I think the only reason Nebuchadnezzar lives was because he challenged some human minds to think

{Originally written on 1/1/19}


A covenant of brain development...

Perhaps a figment of my imagination I believe that the translation of Enoch to heaven was a translation of brain development as well as a translation of heart relationship...

God is intensely defending his own glory, is a  given.  We cannot know or see God without faith.  It is impossible to please HIm.  we must believe that he is and is a rewarded of them that diligently seek him.   What is diligently seeking God?  Is. It repeating the Halleluiah with or without a faith base.  Absolutely not!  Is it consistency in our vows and responsibilities?  We know that Jesus paid it all in that regard.

My mind says that God wants us to pursue Him with our minds.  He has set up a world where we are able to seek his will for our lives with our minds and with our hearts and with our hands

What means swords to plowshears.  Fighting the battle for better health and seeing the purpose of God in the things that are around us?  do we use our faith to do that?  Very rarely...

What if climbing up the mountain is a symbolism for being a church which is stuck on the mountain of legality in PIlgrim's Progress?  What if our moving forward is a judgment against our not using our faith to advance our minds and look up where we are in the greater scheme of things?  What if? what if we are stuck in a church history motif that is trying our working together with likeminded brethren of other colors and cultures?  Are we winning or losing that battle?  God is going to show Himself just as prejudiced against our directions as we are to our avowed prejudicial acceptance... We accept our own prejudices and can see our infidelities that we accept very clearly.

What if we haven't even made it to the wicket gate with our burdens because our theology is eschewed thinking that we are saved by our much churchyness....?god give us eyes to see that God will and has tolerated heresies and false beliefs that have damned generations or blinded them to the true faith that God expected them to live on the earth.  Are we entertaining ourselves to death?  Are we fighting the good fight?

Taking care of our lives and our bodies and our world is a part of our relationship with God.  where is our song about walking through the wicket gate and guiding others through and avoiding the fiery darts of the wicked one?   where is our song about learning the difference between legality and true faith?  Is our simplicity of faith blinding us from real study of the Word and great literature.  

Overcoming by the "word of their testimony means engaging in the word warfare that locks our eyes from seeing the mission of the church in our age.  We are not looking at the map and singing as we go thinking the next stop is heaven and we are supposed to be learning a lesson of legality that is lost because we are thinking that a lesson is for the sons of Japheth...

Seize the Day. The code belongs to us, but not if we aren't reading and translating as we ought.