Dear God…
q&a
Q&A – Can you have Good without Evil?
My Reply
Only in Heaven
My friend Reply
…interesting.. in nature Balance is the Goal.. the Fibonacci sequence tells me that nothing is perfect and that IS the perfection of God.. make sense?
My Reply
….the way things are in this world consist of opposites and restoration, thats the balance or harmony nature seeks, yet is impossible at the same time.
That why our bodies try to neutralize our ph levels, why water seeks to level, why electricity seeks to be grounded.
Yet it’s an impossible perfection…at the core level the atom’s neutron and protons spin, the electrical’s positive and negative are opposites, the season’s winter and summer variances, the mathematical sum and minus increasing and decreasing, nature’s circle of life and death, etc.
The opposites, dichotomies, paradoxes, etc are what drives things and keeps things fresh yet encompass nuclear ☢️ blast and meltdowns, freezing and overheating 🥵, electrocutions ⚡️ sear, and death sucks ☠️.
God must have thought it worth it. He gave man free will but we abused it. Sin entered in a marred the perfect symbiotic balance. Its still awesome and beautiful but our world is no longer perfect, its marred and now is a beautiful mess.
Only God and Heaven are perfect. Yet God as promised to restore it and His people IF they make a committed surrender against our self and give it up unto His Son, Jesus Christ. It’s an exchange of sorts. We then become a hybrid being, IN this world but not OF this world. Saved but not yet redeemed. 100% saved as the day is bright yet 100% waiting in the night until the Sonrise.
Seek and you will find. Don’t and you won’t, unless a miracle happens.
So we are perfectly imperfect so long as God’s perfect righteousness cover out imperfections perfectly.
Do you buy that worldview mindset?
Q: Why aren’t things like you describe happening here in our country?
An African bishop described the wonderful things his churches were doing in a difficult part of his country. Hundreds of us listened to him, and we were deeply moved. After he spoke, the bishop took questions. Someone asked what a great many of us wanted to know: Why aren’t things like you describe happening here in our country?
The man wasn’t a diplomat. I liked that about him, and I liked it more after he answered this question. He said, “Here is the reason you do not have such things happening in this country. You Americans study your God. We Africans worship ours. You get smarter. We get changed. And then we change the world around us.”
His next words never left me. “By doing rather than merely studying, we create a culture. Newcomers and the young feed on that culture. They watch. They do. They, too, are changed. Our culture expands. You Americans create a system of thought. The most you ask is that people contemplate new ideas. You might ask them to give or to sometimes attend meetings, but no contagious culture is created. Nothing is offered to newcomers and the young but thoughts. So they think. They don’t do.”
Become your most Masculine Self
Bible translations
Q: Why are there so many Bible translations?
My Pondering A: Same reason there are so many denominations, languages, trees, animals, etc
Same species, different styles
Once you jump ship and move to a different species, then you have a heretical cult.
Demand unity in principles and encourage variety in preferences.
Love in all ❤️
Worship
Q: When we worship God is it about our giving to Him what is pleasing or is it more about getting what makes us feel pleasure?
A – My Pondering: Worship is about God first and foremost. Always has and always will. Anything else is a facade. We are encouraged to worship God not because God needs it, its because He deserves it. Its part of our creational design.
When we are filled with the Holy Spirit, it’s reciprocal as we are part of the circular relationship. As Jesus taught, less of my old self means more of Him, my new and improved man…that’s a good pleasurable exchange.
Apart from the Spirit residing in us, it’s impossible to please God via worship. There is no connection. With the Spirit, its inclusive, so its not an OR thing but an AND, from my experience and study of Scripture.
When we bless God, because He is so good and loving, we are blessed in return.
Pain
My Pondering
God does not like waste…even pain,
if there is a will for good, there is most always a way.
Life is hard, but God is good. Pain keeps us humble and mortal. Pain has a tendency and perhaps a purpose which causes us seek a solution outside of our self.
You know Christ suffered like no other and was powered up to the highest. His sacrifice was awesome and a true differentiator. Oft of there is no serious hardship to overcome, the success is limited. #NoPainNoGain
We often times need to give up to go up as He so exemplified. #GiveUpToGoUp
One thing to look forward will be no pain in Heaven but we will have all kinds of supernatural power, that is grace, mercy and big time blessing!
q&a – What’s your purpose?
My Pondering Answer
Daniel – I know of no better purpose than to give a good ROI to my Creator, Sustainer and Redeemer.
ROI = Relationship Of Interest
As we generally get out of something what we put into it.
My purpose is to make the most of what I’ve got, every moment that I have: to love, smile, thrive, rest, play, partner, invest, overcome, seize, thrive, create, endure, walk the talk, talk the walk, affirm and so forth to glorify and honor my God, my Christ.