Begin a day... start ... re-start... re-new.. Do we truly begin again each day or each moment? When God states the future .."Behold I make all things new!".... a new Earth a new Heaven..and the old is rolled up like a scroll.. the memory of all forgotten as a fleeting dream. ... well that puts things in quite a perspective.
Perspective is actually an art term in functionality.... But, basically all perspective is how anything relates to anything else. So, if something is truly new... it would not be possible nor providential to relate it to the older as reference...
Yet, we as humans refuse to see anything without its pedigree, it's provenance, it's history... And of those things, we especially use the past as our identity in how any and all historical references relate to all - everyone and everything. Thus, the diagram of a typical family tree, or a timeline of Earth's history, looks more like a labyrinth of the lost. To remain locked into this linear luggage keeps us imprisoned and burdened by the past.. It is no wonder "there is nothing new under the sun"! as Solomon so wisely and prophetically pronounced.
It is only in the Spiritual that there is a new dimension which reveals any new thing. Humanity suffers and stays locked in to a cycle of regurgitated history and foolish memory of things where nothing new can truly EVER evolve. No one really learns or is educated by the past as it would be obvious culturally that we, as humans, had truly become wise creatures. Looking around, it almost seems that it is, in fact, the very worst of humanity that is not only repeated - but challenged to do even more spite to each other and God.
Imitate God, not humans, in His majestic plans and ways of becoming "a new creature" in Christ.. This is to be born of the Spirit... and the old man is not only "put away" but, effectively, is in oblivion where "history" and the proud vain glory of a past filled with egotistical people impressed by spin ... are kept forever.
I'm following Him!.. in His real re-creation renewal that only Jesus Christ can make possible. Walk only in the Holy Spirit of Our Lord Jesus Christ. To talk about the past.. is to speak of NOTHING!
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●●● a little more side note ....
I was recently reminded again of the vain nonsense that so-called "Christians" use as justification to denigrate and literally curse each other.. while they stumble over translations, word meaning, and spiritual discussions-turned-arguments. To quibble, (putting it mildly!)... over ideals vs. Etymology etc... clearly proves no one involved "walks in the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ." Besides clear admonitions in the scriptures to "avoid vain and silly arguments"..., Christian believers are to be in Love always...while acting in Love and re-acting the same. Were there no scripture to reference in these harmful didactic discourses... one would have to rely on the Holy Spirit and His pleading! Imagine that! Oh snap, .. wait a minute... God has already imagined that.. and has done it! .. Guess there really is "nothing new under the sun" without God. Ah....such as we remain humans - one must be careful how to listen, but in dire need to hear His Voice and be set free! This is the only reality possible.
Where is oblivion? Where is Hell? What does any of that mean? It seems everyone is doing quite fine defining their own hell and imprinting it on others.
I can't pretend that I know how Hell or destruction or oblivion works. At one point in my life, I can say that observing the so-called "Christians" in life ruined me to think or consider that God even existed. This is beyond grave.
Thankfully, there came a point in my life where I was able to observe some albeit deeply troubled - but love-filled Christians. They really did not even interact with me personally, yet I was in a position where I didn't have much choice but to observe them as they were in the same apartment building. Thank God for them! I KNEW something about them was so very different... and I didn't experience from them that they knew I was hopelessly lost .... and, of course, going to suffer in Hell with eternal torment FOREVER! Wow! That is a pronouncement that has been told to my face many times from the religious since I was six years old. It was in observing their unusual love presence that it gave me pause momentarily to actually consider the logic of God.... His LOGOS... Jesus... all alone and on my own in my personal space and quiet where we all end up... something to consider.
Where is love? Who is Love? What does love really mean? God is Love .... the only pronouncement to know. Consider this Love and experience it! ... my prayer for all.. my hope ... my only reality ... JESUS! Praise God ! Thank you Jesus!
.... ~ and they will know we are Christians by our Love .... ~
Always in Love with Him,
His Sonshine.....
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The Four Spiritual Laws ... from:
1. God loves you and created you to know Him personally.
God's Love
"God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16).
God's Plan
"Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (John 17:3, NIV). What prevents us from knowing God personally?
2. Man is sinful and separated from God, so we cannot know Him personally or experience His love.
Man is Sinful
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Man was created to have fellowship with God; but, because of his own stubborn self-will, he chose to go his own independent way and fellowship with God was broken. This self-will, characterized by an attitude of active rebellion or passive indifference, is an evidence of what the Bible calls sin.
Man is Separated
"The wages of sin is death" [spiritual separation from God] (Romans 6:23). "...(Those) who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus...will be punished with everlasting destruction {oblivion} and shut out from the presence of the Lord..." (2 Thessalonians 1:8,9)
...God is holy and man is sinful. A great gulf separates the two. ...Man is continually trying to reach God and establish the personal relationship with Him through his own efforts, such as a good life, philosophy, or religion - but he inevitably fails. The third principle explains the only way to bridge this gulf...
3.Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin.
Through Him alone we can know God personally and experience
God's love.
He Died in Our Place
"God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
He Rose From the Dead
"Christ died for our sins...He was buried...He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures...He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred..." (1 Corinthians 15:3-6).
He is the Only Way to God
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me'" (John 14:6).
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... God has bridged the gulf that separates us from Him by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.
It is not enough just to know these truths...
4. We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know God personally and experience His love.
We Must Receive Christ
"As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name" (John 1:12)
We Receive Christ Through Faith
"By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works that no one should boast" (Ephesians 2:8,9).
When We Receive Christ, We Experience a New Birth (Read John 3:1-8.)
We Receive Christ by Personal Invitation
[Christ speaking] "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him" (Revelation 3:20).
Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self (repentance) and trusting Christ to come into our lives to forgive us of our sins and to make us what He wants us to be. Just to agree intellectually that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross for our sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional experience.
We receive Jesus Christ by faith, as an act of our will.
....The following explains how you can receive Christ:
You Can Receive Christ Right Now by Faith Through Prayer
(Prayer is talking with God)
God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
The following is a suggested prayer:
"Lord Jesus, I want to know You personally. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving me of my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be."
THE FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS in any language in any language
