The God In Us

April 3-YOU HAVE RESURRECTION POWER. This means raising your thoughts to the thoughts of God. In a battle of temptation with the ego thoughts that is trying to destroy your perfect Identity as a Spirit Being, the Christ becomes in you and the battle is over. We can’t do it ourselves. The Christ in us has already cleared the path of human rubbish, and instead of you being a victim, you have the victory. The Christ dies of the flesh in you, and as you is finished. We have to real-eyes that this is the Truth of our Being, also. The veil of human flesh beliefs and rituals was torn apart not to let God out, but to let God come to you to have a relationship with you one on one. There is no more pain, sickness, and death because Christ has the keys to death and hell to give our minds freedom to know who and what we are. There is no more tombs of flesh because absent from the body of human thoughts is PRESENT WITH GOD. Practice the Presence. 2nd Cor. 5:8.

April 2-WHAT IS THE MEANING OF RIGHT SIDE AND LEFT SIDE? Matt. 25:33-Goats (always complain with bah) on the left side, and sheep (can’t do NOTHING) without the Shepherd (Christ Jesus) on the right side to lead them. They fall have to depend on the Shepherd to pick them up. Right side means the will and ways of God to the Spirit Realm. Left side means the way of the flesh thinking or self. The self says, “I do not need God, I can do it by myself. Eccl. 10:2-“The heart of the wise is inclined to the right (God only). The heart of the fool (means no thought of God or the Spirit realm) is to the left.” In the Old Testament is a story of two brothers. Joseph-represent Christ Jesus like unto God, and Benjamin meaning Son of the right hand. We are the children of God on the right side. Joseph like Christ forgave His brothers. Joseph said, “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good so that many people should be kept alive.” Gen. 50:20. Read Ps. 91

April 1-WITH THE EYES OF GOD YOU CAN SEE YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY GOD, NOT THE ENEMY. God opens up our Spiritual Eyes to show us God is in control of all situations, and for our Spiritual growth. 2nd. Kings 6: 15-“God provided an army of angels leading horses and chariots of fire that God is a consuming fire to burn all the negative thoughts off of us and opens our eyes to protect us (Means God is our Savior, God is the deliverance of all evil.” The Spiritual I AM lives within us to our Real Self of Christ. “Those that are with us are more than those who are against us, don’t be afraid (fear false evidence appearing real). Rom. 8:3-“If God is for us, who can Be against us.” Rom. 8:32-“God will give us all things.”NO one can bring a charge against us.” Nothing can separate us from the Love of God.”

March 31-LET GO ALL THAT HINDERS. Did you ever had people in your life that no matter what you do cannot be Loving back to you? “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?” Ps. 139-7. Let us see beauty instead of faults. God is all there is. I AM One with All that IS. People have God in them, but completely forgot who and what they Are. Today, I affirm that every person I meet will be a Holy Encounter of Harmony and Peace. I can hear the still small voice which constantly instructs and guides me. Let me let go of all that hinders, all past that has negative feeling Heb. 12:1. I live in the Now. I can choose to make this world beautiful with positive thoughts. This is the Spirit World over the world that is INSTEAD OF GOD. Feel the Presence, and soar in the Spirit with wings of an eagle that goes high in the Spirit World where no crows can follow the Eagle.

March 30-MEANING OF BLOOD SHED. Life is in the blood. Blood is an allegory explaining that Life in the blood of Christ Jesus cleansing us from dead works to serve the Living God. John 10:10-“Life more abundantly.” Christ Jesus shed HUMAN BLOOD that was tainted in the fall with dis-ease, pain, suffering and so forth because it was not given life to a person in the Spirit realm and causing death to our Identity as Pure Spirit Beings. Passover feast in the Old Testament said, “When I see the blood I will pass over you blood on our head like a cross of human thinking instead of the Mind of Christ. Ex. 12:13. Christ Jesus went to the disobedient Spirits that thought in a fallen state of no return, and reconciled them BACK TO GOD WHERE THEY CAME FROM. We in the redeemed state perfect state waiting for the RESURRECTION. With the blood Christ Jesus took away sin which is an archery term meaning missing the mark of Being Christ like.

March 29-YOU WILL GIVE BIRTH TO THE SEED OF CHRIST. At the cross Christ Jesus gave everyone the seed (God) of Christ to remind us that the seed was already there. Love everyone, forgive and forget to make the seed grow. The seed in good ground in the Spirit Realm without human thinking. The seed is the WORD of God, and the ground is our heart or our soul (our mind, will, emotions and intellect converted to the Mind of Christ). The seed remains in the ground over a period of time to germinate so the Word of God has to abide in us until it reaches Truth of our Being. John 15:7-“If you abide in me and My WORD abides in you, You shall ask what you will, and it shall Be done unto you. “Ps. 107:20-“He sent His WORD and healed them. If the seed is on the path of everyone walking, the birds (human thoughts controlling our world) devoured the seed. Stony ground has no roots. Thorns choke the WORD. 

Dearest email friends,
Please read Psalm 91 each day. This will bring you so much peace not to worry about the world situations, but to dwell on God only. This too will pass and the Kingdom of God is coming on earth (body) as it is in heaven (Spirit Realm). “If God Be for us, who can Be against us? God is in complete control and the only problem we have is the THOUGHT we are separated from God.” God is in each of us and says, “He will never leave us or forsake us.” Awaken to the Reality that we are SPIRIT BEINGS with no thought of pain, sickness and death because Christ Jesus took all that away from us at the cross, and Resurrected to our new life in Christ. Love, Linda

March 28-HEALING IN HIS WINGS. God uses allegories to explain things to us in a simple way. Wings represent going higher in the Spirit Realm where there is no type of pain, suffering, dis-ease, death.  Mal. 4:1-“You who revere my name (Christ) the sun (used as heat, warmth, healing, God only) the Sun (Son) of righteousness with healing in His wings (high in Spirit Realm).” Mal. 4:2-“God is a consuming fire to bring all evil to the surface to Be done away with forever.” Christ cleansing the temple of our minds from the human mind to the Mind of Christ given to us at the cross. We are the temple of the Living God where God lives in us. John 2:13.-The hem of His garment if touched brings us healing. Mal. 4:2-“Woman with the issue of blood, Christ shed human blood at the cross, for 12 years (perfect government of God) touched the edge of His garment to Be healed. The power of the Living God is felt (Who touched me) through Christ only.

March 27-GOD HAS NO TIME TABLE TO SHOW UP. God can come to us when the time is ready for us to Be revealed the Kingdom of God within. Luke 17:21. Gal. 4:4-“When the fullness of time came, God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the WORLD BACK TO HIMSELF sent His Son born of a women, born under the law of human thinking to bring us the Kingdom of God on this earth (this human body) as in Heaven (Spirit Realm) with out knowing we are Spirit Beings created in the image (reflection of God) and likeness (exact copy) Gen. 1:26. 1st. Cor.6:2-“I heard you at the acceptable time and the day of salvation, I helped you. Look NOW is the acceptable time of salvation (saving us from human thinking to the thinking of God)” Acts 17-31-“Because he has a set day on which He is going to judge (means a turning point) the WORLD in righteousness, by a man (Christ Jesus) whom He designated having proof to everyone by raising Him from the dead,

March 26-YOU ARE A PERSON OF NO LACK. In the Old Testament God provided whatever they needed, but they still complained even when they had no lack. Acts. 4:34-“Neither was there any among them that lacked.” God is on the throne of our lives, and He is not going to fail even though everything things so evil with no plan of getting better. I promise you this whole world is going to Be the Kingdom of God on earth (this body) as in the Spirit Realm. This is the last days of evil coming to the surface, and done away with. 2nd Cor.9:8-“God is able to bless you abundantly so that you will abound in every good work.” Ps. 34:10-“They who seek the Lord by right of their need , and on the authority of His word none of them shall lack any beneficial thing. Know that everything is going to BE ALRIGHT. God is in control. Ps. 37:25-“I have never seen the righteous left alone, or begging for bread.

March 25-REASON FOR USING THE ALABASTER BOX. The precious oil was used for anointing to a king, prince and princess in all Royalty. It was smeared all over the body especially the head (Mind of Christ), and feet (our pure walk with God). This was an outward lesson for an inward work. We are the Royal Children of God called the Princess and Prince. The word Alabaster is a translucent (clear) representing our Spirit Body remembering the Christ within us meaning the “Oil of Life” brought into the Spirit Body. “Not by might of carnal mind, but by the Spirit. Zach. 4:6. “When Mary took the ointment, the House (us) was filled with the fragrance of perfume.” John 12:3. We are the containers of this precious oil. The Spirit causes a drought from negative thinking to Spiritual Truths to come to the earth to purify negative thoughts that are opposed to Truth. The females (soul) to Be united with Spirit and Soul marriage of the Lamb.

March 24-GOD CAUSES US TO GO THROUGH A FIRE WITHOUT THE SMELL OF SMOKE. The cares of the world never seems to die down, SEEMS to Be heated up seven times hotter than before. I choose to KNOW God is with me THROUGH every situation for me to display HIS PEACE AND GRACE. No lies of the enemy of my own flesh mind who is trying to destroy my Perfect Identity as a Pure Spirit Being. Is. 43:2-“When you pass THROUGH the waters, I WILL BE WITH YOU, and THROUGH the rivers, will not sweep over you. When you walk THROUGH the fire, (only temporary), you will not be burned, the flames will not set you ablaze to make your faith and belief to increase.” Dan. 3:27- Three Hebrew children thrown in fire because they would not bow to God of this world no bodies, hair singed, or clothes SMELL OF SMOKE. Only the cords of bondage burned away.” The fourth person (Christ) was with them.”

March 23-DON’T BE A FAULT FINDER. We must look at everyone has God within them. God is in control of the perfect timing to reveal Himself to them. “God was in Christ RECONCILING THE WHOLE WORLD back to Himself where we came from.” 2nd. Cor. 5:19. “He who is without sin (archery term meaning missing the mark of who we are) cast the first stone.” John 8:7. When we are judging others we are judging God, and saying God you are a complete failure with all of us. “Take the log out of your own eye, and then you will Be able to see CLEARLY to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” Matt. 7:1. James 5:9-“Do not complain against one another, that you yourself will Be judged, the Judge is standing at the door (for you to open and go in).” Let us see that God is all there IS. Evil is coming to the surface.

March 22-DON’T BE A GARBAGE TRUCK TO DUMP GARBAGE ON OTHERS. Garbage is any talk that is not Spirit or the waste of words that mean nothing to another person. Speaking about what is wrong with us instead of Thanking God to heal or provide any lack we THINK we have. Instead of talking about our problems with another person, see that person’s beauty instead of their faults. Remember the only problem we have is the THOUGHT we are separated from God who will never leave us or forsake us. Matt, 28:20. “The Lord is my helper, I will not fear, what can man do to me? Heb. 13:5. We always want to Be Godlike in everything we say or do. Col. 3:17. Always know I can’t do anything without Christ Jesus.”I AM crucified with Christ never the less i live, not i, but the Christ lives in me. Rom. 7:18.

To all my email friends,
DYING TO SELF by Bill Britton,

February 5-When you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you don’t sting or hurt with the insult or the oversight; but your heart is happy, counting it worthy to suffer for Christ. THAT IS DYING TO SELF. When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your opinions ridiculed and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient loving silence. THAT IS DYING TO SELF. When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any punctuality or any annoyance, when you can stand face to face with waste, folly extravagance, spiritual insensibility endured it like Christ Jesus endured it. THAT IS DYING TO SELF.

When you are content with any food, any offering, any raiment, climate, society, solitude or any interruption by the will of God. THAT IS DYING TO SELF. When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or itch after commendation, when you can truly Love to Be unknown. THAT IS DYING TO SELF. When you can see your brother prosper, and have his needs met to say honestly rejoice with him in Spirit, and feel no envy nor question God while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstance. THAT IS DYING TO SELF. When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less statue than yourself and can Be humbly submit inward as well as outwardly finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart. THAT IS DYING TO SELF. Are you dead yet? In these last days the Spirit would bring us to the Cross. “That I may know Him Being conform to His death.” Ps. 3:10 Love, Linda Cosentino

Dearest Email friends,

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.