Slow down. Read scripture more slowly. Let the words read you.[Jo. 10:27]
We read the scripture. But when the
scripture reads you, you may absorb each metaphor. You may enter every example
of scripture with your own personal experiences.
No illustration means much until you can feel it and live
it.
Remember, Christian people exist as representatives of
heaven couched in a culture that actually ends in death.
The Kingdom of God remains mysteriously
buried with all the potential of the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom stays submerged
in persons because it flows with Jesus Christ who is also embedded in persons.
What is the implication of
knowing Jesus and the kingdom? The purpose establishes an interactive
relationship of love that becomes a social bond among Christians. We are to follow
a course of God’s love.
Although we may not all
agree, we are to flow with the kind of love that not only tolerates mistakes,
but lives to establish a heavenly path on earth.
Flow with the love.
One of the writers of
the New Testament gives us an amazing thought about our failings. He says that
through the blood of Jesus Christ, God poured out his overflowing kindness by
forgiving our failures, that He decided to reveal his mystery to us through
wisdom and insight and He brought all this into our history and decided to do
this even ahead of time. [Eph. 1:10-11]
Nothing
is ahead of time. Nothing is ahead of existence yet God is the origin of existence.
What
else can be said.
Heavenly Father be our journey.
Son Jesus be our words.
Holy Spirit be our shield.
The
belief about the Trinity is that God is one God existing as three
different beings: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The
idea is not tritheism as in three gods working in some harmony. Harmony
implies one or the other would have to give up some power for the other to
operate.
The
idea is not unipersonalism when sometimes God takes the form of one
personality and at other times, the form of another.
Or Trinity
is not some other designation [ not yet labeled] that would say God just takes
on the form he chooses at different times, who can argue, after all he is God!
But
true Trinity sees God in three persons who know, love, and receive each other
as equal but may seem to perform differently yet sustaining permission of each.
They have no contradiction operating as one, or to us what seems separately,
because they can [ all three] operate as one, at the same instance without
contradiction.
God
is basically one as he is essentially three. He is essentially three as he is
basically one.
We think in literal time: this is to
this, as that is to that, thinking.
God
has ultra-literal, many lateral kinds of thought, another kind of time
operating with perfect vibrations.
When we look at an eclipse, when we view a newborn babe,
when we lose ourselves in the beauty of a flower, bird, or deer. . . we
experience awe, wonder, a kind of magnificent glory. Sometimes the feeling is
mystery, sometimes delight, sometimes sadness. The feelings run up and down the
glory scale.
The most amazing thought though is when Jesus prayed for
us to share in his glory, the kind he shares with heavenly father John 17:1-3.
What is it?
His glory is to be a part of everlasting magnificence,
eternal existence that never fades, that the item itself, like a flower is not
only bringing awe but exists as beauty in itself, just like the Son of God. He
does not just bring glory; he is glory, and he shares.
History changes. Culture changes. Science changes. Technology
changes. Values change. Complex life
conditions change. On and on changes happen every day. We get dazzled, confused, misled. What do we
hold onto?
The scripture offers an astounding truth, based on the
ultimate/reality truth that never changes.
“If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.”
[John 14:14]
Whoa……. That is a big one! Based on what?
“So Jesus answered and said to them, assuredly, I say
to you, if you have faith and do not doubt . . .” Mt 21:21
We take a deep breath and grasp the faith.
