Month: July 2015

Invisible Bridge of Love

We miss so many things on a daily basis. It saddens my heart when I see myself and others running over to quickly the things that matter most. I may never be debt free, financially set, possess all the things I dream about, bless my children, or go to the places I desire. You and I can have some things no matter our status in this physical world. I see us taking steps towards the invisible bridge of love by our eyes of faith into the sweet and blessed fellowship of the Spirit of God and His word. The only cost is our time and after that whatever our heart wills. We, unfortunately get to busy in this life in what “WE” call living. We rush by some of the most important treasures we could have in our minds, hearts, and souls that no physical things of this world could ever give us. I am making myself slow down and savor every moment with God and His word. For I know it is making me a better person inside and out irregardless of my classification in this world. Walk with me and see this invisible bridge of love that is in front of us everyday that all we have to do is look.

Jesus the man, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, with the fullness of God inside of him (Col. 2:9) walking among us headed towards a town called Nain (Luke 7:11). I believe this fullness of God inside of Jesus had the perfect Love looking upon us with patience, kindness, no envy of our earthly possessions, not boastful of who he was, not proud with a better than you attitude, not rude towards us, not selfish, not easily angered by our faults, keeping no records of our wrongs – but forgiving, no delight in evil, rejoices with the truth, always protecting us in various ways, always trusting for a better outcome, always hopeful for us, always persevering for our good, a love that never fails us (1 Cor. 13:4-8). As Jesus walked towards this town with a large crowd following him to see what he would do, but inside his eyes was the look of God’s invisible bridge of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (Gal. 5:22) gazing into all the souls.

Coming Down the Road:

As Jesus and the large crowd following him approached the gate to enter into Nain a large crowd was approaching the gate to go out of the town of Nain. The crowd with Jesus going into had the resurrection and the life with them. The crowd the mother going out had the death and the loss of a precious life with them. Life going in and death coming out. Life meeting death at the gateway of the town.  Jesus, God manifested in the flesh, saw the mother with a sight of complete clearness of her heart, mind, and soul. What Jesus saw specifically inside of her is unknown exactly, but whatever it was drew the compassion out of him to cross over the invisible bridge of love and said to her “Don’t cry” (Momma don’t cry). The life crowd and the death crowd are meeting face to face. Jesus walking past the mother touched the coffin and said “Young man, I say to you, get up!” The man who was in the grip of death was loosed by the hands of Life sat up and starting talking. Jesus gave him back to his mother (Luke 7:11-15). This is what I see: Jesus with one hand holding the young man’s hand sitting up in the coffin and his other hand holding the mother’s hand to receive her son. Jesus between them in a bodily form of the cross showing us the invisible bridge of love God has towards us.

Jesus changed the uncleanness of death to purified of life. He returned that which was lost to the mother all because he saw something inside of her that redeemed a second chance. The crowd of life following Jesus witnessed the crowd of death turned into life. Jesus said the time is coming and has come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear (key word is HEAR) will live crossing over from death to life (John 5:25, 24). This crowd was seeing a type and shadow of what Jesus was going to do on the cross for all of mankind. In one hand of the cross he had death and sin, the other hand he had forgiveness of sin by the blood of the lamb of God. He returns us to the fellowship of God no longer separated by the laws of death. All that is required of us is to have that something inside our hearts that causes Him to redeem us with a second chance.

That Something Inside:

After Jesus died on the cross, was buried in the tomb, and rose again to life on the third day he passed on the ministry he had received from God the Spirit to his apostles. A crowd was gathered again around the apostles and was made aware of their death sentence state, even though they were physically alive death was upon them. They wanted to know what should they do to be free from this coffin of death waiting for them. The invisible bridge of love from death to life was revealed to them to repent (turn away from sins) and be baptized in water in the name of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God applying the blood of the Lamb, which is in the name of Jesus, for the forgiveness of sins and receive the Holy Spirit just like the apostles for it is a promise to you, to your children (generations) and for all who are far off (Acts 2:38, 39). Jesus is still the bridge of love between us and God made visible by the word of God and His Spirit.

Let Jesus say to your heart “Don’t cry” (sorry for your sins), feel Him touch your spiritual coffin of death (water baptism in Jesus name), hear Him say the words of “get up!” (receive the Holy Spirit of life), and let Jesus return you to the fellowship of God our Father. Those same eyes are upon us right now as you are reading and as I am typing. I want my eyes and your eyes of faith to see this and feel this ever-present bridge of love every moment though invisible to the flesh, but undescribingly present upon our spirit. Are our thoughts alive and sensitive to Him? We cannot afford to read God’s word so quickly. His word is full of Spirit and life. May you start your daily journey with God having a quickness to hear with perception and understanding and a slowness to speak and anger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Omnipresent – How Far?

I was thinking about how God is everywhere while taking a morning walk in view of mountain ranges, a valley, woods, and homes when that still small voice of the Lord challenge me with “How far are you willing to believe I am everywhere?” Of course, I froze in that thought for a few seconds as my eyes where seeing this vast open space of grass, of trees, of the sky, and the mountains. I thought again, God you are everywhere. You are in everything I can see and the things I cannot see. Again,  “How far are you willing to believe I am everywhere?”

The Challenge:

OMNIPRESENT means present everywhere at the same time.

In thinking about God being everywhere at the same time. I was reminded what Jesus said about God that “God is a spirit…” John 4:24. Thinking about “How far are you willing to believe I am everywhere?” We often reach up to God and try to bring Him down to our level of thinking His all present, all-knowing, and all-powerful interpretation. This time I was attempting to take my mind and lift it up to God and interpret Him from His perspective. He did tell us the His thoughts are not our thoughts and our ways are not His ways. For our understanding He said as the heavens are higher than the earth, something we can see, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8,9). I have come to understand the God says things and does things on the level we can perceive and can understand, but we have to be willing to take a step of wanting to see and wanting to understand. Because we are born with a sinful nature our fleshly side does not accept the things of God, counts it as foolishness, and cannot wrap the fleshly mind around it in understanding, which leaves our spiritual side struggling to see things clearly (1 Corinth. 2:14). I realize it is okay to relax the thoughts about God, slowly look into God, and slowly absorb the vastness of God as it streams into our spirit. It is breath-taking awe when you feel the understanding coming over you.

Back to the view I had while walking with the thoughts “God is everywhere at the same time” I was looking at the grass, trees, sky, mountains, and anything in view of my eyes I began to think He is everywhere that I can see and not see. How can this be and how far does God go in creation? Atoms are the building blocks of all matter. Everything you can see, feel, and touch is all made of atoms. There are even things you cannot see, feel, or touch that is also made of atoms. Basically, everything is made up of atoms. God spoke His Word to create things, therefore everything is made of His Word. Could it be what we call atoms, the building blocks of ALL MATTER, is God inside all things holding them together? This would make God present everywhere at the same time. I have heard someone say, if I kick the dirt am I kicking God? Not kicking God Himself, but the material He holds together. They did not kill God on the cross they killed the fleshly material man called Jesus that was created from by which God holds together. You can’t kill God for He is an all present Spirit. Jesus (God in the Flesh here to save us) as a man hungered and as God he fed the five thousand men (not including how many women and children) with just a couple of fish and five loaves of bread. All matter is held together by God Himself by the power of what we have named as atoms. “How far are you willing to believe I am everywhere?” I believe God is everywhere at the same time. What about all the evil in the world? Why doesn’t God stop it? He gave the world to us and we chose to give it over to evil. He does not take back what He has given. We put evil in motion all over this world. It is totally up to us and what we do with it. It is what we have done with God’s material. We have taken the substance of this earth (plants, rock, coal,…) have created good things and bad things – the substance God holds together. We are His children and creating things is in our nature like our Father. The core of it all is what we have done with what He has given us. Whatever I eyes see, our ears hear, our nose smells, our mouth tastes, and our skin touches He is there, even in things beyond our senses.

Seeing God in this omnipresent light of being everywhere at the same time really challenges our minds, which is totally used to boundaries of understandings and limits. This would mean God as a spirit is so vast there is nothing outside of Him (hence One God). Everything is inside of Him. All of the earth, the sky, the stars and planets. Everything is connected to Him. God as a spirit there is no left side, right side, up or down. He is the left, right, up and down. We are the ones who need a left side, right side, up and down. For our minds to function and process we are the ones who need things we can see, touch, taste or smell. God can handle being everywhere, keeping it going with His power, and all of it connected to His thoughts. All the data from all things does not overload Him. He can process and react to all creation far beyond what a man-made computer could ever do. This is where we have to try not to bring God down to our level of thinking, but keep Him high and lifted up in His existence. No wonder the Bible speaks of the unapproachable light that He is in and no one has seen or can see (1 Tim. 6:16). It would be too much for us to handle and would explode us completely. This is why the Omnipresent God has always used things for all creations to communicate with and to be with. The cool part of all of this is He loves us and wants us to discover Him on a daily basis just like a journey that has good and bad in it along the way all the while He is there helping us to mature in wisdom and strength. Mankind is always trying to divide God into parts that man can understand when we need to stop our minds from trying to divide Omnipresent. How do you divide everywhere at the same time? He speaks through things near to you that you can understand. Moses – a burning bush that would not burn down; Balaam – a talking donkey that saved his life; Peter – a rooster crowing after his third denial of Jesus, and many other avenues of communications from God. It is easy to see the one God as Omnipresent speaking and doing things from all different directions only to be interpreted by man as a multiple or plural God because our minds cannot handle He is everywhere in every thing all at once at the same time, which is very scary to think about. All our thoughts and intentions of our hearts are instantly revealed to Him. There is nowhere to hide ourselves from Him. In the book of James chapter two verse nineteen says, “You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that–and shudder.” God can be One God because everything (earth, stars, solar systems, heaven) is inside of Him. This Omnipresent God is patiently waiting to see what we will do with what He has given us.

You may ask why is any of this so important? He wants us to know He is the One Omnipresent God. Awareness with perception and understanding is the first steps towards a true relationship with our Father before we see Him as our Judge for what we have done with the things He has given us both physically and spiritually. This Omnipresent God said in Deut. 5:7 You are to have no other gods before me. Is. 45:5  I am Lord; there is no other; besides me there is no God. Blindness is not meant for His children. Now, I am closer to understanding why the devils also believe in one God and tremble. I, too, wish to more conscientious of my words and actions. All of it is being recorded instantly to God as like David said in Psalms 40:7 I’m coming! In the scroll of a book it is written about me.

And eternal life is this: to know you, the one true God, and him whom you sent, Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah. John 17:3

What Did You Tell Them

Someone asks you about your loved one and you give them a short or long update about how they are doing. You see that loved one later on and tell them that a certain someone asked how they were doing. Your loved one asks you, “What did you tell them?” For a moment your mind stalls at the question hitting your thoughts. You reply, “What could I tell them?” “You haven’t given me much to give to them“. This statement sank very deeply into my spirit. “You haven’t given me much to give to them” was a rising sun of understanding deep inside my mind chasing away the darkness. We are automatically loading people around us with ideals of our present condition. We are loading others up with our present state of body, soul, and spirit so they can give an answer when someone inquires about you. If the one doing the answering is honest about your condition then the one receiving will walk away with a true word about you and if not honest a deceptive word about you. If you want to have a good report you have to give to others a positive outlook or if not a negative report will be concluded. Assisting or not assisting a status will be gleamed by others about you whether you like it or not seeing the facts of you attempting to being good daily or being negative daily. You caring or not caring about what others may think determines the answer to “What did you tell them?” Someone who is truthful, loving, and honest you should care about what you are giving them to talk about. Others who are not truthful, loving, and honest you should not care about what they think. You and I are giving to those around us good things or bad things daily whether we are aware of it or not.

The choices we make for ourselves everyday speaks louder than the words. I realized after thinking on “You haven’t given me much to give to them” that I am physically walking by people at home, work, in public businesses, and anywhere else I may go giving them impressions of my demeanor. I am loading up people with ideals by my outward appearance. If I am a smoker I am loading their nose with smoke in my clothes or from my breath. If I curse every other word as I am speaking I am loading their hearing with my education and attitude. The clothes I choose to wear will load their eyes with the categories of styles they have learned, which can range from someone living on the streets, addicted to drugs or alcohol, Gothic, religious, well to do…etc. If I shake someones hand and I have dirt or sweaty palms I am loading that person at my touch with a feeling about who I am. The people I like to be around and call friends is loading up others of who I am. “Birds of a feather flock together” saying means whatever your demeanor is determines the people you like to fellowship with. If you love misery you will hang around others with misery – misery loves company. If you like to argue you want to find someone to argue with. The places you love to go is loading up others of who you are and your present status whether it is sports, bars, country side, or cities.

I had an incident at my work place where someone wanted to get me in trouble. I am a person who likes to help others if I can. This someone made it known to the higher-ups in the company I was working for that I was refusing to do my job, which I found to be absurd. A boss in another department was a friend to one of the higher-ups and was told that I refused to do my job. I did not realize until now that I had been loading people up daily at my work place my attitude, work ethics, and personality automatically. I was just being who I am. The boss from the other department shared with me what the higher-ups were saying of which hurt my feelings because I like to live life with a good name and reputation. The boss told me he replied to his higher up friend that did not sound like me that he needed to talk to me personally because when ever this boss asked for my assistance I was glad to help if I could. I had loaded up this boss with answers to others that may inquire about me. It could have been good things or a confirmation that of bad things. I was just simply being myself everyday without any charades.

This is a slowing down moment and thinking about the lost their way loved one and saying,”What did you tell them?“, “What can I say?”, “You haven’t given me much”.  If the loved one had got back on the good and right track this would have given me, empowered me to give to all who asks a good report, but otherwise I am stuck with not so good words of their status, which brings sadness into the conversation lowering my heart into a looking downward gaze. What we give to others from the life we are living will be all they have when we are gone. How much of good things have we given to those around us whether in words or actions? When the light bulb of understanding turns on shinning in the area we can make better is the opportunity not only for ourselves, but automatically to others watching. We are an inspiration of good or bad automatically to all we come into contact with daily. You are giving even when you think you are not giving.

“In reality what do you give to others?” “What do you want to give to others?” I will answer this by saying I have done my share of bad things in life, witnessed bad things, and saw the suffering that went with bad things for a season. I came to the conclusion I did not want to do bad things, be around bad things, and stand by idle watching the suffering from bad things. There seems to be more bad things in life than there is good. I want to contribute to the good. I, also, found that being bad is easy, but trying to be good is what a real man or woman is all about. It takes effort and a price to pay to doing good, which afterwards there is strong sense of completeness and of accomplishment. In this conquest of leaving the bad things behind and going forward to good things. I found myself falling deeply in love with the word of God. Many people are giving to those around them the Bible is a bunch of don’ts, restrictions, a baseball bat, or fairy tales. Isn’t that amazing within itself people are judging the Bible and God by other people with or without God giving them what to say or do? What if God asked you, “What did you tell them?” meaning in the words you spoke or the body language you showed? Would you respond, “You haven’t given me much to give to them“? The Bible is full of God’s attempts into communicating, providing, and giving seconds chances to us – His children. I have gladly received and continue to receive His efforts to make my life a good example to those around me. He gives to me and I give to you.

I am asking myself, “God, what have you given me to give to others?” One of my daily prayers is: “I want people to see You beyond me, hear You beyond me, and feel You beyond me” because I know what Jesus will load people up with (goodness), more than I ever could. What has God given us to give to others? My first thought was the Bible and the next thought His Spirit. I can read His Word and find out how He thinks, how He feels about things, and what actions does He like to take. Reading His word gives Him the opportunity to give to me “What I should tell others“. I personally do not like to answer anyone with my opinion with taking a scripture here and there piecing together an answer I want to give, but an answer well-connected through out the Bible. Reading His Word also brings the fellowship of His Spirit. An example: while you are reading he is walking down the street in a great crowd you find yourself being one of the people in the crowd walking with Him as He stops and asks, “Who touched me?” You stop and look around finding yourself agreeing with Peter that the crowd is pressing against you. The calm voice of the Holy Spirit speaks to you saying I know who touched me and where the power went when it left me, but I want to reveal something inside of her to all (this is a giving moment). Standing in this anticipating crowd a woman came trembling and fell at his feet. What does this sight give to you and me about this woman? She explains the twelve years of suffering and no one could heal her. Is there really no one? How she came behind Jesus and touched the edge of his clothing and immediately her suffering stopped. The Holy Spirit takes the word and brings it to life inside of us just like when Jesus said, the words that I speak unto you they are Spirit and they are life. The Spirit shows you Jesus knew, but he wanted to extract out of that woman how powerful faith can be in the tiniest of things in God? This is what God gives us to give to others from His Word and His Spirit. It is up to us to visit God every day in word and in spirit asking, seeking, and knocking for the things He wants to give us, allow us to find, and open the door of opportunity (Matt. 7:7). So, that we may give to others good things. Let your faith be I might not have much, but what I do have I give you in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 3:6).

Have a great day in-spite of what may come your way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Within Himself – Part 1

“God is spirit…” and “…spirit hath not have flesh and bones” (Jn. 4:24 & Lu. 24:39). God the Father is Spirit and it is easy to see how God in His Spirit is omnipresent, which means He is everywhere at the same time. He is unlimited in Spirit whether you want to think in size, width, height, length, left, right, up or down. He is all these things at the same time. Being present everywhere at the same time makes Him vast beyond our comprehension. An attempt on our part to wrap our minds completely around God’s existence is an unapproachable and explosive to our thoughts (key word completely). In Job under the inspiration of the Spirit of God asked us a question, “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?” I am here to tell you, “Yes, you can know the mysteries and secrets of God because He wants us to know Him”, but you have to be willing to take those steps yourself. He has given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven to us, but not to all (Mt. 13:11). This is the part where we have to make ourselves stop bringing God down to our boxed in minds and lift our minds up into the heavens and see from His Spirit like Peter. Flesh and blood did not reveal to Peter the words he spoke to Jesus, but God the Father who is Spirit (present everywhere at the same time) gave this mystery to Peter’s mind (Mt. 16:13-18). The key words are flesh and blood did not reveal this unto Peter, but the all present Spirit of God was heard inside of Peter. All things came from within God as our faith from within ourselves see outwardly with understanding that the physical was formed by the invisible all present God (Heb. 11:3). I hope as you read that the Spirit will reveal to you how “From Within Himself” God has done everything and is still working from the Within.

 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Gen. 1:1). We can look up into the sky and see clouds, birds, and the sun shining. At night we can look up into the sky and see stars and the moon. From air crafts in the sky we can look down and see the land and great bodies of water. From space we can see the earth, stars, and other planets. Man can stand on a mountain top on a clear day and his eyes can gaze upon 100 miles of valleys, streams, lakes, rolling hills, and forests. What is difficult for man is to take what his eyes can see and perceive that God is everywhere at the same time in all that his eyes can look upon and beyond – the visible and the invisible. If our physical eyes could see from the ground of the earth all the way to furthest discovered star or planet we would still fall short in reaching the present everywhere at the same time God. As a small example when looking at God: physical computers upload and download billions of communicating information using electricity or battery power to do what they do. God’s presence, knowledge and power is in everything uploading and downloading with zero lag or down time. God is outside of time because He is eternal. We are inside time. He sees us the same clearly from the farthest known star system or from the smallest atom closest to us. This is how He can be the One God He revealed to Israel and in the Bible because He is everywhere at the same time – hence One God. You cannot divide omnipresent. God the Father, who is Spirit, cannot be divided. A house divided against itself cannot stand (Mk. 3:25). Can you imagine God in all His vastness trying to explain His Omnipresence to creation? There is no creation outside of God that can handle or comprehend God’s omnipresence, omnipotent, and omniscient completely? God has always gone through things to communicate with creation for He is that unapproachable Light that no one has seen or can see (1 Tim. 6:16). It is easy to see God in plurality forms when looking from the earth and the heavens because we cannot get outside of Him – He is One Omnipresent God (everywhere at the same time) only “From Within Himself” can we see. God reveals Himself in only a way that we can understand (Rom. 1:20) leaving us with no excuse.
God the Father, the unapproachable Light, the everywhere Spirit went through a spirit Image from within Himself of what He would be like for creation to be able to have interaction with Him and not die (key words – not die). Even God’s spirit Image, the Word “From Within Himself” that He communicated through to His creation was so powerful to the point of unapproachable that the Angels, eternal beings, had wings that covered their faces to His Holiness(Is. 6:2). It may be sinking in about now how a fearful understanding this is about the One True God being all present everywhere at the same time when you start to think He sees my soul, my spirit, my bones, my flesh, my thoughts, my attitude of my heart right now, that nothing in all creation is hidden from His sight. “Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account” (Heb. 4:12, 13 NIV). This adds a whole new meaning to all scriptures for instance: “For in him we live , and move , and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets have said , For we are also his offspring.” Acts 17:28. Everything is uploading within God instantly with zero lag.
From Within Himself:

God created everything from within Himself because you cannot get outside of Him – He is omnipresent (everywhere at the same time). The present everywhere God chose to speak through His Spirit Image, the Word, which is the only approachable part of God, a heaven and an earth into existence. In Genesis God in the Hebrew language looks like a plural God as gods and sounds like a plural God when He speaks. Keep in mind this One True God the Father is Spirit present everywhere with a spirit Image of Himself between us and Him because of the unapproachable light that we would die in if exposed to its purest Holiness. God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule…” It is strange to us when someone speaks to themselves, but it would not be strange if we spoke to our self if we existed all over the world. If I was standing in a market square in the United States and I also existed everywhere else including downtown Japan and started talking to myself in Japan it would not be strange, but completely normal for me because I am there and here at the same time. It is not strange that God the Father, the Spirit, present everywhere said to Himself, the approachable spirit Image “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule…” (spirit and form) because we are made in His Image. We are made of body, soul, and spirit – one person. For anything to be made in an all present everywhere at the same time God could only have a likeness to Him. No creation has the capacity to be God. This is why God chose and shared with the Abraham and his children that they may know, believe, and understand that He is “I am who I am”, “I am He”, and no god was formed, nor will there be one after Him, He alone is the savior (Is. 43:10, 11). God said, I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God (Is. 44:6). There is nothing outside of the One, True, All existing everywhere at the same time God. All births came “From Within Himself”, God created Adam from within the earth and from the breath within God. Man is made in the likeness of God. The complexity of man’s body design pales in the pureness of God Himself, but it is a pattern and symbols of God (Head with eyes, ears, nose, mouth, brains…, chest with heart, lungs…, lower body creation, legs…, all connected in one by nerves, blood veins… almost a solar system within itself). God created His children from within Himself. He, also, created woman from within man (took a rib) and the children of mankind are born from within. All births come from the inside.

This now leads into “From Within Himself” Part 2 understanding of why God placed inside of man the promise seed to deliver mankind, His children, from the hands of death, hell and the grave. From within man the savior would be born. God placed His spirit Image (the approachable), Word inside the birth generations of mankind creating the perfect Lamb of God to redeem His children another example of “From Within Himself” (Col. 1:13-22). I hope you see the fearful awe of God being everywhere at the same time. You will never be the same as you look around yourself and the creations around you, nor will you read His word the same seeing Jesus knowing and doing things that only an all present God could give to him to say and do.