is there truly such a thing as DIRTY spiritual Bath Water?

As if all the above is somehow trapped in some type of Spiritual bubble together with a multitude of mixed emotions? A type mixture others look "At" and for some "Unexplained" reason try to steer this same bubble away from not only from their personage but also You? As they try to then steer you as a believer away form the full reward of what is True under the clearest of  terms that have been BASED on the promises made and that can ONLY be kept by God?

What value have words played in the supposed progressive shaping of this world without also considering at the same time WHO said WHAT and WHY that does participate int the final outcome? The same world God has said He loves so much that He gave His ONLY son in order that SOME might BE saved.

Some might ask, "If God loves what He created so much why then does He allow so many bad events to take place on Earth"? Why isn't the question asked differently, "Why is God the One who's being blamed for "Everything" that happens on earth without also considering what simultaneously takes place in the realms of the first or highest "Heaven"?

The type of formation that also agree's with how Our Christ offered to those who are willing to Believe not only in His person but the POWER of the words he gave we should "Pray" for? The type prayers that do find they've been heard and found to be in agreement with the wisdom of God's? That wisdom namely being by way of "Whom"? Whose Will is it that should Be done on Earth as it is in Heaven?

Maybe also asking "Why" exactly was satan removed from his previously standing in this same "Heavenly Realm"?

The grace being delivered so that those who have "Chosen" this same WISDOM might also be saved from WHAT or WHO at the appointed Time? Delivered FROM something or someone and that to include the collective choices of ALL those God also loves? The evidence of something (namely Love) that has been faithfully "Delivered"? Faithfully delivered yet denied and rejected by "Whom"?

Have you ever wondered WHY some suggest there is NO dress rehearsal for this grand performance? The same type who forget what it was that was previously spoken from the mouth of God and to His "Chosen People"? The evidence of the visitation of Jesus came to His own, but His own did NOT receive Him? And the OVERWHELMING evidence of that same rejection being WHAT?

As if WHAT God merely spoke to them way back whenever was NOT also heard by those who exist today? And if for the same reason(s), what too should we today ALSO expect if we have also learned anything that also has to do with Faith towards God from them and their examples provided?

In terms of a "History" to be considered in the "Making", have you ever wondered why an "Edict" spoken of THE sitting King was "Recorded"? For memories sake or for the sake of a people who have a history of easily forgetting? Why isn't it said as if MORE profound, "The hand of the Historian rocks the Cradle"?

What "Actually does happen whenever the details of history fail to make the journey? Words recorded for the sake of Recall? Specific details "Called Upon" as if references entered in the registry of retained knowledge for the sake of all that "WISDOM" truly is?

What happens to these said Edicts when a King Falls or is replaced for ANY reason? Are they Kept in PLACE or are they destroyed for the sake of  the "FUTURE"?

John 7:38
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him. "NIV

Who exactly did the Lord give his Son to without also truly considering what happened to His son once He had been given?

How potent is any type of 'Saying" and what is "True Potential" without also knowing "Who" the True  "Believers" are within any given scenario? Why would there ever be a NEED to know who believes whatever verses why NOT?

Is it truly "Time" that will prove what any type of sayings have sounded "Out" whether it be for the sake of their content or for the sake of the 'Hearer"?

Words that have been framed or as if somehow contained within the "Context" each speaker somehow "Concludes" and in turn thinks "Best" in the moment?

At what point does it matter who said what in this world if the ONLY consideration were 'What is True and Will prove to have "Prevailed" as if somehow Representation of  the END?

What purpose does the sound of a Trumpet play if that same sound does NOT drowned out or somehow surpass the distinct sound of the "Drum" or all other 'Combined" Instruments being played at the SAME time?

How beautiful is any Distinct sound without there also being a silent "Pause" just before and possibly afterward?

When someone has been considered "Depraved" of anything, what would You suggest will more often than not also "Come to mind" within a person whom also assumes they've not been Heard? 

Verses someone who's considered having been heard  because of "Why" they chose to speak? As if speaking 'To You" instead of "About You" as if you're NOT there?

Eph 5:28-31
He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body.
NIV

Without there also being "Context" or some form of "Comparative" during an analysis, how do any type of words get weighed? Weighed to also suggest the worth of those words?

How punctual would you suggest a person might be if they truly were "Decided" about anything that's also considered to be "Personally Important"?

Try picturing a person whose been bitten by a well known deadly "Poisonous" snake? At that time there is presently no known cure? When suddenly along comes someone who simply 'Says", Do this or that and the threat of death WILL be GONE?

How many people would you suggest will refuse to Go and Do as they've been told?

Does this Type of story line require any more clarity or context? Does the facts within this type of story told fail to reveal its "True Potential"?

How so if a person does NOT accept what is otherwise True in any God given moment that's presently only been spoken "About"? The type scenario where all that's left is an unknown waiting period on the arrival of What can NOT presently be seen?

Without the "Advantage" being made Obvious, who then is able to prove they've shown Mercy. sw

What would you suggest the framing evidence will look like as if a captured image that will prove who the "Believers" are claiming to be, "In Christ"?

As it pertains to merely hearing about anything or hearing "From"any "One" specific, without having "Heard" the same message as is applicable to "You"? Will you prove to have been a righteous 'Judge unto yourself" in such matters? In terms of being able to recognize true potential in the content of anything that has been said to you?

Words spoken yet without a care that also speaks To "who" who it was that spoke those words to you? Words said to have been received yet rarely being evidenced in terms of a response?

The true potential within any thing that's been spoken, how relevant is the source? That same relevance then being "measured" how? Words that which prove to have had little affect on the majority of decisions made today?

How do you know beyond doubt at any time what you've refused to believe will not at some point catch up with you and prove 'Who" the person was you also rejected? A type of messenger who was FAR from the consideration of Perfection?

Not only rejecting what was said, but as if also rejecting the 'Origin" of what was said? Total rejection as if the essence (spirit) of those same words? Was Jesus the master "Fisherman"? Further to suggest a Fisher of Men? What type of "Bait" would You suggest The Christ uses?

Is speech not a form of conjuring? The conjuring of images from within another that have been placed and kept in the warehouse of a mans "Imagination"? Quite possibly THE most powerful type of nation in terms of potential "Known" to man?

Of all the words You do know and understand, what three words seem to have very little potential when used to ask someone a meaningful "Question"?

God has said of himself He is the "Great I am", yet in terms being "Relative" how do these three words find you on any given day "Who are you"? Exactly when is Today also THE DAY the children of God fail to remember "Who they Truly are or NOT?

Heb 2:10-18
In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.

He says,

"I will declare your name to my brothers; in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises." 

And again,

"I will put my trust in him."

And again he says,

"Here am I,  and the children God has given me." 

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death — that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants. For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
NIV

Heb 11:39-40
These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect . NIV

Jesus never ONCE laid "Claim to "Imperfection" yet it has been said He is the First Borne of the Beloved of God. The same One who managed himself who also managed to remain Silent before His accusers. It was also spoken ABOUT Him that He was Made Perfect by the things He suffered. sw

John 8:25-30
"Who are you?" they asked.

"Just what I have been claiming all along," Jesus replied.  "I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is reliable, and what I have heard from him I tell the world."  

They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am [the one I claim to be] and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him." 
NIV