TRUST GOD

Whether it was the killing of one man with one rock or the killing of many with a homemade bomb via easy access to the how to and the simplest of ingredients, NONE of the remedies you advocate will solve the problems. Their is SOMETHING that will bring change that IS within our grasp! DO THIS: Put your faith where your mouth is, 2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, (note it is us do gooders he is addressing) to (1) humble themselves and (2) pray and (3) seek MY face and (4) turn from their wicked ways, (surely He doesn't refer to our own wickedness! I wax facetious), THEN, I will hear from heaven, and I WILL forgive their sin and WILL heal their land. " I ask you why do you have faith in your fight over how to stop the violence rather than faith in the simple word of God? Do you believe God? Do you believe the scriptures? If not then what do you base your Christianity on? We must return to faith do it God's way. Trust God. Trust God. Do your part which is putting action to this scripture. I can humble myself before God, I can admit my own wickedness (only He is righteous) and pray and seek God's face AND turn from wicked ways. Then He will do his part and forgive MY sin (not that of the reprobate, get that? MINE ( I am the called by His name, Christ follower) He will hear, forgive me, US and HE will heal our land! THAT is our hope and only THAT will bring change."

Are You Perplexed? I am!

There are churning perplexities in life that drive me to seek answers. Sometimes the answers become apparent when I begin by expressing things that I do understand. I understand that mankind is capable of great good and great evil. I understand we each have in us to do good or evil. We have choices and reasons for making certain choices. There are also the choices that seem to be made for us. Then there are accidents. Accidents caused by our own negligence or that of others. Some by our inexperience. Some which happen due to no one or we say an act of God.

There is also something to be said of influence. We are influenced in what we do and don't do. There are interior influences and exterior influences. There are the accurate summation of things, and inaccurate summation of things. There are those things once experienced and reflected on that we change our thinking. We are simply complex.

Some decisions, some choices we get the counsel of others in making. Sometimes we seek counsel of the unwise. Sometimes we seek counsel of the wise. Sometimes we are wise in our own eyes. Care must be taken. We must call on good sense within.

The highest cost is sometimes paid and the harvest of excruciating experiences and circumstance can come as the result of ill considered decisions. Sometimes there are answers other than the one we think we have.

I put my life in God's hands. I trust Him for the good outcome based on everything I have read in the Bible.I seek His help from the unseen realm and trust in Him for it. The bible says that He has a plan for my life and that it is a good plan for good and not evil. I must continually bow my pride to His will and way. I am reminded of my sin through this flesh I live in and often repent and start a fresh with God in the lead rather than me. Believe me, I have made plenty and too many mistakes and bad decisions going my own way.The Lord IS my Shepherd. He doesn't let me veer far from the path. His rod and his staff comfort me. He reminds me of the path, of my boundaries in which I have free reign.

I can't leave my life to the four winds of happenstance. I bow to God who created the universe and sent his only begotten son to be the only worthy sacrifice once and for all time. Through one man sin came into the world and destroyed perfection and bliss. Through one man God is satisfied and restores paradise to those who choose to become His children. 

I am reminded that when I don't know the answers for why things happen in my life or the lives of others. When I am not quickly given insight to things that perplex me I am reminded that no matter the situation God causes all things to work for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.

Romans 8:28
 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Sometimes the answer is that there is no answer, but to trust God. 

Isaiah 30:15
 For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength:

Beneath the quiet surface

Beneath the quiet surface I find polarities engaged in  a rivalry. Perhaps you share a similar experience.

I find there's one pole that makes demands of me to dig deep within to speak out, to stand up on issues that are weighty. The INSISTENT. The other pole pulls me to follow. THE BLISS, my bliss' heaviest requirement is to abandon the other. One entices the other sort of tramples. By nature I must protect and nurture. So we perform the dance of  checks and balances.

 I realize there are two children inside me that need developing, bringing along to maturity. How could I possibly choose one over the other? I cannot. Each one has its' important place in me and as the parent I must do what I can to satisfy each to actualize. I realize the squabbling between the two has caused this parent distress, depression, and to seek ways to escape the rivaling children inside. Now...now that I understand, I see my path more clearly.

I know this is no small thing. It may not be easy but it will be fulfilling. For the person who is me will become a functioning family encapsulated in one body of flesh assimilating to my highest self. Self actualization which is what the spiritual self aspires to and the spiritual Guiding Light within me has created me and you to become. A rite of passage to be celebrated in humility when the time comes. I am at the threshold, I get a glimpse of something larger than the sum of the parts. I call out for help for I know I will need it here in the state of liminality.

Psalm 121

A song of ascents.

¹ I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
    where does my help come from?
² My help comes from the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven and earth.

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