Look down at your feet.
Is that You down there?
Or, are those Your feet?
Now go to your knees
Are they You?
Is your waist You
Or, yours?
Go all the way up your body
To the topmost hair on your head.
It isn’t You, is it?
So, where in the world are you?
I am not in my body and I am not my body. I am living my Father’s life and He is living my life: I and my Father are One. God is the life of me, the being of me, the soul of me: my body is the temple of the living God.
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When we become fully aware of God within us, prayers for ourselves become redundant and unnecessary because we already have everything we could possibly want within us. A child of God will literally pray for his enemies instead and come to realize that praying for one’s enemies is tantamount to having no enemies. And that’s a very lovely place to be!
Speak unto this mountain and tell it to fall into the sea was not about murdering all the people that were around and on the mountain: it was about seeing the will of God done in our lives. Yes, it is about our empowerment since God Himself is within us. How God’s way gets carried out amidst a myriad of disparate wishes and opinions is a piece of cake for God Almighty! He stretches and suddenly they all come together miraculously! Then believers – true believers – in ecstacy start praising God while psychoanalysts and demon pursuers start explaining things away until finally they come under God’s dominion as well!
Turning to God (quite a gymnastic trick since He’s inside you) can bring a world of … healing … to any situation, from a baby’s booboo to the impending devastation of the entire planet. The absolute WORST thing you can do – in this regard – is to put God to a test that could best be described as ‘Let’s just see what God’s gonna do for us who have zero confidence in Him, who believe miracles are tantamount to fairytales, and who would throw a monkey wrench into the efforts of those who “blindly” believe that God lives on the inside of them.'”
We are living in the “last days”?
I hear this all the time out of pulpits , prayers, and conversations, but have we ever asked,”the last days of what”? Our problem in the Western church is that we are reading a 1st century book through a 21st century lens and so we assume it is talking about OUR days, or the end of time, or the World, which is a myth because the word “World” translated in the KJV is age. Jesus and the apostles were talking about an END to an age and not the World, for the World is without end, and they were speaking of the last days of the Judaic sacrificial law system and the temple in Jerusalem. Jesus was not warning THEM to look for something in THEIR generation that had nothing to do with them, but was for people 2,000 years in the future. Paul did not warn the church at Thessalonica to watch for and guard against the great apostasy or falling away of the church to tease them, because actually it had nothing to do with them, but was for us in 2016. Most of this is simply common sense if we would just think it through, we are to interpret what it first meant to them, then how it is applicable to us, and that is simply proper hermeneutics and interpretation of scripture. The last days are the “past days” they are not in our future but in our past, so please stop being in fear about computer chips, beasts, anti-christs, tribulation, and the sky falling. #enoughchickenlittletheology #Hehasnotgivenusaspiritoffear
Jamie Englehart
Dear Mitsu,
I think I have understood your heart’s desire: you want to improve your writing – including poetry – but you really don’t want to take classes for various personal reasons. I happen to agree with you and believe that you have what it takes to accomplish your education goal, namely, self-expression with integrity.
You love learning new words and enjoy tossing them out – right or wrong – in your sentences. You’ve got to stop that!!! It lacks, you guessed it, integrity. Use your new words correctly. Let your dictionary become your closest, most intimate, friend.
“Integrity” in Japanese has a different nuance than in standard English, the latter being more about honesty and self-disclosure. Don’t start speaking or writing without knowing what you want to say – at least not in published form. Leave that for your singing!
Remember, I am addressing how you can improve your English. Learning to be creative in your writing is another topic and is not your personal shortcoming.
Read, listen, chat to your heart’s content, but when you’re ready to write about it, do so with the greatest measure of integrity possible. There’s a young man who is a master at combing through slews of documents, takes copious notes I’m sure, and writes all his findings in the clearest, simplest, most downright honest manner he can summon. Simeon Edigbe periodically sends out the most succinct descriptions of issues that have been dogging the Christian community for years. Even the staunchest intelligentsia read it for its clarity.
But remember (again) this essay is addressing one thing and one thing only: how to equip you with powerful English writing tools that will enable that marvelous poetic flair that you possess so brilliantly to come through unencumbered and free!
Your friend,
Robin
(Dr. Robin Starbuck)
Alice Walker
The problem with HER is that SHE is a WOMAN, a FEMALE, an inferior human being with a VAGINA. And the problem with YOU is YOUR RELIGION.
God told me to tell all Christians that He is grateful to you for granting Him permission to save you. He also told me that He had to save the rest of the world without their permission.
My world is beautiful, there are only saints, no sinners. Some know they are saints, most don’t, but that doesn’t change their status. Have a great day, Saints!
Tomsan Kattackal