The God In Us

May 28-THE PROMISES OF GOD WILL BE FULFILLED. Joshua 21:45-“No one of all the Lord’s promises failed, everyone was fulfilled. Luke 1:38-Mary answered, “I AM the Lord’s servant. My Soul magnifies the Lord.” Phil. 1:6-“Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion.” Gal. 6:9-“Let us not become weary in doing good for at the proper time we will harvest if we do not give up.” Acts 13:16-“By His Grace, God promised His people to send a Savior-Saving us from human thinking to the thinking of God.” Promises of Wisdom-James 1:5. A way out of temptation-1 Cor. 10:13. Salvation is secure-John 1;28. He finishes good works that began in us. Phil. 1:6. Be patient and know that God will fulfill all of His promises.

May 27-TAKE OFF YOUR MASK THAT HIDES YOUR TRUE IDENTITY. Your True Identity is a Spirit Being. The mask we put on is what we are not instead of Royal Children of God. Do not concentrate on faults, but on a person’s beauty. When we judge others, we are judging the Christ in that person. The flesh wants to kill the Christ so it can rule our lives with lies and deceit. God is the only way and God is all there is. John 3:3 “Verily truly I tell you no one can SEE the Kingdom of God unless they are Born Again of the Spirit.” 2nd Cor. 5:17 “If anyone Be in Christ, he is a new creation, what is old passes away to look what is new has come.” Rom. 12:2-“Do not Be conformed to this world, but be TRANSFORMED BY RENEWING OF YOUR MIND.

May 26-STARVE THE FLESH AND FEED THE SPIRIT. Starve the flesh means not to give in to temptation of lies of sickness, pain, suffering and so on that Christ Jesus at the cross took away all temptations, but did not sin-archery term meaning missing the mark of who and what we are. Heb. 4:15. Gal. 5:16-“Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh is against the Spirit, and Spirit against the flesh. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law of sin and death.” Rom. 13:14-“Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provisions of the flesh.” Rom. 8:5-“For they after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit things of the Spirit.” You are Spirit Beings created in the image and likeness of God. Gen. 1:27.

May 25-IF YOUR LIFE SEEMS TO BE A MESS, SEE IT UNDER CONSTRUCTION. You are created in the image (reflection in a mirror) and Likeness (exact copy) of God both male and female. Gen. 1:27. “I know the plans I have for you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jer. 29:11. “You are called out of darkness (negative thinking and behavior) into His glorious Light”. “You are bought with a  Pearl of great price.” Col. 6:20. “I have overcome the world.” John 16:33. 2nd Cor.1:34. “Blessed Be the God and Father, and God of all comfort who comforts us in all our afflictions so that we may be able to comfort others who are afflicted with comfort with we ourselves are comforted by God.” You are Beautiful, Masterpiece, Unique, Love, Divine, Spirit, Body of Christ, Mind of Christ.

May 24-SAY YES WHEN GOD ASKS YOU TO DO SOMETHING. When we put on the Mind of Christ, we will say yes because we know that when God speaks for a purpose and a plan for our lives. When we do not control our thoughts of rejection, insecurity, doubt, self worth and so forth are not thoughts of God, and the enemy (carnal mind) will go after to defeat us with our own words that are so powerful. Heb. 11:1-“Now faith is what we hope for and assurance that we do not see right away, but know it will be a reality.” Rom. 8:28-“ALL THINGS WORKS FOR GOOD, whose love God and are called according to His purpose.” “Not my will, but God’s will, but your will Be done.” Luke 22:42. “If God Be for you, who can Be against you. Rom.” 15:8. Always say, YES.

May 23-GOD IS DIALING YOUR NUMBER. Is your line too busy with the cares of the world, obeying the carnal mind with nonsense, have great fear (Ps. 91 read), partaking of the realm of good and evil. “Behold a virgin shall Be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel-God with us.” Matt. 1:22. The Christ is waiting for us to real-eyes who we ARE-Royal Children of the Living God. “God was in Christ RECONCILING THE WORLD BACK TO HIMSELF not holding against men their trespasses. For our sake He made Christ to Be sin who knew no sin so that through Him we might become the righteous of God.”  2 Cor. 5:19. God will not leave you or forsake you. Heb. 13:5. PLEASE ANSWER THE PHONE.!

May 22-MY MIND HOLDS ONLY WHAT I THINK WITH GOD. “Do not be conformed to this world, after its external, superficial customs, but Be transformed changed the entire renewal of your mind by its new ideals with a new attitude.” Rom. 12:2. When the mind is renewed by God’s thoughts, the body is healed and made whole. Instead of old thoughts of dis-ease, failure, sin, sickness, death, we think thoughts of liberty, freedom, health, harmony and success and eternal life given to us at the cross.”No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who Love God.” 1st Cor. 2:9. “God is the God of the Living, and knows only perfection, completeness, happiness, peace.” Mark 12:27. One thought at a time to change our thoughts to the thoughts of God.

May 21-MY HEART CRIES OUT FOR THE LIVING GOD. “My Soul yearns, pines, homesick for the courts of the Lord, my heart and flesh cry out and sing for joy to the Living God.” Ps. 84:2. MY DETERMINED PURPOSE IS THAT I MAY KNOW HIM PROGRESSIVELY BECOME MORE DEEPLY AND INTIMATED ACQUAINTED WITH GOD. PERCEIVING AND RECOGNIZING UNDERSTANDING THE WONDERS OF THE PERSONS MORE STRONGLY AND MORE CLEARLY. I MAY IN THAT SAME WAY COME TO KNOW THE POWER OUT FLOWING FROM THE RESURRECTION TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO THE LIKENESS IN THE FAITH THAT IF POSSIBLE MAY ATTAIN TO THE SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION FROM AMONG THE DEAD WHILE IN THIS BODY.” Dead to little self and alive to Christ. Phil. 3:10-16.

May 20-WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE? Each of us are unique that are pieces of a giant puzzle that only fits in one place, and if one piece of the puzzle is missing, then the whole picture is not complete. We need each other to teach us until the Christ Truth is formed in us and is My Truth. It is not you, but the Christ in you and AS you. Ego thoughts that Edge God Out under our feet and walk on them. The I AM of your Being can manifest things as though they are happening NOW. “Seeing things that are not as though they ARE.” Rom. 4:17. Our plan is to LET the I AM of our Being flow through us. You are the visible presence of the Invisible God to those who do not know God. The light in you can shine out all their darkness of negative thinking. John 8:12

May 19-WE SOLD OUR BIRTHRIGHTS. We are created in the image of God (reflection in a mirror) and likeness of God (exact COPY NOT GOD, BUT INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN OF GOD). Gen. 1:27.We sold our birth rights of Spirit Beings to the flesh of human desires and self gratification that I do not need God, I AM God, and I can do it myself. Esau means flesh realm. Jacob is the Spirit Realm the I AM given to Moses “I AM that I AM. We wanted to experience a world instead of God. We became Living Souls instead of Life given Spirits. Gen. 2:7. In  Gen. 2:7- Pottage is the substance of Life called Bread of Life. Christ gave us a part of Himself with the breaking of bread. Jacob’s is Israel Prince with God. We are no longer flesh, but Spirit, and God only.

May 18-CONSIDER VESSELS OF WRATH AND VESSELS OF MERCY. Rom. 9:15-” Moses, “I will have mercy and compassion on whom I will. So God’s gift is not a question OF HUMAN WILL AND HUMAN EFFORT, BUT ON GOD HAVING MERCY ON HIM.  Pharaoh (human thinking), I have raised you up for the very purpose of displaying My Power in dealing with you, so that My name may Be proclaimed the WHOLE WORLD. Who are you to criticize and answer back to God? Will what is formed say to Him that formed it? Has the Potter no right over the clay, to make out the same lump one vessel for beauty and honorable and dishonorable use? The very place you are not my people, THEY SHALL BE CALLED THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE LIVING GOD.”

May 17-WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU HERE? You are a Spirit Being having human experiences. The revelation of Christ in you will never leave you or forsake you. We are Royal Children the sons and daughters as God created us in the image (reflection in a mirror) and likeness (exact copy). Gen. 1:27. We are One with each other different parts so we each have a special plan and purpose. Every person who comes into your life is you sharing with them or they sharing with you something we need to learn. “He that has seen Me has seen the Father.” John 10:30.We are the Living representative of the Invisible God to all who do not know God. “In my Father’s house is many mansions.” John 14:2. We are the mansions that God dwells in.

May 16-DON’T BE TOO BUSY FOR GOD. Our Real Self is not in a hurry and always peaceful. We can’t hear the Still Small Voice inside when we are irritated, angry, constantly busy, thinking of Being late, and worrying about things that are going to Be alright. Instead of the cares of the world, we spend time with practicing the Presence of God within. Is. 26:3 “Whose mind is stayed on God, and will cause our bodies to be healed.” To have Love, Health, Truth, we must Be  these Truths. The time spent with God is refreshing like the rain on our lawns to cause the grass to Be Green which is the color of Life. As the sun light gives us warmth to comfort, so does God’s Presence. Matt. 6:31-God is First in your life. All evil is coming to the surface and done away with. Ps. 91, Our Father each day.

May 1-My interpretation of the shedding of blood in my lesson on April 30-By Linda Cosentino.

In my lesson on April 30, I will explain the meaning of the ransom price paid for us by shed blood of Christ. In Genesis when Adam and Eve went into a lower realm of thinking instead of thinking like God thinking, What if there was something else beside God or Instead of God, they had to go through a period of time to Be redeemed from their thoughts of human thinking instead of thinking like God thinks. In 1 Peter 1:18-“You were redeemed (bought back) not with corruptible things, but with the Precious blood (life) as of a Lamb (allegory for Christ) without blemish and without spot, with the Blood of Christ.” In Exodus 12:7-“They shall take the blood of a lamb (called the Passover (when I see the blood, I will pass over you not to see death of the Spirit Realm), and put it on two sides post and on the upper door post of the house (we are the house of God) making a cross on our foreheads (with the Mind of Christ), the death angel (messenger when we are covered with the blood (Life is in the blood) you will not die to the Spirit Realm. Every year each family had to bring a lamb (representing the Christ) without spot or wrinkle to bring to Be slaughtered for the whole family, and the High Priest would take the blood of the lamb, and only High Priest (Christ) could go into the Holy of Holies (the very presence of God) and sprinkle the blood to Be used for one year until Christ came on the cross to get rid of  sin (missing the mark of Being Sons and Daughters of God to remember who and what we are) for a price to set us free to remember our true Being as created by God in the image of God when we look in a mirror is a reflection and likeness means exact copy of Christ.

Redemption means buy us back to God where we came from. “God was in Christ at the cross reconciling-bring us back to God to reconcile the whole WORLD BACK TO HIMSELF NO LONGER COUNTING US OF OUR SINS us from sin, sickness, suffering, death and gave us Mind of Christ, and shed human blood to give us Life of the Spirit because blood means Life.” 2nd Cor. 5:19. 

This was not a sacrifice to buy us back with the Blood of Christ, this was an outward demonstration of a deeper revelation of the Christ in us and AS us. Could you believe Christ went to the cross with joy set before Him, He endured the cross, scorning (feeling or belief that something is worthless) its shame and sat down at the Right Hand of God to make our enemies a foot stool to know what will happen as we become aware we are Spirit Being instead of human Beings.He became the author of salvation-saved from human thinking to the thinking of Christ for ALL with eternal salvation. In Col. 1:13-“Christ delivered by blood out of power of darkness (negative human thinking and actions that are not God like.)

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February 1-SCRIPTURES TO PROVE THAT CHRIST JESUS DID IT ALL AT THE CROSS. He took away pain, suffering, dis-ease, all human thoughts and beliefs, rituals and so on, and gave us the Mind of Christ and no death to everlasting life. 1st. Peter 2:24-“He Himself bore our sins (archery term meaning missing the mark of Being Christ like in everything we say and do) in His body, and lifted them in His body to the cross. Christ has suffered for us and in US in the flesh.” He said, It is finished-” John 19:28-“It is finished knowing that ALL was accomplished, that the scripture might Be fulfilled. He bowed His head and gave up His Spirit.” 2nd. Cor. 5:19-“In Christ God was reconciling the WORLD (all of us) to Himself, not counting men’s TRESPASSES against them. God was bringing (all of us) back to Himself through Christ.” Gal. 4:4-“When the fullness of time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman (in this lower realm of thinking of self instead of the Spirit Realm) born subject to the regulations (beliefs, rituals, and laws of man) purchased the freedom to REDEEM us that was subject to the Law fulfilled in One scripture, “Love God and Love your neighbor AS yourself (Mark 12:30)” those subject to the Law that we might Be Adopted have son ship to Be recognized as God’s children.

Is. 53:3-7. “He was despised and rejected by men. He has bore our GRIEFS, carried our SORROWS. He was pierced for our TRANSGRESSIONS, He was crushed for our INIQUITIES upon Him was the CHASTISEMENT THAT BROUGHT US PEACE. With His wounds, we ARE HEALED. All of us are like sheep have gone astray (worshiped self instead of God), and God has laid on Him the INIQUITY OF US ALL. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. Like a lamb (baby stage) that is led to the slaughter, and like sheep (mature) before its shearers (cut away all human thoughts and behavior) in silence.”John 1:9-14-“The True Light which gives light to EVERYONE, was coming into the World (all of us). He came to His own people, but they did not receive Him. He gave the right to become children of God, who were NOT born of the flesh, nor the will of man, but of God. The Word (Christ) became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory full of grace and truth.” Love, Linda Cosentino.

A POEM BY LINDA COSENTINO FOR JANUARY 1-2020

This is a beautiful Love story for You special, my Dear.
The Godhead is speaking, so open up yours ears to hear.
This story that happened in the past 2,000 years ago.
It is for you this year now in the present for you to know.

January is a new month, a new day, a new thoughts, and a new year
This is the time for us to learn more of God Love for all of us to hear.
To know that God is the only power, God is in control, and only one God
We are One with God and One with each other like two peas in a pod.

Know that at the cross, God was in Christ to bring God back in all of us.
We forgot to know we are Royal Children both male and female is a must.
The word reconciliation means bring us back to God where we came from.
Christ Jesus at the cross took away all sickness, pain, death, and then some.

Thank you Christ Jesus what you did for me and for all with so much love.
You love us all the same with so much care that we are your Turtle Dove.
We are your reflection in a mirror which means created in the image.
Christ Jesus said that He was telling us that He is altogether finish.

No more pain, suffering, trials, tribulations and having no temptations.
We won’t react, but let go to mean suggestions or having any frustrations.
We are growing fast to Be God like in everything we do in the Spirit Realm.
God with all His glory, revelations, and majesty, we become so overwhelmed.

He said, You will be processed on the Potter’s wheel to do greater things.
 Many saviors will come from Mt. Zion to Be God like with all that brings.
The Wedding Feast is coming with all ego thoughts Edging God Out to cease
The Kingdom of God is coming to the earth to finally having world peace.

ST FRANCIS PRAYER. Make me Be an instrument of peace. Where there is hatred, let Me Be an instrument of Love. In someone who gives me offense or ugly words, Let Me give pardon and not let Me take these words in my heart and give forgiveness. Remember those that press your buttons are your Master Teachers to choose to keep Peace beyond understanding. In discord, let Me show union that we are all One with God. A person is in error about not knowing a Loving God, let me give the Truth that God is not punishment, but only Love. When a person speaks negative thoughts of darkness, let me give them The Light of the World or the Christ in them. Are you sad, let me give you Joy unbelievable and Full of Glory. Let me understand the Words You speak, and pray that all are revealed the God inside of them to cause them to remember who and what they are. Let me die to the little self that wants its own way to Be the Will of God in my life to Be achieved. I need to know that it is not “i”, but the Christ in Me can do the impossible.

Twelve is the number of New Beginnings, Perfect Spiritual Divine Government. All things are Being new. New life, new thoughts of God only. All negative thoughts coming to the surface and done away with. This is the end times, not the end of the world, but the end of man’s kingdom ruling our minds with stinky thinking of man’s thoughts trying to destroy our perfect Identity as Spirit Beings living in a Spiritual Universe where everything is in harmony One with each other and One with God.

If God is in you, who could Be against you?

First thing as you wake up say, “This is the day God created, I will rejoice and Be glad in it. I will not allow any person or situation to rob me of my peace.” If you said this first, you will have a beautiful day. God is very important to Be first in our lives then every thing will be OK. It is not “i” but the Christ in me that flows through me each second. Without Christ I can not do anything of my self. With Christ, all things are possible.

Perfect Love cast out fear. Fear is FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL.It is only real in our thinking and believing in our own carnal flesh mind.

All the Truths we are receiving is for us only to Believe.

At the cross all human beliefs were nailed to the cross and done away with. All pain, sickness, dis-ease, sin which is missing the mark of knowing we are Royal Children of God, hatred, jealousy, envy thinking and anything that man could ever think of to hurt each other, “It is finished.” Christ shed human blood and gave us the Mind of Christ. Don’t be duped to believe a lie when we have temptations of pain and suffering. We must go higher in the Spirit where there is no pain or suffering. Only Believe!

God IS IN CONTROL of everything in our lives and working it to good only. Never judge another person least you judge the God within you saying you must have made a mistake with this person’s life. We do not know what God has to do to let a person have their own way in order to go to the bottom of their lives in order for them to start coming to the top where there is God only.

Another thing I AM learning is never to have a conflict with another person. We don’t have to Be right. We must Be a peace maker in all that we do to Be God like in everything we do and say. It is a choice.If you want Love, Be Love. If you want peace, Be peace, joy and happiness. We have a choice.
Our own way leads to destruction and death to Spirit Realm. God’s way is the only way.
God always has a higher plan and purpose then what we can do our own way of thinking. We can’t do it by “me” “my” and” i” Being on the throne of our minds.

I think this is the year of Jubilee when all evil is coming to the surface to Bring in the Kingdom of God to all. Love, Linda Cosentino
Jubilee, Year of

Year beginning on the Day of Atonement every fiftieth year and proclaiming a nationwide release for Hebrew society. The word “jubilee” comes from the Hebrew word yobel,(“ram’s horn”) for the sounding of the ram’s horn signalled the Jubilee’s beginning. Another related Hebrew word is deror (“release, liberty”).

The key text, Leviticus 25:8-55, describes the festival’s three basic features. First, as in the sabbath year ( Lev 25:2-7 ), the land was to be fallow. The people were not to farm the land, but were to eat what grew naturally. Both people and land should enjoy their release.

Second, all Hebrew slaves were to go free. The law allowed poor people to become slaves to pay their debts. Owners were to treat their Hebrew slaves kindly. All slaves were to be freed in the Year of Jubilee.

Third, the land reverted to its original owner. This practice ensured that no citizen would remain poor or a slave forever. A person who sold land to another was really selling a certain number of crops, so the number of years before the Jubilee, determined the sale price. Property within walled cities did not revert in the Year of Jubilee except for the property of the Levites, which was always redeemable. A few other modifications of the normal procedure also existed. Daughters who inherited land had to marry within their own tribes in order to keep the land ( Num 36:4 ). The law also prevented individuals from abusing the reversion principle. People who vowed a portion of their fields to the Lord and then sold them to escape their vows could never get their land back; rather, the ownership transferred to the priests ( Lev 27:21 ).

The Year of Jubilee contained two important theological implications. First, the land belonged to the Lord, who determined its proper use. The people were to avoid selfish accumulation of land ( Isa5:8 ), for it did not really belong to them. Second, God’s people were to be free. Even when one was in slavery, redemption was possible. In any case, the Year of Jubilee freed all. Freedom was always the ultimate goal.

Unfortunately, evidence from the Old Testament seems to indicate that Israel hardly ever celebrated the sabbath year or the Year of Jubilee. Christ’s quoting of Isaiah 61:1and the word deror may suggest that Christ’s ministry provided the ultimate fulfillment of the jubilee concept ( Luke 4:16-21 ).

The Battle Hymn of the Republic Lee Greenwood Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; God is all there is. At the cross God was in us and As us. God is in us whether we know it or not.
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; Wrath is done away with. No more hatred just love.
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His sword is the Word of God not fighting, but Knowing the truth who you are.
His truth is marching on.The cross took away sin, sickness, pain, suffering, death, gave us the Mind of Christ.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; When you are in battle, we turn to God. No believing in a false god in a dug out.
They have built Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; All negative thinking is done away in the night of darkness of carnal human thinking.
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His sentence is freedom from human thinking to the thinking of God even in dim light
His day is marching on. Light is revealed as when the sun comes up in the morning to light our understanding.
I have read His fiery gospel writ in rows of burnished steel! His gospel is like fire burning in your soul when you real-eyes you are a special creation of God.
“As ye deal with my condemners, so with you My grace shall deal! No more condemnation from people or from your own mistakes erased and done away with.
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, ” Your walk with God will crush the mind of human thinking with the heel meaning your Godly walk.
Since God is marching on. God is the only power, will, emotion of Love. We want to Be Godlike in everything we do and say.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; The last trumpet in Revelations will be sounding shortly to bring the Kingdom of God on this earth.
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; No more separation, just Oneness with each other and Oneness with God.
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him; be jubilant, my feet! My soul’s Identity is the Christ in me and as me. My feet walk in the Kingdom of God only.
Our God is marching on. God is Being revealed to every person because God cannot create evil within a person because all are God’s creation.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, Lilly stand for  purity. We are not this body, we are free, we are as God created me as Spirit Beings.
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; Whenever you have an experience with God, it changes your nature to Be God like with God only.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free! It is not I, but the Christ in me. We are to die of the little self to become the Christ in me and as me.
While God is marching on. God will continue to Be only God and no man made rules or beliefs from the carnal human mind of flesh Being to satisfy self.

There was a man I once worked with when we were both young. I recently heard an old song that reminded me of him.I changed jobs and I had not seen him for years.One day a friend told me that this man’s wife had died and I thought “how sad ” for we were still considered young. The friend also told me that this man stood over his wife’s grave and shot himself.

Of course many would say ” he went straight to hell”. “Why that’s even against the law, a cowardly act”. But that was far from what I thought when I first heard the news all those years ago. My thoughts were that there was determination and a measure of bravery in his actions. He loved this woman and would pass thru death to find her again. Few women who have ever lived in this world have been loved with such intensity.

So all these years later as this song called him to my remembrance I still feel the same way about it, except even more so. As for as judgment, which we as humans are so very good at, I have suspended it between heaven and earth in the realm of the soul.

Even the Bible, which is too often used to beat us down, states “do not judge a thing until the end”. My judgment will remain suspended until the end. My hope is that yours will be also.

Thoughtfully,
Richie

The Fullness of Time

First in a series by Richard Cosentino

 “When the fullness if time had come God sent fourth His Son”. How can we begin to understand that time as it is experienced on this planet and it’s very temporal existence, fits into the plan of God.

Our perception of the world is formed by our life’s experience. Our perception of God is formed by our religious and spiritual experience. As I have stated before, I did not seek God, He sought after me. After reading the entire bible and listening to a variety of preaching while parading through several churches, I concluded there were two major unanswered questions. Jesus is coming back. Just what does that mean? The second question involves the salvation of man. What is our part, and what is God’s part?

In this series let’s look into the second question. Do we even understand what salvation is? If it is not being saved from eternal punishment in a torture chamber, then what exactly is salvation really? Getting past all of the Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic words, lets say it is self awareness or the ability to know ourselves and have an individual identity beyond physical death. This I believe is the root cause of the physical universe problem. This is what caused Paul to cry out  “That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection”.

I went to sea as a young man and had to stand lookout on the bow of the ship at night. On a clear night with no moon the star light was bright enough to not need a flashlight to walk the deck. The sky was packed with stars it seemed with no empty spot for another. I decided in the midst of this awesome sight,  there must be life throughout this vast universe. Part of the resistance to believing in life on other planets is the notion that Jesus would have to suffer and die on every one of them to appease God on behalf of the local population. Of course, belief in a blood sacrifice is a typical and common pagan practice. Let’s hope we have come to realize that Jesus went to the cross to show a path past physical death. Our belief in an angry and vengeful God can never make it so. Remember Jesus told the religious establishment of His day, “You don’t know God”.

In ancient times the earth was thought to be the center of the entire universe. In the present we know it is not the center of anything in the cosmos. So then what is so important about time as it is experienced on this planet. Let’s consider that no matter what we believe, this is not the real world. Our five senses only paint a partial image in our brain.

The prophet Isaiah in the midst of a lengthy forecast of God pouring out His wrath, stated in verse 34:4, “God will roll up the heavens like a scroll”. In a moment of spiritual connection I saw that the universe is not as vast as it appears to us. It is like a round room filled with narrow vertical mirrors and standing in the middle of the room, we are surrounded by multiple images, but we know, we are alone.