T’anks—I will be meditating on these things.I got an idea for my shed yesterday -I wish to hang a cross I had fashioned
on a wall facing the street. Beside it the inscription :
it is not Congress it can make no laws it establishes no
religion,nor does it prohibit the free exercise of any religion as has been written of it :”For the preaching of the cross is to them that are perishing-foolishness; But unto us that are saved it is the power of God - 1Cor.1:18 it was/ represents the first symbol raised in the new land in 1607 Cape Henry And I will honor it.
(For I have chosen to oppose any who would use a misconstrued understanding of the terms used in Bill of Rights -First Amendment to destroy the symbols my fellow Americans have raised to honor our Hope and our Salvation—
The Crosses I erect are empty —for He is Risen indeed.... and I’m Alive in Him )
Most Christians are stuck right in the middle of John 16:33, i.e., in this world we will have tribulation. They/we forget what comes before and after in that very same verse. “In Me you may have peace” and then “be of good cheer, I have overcome the world”. In this world you will have tribulation. NO problem, He has overcome the world.
“In ME you have peace”
Shalom is much more than the absence of war. It’s full meaning is “nothing missing, nothing broken”. That’s the peace that Jesus gives us. Nothing missing, nothing broken.
I AM
I AM THAT I AM
THE GREAT I AM
If we could but understand that. If our finite minds could only understand this infinite and eternal truth.
God is good. God is good all the time and all the time God is good.
God creates the is. We perceive and experience the isn’t. God creates the have. We perceive and experience the haven’t. God is and creates the can. We all to often focus on and live the can’t.
God is light and we all too frequently choose to live and move in darkness. And darkness does not exist. There is only light, as darkness is only the perceived nonexistence of light and, as such, does not exist.
God creates the good. We perceive the not good. And in that way we know God’s good and man’s not good. We know and experience good and not good. The knowledge of good and not good. Or good and evil.
God creates and creates and creates. He gives and gives and gives. And we, each in our individual way, have knowledge and, therefore experience, of what isn’t. In our minds it is never enough. When we turn our focus from Him there is always something missing. Always something. Even though He left us His shalom: nothing missing, nothing broken.
He is the I AM. In Him there is no darkness. In Him there is no nonexistence. When we turn from Him we will always experience something missing. And He left us His peace: nothing missing, nothing broken. The peace that passes all understanding.