I did this so that....

Could the reluctance to accept that which is true also prove to be just the fringe of what you've refused to believe?

Could the refusal to receive what has been freely given prove to be the evidence of a reluctance to believe there is such a thing as freedom?


How long is the testing period before something proves itself as something that truly was free?


Could refusing what is truth prove to be all that man has misinterpreted as he contemplates the possibilities as the reason(s) for his own existence?

Instead could it be said the mind that chooses to remain in bondage to a lie has also refused to be set free from the weight of his own persuasion?

Said "evidence" still requires the interpretation which only truth can present.

Are any words to be considered true simply because they've been spoken or are such words accepted as truth because of the one which authored and in turn those words get proved?

John 8:31-32

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth , and the truth will set you free."
NIV

What comes to mind when words such as Kingdom, Martyrdom, Christendom are heard?

The suffix "dom" suggest that the root word it's also attached to is a "state" or "place" of being.

The root word provides the frame as if the boundary of everything encompassed as each root word suggest.

When the word Kingdom is read or heard one might understand it to mean everything which belongs to the King. 

That same King whom also has dominion over everything within all that's been framed by the suggestion having added the suffix "dom".

Much like the word "World" which might suggest everything that's contained within its realized spherical presence that's made up of dirt, water and air and people.

Now let's revisit the word "World".

What if  the word "World" were used to describe a persons perception of everything that's contained within the common sphere which surrounds all humanity?

It might sound like, "Little Johnny lives in his own world"!

While using that notion as a launching pad, how could a world that also exist as freedom truly become realized by anyone from within the different cultures of that same spherical world?

Can freedom be realized while simultaneously being physically encompassed by something thought greater?

To suggest that a world that is real can exist within a world is not to suggest a world which has been dominated by the world which surrounds it?

That notion could simply be (quickly) absorbed into the definition as the state of rebellion to the more normal (commonly accepted) policies/dictates of the surrounding world.

Much like little Johnny's world which simultaneously exist within his own perception while physically existing within the greater world that's made up of dirt, water, air as well the presence of other person(s).

Picture an empty ladle that's been dipped into a bucket of water. As the ladle is submerged, it first displaces the surrounding water in the bucket and then is filled with a specific measure of water once pressed in further.

That image is how many consider the hand of God reaching down within humanity and then drawing out a chosen measurement (as if a ladle full) of people from the whole consideration of humanity.

The Israelites were and still are that chosen people, yet the height of that symbol as the entirety of its intended usage reaches far beyond the exclusion of everyone else.

His chosen people as the "Instrument" of choice was and still are being used for the benefit of so many more as if the lineage of those God would eventually call His own.

His own meaning "His" children.

When will all humanity know who those people are?

Rom 8:20-21
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
NIV

Rom 8:18-19
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
NIV

Not until the creation itself accepts the truth for who He is as "The Son of God" that's been sent into the world to save it which then satisfies Gods original intention(s).

The passage below doesn't depict a physical blindness or inability to hear as if physically deaf. What they couldn't see, hear or understand were the depth of His intentions/purpose's for having been chosen.


Deut 29:4
But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.


Deut 29:5-6
5 During the forty years that I led you through the desert, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet. You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
NIV

Why did he take this approach?

Because as God says above, I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

The perception of the individual within the nation of said Israelite's would be much like the laborer that's trying to install of a 470 mile long row of fence post that's also supposed to end up being "Straight".

realized expectations of it being built straight without being able to see, hear or trust the one that's watching over its construction?

It would be like the those who built the great wall of China with the full expectations of the entire wall ending up completely straight. Only centuries later to find out by way of satellite photo's that it was actually as crooked as a winding river.

Why? Because man since the beginning has proven himself notorious for taking the path of least resistance.

This above passage was spoken from God during the time when His "Chosen" people were also being lead from captivity (from Egypt). Later the picture painted shows the same Israelites circling the same mountain and the same surrounding terrain (wilderness) for 40 years.

He didn't (just leave them hanging) by telling them that they can't see, hear or understand, but He then tells them the reason why He had yet to give them the ability to see, hear and understand.

Now copy and paste that suggestion together with what those of us today have been told AND believe because we trust the author (Jesus) responsible for the words below in red ink we've also been freely given as the truth.

John 17:25-26
"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you , I know you , and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
NIV

The complexities (corruption) of today's world have lead much of humanity to suggest that there's nothing that is also free.

How can this be said especially in western cultures while claiming to live within the state which claims to be the status symbol of  freedom?

Is it that we don't understand all that true freedom is or that true freedom can't be realized until it's been received as if it is Free (no charge)?

Could it be because those that say they believe in Him (Jesus) have not realized the reason God sent His son Jesus as our only savior (hope) as if true freedom?

In truth, can the man/woman of today claim ignorance as could the Israelites before God made it known to them the "Why" He caused them to endure as the entirety of all they went through?

Have said Christian's today become people much like the Israelite's (fence installers) which don't know (understand) why they're also considered a people that are free while still in the midst of a surrounding world that continues to inflict so much pain?

 "Freedom" was intended to be enjoyed, yet why is it that so many refuse to accept the entire unfolding of such a great love shown which (how freedom was paid for) provides this Freedom which only comes by way of having received the truth?

Without being able to understand where the roots of that same love stem from, how can anyone maintain the hope that's needed from day to day?

Enough to then find themselves able to truthfully comprehend this declared freedom from the hand of God that is said to be Love from which freedom also came?

Now consider those in the future which may or may not find themselves pre-pared for all the trials they might endure?


How much will our decisions and actions today prove in the future that we too love them as much as the Israelites proved?

How did they prove their love?

By maintaining their belief and otherwise blind trust in the living God which is over ALL humanity which also "Looks" to somehow enjoy their very breath that's been Given while finding hope within their existence here on this sphere of dirt, water, air.


Those which you have yet to see, hear or understand (comprehend) as the reason why the truth not only can set you free, but also affords them the possibility while enduring their existence in an otherwise cruel world at the same time.

He used those in our past to now show us what we must continue to do. He said this on their end of the project;


Neh 8:10
Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD  is your strength."
NIV

He has since made known to humanity the presentation of His Son as if the Only reason why should we choose to do as anything we do while simultaneously considering what we do is also Good.


John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
NIV

The commentary of Jesus His Only Son was;


John 16:33

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
NIV

Today (and not only on Sunday's) is that day and will continue to be until Our Lord decides to close the book where time as the world we now live in then ceases to exist.

He has blessed you in heavenly places by way of your faith in His grace, now receive it as something that is Free, because He does Love You.

That is to say regardless of what the surrounding world might otherwise suggest that you can somehow purchase by your own goodness as any realized Freedom which has attempted to present itself "as if" the Truth.


These are the words from the mouth of the one which paid the price as if our only hope of reconciliation with The God that is supreme.


Luke 18:19

"Why do you call me good ?" Jesus answered. "No one is good — except God alone.

NIV

Feeding the Fish

In my pursuit of the reasoning as to why common knowledge is in fact not as common as it used to be, I also discovered a quieting set of words, "Lexical Ambiguity".

Ambiguity of words or phrases is the ability to express more than one interpretation. It is distinct from vagueness, which is a statement about the lack of precision contained or available in the information.

Context may play a role in resolving ambiguity. For example the same piece of information may be ambiguous in one context and unambiguous in another.    <------I found this interesting, yet it sounds more to me as would a 76 year old person trying reason with the opposing opinion of a 16 year old.

Wiki-P went on to say...

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning (in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used). The goal of clear concise communication is that the receiver(s) have no misunderstanding about what was meant to be conveyed. An exception to this could include a politician whose "weasel words" and obfuscation are necessary to gain support from multiple constituents with mutually exclusive conflicting desires from their candidate of choice. Ambiguity is a powerful tool of political science.

The wordsmith from antiquity instead might simply suggest today, "Words which have found themselves at the mercy of present day reasoning"

Do words really evolve enough that they require continual adaptions made from one generation to the next?

Within this generational filtering of sorts, does a word stand the risk of losing the essence of its original content?

Does the so called broadening of one's thinking (process) also require the invention of words in order to accommodate a differing perspective?

The perspective which then becomes more relative or in reality is it just a form of new math where the more finite measure has been discovered which until now had not stretched what's already been established?

I once read somewhere about early space travel as to just how vague science can be. The thinkers of that epoch would do their math while trying to extrapolate the proximity as to where a space vessel launched from earth will hopefully land on the moon.

Through trial and error they discovered the importance of not only the decimal but also the value of mapping as to how each harmoniously labors within their final estimation(s).

Their harmonious purpose being, the heart of their concern as the more precise location as to where their launched space craft might actually land on the moon.

How did they (short term) resolve their fuzzy trajectory math formula?

They simply increased the length of the landing strip to somewhere near 500 miles long which was broad enough to accommodate their fuzzy math.

I can hear the landing confirmation from that space craft now, "Roger that NASA, we're Right on target"!

Now try to find a home for the words Ignorance and or Stupid in the above scenario?

How often has history proved necessary for those two words to somehow evolve?

Some might argue that their answer would depend upon context, yet I suggest that if the essence of man hasn't changed what has beyond his self reasoning?

One of the main obstacles within the pursuit of any science is that it doesn't first truthfully consider it's own limitations.

Limitation(s) to mean the very reason as to why any said science has yet to obtain the answers each also pursues while assuming those answers are also available.

The medical industry as a "Practiced" science holds the lead in this thought in my opinion. If not then why the need for medical malpractice insurance?

The mandate for medical science came out of the gates very strong. So much that during its industrial birthing it also maintained a written creed. A creed where all its practitioner's mutually upheld the mission statement as the betterment of their fellow man.

Believe it or not, but at one time Doctor's were not that well compensated for their efforts.

The same corruption which founds its way in enough to corrupt the heart of the otherwise innocent laws of economics's, has now become the same essence as the diseased heart which now thrives at the center of the Medical industry.

I also stumbled upon this (thanks Wiki-P) in my quest to know more.

James F. Wells, Ph. D., in his book, "Understanding Stupidity,"^[10] defines stupidity thusly, "The term may be used to designate a mentality which is considered to be informed, deliberate and maladaptive." Dr. Welles distinguishes stupidity from ignorance; one must know they are acting in their own worst interest. Secondly, it must be a choice, not a forced act or accident. Lastly, it requires the activity to be maladaptive, in that it is in the worst interest of the actor <--- (Now that's a mouthful), and specifically done to prevent adaption to new data or existing circumstances.


Try applying the thought of Lexical Ambiguity to the word "Actor" as used above?


The last time I checked that when someone ignore's established facts at some point they also had to consider those same facts leading up to deviating from the real worth which was at one time contained in them? 


What does someone wager whenever they hedge their bet against absolutes in life? Is it the thought that, "Maybe those said absolutes weren't entirely "True"?


In my thinking this should shed some light on the phrase, "On the brink of destruction"


Does that qualify as Ignorant or the mindset of the rebel of sorts?


In light of the Fight or Flight philosphy which over shadows humanity, where would the thought of stupid then find itself as it bears down upon the post event reasoning as if an investigation?


I wonder if there's a word which expresses, "You've been sold a poor rendering of the NOT so obvious things in life"

Etymology as a part time endeavor is quite the task by the way if you ever find yourself bored out of your skull or if watching paint dry doesn't cut it for you.

If people individually attempt to convince humanity that we're ALL evolving into something closer to "who we've mutually assumed we are" as a broad brush stroke, I have only one question before I get in that vehicle.

Where are we going?

It's one thing to state we're ALL one nation that's under God which is in fact true, yet it will be an entirely different reality within another day that not ALL remained willing to subject themselves to the dominion as if the fullness of His authority.

The ambiguous reasoning birthed from academia will always conclude there's something more or something different being conveyed through words.

Whereas true wisdom come down from the Lord of ALL creation will ultimately decide as the need for all things to reach their expected end.

In a season where one can find Free Will, that person should not ignore or misinterpret the intentions for which that same mercy was also shown.

Anyone can choose to say they were never In-formed which could prove to be true.

Yet having been In-formed is the active work by choosing not to Ignore the divinely understood benefit of Gods words which He sent, which also became flesh so that He did dwell among us as Jesus.

What was the intent?

To not only provide the symbol of His Love having been expressed and extended towards you, but also to provide the example as to how His words are capable of becoming flesh and dwelling here on earth.

Will you receive Your Savior that was sent as Gods Son or will you turn away together with the world that's been filled with snide remarks which have seemingly become nothing more than a mysterious riddle as the result of unbelief?


John 3:16-21

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 


Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.   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

Lest we forget the remedial life aboard the "Ship"

I particularly enjoyed the number four example Wiki supplied as part of their attempt to define the word "redundancy".


If we were to extract only the bold print below in an effort to sharpen a focal point concerning building relationships what might we see?

When I say "relationship" I want to draw that thought completely away from long term acquaintance's that have simply cycled their way through your life for one reason or another.

That to mean only those portions of your true and lasting character qualities extracted from those relationships and are now being effectually applied going forward.

Applied only becuase you've placed enough "Value" upon them that they've since been "Managed" well enough they've also survived the gauntlet of change leading up to the time of your reading this.

As if to say it's taken you however many years to have evolved into the "Who" the world around you now hopefully also gets to "enjoy".


redundancy:
4.  repetition of information or inclusion of additional information to reduce errors in tele-communication transmissions and computer processing.


Now, if we were to carve out (like trimming the fat from a choice piece of meat) your immediate (blood) "Family" relationships from that consideration we might end up eating a fairly small and lean piece of meat.


When I mention meat, I intend that to interpret as knowledge that becomes even more valuable after its re-evaluation enough that you take that knowledge with you where ever you might find yourself.


As a side dish lets examine the acronym TMI that usually gets interpreted  to mean "Too Much Information is being offered within the context of a normal and comfortable conversation".

Maybe it should be changed to "TMPIBO" to mean "Too Much Private Information Being Offered".

Where does private or privacy fit within the truthful context of a wholesome relationship?

Just food for thought here, but have you ever made the connection between the words conversation and conversion?

How much of what you say has found itself effectual in this world and "Why"?

Finding the enjoyment in conversation is as if a beckoning to find the way to somehow enjoy our like minded considerations in life.

Conversation which then blossoms into a certain type of fruit others then enjoy having returned in order to pluck it from our tree (personage).

The type of fruit that has enough nutrional value that one day that value can also be "realized" because if has brought health and well being into their lives once digested.

We can't become obseesed with all the reasons why NOT. Instead as if a people with a common cause enought that we stay focussed upon the WHO as the only reason we choose to continue the way WE do.

The older I get I can see larger portions as maybe why friendships are valued so much. Leaning more heavily these days upon the aged factor, I have also discovered there's actually more said between the lines of speech.

Those listening have so much more to process (digest) than simply the words which come from our mouths.

Dependent upon the listening audience there are word substitutions made throughout this exchange process. Part of that "Process" is what I call the "Rule of substitution" which is also where MUCH gets assumed.

As the remedy, old school might simply suggest "Mean what you say and say what you mean" at all times.

More specifically today in western culture there is less (meat) being conveyed by way of the spoken words offered in relational exchanges than is the substance found within our assumptions made as we attempt to communicate in our relationships. 

Thank God for music that mysteriously manages to remind us from time to time huh? Who knows that element could prove to be a fundamental dynamic as an associative influence with regards to a chosen genre'?

Ps 49:1-4
Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who live in this world , both low and high, rich and poor alike:  My mouth will speak words of wisdom; the utterance from my heart will give understanding. I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I will expound my riddle:
NIV

I truly see forgetting as either a blessing or a curse which usually depends upon its timing. If you don't believe me just ask the co-pilot that's found themselves lost in the Alzheimer storm within the vessel of their relationship!

We have evolved as a culture that's become more reliant upon our own familiarity when we do converse within said relationships. It's somehow found itself stowed away within the luggage at the opposite end of the Ship as something most would only consider as wasted space that's been taken by others.

Yet the thought of being held captive in the belly of a ship with most of those we've also become Familiar with would also cuase many a sleepless nights.

We've become so scarred within the processes of selection and culling out as the benefit of those relationships that we've accomplished nothing more than the hardening of the heart that in the beginning was inteded to express Love.

Part of whats also being ignored is the rate of erosion working from the opposite end of that thought. At it's heart might be the management of ourselves (person).

Maybe the more accurate queston should be "Is it the Person that's being mismanaged in this world or that persons concerns for the clock that has become their manager moment to moment"?

Maybe as Time that's been given which we do HAVE to "Spend"?

Spend yes, but on what and for what cause?

1 John 4:16
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

This erosion has accelerated to such a fast rate (time) that it's produced such a great obsession that it would take years (time) to rebuild the bridge that could span such a gap.

Does the world seem as if it's rate of rotation has caused the hands of time to become almost a blur?

How can that be said? 

Because it does require the "value" of time to increase as we age (valuable today in the futures market of tomorrow that's been encased in how we also see OUR own tomorrow) as if the main building block needed in order to build meaningful relationships which do last.

Last to mean the simplicity of the formula which in turn causes the opportunity to NOT forget as the very reason Why is has a need to also remain.

Cultural priorities today have become so skewed that when we attempt to apply old school math in our attempts to address this erosion, it then becomes the very factor (as time) which then takes an even bigger bite out of the formula needed to fix the problem.

Time can be re-measured by humanity, but the essence of time can never be changed by earth bound creatures which co-habitate within it.

I think Nike saw something in a brief moment when they reached out and grabbed this series of words "Just do it" yet I'm not as convinced of the enirety of what they failed to add as if  a response to the question "What to do"?

We'll constantly hear about the investments made in our friendship building efforts, yet the same assumption still gets made.

I once shared the essence of this thought with a man that was also a home builder.

I posed the question, "Suppose you hired a helper on the job site that didn't know what you were building, how helpful would that helper prove to be given enough time?

Who then becomes the keeper of that time enough to then say that enough time has since lapsed? The same dynamic is at play within the process where we cycle (usher) people in and out of OUR lives.


That word Investment gets placed on the table in order to suggest a common thread that's also relative to any and every said relationship that's "True".

I also believe the word True to also to mean something that's Real that can and does last forever provided we don't Forget why it's needed to build a relationship that will endure.

That is a relationship as one that Last having endured every test found within the breadth of time and circumstance.

Maybe like an Ark that's been built to endure the limits of the surrounding flood waters.

I hope you've enjoyed my rant, but there's one last question?

Hows' your relationship with Jesus the "Christ?

What Ship are you hoping to build with the limits of time you've been given?

SW

Fatal Wound

The simplicity of the Gospel reaches with ease in order to flush out the same wound all men have received.

Where is the beauty of your Savior in YOUR life?

Who is YOUR Jesus as the first born of those that will inherit eternal life?

Is the beauty of what comforts you also the thoughts of your own goodness?


Matt 19:17
 "Why do you ask me about what is good ?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good
NIV


Mark 10:18
"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good — except God alone.
NIV

Is your own goodness that you cling to include all the Good things you've done that will somehow save your soul in that day of revealing?

Will all your Good activity while here point to your reason WHY in that day that you sought for any reason to also do Good?

When will you truthfully meet with the terms of your imperfection which can only produce one result?

How long is YOUR list of good things you plan to rely upon in order to somehow cancel out who it is that you still reject and all that YOU continue to hide from?


Luke 10:25-29
On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

"What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?"

He answered: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

"You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."

But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
NIV

Don't you know you are but a window through which watchful eyes peer into this world?

Jer 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.Who can understand it? 


"I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct,
according to what his deeds deserve."
NIV

Where is the evidence of having been cured? Are you wandering the earth today with the mark of destruction upon your brow?

Where is the seal of approval placed upon your soul from above by your heavenly Father's His Holy Spirit?

Acts 15:7-9
God, who knows the heart , showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.
NIV


Eph 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
NIV

Have you gazed upon the Son that was hung upon the tree so that YOU may live?

Num 21:8-9

The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake , he lived. 

NIV

John 3:14-15

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.   

NIV

What day will your only cure be realized?

Where is your ticket to board the spiritual ark which has been built by the Lord whose intentions are to save you from the net result of a corrupt world that's been deceived by the Father of all lies?

Is the banner of warning written across the skies not big enough for your eyes to see?

Are you waiting for another sign to pass by in your undecided mind?


Luke 11:30-31
For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation.
NIV

Does the warning need to be written in blood across your walls by the hand that suddenly appears which has no arm?

Does the angelic realm need to visit you in your dreams with a flaming sword while standing on the pathway you've chosen before you'll consider the error of YOUR way?

The beauty of any freedom that's real carries the opportunity which allows you to choose.

Whereas the door closed in your face having waited too long presents the eternal regret of having rejected the hand of the only ONE assigned from on high that can save you.

There will be no one there to blame in that day.

No names or faces you present in that day will suffice as the excuse for having rejected the ONLY sacrifice assigned as YOUR savior.

The One assigned and sent from the only true throne in order to rescue you from the destiny assigned to a world of corrupt hearts.

Assigned as a day of such darkness the only things those corrupt hearts will be aware of in its midst will be their own emptiness having forever lost all hope of reconciliation with their heavenly Father.

To turn from your rebellion is to repent.

To turn towards the Son of God having confessed that you no longer reject Him as the only savior is your only hope while the light of His face is still turned towards YOU.

Repent, confess to Him before mankind and all those in the heavenly realm. Accept the seal of His baptism while remaining willingly to be washed by His words.

Allow Him as Lord to renew YOU by the grand entrance of His Holy spirit into your mind and heart.

Every wound is not fatal, yet the wound that has not been flushed out and renewed will bring about decay and death eternal.

Sacred findings of the Snag

When does a person truly know the one they've chosen to spend the rest of their life with?

It's taken many years to pull away from the historical practice where the parents were the ones to hand pick their child's mate for life.

Somewhere within man's wisdom this practice was over turned to then allow the child to hand pick their own mate.

What does that wisdom look like when arguments take on the shape they do within marriages today?

How much external influence plays a role in defiling what was once agreed upon through the vow of a sacred marriage?

What if marriage were thought of as the chosen venue where a man and woman collectively make the discovery as to what little they each assumed they "Knew" about Love?

It's easy to allow yourself to fall in Love with the idea that God lead you to the one that YOU eventually exchange vows with.

That said, where does that same insightful leading go the day the choice is made to fight against your previous persuasion as Gods choice for you?

Is it before pain comes that one second guesses their hand picked mate?

Where did wisdom run to that was once thought to be at the alter when vows were made?

Has the covenant of marriage changed or has wisdom simply out smarted the ones that have made changes to it's origins?

What if marriage were viewed as is God in that He does not change nor does His oversight concerning marriage?

Has marriage become the arena where immaturity meets its match within the strategic game of give and take?

Finding the exact strand to pull which can unravel the whole garment is not a science to be pursued anymore than allowing one snag to accomplish the same thing.

Have you ever purchased a sweater yet only after you get home you discover it has a serious snag in a highly visible area? What's your first reaction?

Do you take it back and insist that the snag was there before you purchased the sweater? Was the package sealed or had it been opened and handled by others before you purchased it?

How many snags were in your marriage before you took notice of them making the life purchase? Were those snags highly visible or were they hidden beneath a fold?

There is wisdom to be found within the counsel given in the years of youth.

Mal 2:13-16
Another thing you do: You flood the LORD's altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. You ask, "Why?" It is because the LORD is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth , because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.

Has not [the LORD] made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth .

"I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel, "and I hate a man's covering himself with violence as well as with his garment," says the LORD Almighty.
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It's too easy to simply say. "I just woke up one day and it was all undone"! It's even easier to just blame the one that was supposedly the only one that has changed since the marriages took place.

Many don't stop to think concerning their own aptitude to hold their own formal investigation of their chosen mate. Too many fail the entrance exam concerning the basics as to the Full expectations of Love.

Who has wandered outside the kingdom of Faith to find their companion which will one day provide the reflection of your own inability to follow wise counsel?

How easy is it to say, "I was duped after the fact" instead of insisting the voice that has lead you to where you are now doesn't also refresh the memories of your original choice made at the alter?

Is this is true, then who duped who? Did the counsel of Love drag you away from the covenant of your own intentions?

Choosing Life is the continual choice of true Life in the Lord. The Lord which has entrusted you with the breath of Life as His spirit.

If He's entrusted you with Godly offspring, never forget the obligation as such a care giver in the vineyard of the Lord.

If you loose sight of Life's reward consider how the fruits of your labor were then consumed.

Jer 3:24-25
From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our fathers' labor — their flocks and herds,
their sons and daughters.

Let us lie down in our shame,and let our disgrace cover us.

We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth till this day
we have not obeyed the LORD our God."
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True Freedom as the form of mercy shown is the opportunity to find Grace as the Wisdom of the Lord expressed as His Love through Jesus the Christ.

Wisdom is the chief principle. It's more than simply what works for only a short season and brings comfort as these things can change.

Change doesn't come without notice given. Unaware is having ignored the early warning.

Wisdom will always be proved right. There's always the "Right" way when circumstances surround any question at hand enough that doubt is removed as the dominate voice.

If wisdom has not promoted the question at hand, wisdom in turn will prove the motivation for opposition to be in error.

In terms of God holding the essence of wisdom in hand, scripture states with respect to the Lord's counsel, "Let God be true and every man a liar".

Somewhere else it says, "So that He may be proved righteous when He speaks".

Having assumed you also knew what you were looking for in a mate, did you simply miscalculate once again or was it just another series of misreads on your part having misjudged a persons character?


Is it easier to believe the person you chose has changed instead of realizing your own change which occurs also has to accommodate the one you could otherwise grow to despise?


James 1:17-18
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
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God is really among you

The weight of the Lords words sent in advance should bring a man to his knee's within the present freedom as His mercy was shown.

If not then surely the weight of His majestic presence will upon His return.

What does it mean when read, Do not judge or you will be judged"?

Is that to say everything is acceptable to God that we do because we don't judge others? No, surely not!

Leave room for Him to judge.



Matt 7:1-2
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. NIV

Acts 4:19
But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God
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Have we not already judged between the sinful nature and the Lord when we chose behavior considered as sinful?


Once again that would depend upon the Judge that does consider anything we do as sinful.


The benefit of words sent in advance of the Lords return were not intended for those that refuse to believe. They were intended for those which chose to believe.

If there be any real strength found in a freedom that's enjoyed, shouldn't it be understood as the opportunity to find the mercy being shown in that same freedom?

Every answer would depend upon believing whether or not your soul gets to enjoy an existance beyond this world once placed in a grave.

Matt 10:28
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul . Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.NIV

Choosing to believe not only the words said to be from Him, but to believe and receive those words because of the One which authored and gave those words to you as the form of His Son Jesus the Christ (Savior made available to the world).


 John 1:11-14
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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Believed so much that it becomes obvious to YOU, that is was His words (as counsel) which gave the strength to chose life in Him (which your soul will enjoy forever).

James 2:12-13
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgement without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!
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 James 5:9
Don't grumble against each other, brothers, or you will be judged . The Judge is standing at the door!
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Is this to say that you have no say in your own life? You get to decide! What lead you to wherever you are now?

Is this to suggest that your decisions made have no bearing upon your future?

What does the word say to you personally in this next passage?

Luke 6:37
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged . Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
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1 Cor 14:24-25
But if an unbeliever or someone who does not understand comes in while everybody is prophesying, he will be convinced by all that he is a sinner and will be judged by all, and the secrets of his heart will be laid bare. So he will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, "God is really among you!"
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1 Peter 4:5-8
But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to men in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit.
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray.  Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
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Subtle Betrayal

There is a common call among all men which speaks the truth in love.

 Prov 25:26
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
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Acts 3:26
When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways. - NIV

There are many ways people attempt to express "Facing the truth", but the reality will be the day when truth stares intently into your face concerning the things you've defended as if they've accurately represented the truth.

The image of a loved disciple seen leaning back against the physical presence of Jesus is not echoed below as the voice of one that "fell at His feet as though dead".

Rev 1:17-18
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid".

I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
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John 21:20
Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, "Lord, who is going to betray you?")
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Heb 12:5-6
5 And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons:  "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son."  
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How family are the words "discipline and disciple" which harbor their intentions?

There is a betrayal which will end in death and there are more subtle betrayal's which slowly lead others to their death having masked the truth.


1 Tim 4:6-8
If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
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2 Tim 2:19-21
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 ."

In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble. If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.
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James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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Matt 25:45-46
"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." NIV