Brother Imanus,I understand,I believe a little of what you speak of,so ok,nothing from the Bible,you want what I truly believe in myself. I have served 2 tours in Vienam,I have seen much in my 57 years,I also understand there is much I can learn from others as well! What I have spoken to you,in love not anger,is what i am now. It is so easy to judge another,because by juding you are looking at someone elses faults other then your own.Many as you know justify this by saying things like, well I would not be this way,if they were not.
Lame We are what we wish to be in life,for who can make you do something you do not wish to do?Certinaly not I! In life,we decide for ourselves what is best for us,we examine others to see how much value they have to us.Then if they have something we desire we recieve it,if not,we cast it aside,and look further.You, like all of us, are always searching for something better then the knowledge we have.For to say we have all the answers in life,in not only dum,but arrogant,something I was for many years!
What is truth to one,is not to another,so I can only speak to you,of what I preceive as truth to me. God's Word has become my truth.True,I lack much in this,but am striving to perfect myself as best I can in his Word,for if one believes in a truth,then one will live this truth out for themselves.Salvation comes at least in my humble opinion from within,for if we believe we are safe and secure in the knowledge we have,then this will readiate outward from us.
Words also make up what we think and who we are to me.Words that give grace to others,also give grace to us,words that condemn another,also can condemn us. We know there are certain laws in both the physcial world and the spiritual.whatever goes up must come down is a true law,matters not if others believe in this.A Spiritual law is what ever one gives out, he shall recieve,again matters not what others think about this,it holds true,because this law of the spirit world is guided by forces we can both see, and not see. example.Watch the power of your words for yourself,go to a girlfriend or a loved one, and say this," you know something I really am thankful for you!"
YOU will see a physcial reaction to the words you speak! Of all of the greatest powers we can expercience in our life time,no greater power is there,that can be seen then by what we say to another. Be it in love,or anger,a response will come forth,because words are the most powerful weapon to me in this entire universe.Because of this knowledge, I allow myself to be guided by a God who is alive,for to be honest with you,what good is a dead god? what can he do for us? Any book that has been written by him has no value because the person writing it is deceased.Since the Bible was written by a living God,and since this Jesus of the Bible is living,then his Words that he speaks to us can be living in us,if we allow them to be.Without scripture, let us look at this from each of our homes we live in. Jesus Christ rose from the dead,no other person has ever done this.therfore because Jesus is the only person to ever cheat death,and conquer it,then to me he must be God in the flesh.
It matters not to me what others believe,for to me,I am responsible only to myself,I judge myself in this way. To others,I only present my belief to them,they have a choice,either to recieve what I say,or not recieve what I say,I do not judge them if they disagree,because it has no bearing on my belief! Why get mad because they do not agree,I know me,do they know themselves? And this is really Brother Imanus the point. My goal here is not to judge any!But only to get each of us a purpose in our lives, to think where we are going? What purpose we serve to ourselves and others.My wisdom did not come from me!!
LOL I recieved this wisdom for the Man I choose to believe in Jesus Christ.There are some questions my friend only we ourselves can answer,and in order to answer them,we have to look deep within oursleves,and find out,not only what we truly believe, but why we believe it! This I have done for myself. This is who I am, though very inperfect in many ways! What I am NOT inperfect in, is representing the Jesus I truly LOVE,and if I do love this man for what he did for me,then I must act like I do. My words must bring life to you and anyone I talk to,for if they do not, what value can another place on them, for themselves? In jesus my goal is to just give us all a moment of pause.To stop, and think of where we are going? And what road we are on? Does this road lead to where I wish to end up? Or is there something better I can do? We always have more questions then answers!
The point to getting some of these answersis not by questioning others first,but rather ourselves first. because we find that by doing this, we can help another to find his or her way,and feel pretty good about lifting up another. It is a very wonderful feeling inside,when hope is raised to others who have none! Because hope is the assurace of who we are,and where we are going in our life. Blessing to you my Brother,I HOPE! you are encourged, for this is my goal,and my purpose, because Jesus is in me! Not bad for no scripture hu?? lol
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Oh wow, and you got paragraphs too!
Easy to judge, yes. Hard to judge true. To say do not judge. Well that is a big warning sign when a warning sign was needed. Of course, you will judge anyway, so there comes a time where one should be taught how to judge.
You know if you judge from love, if you know love. Even if you do not know the name Jesus, you can do this. If you have learnt through pain what it is to love, you have released that pain with your love, and you see the same fault in another that you have before faulted, in knowing your painful learning. Such as, when your wife left you, and so forth, if one learns from why she left due, for the pain telling you to face what you must face that you are not facing, a light bulb may glow.
You can place this light in any socket, if it is indeed light.
Yes, neither can make you do anything. Yes, I am like you. And you are like me. But God within you through God within me can make you do wonders, and God within me through God within you, can make me do wonders.
Salvation will come from all of us, even if one is a greater light amongst a dimmer light.
Nor will it come from the Jews. Nor did the son of man return in that generation. Not so perfect eh? Does not make one more purrfect than another. Such was said, I am not good, only God is good. Such was said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. Never was said, I am perfect, for then the end would already be here. And heaven would already be here, as much as it has always been here hidden.
What is truth said Pilate? One of the greatest statement ever said.
You are right when you say everyone has their own truth.
But at some point they must become one, yet divergent so long as they are in love, so love is known fully, and all truth is known, of what is hidden. But if you consider truth as how people of today define truth, truth is beyond the truth. In that the word defines. And the word surely does define. But who defines the word? Rhetorical question.
I will tell you something about words. What matters more is the voice. The tone. Not the words. But the words lay foundation, of course, but the tone is like a harp that is in tune with love as it will be, according to love for that moment, according to a greater love.
It is not the scripture!!!!!! It is You!!!!!!!!!!!
You read it better than most.
So you should read not just the bible.
If your eyes are open you will see all you need from a blade of grass.
You might be born on a lonely island as your lonely self, and be a child of God.
Of the best of people, some have read the bible, some have never opened it. I am telling you this in truth.
love what you say about asking yourself first. Let me expand for you.
Ask yourself first, but then twice and then thrice, in the morning and at night, in the desert, and in the hotel.
So that all of you answers. And the best answer is past on to all of you.
Much of what you say that you do is your principals. I can see that you follow them well. But everyone falters. So that realise that you must keep reflecting on the day that was, and the day that is, so you notice.
And say this. This is my endeavour. This is what I try to do. Because if you say, "this is what I do", you are not realising what you have not done, as much as you may realise more than some. The only way to realise that you must do, is by realising what you have not done, by never saying "this is what I do". Please take that wisdom.
Yes not bad for scripture.
Now go and read a novel. Go and read a children's book.
Read what is put in front of you, as God puts it in front of you.
As for God in the flesh. That is what some disciples said.
Jesus is what Jesus said he was, something less and something more.
I am what I say I am, something less and something more.
I am who you say I am, something less or something more.
God is which that God will be
God is which that God was, and never changes
Because he has been at the beginning, and been to the end
So that he spoke from the beginning and the end
You already know to not go to war again, I do not need to tell you. What you did you did for God, because what everyone does, they do for God. Such that you must live in darkness, before you live in light, so to know the light is better.
But light has been before you. So comes down from heaven, and says "here is my light for which path I have shone before you, for you to shine on the same path"
Such that it is on earth as it is in heaven.
Such that is the future as is the past.
Be there no hell earth, as love is remembered, and death is forgotten.
So is Jesus the way, the first light, but not the only light, as there are many stars in the sky. But then so is Adam a first light. And a light that comes again, when there is light to light across all skies.
The morning star that comes sometimes at dawn and sometimes at eve, so that night follows day, and day becomes night, so that the light is a little softer on the eye, sunglasses off, day dreaming, sheep walking, sleep waking.
I have said much to you, because you said much to me.
But what I say to you, will be said according to you.
And what is said to you, will be said according to others.
And if someone overheard me, they never heard me.
Because if you hear you hear.
If you see you see.
If you know you know.
What more can I say?
If there is more I should say, then I should not say it.
What more should I do?
If there is more I should do, I should not be doing it.
Because I am just a voice crying out in the wilderness.
Where the flowers do not grow, but the death wind blows into my face, for which I blew away from my neigbour's face.
And it will scrape my skin raw, but I will keep on breathing until I reach the flowers, like snow on lavender, the rain on my head, the thunder above, the rocks at my feet.
Is love not patient? Should it be impatient?
Love is what it is according to a greater love.
Here I am a patient, there I am a surgeon, and not hospital in sight, but the ambulance still rings in my head.
Ciao my friend! I cannot promise I will be here again, but for what I feel for where at the time I am there.
