The distinct sound of Unity

I would like to paint a word picture today which address's a specific "Need".

A need which every soul has that's been assigned a physical body. Almost as if a void that gets filled once this need gets realized as an "Event" that now takes up residency as if a place in time.

Many can speak well of their proof of  the exact date their physical body was brought into this world. That is to the point (understanding is reached) they now have an established identity, yet how many can speak to their spiritual re-birth as one they celebrate even more?

The reality is there's only one "Way" it can be proved as one that will be eternally considered to the credit of another that is also recognized as if their true identity. 

Such an identity having been governed by the highest of authority which can then respond to any question that comes along with regards to cross examination, "Who are you and why do you do what you do"?

Thomas Jefferson suggested in the Declaration of independence that "All men are created equal".

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Not all patrons are as willing to be equally endowed by such a freedom due to their rejection of such principles which do in fact extend and reinforce the thought(s) of freedom.

Such a freedom that originated by way of deliverance from unwanted evil(s) which inhibit this freedom from being realized by all mankind.

Freedom that's also "True" levels the playing field(s) of mutual opportunity which supply's the venue for making one and the same discovery of a sovereign creator.

A nation must know and understand the roots of evil otherwise she will be overcome by it.

Prov 20:10-11
Differing weights and differing measures — the LORD detests them both. Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conduct is pure and right.
NIV

2 Tim 2:19
Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness."
NIV

This event I speak of is one where you're born "Again" having received the "New" spirit which can only be received from the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus the "Christ".

The above revelation comes when you decide that you can't accomplish same without the continual (wisdom) counsel of the Lord also being the dominate voice you've listened to (responded to).

The "Need" for this newly celebrated awareness is one that all men have within their being despite what the world around us tries to explain away.

More specifically with respect to a hope which then looks forward to the net result of your existence as one that's been proved to be one that is also True (real).

John 17:3
Now this is eternal life: that they may know you , the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
NIV

An existence which truthfully translates into the eternal realm as if a personal understanding with respect to the "why, where and how" the soul presently finds itself while in this world.

In terms of all that a lie attempts to explain away as reality, without the "Truth" a man will believe everything else that's NOT true having been left to his own logic while "trying" to interpret said explanation(s) being provided.

Eccl 3:9-11
What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
NIV

Has everything God has made as beautiful in its time become so attractive that you've taken your eyes off of the real beauty of it all?

What beauty is that? Is it not the beauty as the purpose for having created ALL things?

Why wouldn't that over shadowing question also include you as part of the ALL that He's created?

If you don't know what also makes you beautiful in the eyes of your creator, can you then have and hold an appreciation for beauty that is also True?

Even further to mean, "He created You, but who then shaped and formed your opinion of the creator of ALL things?

Without the active influence of his spirit from one moment to the next, what other than His spirit has influenced your opinion of your creator?

That is to suggest that if Jesus as the one that was sent so you might come to Know the person of your creator is not the composer of the music you dance to, "Who is"?

There are many addictions in this world, most of which we've all agreed in common are bad for us yet are there any other addictions we've not truthfully considered.

What about the addiction of, "Only believing what we want to believe even if its wrong"? This is where the light of truth Hopes to shine the brightest.

Every opinion still requires a judge especially in light of a consideration for being somethings that's found to be "Good".

John 5:31-36
"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid. There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is valid.

"You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

"I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.
NIV

I'll approach the remainder of this thought as if speaking of a Composer that also hopes to choreograph and deliver harmonious instrumental sounds.

Without the exact musical "Notes" being produced and then set in a specific order should a composer have any hope of producing the beautiful sound of "Music"?

There's a saying which makes its rounds in the world of the "Arts" which says, "Know your audience". How true might that prove to be in the mind of a composer?

If you were a composer, "Do you know the audience you acknowledge and then perform for"?

Especially if that composer knows his listening audience has an even greater appreciation for the one that's mastered the art of being able to capture many different musical notes from as many different instruments and making them practically "Dance on the air".

Within the music world there seems to be a specific appreciation for the precision of each note that gets played.

The music composer however, in most instances is not capable of simaltaniously producing all of the required musical notes while at the same time queuing each as to when to "Chime in.

The essence of the composer's task is to "presides" over the delivery of a written piece of music. Sure he may have also wrote it, but it still requires the prompting of each musical notes timely delivery.

It's a certain harmonious and resonating sound that must follow the distinct recognition of its hearer(s) throughout its production, otherwise the whole instrumental piece gets remembered for one of its parts being "Off Key".

How different is the distinction being made when listening for the sound of a specific voice in a crowd?

Most know that it's possible because they also know that a desperately searching mother possesses what some might consider to be a super natural ability to recognise the sound of her child's voice in a crowded venue.

That is "If" she's also tuned her ears for nothing but that sound.

Even in the animal kingdom mothers and sometimes fathers have an intuitive ability (pick out) to discern the presence of their offspring in a crowded scenario.

I've reached the conclusion while considering both kingdoms that how they each discern their own is due to their familiar sense (or scent) of themselves which the child also has.

It's as if to say, that very scent (sense) then testifies to their awareness, "This one is mine".

To whom do you belong?

To the sound of "One Voice" or "To the sound of many voices" that want you to join them"?

Do those voices dictate and or influence what you do while in this life or is it that you remain the only one that judges what gets heard as well believed?

Is a man not as good as "Blind" if he doesn't know about the end result or net result of a "Matter" or is he simply choosing to remain "Ignorant" having decided for "Himself" that the end result doesn't "Matter"?

Restoring the sight of the blind suggest they could see at one time, while giving sight to the blind suggest they never could see.

Either way, "If one day you did find yourself standing in the light truth and were then asked "Did you choose to be ignorant or were you simply not told?

I guess in order to make you comfortable within all your choices you alone are making, all you'd have to do is sell yourself on the idea that only the sound of your voice matters?

2 Tim 1:1
....according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,
NIV

So, who are you listening to today? Have you elected and established yourself as King, judge and jury over your life that only matters to YOU?

Will you voluntarily step down in this season of mercy or will you eventually find yourself forcibly dethroned when the King of Truth does return in majestic form?

I encourage you to not only think of yourself as if you are in Christ, but let Christ be found in You!

2 Cor 2:14-16
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task?
NIV

2 Tim 2:10-13
Therefore I endure everything  for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

Here is a trustworthy saying:

If we died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him. 
If we disown him, he will also disown us; if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself. 
NIV

A Good Hunter

There's more to the significance of ones footprint's in this life with respect to the impression that's made.

Could such an impression prove to be the significance as the net result of the one whom you then find?


A "Good" hunter worth his weight in salt is said to be able to study a footprint in order to determine the approximate height, weight and direction of travel of it's owner.

As if an original thought, what caused the first true hunters in antiquity to be considered "Good" hunters?

That is to ask, "If the caliber of the Hunter were being defined what would be the thoughts of those that were judging that hunter?

Would it be that he's simply a "Good" provider of food?

Or will it be the thoughts of others about him in that he's consistently proved himself able to "Provide" in order to feed the hunger of their stomachs which also depend upon the simplicity of all that he is and has become while a participant of their life"

Now add the ability of being a "Good" hunter to that suggestion?

Gen 25:27
The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents.
NIV

Gen 25:32
"Look, I am about to die," Esau said. "What good is the birthright to me?"
NIV

Mal 1:1-3
1:1 An oracle: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.

"I have loved you," says the LORD.

"But you ask, 'How have you loved us?'

"Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" the LORD says. "Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated , and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals."
NIV

Phil 3:17-19

Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach , and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things.
NIV

Many have made the impression through the exchange of words, "What you're saying has no substance"!

Is that statement suggesting what's been said has no "Effect" or the one listening finds no "Value" in the context of what's being said?

Just food for thought.

Some personalities are more concerned with the impression and influence of their own legacy left behind than they are the true reasoning that hides behind the "Why" they hope to influence others to be more like themselves.

As if the specific something of great importance which is then found and perpetuated by those that follow their personalities.

Is it truly a legacy which gets left behind as a person's wake or the more likelihood of a tendency which one hopes that others will look to emulate in the hope of what they assume it will eventually accomplish?

I'm confident most have heard the term, "Living vicariously through another person".

1 John 4:16-17
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him 
NIV

In terms of being the "Twin" of someone else is the suggestion that each (both) came from the same womb. Further defining of their likeness's though comes by way of addressing both as "Identical" twins.

In terms of God and as many people as God has made, how could there be any hope that is also true of being considered "Like Him" while in the midst of a mindset where it's being told even more convincingly so that we're all unique and as a result different through and through?

I agree there's more than one way to skin or catch a fish, but their meat eventually ends up in the mutual functionality of our stomachs does it not?

Where did wisdom run off to with respect to its declaration, "Divide and conquer"?

This was said (recorded) as part of the early life of the Apostle Paul (Saul) before he was born again:

Acts 8:3
But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
NIV

I think Paul at that time in his life also thought that he was unique in God's eye's too.

Being considered "Unique" might define the shape of our bodies, the color of our eye's or the specific appetite for a certain flavor of food, but what about the things which would express that we each have come from one and the same womb as if from God?

Some have convinced themselves that we're ALL simply the fragmented and or unique expressions of one and the same person of God that also MUST be accepted, yet if that were true then why the need for a Day of Judgment where Gods wrath will come to destroy specific things He mentions?

John 3:3
In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again"
NIV

John 3:6-7

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again .

NIV

Let's examine the term "Unique" for a moment. It's inference suggest the existence of something which also stands alone or apart from others.

If we each have our own spirit as if one uniquely assigned, how could one then maintain the thoughts which work towards the common thoughts and desires of one and the same spirit that is from the "Womb" of God?

How could so many spirits which also hold onto their understanding as if they're going to be judged differently with respect to their individual and or unique patterns which look nothing like a spirit in "Common"?

If the understanding of the effects of the thought of someone being "Unique" were cultured what might the findings be?

Does flesh look, feel to the touch and respond like flesh or does it look and feel like flesh, yet respond like the identical spirit which compels us to act within?

Much like a specimen taken in a lab that's then placed in a specific environment in order to see whether or not it will grow, what might one find as the resulting affect(s) of their own said spirit?


There's much that needs to be more thoroughly addressed by the spirit of God than does the naked mind of mere men who maintain any hope of being perfectly united in Love.


You say that you have loved and know all that love is, yet who's defined all that you've thought Love to be?

A season of mercy is the opportunity to accept what has been freely given while the offer is still on the table for your consideration.

Now is the time to make the truthful discovery and not wait until after you've lived a life the way you've assumed and chosen to understand "All" things which pertain to the divine order of a much greater reality soon to be revealed.

If it's a forced or leveraged response, "It's not one as an act of the faith having believed!

Rom 8:9-11
You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
NIV

Don't despise that which is "Rightfully" yours but accept the birth right that has been freely given to all that will only believe to then experience having been born again and plant their faith in (as if in righteous soil) all that Christ Jesus the Lord is and has done.

The invitation to speak

I think it safe to say that most everyone loves to be "Invited" to an event, yet how many hope to be the highlight of that same event as the reason for having been Invited?

There's certain type of allure or enticement which trails close behind an invitation. One which I think many misinterpret.

There's also an endless number of topic's that can initiate a conversation, yet that number dramatically shrinks in terms of  the enjoyment of everyone that also desires to remain as if part of that same conversation.

You may not have experienced one of these types of conversations, but they're ones where "I don't know how we "Got Off" on this topic" usually closes out the conversation.

As if to suggest, "I'm no longer finding enjoyment while having this discussion".

Whether in whole or part, we all long (desire) to be connected to "Something", yet the entirety of that said something is what's really in play in the form of a question. A question in "Common" as if one and the same blue sky which arches above all mankind.

Often times conversations get started because of the allure of a common complaint, yet how many conversations evolve into the realm of reasoning which then leads to the truth being revealed? Wouldn't truth be required as if the nucleus?

That is, "If those two (also being different) desired to become one and the same thing"?

I used to miss the greatest gift that God has given to humanity. IMO that gift is the is the gift of "Truth" otherwise we would have believed "Anything"?

Consider the Atom as well it's orbiting negative or positively charged particles? What are all of its possibilities and or capabilities? Who could one hope to ask in order to discover its limits?

Is it truth which determines the extent of the Atoms usage while in the care of humanity or is it the Matter which determines the cause for which the Atom gets used in accordance with its harmonious mandate established by its creator?

Reasoning together with another is a whole different consideration. Reasoning that is governed only by Truth can't perpetuate itself until and or unless it also proves itself worthy as the "Sound" of something that's worth lending an ear.

Truth in the "form" of a metaphor is more than the likes of puzzle piece that seems to fit.

Instead said "Truth" transcends what can NOT otherwise be seen.

Truth establishes the basis which over shadows ALL of creation. Why? Because truth was there in the beginning before all things were created.

Creation which takes up and then shares the same space (manifest) as something which continues to exist together with its creator.

Exist to mean beyond the limits of time where we are each Given the opportunity to (discover) realize not only our creator but having also been created.


Basically during the course of our existence we become a certain matter that does not change in the face of anything which finds itself to the contrary of its creators original intent.

If you believe that God spoke things into existence by way of words which came from His mouth, why then can't we as Believers then see that "Nothing" will return to Him that His words alone did not also create?

His words towards humanity were intended to create a "New Heart" in mankind.



Isa 55:11
...so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. 
NIV

The next time someone "strikes" up a conversation, stop and consider the word match. 


Will your exchange of words be a match with the likes of a reckless tongue which ignites, burns and then consumes or will it be the type of match that fits together with the One that also created and designed the intent of a process where your words speak as if His?

As believers we are told that we are to worship Him in spirit and in truth. Our naked soul's are not capable of such a request independent of His spirit.

Only by way His spirit that's taken up a more permanent residency having been given the Invitation which can has been proved to truly be one considered "Agape" (unconditional) are we then lead to see the need for that same (mutual) spirit as if a covenant bond with His Holy Spirit.

There's a law written with ink and there's a law which only the spirit of the Lord within that is able to righteously interpret the only freedom that is Real in Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior.

Pilate was being asked to pass judgement on a law he did not observe, so how could he have found any fault?

The Jews however, couldn't see their creator for all that He IS having come to them to present himself as the great I AM. Why?

Because their OWN laws blinded and prevented them from seeing the beauty of "Their" savior that can only be found In Christ Jesus the messiah (The One sent).

Their own foolishness?

Everything God had historically foretold and or established as their LAW pointed to the One that He would send in order to "Save" them from the effects of themselves.

Food for thought, "What are your thoughts causing your mouth to speak"?

A real Father

Mal 4:5-6
 "See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse." 
NIV

There's many reasons one can never find themselves in the presence of a Father, yet how many of those reasons will stand once confronted with all that Truth is? 


Is it because more often so many don't want to truthfully consider the standard a dad (as the parental process) is being measured against enough that comparison's are never truthfully made?

Shouldn't the weight of that thought not only drive a man to his knees, but also keep him on his knee's while pleading for wisdom to complete the task?

True parenting begins with transparency. As if a window that is looked through in order for others to see the True image.

That to mean the desired and mutually understood focus upon a more exact representation that's being pursued.

Not wanting to block or obscure the view of another sometimes simply requires that the "Person" get out of the way so that others can also enjoy the "Same" scenery.

I was once asked, "When does a young man and or women know when they're mature enough to decide when to be joined in marriage"?

Marriage meaning the mutual understanding as if it were a child produced that will survive all of life's circumstances that can't  be presently seen or forecast prior to being joined together.

In this life when someone wants to find forgiveness the first thing they should do is to discover how to forgive the parent that was or is being held responsible for as if the task master over the net results of their own  parental training process.


John 6:45
It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
NIV

What have any of us taught our children? Especially if they never discover their own need that's also TRUE?

It's hard to be critical while witnessing the evidence in every day life as if something tangible as the product of an environment where a "Child raises a child". 

You know those images where it's a single mom/dad trying to raise a child that are not only failing but are also miserable becuase they know they are? Or maybe the situation where both natural parents seem forever hard pressed to find a way to manage the ability to find agreement?

The opposite of agreement being the miserable struggle with each other while attempting to shape and form something from the clay that's found its way into their own hands (children)?

The child that has been righteously instructed by the Lord has to somehow become thoroughly convinced as to who it was that fed their father and family from day to day in the midst of their own coming to understand their own sense of maturity.

It is the gift that's been given within the opportunity of relationship that will lead the most meager of understandings into the greater reality which all humanity was intended to truthfully consider.

As it is with law and lawlessness, said laws were intended to be used as the school master which then informs the greater understanding concerning true mercy that has been shown.

A sacrifice that comes by way of the response while truthfully considering the need for the implementation of said "Law" which effectually governs immaturity. Transparency as part of the parenting process must first make room for ones self to also be governed.

Within this process many things will surely be put to death and cease to exist to then govern the "whole" as if the predominate influence over "All members".

Herein is the best example discovered as one comes to truthful terms with respect towards their own level of maturity or lack there of.

If it is thoroughly understood that ONLY God is good AND that anything that does not come from faith is sin, only then can anyone hope to also catch a glimpse of who has been their own teacher.


2 Cor 7:10-11
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done.
NIV

Rom 14:23
...and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
NIV

Titus 2:3

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
NIV

Titus 2:4-5

Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. 
NIV

A parent should find Godly sorrow's at work if traces of their own spiritual struggles can still be seen to the second and third generation. How else can the school master then lead any of us to repentance?

That is to say the overall parental consideration "Should NOT then lean or rely upon the reason they did not know as if an excuse. That only places blame on their own parenting experience's that did not or maybe better "Could not" find a way to teach them.

It's far to easy to suggest that it is my children's fault they did not listen, yet the more accurate depiction should be was the parent found apt to teach?

The above notion should circle back around to the question, "When are the young man and woman Ready to raise a family" and "What got in the way of that preparation"?


Rom 5:15-16
But the gift is not like the trespass . For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin:
NIV

These are just a few of many questions that could be asked, but take the time to truthfully consider them.

Is a Father just a guy that thinks he just knows stuff or a man that tries to care enough by taking a hold of the time he's been given to then carve an image from it of something that is and can be Honored?

Is he just the physical presence in the home that's called upon only "After" there's a problem or is he an address where true wisdom can not only be sought out, but also found?

How does such a man prove himself to be worthy of such a high calling? Does it come by way of demand only or by way of expectation that's been shadowed by an easily understood example he places on display?

Is he honored or simply tolerated?

Is his counsel respected, rejected or simply ignored?

Has an environment been set in place and maintained to where everything at work converges at the location where wisdom does reside?

Is he seen as just that certain someone to blame and then despise for all future problems or is he that specific person you've since learned you should have listened to when the sound of his voice was available?

Do you see him seated alone at the top of all that he seems thoroughly convinced of or does he get to enjoy the company next to those that have revered and embraced his intentions and efforts put forth to date?

It's easy to start a family, yet having the tools needed to maintain that family will evolve into something greater than meeting the need for simply more food, water clothing, shelter or vacation.

Able to See having heard from a Friend

I've always been fascinated with the various perceptions that are floating on the cultured air ways which express the consideration of someone that is a "A Good listener".

I think some having discounted true friendship have made it more of a practice in the way they physically "Appear" (posture) while supposedly listening, but the underlying question remains "Were they really hearing what's being said"?

How does the consideration of truly being "Heard" get proved over time?

I trust that we all want to be heard in this life, yet how willing are we to take the time to absorb/study what's been spoken for the sake of our own hearing which then becomes "Effectually" evident?

Maybe it should be stated concerning a shared opinion, "I was Infected by what was said"?

In terms of all that's been said from the mouth of the Lord through His prophets to include Jesus, how well of listeners have any of us proved ourselves to be through the course of time?

Some might suggest in terms of their own ability to listen, "I listened with intent" while others might say the same as "I listened with interest".

What if the words "Listening, Heard & Interested" were assigned "Symbols"?

What would the math formula then appear as in terms of an "Action" that is not only complete, but also one that is true having been proved effectual?

If measuring the effects required a ruler, what standard would find itself "Acceptable"?

Further to mean "An expression which reflects the impact of an opinion after considering what's been said"?

Whatever is spoken towards another normally also gets weighed on their own set of scales of all that they presently consider to be "True"?

Now, what if the said "Golden" rule were copied and pasted along side all that's been said above, "Love thy neighbor as thy self"?

The contemporary version to that might be, "To thine own self be true". Yet the reality that needs to be checked and proved first "Are we always TRUE to ourselves"?

I used to never have a problem with loaning things to others. In terms of loaning things to a friend all that was needed was the simple request.

How different are opinions though?

How are they treated once loaned/borrowed as if they DO still "Belong" to someone that is also valued/esteemed?

It was as if an unspoken rule when someone did borrow a piece of property from me that it was understood, "Just treat it as if it was your own" or maybe "Just make sure it's in the same condition it was when I loaned it to you".

In the course of seeking out a "good" listener, I've also unexpectedly uncovered a more personal deeper meaning of the word "manipulate".

How often do we find ourselves trying to manipulate others by way of our outward expression(s)?

Better still, "How do we allow ourselves to be manipulated by our own words and actions we seem to love to toss around as if the mass weight of ourselves as a "Being" in this world? I think often times people see themselves as "Human Doings" instead of "Beings".

Just food for thought, but are we not simply manipulating ourselves in the bigger picture if we're not governed foremost by the truth?

What of those instances where someone uses to their own advantage their polished practice of presenting themselves outwardly as if they are good listeners?

You know the kind eyes routine, the occasional nod of agreement and maybe a bright smile to top it all off that would have most believe they've been heard?

Yet in reality in those instances instead prove over time to be those where you were simply allowed to go on and on about something that is otherwise not true?

Until the whole consideration presents itself, have you truly encountered a friend?


3 John 11
Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God
NIV


Matt 13:14-15

In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: 

"'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. 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.'   
NIV

The opinion of a Fugitive

It is my opinion one of the greatest evil(s) found within a relationship with the Lord that is also True, is the assumption that He as Lord is not able to examine every dark corner where your thought life gets warehoused.

In a relationship with the Lord that is True, there is no such thing as privacy and or a private room where evil can be stashed "Away" from His knowing.

Many people appear to get "Away" with many different things in this life in their OWN mind within their said close relationships with family and friends.

There remains a much deeper reality though within a relationship with the Lord which IS based only upon the truth. A truth which goes beyond such thoughts that are assumed are also hidden away from His knowledge in darkness.

I think it's important to revisit the definition of a fugitive (thank you Webster).

Definition of FUGITIVE

1

: running away or intending flight <a fugitive slave> <a fugitive debtor>

2

: moving from place to place : wandering

3

a : being of short durationb : difficult to grasp or retain : elusivec : likely to evaporate, deteriorate, change, fade, or disappear 

4

: being of transient interest 

It is my opinion the Lord is not as much concerned with a lengthy list of things within a man conscience he alone assumes need to be healed of (change) as much as it is the Lords primary concern that a man (person) remain willing to be "healed" of the smallest trace as to what started the whole corrupt process to begin with.

To thine own self be true is not an entirely truthful expression. Instead it's only a portion of the entire consideration concerning the origin's of truth which was with God since the beginning.

It is one thing to assume a man "Knows" the Lord, yet isn't it an entirely different consideration for a life that's lived while striving to understand the deeper truth that you are "Known" by God?

There are many people that walk the face of the earth content with the thought(s) they've never killed anyone, fornicated nor had an adulterous relationship with someone else in physical terms, yet from within the annuls of their thought life a voice all it's own "Screams" to the contrary.

All such things a man considers are NOT the fullness of all that he does NOT more fully Know about the Lord as well His acceptance of their willful and continued existence. More importantly due to the fact all those considerations have not been more clearly defined by the righteousness (mind) of the Lord.

There is much that has been stored up within a person, yet that person should not enjoy Harboring such a mindset as if a fugitive.

In terms of enmity towards the Lord as well all that He considers to be "Evil", the roots of such run so deep within us that without the saving redemptive character of a helper (Savior), man has zero chance of saving himself from all that he can not fathom.

If a soul does not know they're dis-eased and dying, how could a cure in the form of a Savior find itself of any value that is True (or Real)?

The dis-ease (seed) from which a mans present fallen identity and his current outward expressions stem from.

Matt 15:19-20
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.'"
NIV

The deception and corruption of mankind began with a thought seed that was planted. A seed which was introduced into the same soil Gods thoughts, hands, words and breath then formed into a life that's been given.

Where did mankind go wrong?

He believed a lie to the contrary of what God had already "Said" concerning the definition of mans continued existence beyond what took place within him having Believed such a lie.


Believing is more than a passing thought. Believing is the occurrence where a thought is first given a home (entitlement) where it then gets provided the nutrition needed in order to grow within ones reasoning into an action that's "Taken"

There's an old saying which I'm not exactly sure where it originated, "The criminal is never as sorry as he is the day in which he gets caught and brought to justice"!


Are you harboring the the opinion of a fugitive?

Faith that has worth

I'm at the age of an opinion today, "Place less expectations upon all that you assume you know about yourself and more upon all that Christ and His character teaches you and you'll end up far less frustrated having become a better student".

I used to think that loving relationships provided the strict venue where all that we thought we knew about ourselves and someone else would then be the ONLY attributes we'd then find enjoyable.

The harsh reality though outside of two individuals being equally yoked together in Christ in a said "Relationship" instead becomes, "the venue for discovering everything we Didn't know about the other person as if the limits of all that we assumed Love is and does".

It's far too easy to become frustrated with everything we assumed Love is, does or is supposed to look like when it comes from another person, especially if that persons governance is NOT of Christ the Lord.

Many simply need to accept the "New Standard" of love. One by which they now measure themselves against.

That standard then appears much more like the type of "Ruler" we then measure ourselves by in a relationship which operates in Love.

The beauty of the Christ that is also True, is that He does NOT change and is more than reliable once we truthfully come to know Him.

Simply knowing that particular fact about Him should always make choices which are final so much easier.

A faith that is considered alive in heaven can ONLY be found in Christ AND as one that will never die.

A faith at work as if a verb in action found within a mans heart which pursues all that righteousness truly is as seen through the eyes of God the creator of ALL things.


Prov 15:11

Even the depths of Death and Destruction are known by the LORD. How much more does he know the human heart! 
NLT

I love the way apostle Paul more often than not cuts straight to the chase.

1 Cor 15:19
If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. 
NIV

Just because our opinion doesn't escape the confines of our lips, doesn't also mean that same opinion doesn't rule supreme within the deceived perception of privacy as if somehow hidden within our own minds. 

Here is where Jesus must rule supreme as the highest of opinions which has also been highly esteemed.

I see much of my own frustration as something which stems from everything which I've allowed to date to help form my opinion concerning a hope which rest upon Christ Jesus. Things which result in frustration always prove to NOT be genuine and or full of Truth.

Still what do I do with such considerations? I subject them to the influence of the mind of Christ.

It all boils down to whom you've assumed deals out the results of choices made. NOT being of the Faith (in Christ) can a opinion have any hope that's also true of as if being used as an instrument of righteousness? 

That is to say an instrument of righteousness that gets used for the benefit of another? 

Enough to where the results of having been a messenger of righteousness then produces the reward of a righteous man? 

The same cane ONLY be found "In Christ" as if an integral portion of His person?

Either way they all work together for the Good of those which love the Lord in order to help shape a future opinion of a Christ (savior) that is True. 

True to mean those that are not only in pursuit of His righteousness, but by way the net result Prove to be in and of Christ. Those in pursuit of Him have to allow our naked opinion of Him to be changed in many area's of our mental conditioning much like a diet that produces the specific result(s) of a promise made.

A hope that is "True" should be the only hope you also have in Christ. If your hope is not built based upon the truth should you expect anything less than disappointment once truth does arrive on scene?

This hope as if the ONLY hope that is also real is built upon everything that's been said about Him as if a consideration to ponder. Why? Because of the mouth which spoke such things concerning Christ the Lord all of which having come from the mouth of God. 

The only requirement is truly believing what's been said of Him. Enough that is that we can then be believed in what we testify to. It must be more than having simply mimed a few empty words. 

Here is where the dark cloud of frustration seems to follow many of around day to day.

When I mention frustration I say that to mean, "Frustration which stems from what seems to be a lack of co-operation from the Lord".

Almost as if an expectancy towards His full co-operation from all that He remains in control over. 

Could anything less then truly satisfy Gods likeness if it were to be found within a man? How else could He then find His likeness found within a man also pleasing to himself if it does not desire to shadow His own likeness?

I don't think many are willing to grasp just how far man fell away from the Lord in the Garden. It was surely one small step of mankind, yet that step has proved to be a universal leap away from the mind of the Lord.

Frustration to mean not so much those instances when things don't Seem to want to work out a certain way, but more to mean when everyone else's opinion seems to tug and pull against what I consider to be our own best efforts while attempting to understand a more finite reconciled relationship unto the Lord.


Eph 5:8-14
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. 

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said:

"Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." 
NIV

What owner of any opinion doesn't want to be considered righteous?

I suppose simple logic might suggest an even greater need would be to know not only who is "Right" but also what could possibly establish their opinion as if a ruling made that is truly dominated by all but  blinding "Light of Truth"?

A fragmented analogy might even go as far as to suggest that such a high opinion could have only originated from within God as if its progenitor?

Allow me to ask this, "Do you have and find the mind of Christ functioning harmoniously within you" or "Does the mention of what is considered right or wrong stir up the strongest of negative emotions within you?

Food for thought, God does have enemies, yet those thought to be enemies are simply not in agreement with Him as it pertains to ALL things He has also made and set in motion by giving them life"!