The Holy One calls to me this morning. A while back, at a time when I was being stubborn with the Lord in my faith, the Holy One said, "I know you trust My Will but do you trust My ways"?
Since that time, God's ways have been at the forefront of my thoughts. I pray and seek to understand the mysterious ways of Holiness. In the circumstances that touch my life, I am aware that God's ways are much higher than mine. I cannot begin to fathom the mind that sees all things at once; the end from the beginning as it stretches out and beyond the small sequence of a human lifetime upon the earth.
The Bible is a record of 7000 earth years that somehow sits in time and space as a brief and small interlude on eternity's time line. God's ways, being higher than ours, are beyond our grasp, as His thoughts and His Will deal with a multitude of factors and unimaginable connections in creation, from people to the situations they experience.
The Prophetic words spoken of Christ's first coming traversed years and generations to the point that God's ultimate plan for our salvation and the details of the Savior's life foretold are beyond the odds of it happening outside an eternal plan.
Knowing that God is eternal and His plans for mankind were set long before He created Adam and Eve, means that He foreknew the Garden, He foreknew the snake, and He foreknew the fall. He also ordained the mission that sent His Son to die on a Cross, crucified for man who thought he should be like the Creator, knowing good and evil.
The concept of the world, like the concept of the Creator is vast and so hard to fathom. The millions of people in different lands, cultures, time zones, and family groups are foreign and strange to me. But the Internet has suddenly given me the ability to connect with people far away and in real time.
Through the use of the Internet to communicate with people far, far away the world and the unknown have become more manageable. What was, in times past, a world so vast and unknown to me, is now brought into my daily life. Even the language barriers have been leveled by a program called "google translate". The Internet facilitates communication with those of "another" world other than the one I am confined to by geography and time.
The Bible is the Living Word of God. It is living because it is powerful and adaptable to every generation and life circumstance of man. Heb 4:12 says, "For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than a double edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and Spirit, joints and marrow." God spoke into the world He created, Different men were given the assignment to record and protect the priceless communication between the Creator and the created.
God is Spirit at this moment. He can be felt and heard but not seen. His activities and the effects of His Presence become visible, but He himself remains ethereal. That begs the question, "How can we who are fleshly tangible begin to relate to the One who is Ethereal"? How can we who are flesh and blood relate to the One who is Spirit?
The answer to that is in the pages of the recorded account of God's relationship with man which is His Word, The Bible. Each and every page is informational and directional. Our lives today are symbolically spoken of throughout the pages of His Holy Word.. The most important thing to understand and accept is that the Bible is God's method of communication with His Beloved Creation. The Bible is not just a history book or a poetry recital, but the Bible is God's love letter written to and for those who desire relationship with Him.
The Bible speaks from eternity and bridges the time and space gap that exists between us and our Creator. Just like the Internet shrinks the vastness of the global world, the Bible shrinks the vastness of eternity. Like communication with someone in a far away land, brings them close to heart and home, the Bible sets up the communication between us and the One who created our being. And just like the Internet keeps us informed about temporal things, the wisdom of the Living Word offers practical insight from the perspective of the One whose eyes see it all.
Every person who rests under the shade of the Cross of Jesus Christ; everyone who has made the transaction with the Savior Son of God and had their sin removed, has the ability to comprehend and know God through the written, Living Word He has provided.
What was once a foreign language to the heart and mind now comes alive with understanding. The Holy Spirit interprets. The supernatural intersects with the natural, the ethereal communes with the tangible, and the Creator of our being comes into focus.
I delight in the reality that I can know God's Will because it is written. His Living Word is His Will. By the Presence of the Holy Spirit, I can not only know His Will but I can also begin to trust His mysterious ways.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
Since that time, God's ways have been at the forefront of my thoughts. I pray and seek to understand the mysterious ways of Holiness. In the circumstances that touch my life, I am aware that God's ways are much higher than mine. I cannot begin to fathom the mind that sees all things at once; the end from the beginning as it stretches out and beyond the small sequence of a human lifetime upon the earth.
The Bible is a record of 7000 earth years that somehow sits in time and space as a brief and small interlude on eternity's time line. God's ways, being higher than ours, are beyond our grasp, as His thoughts and His Will deal with a multitude of factors and unimaginable connections in creation, from people to the situations they experience.
The Prophetic words spoken of Christ's first coming traversed years and generations to the point that God's ultimate plan for our salvation and the details of the Savior's life foretold are beyond the odds of it happening outside an eternal plan.
Knowing that God is eternal and His plans for mankind were set long before He created Adam and Eve, means that He foreknew the Garden, He foreknew the snake, and He foreknew the fall. He also ordained the mission that sent His Son to die on a Cross, crucified for man who thought he should be like the Creator, knowing good and evil.
The concept of the world, like the concept of the Creator is vast and so hard to fathom. The millions of people in different lands, cultures, time zones, and family groups are foreign and strange to me. But the Internet has suddenly given me the ability to connect with people far away and in real time.
Through the use of the Internet to communicate with people far, far away the world and the unknown have become more manageable. What was, in times past, a world so vast and unknown to me, is now brought into my daily life. Even the language barriers have been leveled by a program called "google translate". The Internet facilitates communication with those of "another" world other than the one I am confined to by geography and time.
The Bible is the Living Word of God. It is living because it is powerful and adaptable to every generation and life circumstance of man. Heb 4:12 says, "For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than a double edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and Spirit, joints and marrow." God spoke into the world He created, Different men were given the assignment to record and protect the priceless communication between the Creator and the created.
God is Spirit at this moment. He can be felt and heard but not seen. His activities and the effects of His Presence become visible, but He himself remains ethereal. That begs the question, "How can we who are fleshly tangible begin to relate to the One who is Ethereal"? How can we who are flesh and blood relate to the One who is Spirit?
The answer to that is in the pages of the recorded account of God's relationship with man which is His Word, The Bible. Each and every page is informational and directional. Our lives today are symbolically spoken of throughout the pages of His Holy Word.. The most important thing to understand and accept is that the Bible is God's method of communication with His Beloved Creation. The Bible is not just a history book or a poetry recital, but the Bible is God's love letter written to and for those who desire relationship with Him.
The Bible speaks from eternity and bridges the time and space gap that exists between us and our Creator. Just like the Internet shrinks the vastness of the global world, the Bible shrinks the vastness of eternity. Like communication with someone in a far away land, brings them close to heart and home, the Bible sets up the communication between us and the One who created our being. And just like the Internet keeps us informed about temporal things, the wisdom of the Living Word offers practical insight from the perspective of the One whose eyes see it all.
Every person who rests under the shade of the Cross of Jesus Christ; everyone who has made the transaction with the Savior Son of God and had their sin removed, has the ability to comprehend and know God through the written, Living Word He has provided.
What was once a foreign language to the heart and mind now comes alive with understanding. The Holy Spirit interprets. The supernatural intersects with the natural, the ethereal communes with the tangible, and the Creator of our being comes into focus.
I delight in the reality that I can know God's Will because it is written. His Living Word is His Will. By the Presence of the Holy Spirit, I can not only know His Will but I can also begin to trust His mysterious ways.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
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