I continue to be amazed and consider my own thoughts in light of the movie I watched the other day. The only stability I find is in knowing God, because he created the way we think. God gave us our minds and designed how they work. He gave us the basic skills of interacting with this world he designed, but then he developed a complex system of thinking that created self, emotions and our perceptions of the world around us. Then to add the most complex level to our existence he added a soul that interacts with our conscious and the spirit world. Whoa!
All religions that I know of teach men to relate to the spirit realm in some semblance of prayer or thoughtfulness on the unknown, eternal or void of the universe. Though there are a whole world of humans that just live in the physical realm and ignore anything spiritual, at least they convince themselves of this.
I continue to follow the path of Christian prayer, because I believe that the gap between man and the unknown is so large and only spanned through the name of a God we know as Jesus Christ. This one God came to this earth in the form of a man. Man has always dreamed of gods in the form of man and attempts to raise many men and women to this status. I have studied many of the world’s religions, but none of them show a compassionate God that rules with a heavenly trait we comprehend as love. Man in many ancient religions understood the power of shed blood in rectifying relationships and appeasing the Gods. Jesus Christ fulfilled the long last obligation of man and restored not only our relationship with God the Father, the Universal Almighty, but with each other. Jesus, born of a woman, lived and shed his blood as the one and final sacrifice to appease the one and only true God. This is powerful in the minds of human beings, because the ego of self crumbles away with memories of sin and we are now find our minds regenerated in a new way of thinking the world can never successfully teach us. Forgiveness of others is not possible on the human level, because we never forget an offense and attempt to rectify injustices in our world against us.
I Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
An open relationship with God is a phenomenal experience. For our complex minds to behold and comprehend that, our lives are in the vision of God the Almighty is quite a blessing. Unfortunately, the human mind attempts to take this recognition by God as an excuse to believe we are more blessed, protected and better than other human beings are. Evangelical Christians even believe they are better than other Christians in other churches are. Those who call themselves Christians are often people with inflated egos operating their lives as though they are a god of some sort. Somehow, people take this position of “righteousness” and thwart it to mean they are better than others are which is not at the heart of any teaching in the New Testament. I love the relationship outlined in this scripture, which expresses the two-way communication between God and man.
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