The “reason” people don’t rebuke negative thoughts enough is that they only visit God briefly and sporadically rather than hanging with Him, getting to know His lingo and His great willingness to be the answer to their every need.
WHAT IF Christians were to quit focusing on whether or not their Papa (God) likes hearing them refer to themselves as wretched, and focused rather on the immensity of God’s universe, including its seemingly supernatural realms which reveal themselves first on a quantum level and then are explained logically enough so that ‘he that hath an ear’ can hear and understand!
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN AD70 HAPPENED ? . SLEEEEPING !!!!!! . LET’S ARISE OUT OF SLEEP . THE BIBLE WAS NEITHER WRITTEN FOR NOR ABOUT YOU !! .
Neither Jesus nor Paul nor a single O.T. writer was projecting thousands of years into the future to tell you that you’d be going out and looking on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against God. But this did happen in AD70 in Jerusalem.
Jesus himself quoted the Bible’s prediction of it:
Mark 9:47-48
And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where
“‘the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.’
Jesus was paraphrasing Isaiah 66:24
“And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
THANK GOD ALL OF THIS ALREADY HAPPENED !! Where were you when you realized that God had set you free?
Psychologically speaking, man’s tragic flaw is deciding what he must have – without which he’s a borderline basket case! Gotta have this much money, this position, this woman, this degree, this level of I don’t know what, before he can be happy. He always comes up short. And he’s always waiting for a future event, if he’s even lucky enough to have a modicum of hope!
But God (love those two words: “But God…!) never intended it to be that way. He gave us – as His image and likeness – the fullness of Himself, as far as we’re capable and willing to open our minds to. He lives on the inside of us and takes over all our shortcomings if we’ll only let Him.
In the fleshly realm – which most people believe to be the only, or the most relevant – realm, it’s extremely difficult to comprehend the magnitude of God [in Whom we live and move and have our being] but looking beyond the physical realm, we can learn to see that proofs of His ever-presence and omnipotence abound everywhere – exhibited in the most amazing miracles imaginable.
Questions about what happens after death ought to be answered spiritually, but are usually treated as material questions! In the fleeting physical realm, it’s anybody’s guess; but, stepping into the spiritual realm – where God resides – everything becomes crystal clear. It is the realm of God in which healings and miracles preponderate while the entire so-called material universe loses its fixity.
Alas for the Truth-seeker, however, who finds it astronomically difficult to trust that it is the spiritual realm – not the material – that palpitates with verve and solidity: dynamic, impermeable and free!
Rethinking the question – from the material to the spiritual realm
When we come to realize that WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST – the mind of God – WOW !! . Think about it!
Think l-o-o-o-o-ng and hard about it! . WOW !!
I HATE RELIGION. THERE !! . I SAID IT !! . MAN-MADE RULES AND REGULATIONS AS TO HOW I SHOULD WORSHIP !! . PUH-LEEZE !! . I AM SO HAPPY JUST LOVING JESUS (WHO FIRST LOVED ME) !! . I NEVER KNEW I – A MERE MORTAL – WAS CAPABLE OF LOVING SOOOOO MUCH !! . THERE’S NO PENALTY, NO UNREQUITED LOVE !! . NOPE !! . ENTERING THE SABBATH REST THAT -I-S- JESUS IS AN UNFATHOMABLE JOURNEY OF LOVE AND JOY AND LIFE AND FULFILLMENT UNSPEAKABLE.
The kingdom of heaven is discovered in quantum physics
It has always been God’s nature to have us look up higher, out farther, and even within further to find Him. Once we recognize that all we’ve ever known about God could fit into a thimble compared to what is about to unfold, our whole world will respond by giving up its supernatural secrets.
Jesus has told us emphatically that we can and must do even greater things (miracles) than he has because he’d be rejoining our Father.
John 14:12 KJV
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Nothing is as it seems and will continue to be less and less so in the face of the true universe of God’s creating. Talk about “too good to be true news”, can you fathom “too infinite not to be true” news? There’s just no going back!
One single person, imbued with the Spirit, can start a wave of unmitigated excitement that effervesces into sheer jubilation at the spectre of discovering … a whole new world! With a combined working knowledge of quantum physics as well as the word of God, any one of us could start raising men’s consciousness to receive the fact that so many interpretations of universal descriptions can and do occur simultaneously and are inextricably entangled – one with another.
One single fully equipped and aware man or woman of God has it within their power to awaken the entire world to the everywhere presence of God’s infinite kingdom where the supernatural and the so-called natural intertwine as One.
Let us all support one another’s guidance of the Holy Spirit, drawing us and unfolding God’s kingdom. Let’s keep the reins on human hubris and recognize that yes even we can afford to listen to the least likely messenger(s) because we can know exactly how, where and when to discern Truth.
I just love it when someone else comes along and spells out – step by step – exactly how we can make a leap of faith that otherwise seemed prohibitive, especially if that person is super famous and well anointed:
“Don’t waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. You’ll presently come to love him.”―CS Lewis
Don’t be afraid to love. Act like it and your feelings will catch up!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DON’T PUT YOURSELF BETWEEN ANOTHER PERSON (especially me!) AND THEIR RIGHT AND PRIVILEGE TO BE TAUGHT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND NOT BY YOU. YOU’RE NOT GOD !!!
● Don’t “correct”, but just suggest.
● Don’t start the same old, tired, debate with anyone who doesn’t want to.
● Don’t fire off scriptures like weapons aimed at personal injury.
● Really listen instead of always speaking.
COURSE CORRECTIONS
Oh, how I wish I could just simply be a living sacrifice for God – in a flash – but it is a process. I start off in the way I think is most nearly right, but, alas, I go off again and need yet another Course Correction. I’m like an astronaut – Lol !
Just get started on your godly plan. You’ll go off course soon enough – that’s a given! The next step is to make course corrections.
People just haven’t learned enough yet about the ever-presence, the palpableness and the ecstatic Joy of the spiritual realm!
The Kingdom is here!I think a lot of the confusion and difference of opinion about the Gospel lies in the fact that most teach a different Gospel than what Jesus and Paul taught! Paul spoke on this. Here is how I see it. Jesus came to restore what Adam caused to go wrong. He taught how to live on earth in His Kingdom, not to pass out tickets to Heaven to the select in crowd. His Gospel was to help and fix the problems here on earth. It only speaks of a Kingdom that is here now, not a future time when we go to Heaven. Heaven is a realm, or Dimension that exists alongside ours. When our body dies, as they always were meant to do, we immediately, in the twinkling of an eye, enter the Heavenly realm and forever remain with the Lord. He did not come to give us a way into Heaven; we always had that. He came to restore abundant life here on earth, and so many don’t want what He came for, but just want to escape earth. It’s like they are saying, thanks for nothing Jesus, just get me out of here; I don’t want what you are selling! That is why Paul always prayed for the Lord to open the eyes of their understanding so they could see the Gospel and the Kingdom! PS, The Kingdom is here now and there will never be an earthly physical Kingdom!
~ Tim Heart
