All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck

About Dr. Robin Starbuck

Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

Just for you

Letter for YOU

IMAGINE:
Where you’re at
RIGHT NOW
Is just exactly right.
God may or may not
Have placed you there,
But one thing’s for certain:
He can use it … and you
… and everything you’ve
Ever faced, or done, or not done.
It’s the stuff – the clay, if you will –
And He’s fashioning it anew
Right now, just for you.

Traditional theology denounced

If I should ask You
To please come to me…
Come to my mind…
And my heart…
You’d be patient, right?
I should know better.
I should have known
You’re always within me –
Closer than my breathing.
But You’d be patient, right?
ANSWER: You mustn’t flip on Me.
We need to help others
To come fully into the light.
They’re always beseeching Me
To do what I’ve already done,
So, when they “invite” Me like that …
Well, it’s pretty good …,
So I smile.

Heal Yourself

When I was in smarmy mindset
While back, fulla nasty
Half-baked notions
Of all God isn’t,
How I loved to
Accentuate
Negative:
Sarcasm
Vitriol
Labeling
Dark humor
More sarcasm
Focusing what’s wrong,
I wondered why the joyless life?

Consciousness

Right now I’m more interested in the conscious awareness that surrounds the Loaves and Fishes than I am in the supply itself. It was the Spirit of God at work. I know I have the same mind – individually – as Jesus.

What is left to kill us?

Heal Yourself, Passing on

IF INDEED IT IS TRUE WHAT JESUS DID, THAT…..
1. sin,
2. satan,
3. the law and
4. death are all destroyed and done away with. What is left to kill us !?

Why do we feel we still have to die? Some interpretations are contradicting the truth that is written. The undeniable truth is that….

đź”»He took sins away.
#1 is done ➖“And ye know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no sin.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭3:5‬ ‭ASV‬ ~ also 1Jn. 8

đź”»He destroyed the devil.
#2 is done ➖“Since the children, as he calls them, are people of flesh and blood, Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature. He did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death,”.
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭2:14‬ ‭GNB‬‬

đź”»He fulfilled the law.
#3 is done ➖““Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to #fulfill the law.
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭5:17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬.

đź”»He made the law obsolete.
“In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first #obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭8:13‬ ‭NKJV‬.

đź”»Then He abolished the law
“having #abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, #the_law_of_commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2:15‬ ‭NKJV‬‬.

đź”»At last He abolish death
#4 is done ➖“but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,”
‭‭II Timothy‬ ‭1:10‬ ‭NKJV‬

DEATH was swallowed up in victory of the Jesus resurrection from the dead. “The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.”
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭15:55-56‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

ll Tim.1-10 says, ‘Christ has ( past tense) abolished death and #brought_life_and_immortality_to_LIGHT_THROUGH_THE_GOSPEL. Meaning we have it, but are not aware that we do have it. So He has enlightened us to this fact.

đź’Ą #ABOLISH BY DEFINITION MEANS…
To do away with; put an end to; annul.
To destroy completely. Hmmm 🤔

We died once with Christ, never to die again. Not even a physical death; if we can believe.
Annie Whitley Rimpson