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isen and because he is risen and is alive we who are his shall be resurrected to everlasting life with him where he has prepared a place for us in him we are sons and daughters of the most high god his plan his life his work god the father is satisfied his mercy extended his gift given his love in us his life in us do you see what he has done are you his are you in christ where is your hope if not in christ then in whom in what john 14 1 6 let not your hearts be troubled believe in god believe also in me in my father s house are many rooms if it were not so would i have told you that i go to prepare a place for you and if i go and prepare a place for you i will come again and will take you to myself that where i am you may be also and you know the way to where i am going thomas said to him lord we do not know where you are going how can we know the way jesus said to him i am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me our god is mighty to save read full post stumbling blocks posted in uncategorized on wednesday june 30 2021 leave a comment i almost wrote a story for a contest the prize was 20k i laid it out in my head and almost wrote it down to submit in the end i talked myself out of it i know no one needs another voice cluttering up space on the internet with useless words maybe i should have but i didn t and another opportunity to change my life passed me by without fanfare or notice it s not that i have nothing to say lord knows i ll talk your ears off if you re around me very long but that s just diarrhea of the mouth words being ejaculated without meaning or substance i should have something to say something of substance and worth in the end it was the lack of substance the lack of worth and the lack of courage that kept me from submitting anything would i read what i wrote probably not so why burden anyone else read full post in the father posted in uncategorized on friday june 4 2021 leave a comment john 17 15 22 i do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one they are not of the world just as i am not of the world sanctify them in the truth your word is truth as you sent me into the world so i have sent them into the world and for their sake i consecrate myself that they also may be sanctified in truth i do not ask for these only but also for those who will believe in me through their word that they may all be one just as you father are in me and i in you that they also may be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me the glory that you have given me i have given to them that they may be one even as we are one i in them and you in me that they may become perfectly one so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me is this real to you did jesus pray for you are you his are you in him as he is in the father here is our sure and certain hope that we are in christ jesus just as he is in the father because the father has given us to him and all that the father has given him he has lost none here in this verse we see that jesus prayed for all of those whom the father has given him not just the 11 12 counting paul the disciple out of time but all those who believe because of the word that they preached from that point forward think about it jesus christ before going to the cross prayed for every believer that was his here we also see the truth of sanctification and holiness both of which are not works that we do it s not something we gin up and is accounted to us because of our efforts actually just the opposite we do the works because of this reality that we are being conformed to his likeness that as we grow in christ we become more holy because he is holy and our sanctification is the outworking of becoming more christ like our works are not what sanctifies us our works are the result of our being sanctified our works are the results of our becoming holy just as he is holy as we become more in him we can t help but do those things that show outward authentication of who we are becoming inwardly if our holiness and our sanctification were something that we could do something that we could work up then we would boast in it we would be prideful in our boasting hey look at me look how sanctified i am look how holy i am but we know that there is nothing good in us all we can boast of is who we are in christ because of what he has done because of who he is because he has redeemed us to be his own if it was something that we did in and of ourselves how would we ever know that we had done it right enough or well enough or sincerely enough or righteously enough or that we did it with enough humility because at that point our humility would become boasting no it s all christ it s all him and it s all who we are in him what an awesome reality that it s not what we do it s what he has already done it s who he is and because of his love for us selah read full post awaiting eagerly posted in uncategorized tagged hope joy the gospel on wednesday june 2 2021 leave a comment hebrews 9 27 28 and just as it is appointed for man to die once and after that comes judgment so christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many will appear a second time not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him here again we see the reality and distinction of the resurrection we see the reality of the finished work of christ s death on the cross sin and the consequences of sin were dealt with and paid in full most christians even fail to fully grasp the enormity of this it is seen as a one time thing that saves them something separate from their daily life i know i certainly have been guilty of this christ was offered once so that we could benefit continually from his sacrifice that we might live daily in remembrance of what christ did on our behalf so that we are eagerly waiting for him i know the world and the flesh have been defeating me for some time now my eyes were focused on me my thoughts were only on me and all i could see was darkness then about a month or so ago a verse popped into my head and took root ephesians 6 12 for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places and so began my climb out of darkness back into the light that light is christ and christ is the resurrection and the life he is the good news it is the gospel we need every single day especially we christians how can we share what we don t possess if it s not real to us tangibly real to us and precious to us then what do we have to share some moral self help snippets there s no power in that the power is in the gospel of christ what christ has done when that is real to us real in us then we can t help but share what christ has done for us and who christ is to us remember when you were first saved remember the joy remember how you were so grateful for what he did that like the woman at the well you wanted to tell everyone that s the power of the gospel of christ in our everyday life that s our eager awaiting read full post life has meaning posted in uncategorized tagged beyond philosophy meaning theology on tuesday june 1 2021 leave a comment 1 thessalonians 4 16 18 for the lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command with the voice of an archangel and with the sound of the trumpet of god and the dead in christ will rise first then we who are alive who are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and so we will always be with the lord if there is no resurrection then our faith is in vain and we are left miserable for our life is only here and now if life is only here and now then there is no consequence for how we live if that is so then we should live to fulfill every desire of our hearts here and now aldous huxley understood this i had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning and consequently assumed that it had none and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption the philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do for myself as no doubt for most of my friends the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation from a certain system of morality we objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom the supporters of this system claimed that it embodied the meaning the christian meaning they insisted of the world there was one admirably simple method of confuting these people and justifying ourselves in our erotic revolt we would deny that the world had any meaning whatever but we have a sure and certain hope expectation evidence of the resurrection we are sure of our future resurrection because of the example of jesus christ s resurrection and with it life beyond death life greater than our mortal minds can even comprehend proving that this life does have meaning that it does have moral absolutes that there are consequences and that life is found in the one who has conquered the results of man s disobedience to his creator death hell and the grave jesus christ that is good news indeed read full post about the looking glass posted in uncategorized tagged enemies self deception self loathing on wednesday may 12 2021 leave a comment i see him every day looking back at me i see his contempt and raise him loathing we tried to be friends once we merely tolerate each other s existence now i m not sure i ever liked him now our enmity is our common bond i d spit in his eye but then i d have to clean the mirror read full post the unexamined unlived life posted in uncategorized on saturday october 31 2020 leave a comment who wants to live forever especially if the life was never truly lived if life was only a dreary existence in a tedious job bereft of passion and imagination would it really be worth living and yet here i am read full post re begin the beguine posted in uncategorized on saturday october 31 2020 leave a comment a lesson in failure and just how much misery one is willing to accept and tolerate the fact that i never followed through on this post is testament to the amount of failure i am willing to endure i never really understood the phrase you can lead a horse to water but you can t make him drink until now the horse has to want it and until you want it you won t do it and you won t want it until it becomes priority quite the commentary on my priorities isn t it i have been loath to write this particular blog as it highlights the fact that i failed the first time one thing about life is that it s always in flux always changing never really settled sometimes i feel that life is a series of attempts at nailing jell o to the wall case in point my battle with the bulge 7 years ago 8 now almost to the day i started a fitness routine and i was very motivated i worked very hard at it and i d lost almost 80 lbs but i then i ended up losing the battle i lost my motivation i lost my will i lost and in losing i gained everything bad back and then some 7 years ago i started off at 322 lbs it was bad really bad i had let myself go and i really didn t realize in how bad of shape i was i vowed that i would never let myself go there again it s amazing how well we lie to ourselves we tell ourselves we will or we won t do something and then turn around and do the very thing that we vowed we wouldn t today i weigh in at 342 5 lbs somewhere along the journey i fell into self sabotage i remember reading about self sabotage somebody said that self sabotage takes place because there s some some conflict some issue in our lives that is causing us pain or suffering and we know that we should do something about it but we don t therefore we react at a subconscious level sabotaging ourselves in other areas of our life an intriguing idea to be sure but no matter why i had begun a serious campaign of self sabotage against my efforts to lose weight and get in shape it killed my motivation and eventually as with most things in my life i quit again i m not saying this to necessarily beat myself up over it it s just stating facts so why do we do the things that we do i believe that we act out of either a great desire to make a change or fear or we just become so miserable that we i have no other option i would like to think that i am acting out of a deep desire to become healthy and and get in shape but the reality is this time around it s the misery factor i have become so miserable in my own body that i ve got to do something the thing about losing weight and getting in shape is that it s never done it s a doing that will never be done because when you stop doing then you re done read full post islands posted in uncategorized on saturday october 31 2020 leave a comment john donne said no man is an island i submit we have become just that individual islands we are not self sustaining islands but islands nonetheless more and more we insulate and isolate ourselves the more we detach from others the more we see others as a threat at worst an inconvenience at least the farther we draw away the easier it becomes to shut others out it s a spiral it s a designed spiral the less we are around people the easier it is to dehumanize them once we start down that path we are lost and i fear that in america these days we are a long way down that path already read full post as sparks fly upward posted in uncategorized on friday april 17 2020 leave a comment there are many truths that we take for granted each day but we still rely on them to remain true we rely on the sun breaking the eastern horizon every morning and bringing us light for a new day we rely on gravity to keep us grounded but not so excessively that we are not able to move around we rely on our senses to tell us something is hot cold wet sharp painful sweet or sour odorless or putrid we trust when we feel heat something may burn us when we feel rain we know we are going to get wet there are other truths that we recognize regarding our feelings and emotions love hate indifference foreboding happiness joy and justice these are the intangibles that we call intuition gut feeling or our inner voice we know something is wrong but we don t know why we sense someone is insincere but we can t put our finger on it we connect with someone almost immediately and we call it chemistry each of these are real and true even if we can t give a tangible reason of proof some of these intangibles are the anchors in life love beauty faith justice hope and friendship these are defining factors in our lives i would even say they are life sustaining life can become very dark for us all some times and at times it can become totally blackened wars 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