FANTASY

We have all paid good money to those who entertain us. For many who provide such entertainment it is a gift they employ to get employed to produce something to distract from life’s gruel ... and make big money, your hard-earned money.

It is, however the great tragedy of the times that our youth and those who want to live the fantasy of life portrayed on the silver screen that they become so captured within their fantasy. Infatuated with the fantasy that they now embrace the person(s) who are portraying their fantasies as the experts on life without ever knowing them, truly knowing them.

I can relate. And you will probably lie if you say you do not do or have in the past done the same thing. Do not let someone else be your god. And further do not let your self be your own god.

Remember a judge’s quote, “He who desires to represent himself in a court of law has a fool for a client.” In the same vein, do not be a fool to think you are your own god.

Find the True and Eternal God that has provided a Way for you to know Him as He is. Yes, as He is, the truth of all that is real. His love for you is real. But until you come to your senses you won’t pursue Him. If you are truly tired of trying it your way, He Who loves you is ever present to lead you into the Way of all Truth.

STRUGGLED ENOUGH?

I’m impressed to write this to all those who are struggling with an “old” vs “new” mind-set. The “old” keeps saying that you are a sinner because you are not “perfect” in your thoughts or actions. The “new” in a small still voice is saying, “I died for that and I’m here, right now to silence that contrary voice.”

The only way a baby grows is by beginning to suckle on the breast of its mother. That requires a closeness unparalleled in this world, the mother giving that which she has and the baby receiving from the mother. Soon it comes that baby is ready for more solid, yet soft food. Again, the mother provides that which the baby receives and takes. And so it is with growing physically. To grow we must eat.

So, in like manner we who have believed, in no way, by any definition are immediately fully grown upon first believing. We have just merely been given the free and permanent access through the Spirit of Eternal Life to the greater and eternal things. So, God, to grow us up within the Son of His Love, Christ, sends to us the Spirit of Christ Jesus Who then teaches and trains us within the Word of Truth in Christ the whole of Truth to lead our soul into union with His soul.

In America, the Spirit will lead to the Bible as our starting point. We need to let our eyes feast upon the Word of Life which is Jesus. He is also called the Bread of Life. Eat it, chew it, digest it until it sustains you with the Life within it. Then you will come more and more to understand.

We will only grow as we eat of the Heavenly Bread of Eternal Life. We will only be trained in the way we should go by the Holy Spirit. The world being without the Spirit of Truth cannot and therefore will not teach or train us in the ways of Christ in God.

As we grow up into the Way of our Lord and walk within the teaching and training we’ve received from the Holy Spirit there will be times that we make mistakes. This is especially true for those who did not receive the Word of Truth until they had many years of training in the world’s ways.

However, the Good News is that mistakes and even ignorance do not ever separate us from Jesus. Love’s Anointing that we’ve received never leaves nor forsakes. In short you can never lose that which is given of God Himself. It’s called grace, the favor of God.

Trust the love of God. He has separated us from the world. Believe it to receive and take it. And by the “way” you will make less and less mistakes if indeed you’ve taken and keep on taking of the life that God freely and continually gives in Christ Jesus.