Miracles

"In a pond whose surface was completely covered with scum and floating vegetation, there might be a few water-lilies. And you might be of course be interested in them for their beauty. But you might also be interested in them because from their structure you could deduce that they had stalks underneath which went down to roots in the bottom." The naturalist thinks that the pond (nature - the great even in space and time) is of indefinite depth - that there is nothing but water however far you go down. My claim is that some of the things on the surface (i.e. in our experience) show the contrary. These things (rational mind) reveal, on inspection, that they at least are not floating but attached by stalks to the bottom. Therefore the pond has a bottom. It is no pond, pond for ever. Go deep enough and you will come to something that is not pond but mud and earth and then to rock and finally the whole bulk of Earth and the subterranean fire." C.S. Lewis Miracles

I'm reallying liking this latest  book from C.S. Lewis. I've heard the argument before from Eugène N. Marais stated in his book "The Soul of the White Ant" that the greatest proof that there is a God that in world of competition, death, and pain we look for love, peace, and justice. C.S. Lewis along similar lines argues that our reason and moral reason are the greatest proof that there is a God.

Anyways I have found Derek Gust and am really liking his music. Go check him out.

God lead us closer to you.
God help us listen to you
God move us
God heal us

"The Screwtape Letters"

I have come across another interesting idea proposed by C.S. Lewis

It's the idea that Satan is wanting us to become so focused on our selves that we forget about real pleasures, real truth. God on the other hand wants us to focus on him and it turn return to us the very things we gave to him. Satan wants us to focus on the future and what really can not be ("nearly all vises are rooted in the future"). ie worries about the future .. so that we do not act today. God wants us to act. Wants us to enjoy the now (which is an action). C.S lewis talking as Satan "We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never hones, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherwith to heap the alter of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present." God wants us to "to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it had he would be if it had been done be another" "He wants to kill their animal self-love as soon as possible; but it is His long-term policy, I fear, to restore to them a new kind of self love -- a charity and gratitude for all selves, including their own when they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours."

C.S lewis "The Screwtape Letters"

God Bless you
God turn your hearts toward him
God work in our lives
God help us to depend on you

C.S. Lewis "The problem of Pain"

So I'm reading the book "The problem of Pain" by C.S. Lewis. Here are some things I caught from the book.

"We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven - a senil benevolence who, as they say, 'liked to see young people enjoying themselves',and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, 'a good time was had by all'" ... " It is abundantly clear that I don't and since I have reason to believe, nevertheless, that God is Love I conclude that my conception of love needs correction"

He also mentions how we are made to follow God's will and that in doing so we become more human. More of what we are created to be. We are created to have our energy and our thoughts flowing out of God.

Anyways I like the book but it is a difficult read. I find myself getting tired each time I open the book but want to read more.

God bless.
God fill you with energy and thoughts
God heal our bodies
God heal our minds
and draw us closer to you.

Galatians

So I just finished reading Galatians in the message translation. I am struck by how Paul talks about the law and working for our salvation. It seems we get stuck in our head sometimes that we have to be good to receive salvation. Sometimes I guess I forget that belief in Jesus is where it is at.

Sorry it's been so long.

God bless you
God love you
God speak to you

Are thoughts are us and we are our thoughts

Lately through the things I read and the people I meet I am understanding this more and more.

"We are our thoughts and our thoughts are us"

The idea what we think about, how we think about people determine our actions and our words.

I find it is nothing new

“You have heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You must not murder. If you commit murder, you are subject to judgement.’ But I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgement! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell.” (Matthew 5:21,22) NLT

And then the simple solution is just change our thoughts!

Lol well I am working at it, and so embark on one of the most interesting challenges of life. I embark on changing who I am.

I pray that God is near you
I pray that God reaches into you soul and pulls you out
I pray for green pastures
I pray for healing
I pray you have a great week.

God Bless!!

Words I can not form

I try to put words to things in life that I love and I come up with nothing -
How do you explain to people things you can't put in words -
How can you touch some one's soul

Praying for my friends these days! You should to!

God works in mysterious ways,
ways that I love but yet can not explain.
I wish the same for everyone.


God Bless us
God Lead us to your throne
God bless our inner lives.
God speak to us

Daniel

The more I read Daniel the more I feel like we have so much to learn from him.

In the midst of a society that did not repect God he was regarded wise and just. The same society that tried his faith and the faith of his friends (to the point of trying to take his life) he treated fairly and God blessed him for it.

We find that God is powerful to save, and powerful to lead.

Only me

I’m here because I believe the one who is has called me here.

I’ve found that when the sun rises up there sets down here
God will call us home.

I remember God calling me to be small.
crawled up small and felt my insignificance you’l find it here
Not to down grade me But to lead me on.

God voice is like a blazing fire yet as quite as a mouse
To call us into the only relationship that matters

It is God almighty, who calls us deeper and higher and I am just a struggling fool.

God bless us,
God lead us on.
God pull us closer to you.
God help us.

So Easy

I find it so easy to fall into a mindset that I have to work for grace. I must do things when by deffinition it is given with out any conditions.

I keep thinking that I have to obey Christ to be saved. I have to be better. I have to do something.

But this is the changing power of Christ, we don't have to do a thing. God gives our redemption for free, he only askes that we follow him whereever he leads.

If we fall off the road, Jesus is always there calling us back and offering to continue the jorney. That is down right amazing! It is the power of God that changes people. It is the power of God to save people.

Makes me wonder where we get our ideas of of strengh!

God bless us,
God lead us,
God change our lives,
God work inside us,
God change the world.
Show us your way,
Show us your power!

I've been listening to JJ Heller recently and really liking the music you should check the music out.

Getting Better

It seems to me that things always get worse before they get better. Joseph is sold into slavery, put in prison. But thought the midst of God's plan that leads him into a place where he can be reunited with his family and save them from starvation.

Jesus had to die on the cross and I think all hope was lost for the apostles before Jesus appears to them and changes the face of history. Changes the lives of so many.

I guess it comes down to what Jesus says in the Garden of Gethsemane

Mark 14:36 “Abba,[a] Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”