Spiritual Ponderings

It is starting to appear to me that there are only two classes of people – vulnerable and exploiter. What I am seeing throughout Scripture are descriptions of various interactions between these two classes and God's revelation of how in the end the vulnerable will win. And when I get to the gospels I discover the most vulnerable person who ever lived. Of course this is completely backwards to my normal way of thinking, but that is because we live under the systems of power based on the supremacy of the exploiters. But God declares that it is the meek who will inherit (not conquer) the earth. And Revelation is exposing to me how this will all take place. Let me analyze the relationships between these two classes to see what might emerge. Exploiter encounters another exploiter and sees a rival to conquer. Exploiter meets vulnerable and creates a victim. Vulnerable meets an exploiter and feels fearful (normally). Vulnerable meets another vulnerable and sees potentia...

In the beginning, long before this world was created, there was Love. In this love was intense joy, gladness to be together which is the very definition of joy. One reason that we believe there are three persons in the godhead at the center of this universe is because selfless love inherently requires at least three to allow love to fully exist. The very nature of giving and receiving cannot be fully healthy unless there are three involved, for with only two love has the potential to become self-serving. True love is naturally expansive, so in order to increase its capacity for joy, Love – the original Three who are the very embodiment of love – began to create other beings so as to make room for the expansion of the joy that they shared with each other. As they created, the very design of all creation had embedded within it the principles reflective of the reality that makes up their love. These principles that govern how all things operate and interact has one...

Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. You too be patient; strengthen your hearts , for the coming of the Lord is near. (James 5:7-8) How often do we feel that we must take charge of life, rationalizing that God must be expecting us to make the next move since He seems to be waiting so long to intervene in our situation. We convince ourselves that God helps those who help themselves, so we feel guilty if we are not doing enough to fix our problems. After all, God disapproves of indolence and laziness, so that must translate into our need for doing everything possible to fix our problems before expecting God to step in and finish up for us. While there are kernels of truth among scattered about in these assumptions, there are also compelling deceptions that blind us to the ways of the Lamb. Following this line of reasoning causes us to ...

Then you will discern the fear of the LORD And discover the knowledge of God . Proverbs 2:5 Listen to the word of the LORD, O sons of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the inhabitants of the land, because there is no faithfulness or kindness or knowledge of God in the land. Hosea 4:1 For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! Romans 11:33 Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God . I speak this to your shame. 1 Corinthians 15:34 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God , and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all res...

He shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the doorway of the tent of meeting. Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat . Then Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot for the LORD fell, and make it a sin offering. But the goat on which the lot for the scapegoat fell shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness as the scapegoat . When he finishes atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall offer the live goat. Then Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins ; and he shall lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands in readiness. The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a solitary land ; and he s...