This world of ours, this temporal place where we live, is in a bucket which God is carrying in His hand. We are contained in the bucket, where there is time and space, or perhaps for your personal world view, call it time and place. We realize the handle which God is carrying is outside the bucket, yet the handle is clearly attached to the bucket. Outside the bucket, in His heavenly realm, there is no time or place, for paradoxically, God is in all places at all times, in and outside the bucket. Outside the bucket, He is in what we commonly call the eternal now. Since there’s no time in the eternal now, everything is happening for Him all at once. We are made in His image and likeness, and Christ Jesus is both man and God. The point being, we also have a human and temporal condition as well as a connection to the divine nature. We are certainly not God, yet our bucket’s handle is surely in His hand and in His realm.
Category Archives: Musings
Romans 5:6-8
Romans 5:6-8: “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous person; though perhaps for the good person someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
For me, this is one of the most penetrating, profound, illuminating, and encouraging Word ever written. While we were “helpless” in our sin, our confusion, bewilderment, lost in our own design and the design of others, Christ Jesus died for us. He didn’t ask us what we wanted or what we did or why or where or how we did what we did. He didn’t judge us worthy or unworthy, improved and gaining or spiraling down. Let us pray, we never put the worldly psychological attributes of our personalities ahead of His spiritual gifts, His grace, and His mercy. Of course, we all want to be more holy, made worthy and found pleasing in His sight. We all know the score, where we’re at and what we should do, but so what!! How about we encourage each other to put more emphasis on our good works instead of our good looks. How about we actively contribute to caring for the necessities of others before the niceties for ourselves. These are times on the verge of desperation, let’s get ready and stay ready.
Sunshine
Much has been said about Christ Jesus fulfillment of the Old Testament. Perhaps the simplest idea which best addresses the fulfillment is accessibility. I think as His children we sometimes think as children. We see ourselves in this connection we have with the Lord. We as children often struggle with our own development and broadcast this into our relationship with the Lord. So, let’s pause here for a moment and realize it is the Lord our God who seeks us, who initiated the encounter through love, creation, and the physical world He gave us. More than the word made flesh, more than walking among us, more than giving Himself for us; we know Christ is bigger than the cross. He was real, He is real, and He is with us. Christ is like the sunshine; we can’t see the light, but we know it’s there because we can see everything else. Happy Thanksgiving.
Conscious of Conscience
What is conscience and conscience formation…..conscience is that mental and emotional aspect of our mind which reflects what the Lord has written in our hearts. A gift of the Holy Spirit which connects the transcendental through the transformative powers of love, adoration, and the acceptance of His gifts into our ego driven world of people and ideas. It literally means, “with science”, meant to take the experience of the Presence of the Lord into the formative realm of healthy psychology. In the structure of the human mind we have the foundational precepts of the Scientific Method, recognized as a standard for inquiry, investigation, and observation. Through this process, we can discern what is definition, description, and experience of concepts such as morality, social justice, righteousness and the like, making conscience formation a continuing conversion through the acceptance of His guidance, providence and purpose for each of us.