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You might be thinking: God is having to work extra hard to keep a foothold in the US.

That is what the godless population wants you to think, but there is no truth in it. God has foreseen every event and condition of all peoples for all times. God is not moved by the so-called progress of the godless against the Spirit of God. The godless have gained nothing, only losses have gone their way. The godless can make headway with the godless, but not with the godly. 

OK, you're wondering, then why is it that so many young people are turning away for Christianity? Who would you blame? Let's face it, the Christian community is very diverse and quite often confused about its identity; fighting over the littlest things, making fun of the differences between them, having to be right all the time at the expense of truth, foolishly chasing the charlatan and pettifogger, indoctrinating their parishioners in lieu of leading them. The list goes on. Young people would be flocking to Jesus if Jesus was being represented by loving, caring, followers of Christ instead of followers of tradition or dogma or church polity or nationalized religion. Don't get me wrong their are genuine believers in all denominations, but if you are trying to lead people to a religion, Jesus is still taking a backseat.

Don't be worried about the conditions of the times. God is full aware of the condition of mankind. He has made provisions for times such as these: 2Pe_3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

The conditions of our times cannot be accurately represented by the ungodly, secular humanist, agnostic, atheist or any man-made religious philosophy. The conditions of the times can be accurately represented by God Himself: 2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 

2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 

2Ti 3:3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 

2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 

2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 

2Ti 3:6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 

2Ti 3:7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

Like I said, don't be worried. 

Getting To Know God Better 46

Getting to know God better requires simple faith. I say simple faith, because simple faith is not incumbered by a multitude of religious polity or Church dogma, or any other complicated relationship, like having to be of a certain rank in your religious system or possessing a certain title. 

Simple faith trusts what God says about Himself. Simple faith doesn't have to be politically correct or gender driven, doesn't have to be practiced a certain way or always saying the right thing. Simple faith relies on God.

Does simple faith mean that you can't grow in faith or expand your spiritual horizons?

Does it mean you can't have or earn a title or a position in the Church?

Does it mean you can't be intellectually stimulated with all levels of higher learning?

No, but as a person grows in faith, the importance of the personal relationship and understanding of God, through Christ, via the Holy Spirit becomes more important and the relationship to titles or positions, organization rules, regulations, polity or dogma take a back seat. 

It's not that these things don't have importance or that you should ignore the ideals associated with membership title, or position, it's just that as the depth of your personal relationship with God grows, you begin to integrate more of God's pure economy into your everyday living. 

As you get closer to God, God becomes the focal point.

How to find God
How to get to God
How to please God

How to please God's people

    All become of less significance. 

I've known people trying to find God over and over again for twenty, thirty or forty years.

Ever seeking, never finding.

I've know people who have found God and they are so disappointed that they decide to move on through life without God's oversight.

I've known people who try so hard to get in God's good graces that they ruin their relationship with their loved ones and others around them. Trying to please God using manmade methods is wholly fruitless.

I've known people who lose all interest in their loved ones and friends to serve religion, religious ferver/fever.

Getting to know God better enhances your relationship with people.

Getting to know God better enlightens your mind to be able to serve God and love mankind at the same time.

Getting to know God better expands your horizons, bringing to bear all possibilities in life, not suppressing the spiritual component, but integrating the spiritual with the carnal to become whole.

    That's right. Those who do not house the Holy Spirit are not whole and cannot be.

    You can be fully human and fully carnal, but not whole.

    Without the Spirit of God, there are so many limitations.

I know that there are many people that believe that they are just as good and just as honest and just as honorable, having not received the Spirit of God. They are correct. The Spirit of God does not purify your behavior, it just saves you from the eternal consequences of that behavior. 

Yes there are many wonderful, honest, grateful, people that have not received the Spirit of God. 

But those people have a limited experience here on earth, because they do not have within them the indwelling Holy Spirit. They do not have the internal steering mechanism that runs on Spirit power. Even though their thoughts can reach high and develop new creations, their ability is limited. Not everything is measured by prowess or intellectual property or invention. There is also understanding and wisdom that reach beyond mental acumen and touch the world with spiritually empowered events or actions. Spiritually endowed actions bring to pass God ordained events.

OK, your not buying it. The world around you is pointing to the so-called fact that secular society can get along just fine without the aid of the supernatural intervention. Really. That's the thing, those who do not have the Spirit of God are trying to teach those who have the Spirit of God, that having the Spirit of God is of no advantage, personally or globally. It's like someone who has never seen an eagle try to explain an eagle to someone who has raised or studied eagles for a lifetime. 

Moral of the story.

Don't let the uninitiated teach you how to be initiated.  

 

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 I want to speak to those people whose god is science.

You really think you are onto something when a TV personality comes out with some new science fact. A doctor or scientist says something and you drool like a wolf looking at a fresh rabbit. Because it is preached under the guise of science you take it in like a home cooked meal. I say preached because that is what it is. We as a people need to be more careful.

Of course there is good science and the scientist as a community are valid and useful. Once so-called scientific fact has been vetted and goes through the process of vetting by multiple professionals, the general public and the scientific community as a whole, that science is produced in an understandable format and distributed to the non-scientific community and we assimilate the information into our daily lives and expect the results to be measurable and useful in our everyday experience. 

That's not what's happening today 2020. Scientific are joining with political parties to advance certain causes that will best serve the party and steer economic decisions. Two items in point:

1.    Global warming - All of a sudden after so-called millions/billions of years the earth is now warming at such a rapid rate that if we don't do something like (spend money, build a political platform that benefits one party, plant the deliberate seed of deception in the minds of jejune journalists) then the earth will fail to provide is protection and sustenance that it has provided for (God knows how long). 

If you are on of those who believe the global warming chicane, so be it, but don't try to convince any intuitive or spiritually minded person that your acceptance of this hoax equals some kind of scientific proof. Blindly accepting this kind of deception without carefully scrutinizing the claims personally and through the non-political scientific community gives way for one of the biggest scams of all times. Huge corporations rake in trillions from unaware citizens through corrupt government exploitation. The average citizen bears the expense in higher taxes and subsidy programs that will drain their savings and ruin any chance for financial freedom. No good can come of this kind of trickery.  God thinking is about using sound judgement when making up our mind about this or that. Passing on false information to others under the pretense that you have been proved the validity of Global warming is in itself a kind of deceit. It make sense to pause before coming to a conclusion about such an alarming and significant threat.   

2. Racism is a pandemic - This is all over the news. If you believe that racism is a pandemic, you live in a very narrow, politically driven sphere. Are there racists out there? Absolutely. Is racism a pandemic? No. But if you are like many other politically motivated, socialist or communist, fear mongering, anti-American activist, then, if you try real hard, for an extended period of time, and support and motivate enough hate groups, you might be able to cause a racism pandemic. But there is not one going on now. This new movement to make America racist again is another blip in history where someone wants to take something from someone else that they do not even know to give it to themselves.  They are bent on tearing down and taking from others to build themselves up. They do this in the hopes of; 

• Changing history
• Denying those who have gone before them their own personal story
  
• Judging the dignity of someone living in a different time with different standards, laws, morays by the standards, laws and moray's of today's free American.
• Removing statues and other reminders of who we once were as a nation. These reminders offend them as if they had any idea of what those people went through in their time to reach whatever station in life they obtained. 

It is disgraceful to perpetuate such ignorance. 

What does God have to say about it?

2Ti 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 
2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 
2Ti 3:3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti_3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 
Jud 1:12  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 
Jud 1:13  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. 
Jud 1:16  These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. 

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"Keep your eyes on the prize."

You know this has been one of the main mantras of the Christian community for Millennia. I'm thinking we can do better for ourselves and service to God. Keeping your eye on the prize does work well as a self-serving preservation of sorts to strive toward the end goal of being with the LORD. But there is so much more that can be accomplished, not only toward the end goal, but along the way.

I am practicing "Keeping my eyes on the day, along the way." I'm saying that the daily toil of finding your way through the mire of a depreciating society" is the prize. That's right. Today, the modern Christian that "keeps their eyes on the prize" sees the prize as a distant thing and that along the way, the daily routine, commitments, responsibilities are more of a bane than something worth overcoming. I see everyday Christians involved in all kinds of daily behavior that is in no way indicative of a love for the ways of Christ nor do these poor behaviors benefit the community.

I'll give you an example. There are those who call themselves Christians that are protesting, rioting, causing havoc, violating laws, bringing their message of hate to those who do not ask for it, abusing others in the name of a cause for this or that. They have their eyes on the prize, but give no place to the day to day events that reveal that the nature of God, through Christ, has invaded them. In their minds "Today" is not part of the end goal. It is sort of in-between times that are not to be considered or measured in the race to the "prize."

Many Christians today are not mindful of the things of God, but proclaim the "prize." I've said it before and it is worth mentioning again, "if you don't like the way God operates here on earth, you are not going to like the way God operates in heaven.."

You are responsible for you. Make up your mind about what you believe and how to live out your life with faith and understanding. Quit studying the same material year after year expecting different results. Ask God for Light. Approach God in your humanity, revealing all and let God fill you with Himself. Not so you can enter into heaven, but for each day to pass where you have lived with excellence and honesty and love, kindness and generosity, forgiveness and empathy.

Don't be fooled by the humanist plea to "follow the scientist." Have you noticed that nowadays science follows trends and political ideals, not the other way around? Keep your eye on today's prize and master the day with excellence. Over time the day's prize will become just as important as the end prize.

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Strong opinions is not good science.

I hear many people spouting off their strong opinions about this or that and many say they are basing their opinion on scientific fact, but I have discovered that most of that steamy and sometimes nocuous din is no more than a lemming-like adherence to someones else's non-scientific fact.

What's more, most non-believers (at least those with no spiritual proclivities), when making up their mind about something, do not consider any spiritual or theological input. They are working in a godless vacuum where they worship so-called fact makers, and the highest ranking being scientist.

I'm not saying that any scientist adhere to this tommyrot. Those who blatantly disregard the personal experience of others, (especially those who have faith in God), give their (those who have faith) opinions no value; they are not following science, they are following supposition, because they will not consider all the facts before making a conclusion, only their facts; only the narrow strand of facts presented by the scientific community, or many times hearsay from someone or some political group.

All of us have opinions and beliefs, but the wise among us are careful not to disregard the full spectrum of available information before making permanent memes. You don't have to be a believer to have your facts straight. Many times those who rest on their religious affiliation don't have their facts straight either. But all of us were endowed with certain internal guidelines for achieving wisdom and how to ingest information and formulate opinions and beliefs without falling prey to ignorance, (by rejecting valuable information provided by those not in their circle), and indifference, (by not giving heed to adverse or differing information sources).

The bottom line; most differences today are politically based, not scientifically based and that is not good science.

So what does this have to do with knowing God better. God is infinite and unchangeable and God has set forth parameters for all of us to work in so that we can have reliable science. Made up scientific facts to sturdy up one's beliefs is not scientific, nor is it godly or even sensible. Being wrong about something is not heresy, but passing on bad information under the auspices of scientific fact is definitely wrong in every way. Only truth will prevail in the end.

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I know that many people want to go from  the start line to the finish line without running the race. In other words {just tell me what I need to know so I can jump to the end}. That is not the God way and I am glad of it. In-between the start line and the finish line is where we get to know God and come to terms with the vast difference between God and man and understand the economy of God so that we can incorporate it into our daily lives so we can finish the race with understanding and dignity.

Today is one of those in-between times. I'm not at the starting line and I have not finished the race. My inner man is seeking some gem of truth that will activate my inspiration modules. In a way I want to be further along in the race and yet in an another way I really don't want to be further along. As with all knowledge comes responsibility and with responsibility comes accountability and accountability seems to reveal a little more of ourselves to others than we might be comfortable with.

I do want a gem of of truth, but I'm not sure if I want it in an instant delivery form or slow release. I've learned enough about God to understand that no matter what others know about God or about me, I know about God and about me. I have learned to monitor my progress with God so that I don't know so much that I am responsible to others to provide what I know with the accountability factor, because then what I know can be measured by what I practice. Ouch. Am I known by what I know or what I practice? What if what I know is not in alignment with what I practice? I think I have built a system to manage God so that even when I don't practice what I know, only God knows and therefore I can blame God for my current condition of being out of sync with what I know and what I practice.

Of course every person is a God manager in their own way. That contributes to all the confusion about God. Let's face it God has not confused anyone. We, you and me are the confusers. We are the God managers. We manage God by allowing only a portion of the flow of God, the Light of God to flow through us. We don't mind too much if the Light shines on us, but we have a harder time with the Light flowing through us. The thing to know concerning this is that the way God created the universe to operate, only that which goes through us has any efficacy, is counted, is our portion of faith. God things are not stagnant. God things are only fluid. 

To wrap this up; only the knowledge that goes through you to others is what you know, not what you think you know or what you think you have learned. If it has not passed through you and only stopped at you then you have not received it yet, if it is from God. It is kind of like saying that knowledge is like a shadow and the shadow touches you before the object making the shadow touches you and the shadow is not the object.

What you know is not what makes you know God better, only what you share.

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All peoples pursue something that deals with the spiritual element of their composition. There really are four major categories that most people fit into:

1. Atheist, those who do not recognize God as having existence.
2. Agnostic, those who give place to the possibility, but nothing has assuaged them to recognize the existence of God as of yet.
3. Believer in a god, those who have followed their ancestral or religious/political philosophy of the region, believing in and possibly acknowledging allegiance to a god, higher power, or gods in general, but no difinitive understanding of God in the person of Jesus the Christ. This includes all religious groups and or philosophies that have acknowledged the existence of a spiritual component without understanding the creator of that power or having authority to wield that power in the name of the creator of that power. In other words, they believe in a deity, but do not have first hand experience or communication with that deity. All of their experience is handed down from one generation to another without any of the generations having ever met their god.
4. Those who believe in God through the saving grace of Jesus the Christ.

You can have sympathy for group 1, 2 and 3, but in no way should there be any acceptance of or agreement to the belief system, other than to acknowledge that the person does believe it. There is also no need to bash or create the feeling that the person is inferior to you in any way due to the fact that they believe in a different religious philosophy than you. Nor is there any need to defend your position by answering ridiculous questions posed by those who have a great need to compel their will on you.

Why do I bring this up? Because every person I write to in this blog is from one of these categories and their is no way that each group interprets the information in the same way.

God has declared the heavens and earth, the stars and all that is as physical proof of His pre-existence and Sovereignty.
God has declared the written Word as physical proof of His omniscience and Scientific proof by recording the events of ancient history with perfect accuracy and declaration and creating unswerving rules of scientific, measurable and obtainable formulas.
God has declared the spoken Word to all who have listened as proof of His undeniable continuing interfacing and interaction with all of humanity.

God is in charge of dealing with group 1, 2 and 3, not you.

You are responsible only to continue in the faith that brought you to Jesus and follow God's teaching with understanding to the best of your ability, nothing else. Yes, you can be proactive and minister to others and/or provide truth about your personal experience through personal testimony, shared ideals with others and missionary exploits, but none of those within themselves has anything to do with why you were chosen to become a child of God.

You will not know a great many things on this side of heaven. God has chosen to shroud many truths in mysteries and unknowable events, and that to your benefit. God has provided the perfect blend of knowable events and discoveries with unknowable events and actions to give us all we need to live a full and satisfied life. God's intervention in the events of life is the only reason that time is still moving forward with opportunity for every person to come to a knowledge of Jesus the Christ as Savior/God.

This spiritual blessing is provided by the alive and real-time existence of the Holy Spirit within your soul. The Holy Spirit guides you into enlightenment, protects you from your self/ego, and makes known all knowledge necessary to live a full and complete God-ordained life. Being a Christian does not provide you with unnatural or magical powers, nor does being a Christian protect you from the free-will of man or from the natural events that befall everyone. Being a Christian protects you from the fatal flaw of not recognizing God and the permanent solution of that flaw which is separation from God for all eternity.

You will live for all eternity. Quit worrying about what others think or how unfair God is. You should be very thankful that God is not fair. It is in God's unfairness that you have any chance at all.

Note: For those who think, "what about the Muslims, what about the Buddhist and the Shintoist?"  What about the Muslims, Buddhist and Shitoist? Are you thinking that God is predjudiced and un-god-like, that he has turned His back on an entire society of people?  It amazes me what kind of teaching are we receiving today where entire groups of Christians have no understanding of God's economy? 

They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. Isa. 44:18

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.  Mat. 13:13
Mat. 13:14  And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 

Joh. 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 
Joh_12:40  He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. 
Act_28:26  Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 

Rom_15:21  But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand. 

God is in charge. I believe that most people don't like the way God does things and that is the primary contributing factor to the apathy and lack of knowledge of the Church. Truly most people find their pastor's way more tolerable and understandable. The watered-down Word of God, spoken form the pulpit, is the elixir of the modern Church. God wants His people to "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Mat. 11:28, but priests and pastors say "only after you do this and give that are you to follow Christ." 

Priests and pastors, get out of the way. Don't stop teaching and preaching and giving of yourself for the kingdom.  Don't stop providing great services and programs that bring people together and advance the quality of life for those in your ministry. Don't stop administering the sacraments. But quit trying to mediate for Jesus. Jesus needs you to step aside as the authority of the Church and allow the Holy Spirit to communicate with God's parishioners. 

Priests and pastors: You are hired servants, act like it.