The God In Us

May 18-GOD GIVES US OIL OF JOY. I AM Joyful in the Joy of God. Acts 2:28- “Thou has made known to me in the ways of Life, make me full of Joy with countenance.” Oil is sprayed all over our body to let all the negative thoughts slide off of us. “When I AM filled with cares, Your cares and comfort brings me Joy.” Ps. 94:19. We can Be glad and filled with Joy to Believe in the Presence with Power back of everything to a Perfect Life forever given of Itself to us, flowing through us in wondrous Light. I AM filled with JOY with no pain, sickness, depression or anything of human thinking when I know I AM a Spirit Being created in the Image and Likeness of God both male and female. I have Joy as a companion. God gives us JOY and peace each day with freedom and wholeness. ” A thing of beauty is Joy forever.”I meet everyone with Joy Unthinkable and full of Glory.

May17-LET US GO ON TO PERFECTION-1 Peter 2:2-“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that you may grow.” Strong meat to chew on until it is not head knowledge, but heart knowledge without Being part of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God is the only Power, Giver of Life and God is all there IS in complete control of our Lives. Heb. 6:1 “Let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ to maturity, not laying AGAIN the foundations of repentance from acts that lead us to death of Spirit to faith in God and believing.” Heb.13:20-“May God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, equip you with good for His will.”Phil. 3:12-“I press on toward the goal is to win the prize of the High Calling in God which is Christ Jesus calling us upward.” Resurrect like a butterfly to Spirit.

May 16-SOMEBODY PAID YOUR PRICE. You are the Pearl of Great Price. Matt. 13:45. “The Kingdom of God is like a merchant man, seeking Goodly pearls. When he has found the One Pearl (Christ) of great price (you), he sold everything He had (Spirit Realm born of a woman and the Word was made flesh), and bought it.” The word redemption means buy back what we forgot in the fall going to a lower dimension of flesh instead of Spirit letting the carnal mind rule us, and thinking we are god, and can do all things our selves. Christ Jesus went to the cross and took away all human thinking, and nailed it to the cross and gave us Resurrection life with the Mind of Christ with eternal life no death. In the physical realm the pearl needs sand paper of human meanness to make our pearl round and smooth. Let us use the sandpaper rub off my negative thinking to Be erased.

May 15-NO ONE CAN FAIL WHO SEEKS THE TRUTH. No one can abandon His creator or remain in hell (Not a place is mental and physical torment) because God is in us and AS us, and we are part of God. Rom. 8:21-“The Truth sets you free when We allow the indwelling Christ to Be in charge of our lives. “Think only positive thoughts, happy productive lives, free to inherit the Kingdom of God.” Gal. 5:1-“Stand fast in the liberty where with Christ has made us free, and Be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” I AM allowing my indwelling thoughts with Love, Peace, Happiness and Joy.” Angels messengers light the way, so that all darkness (flesh thinking) is erased before you to keep and guard you on your way, and to bring you to the place I have prepared.” Exodus 23:20.” Seeing things that are not as though they are.” Rom. 4:17. “The Light is shining in you.John 8:12.

May 14-THE KING HAS THE LAST MOVE. In a chess game, we may seem to have check mate, but the King has the last move to protect Him-self ,and even turn the tide of the game. Prov. 29:4. People seem to Be very mean and cruel, but God is still in control. Human behavior is coming to the surface to get rid of evil completely. God is the King is needed to change man’s thinking to the thinking of God. God is all there is, and in the form of all things. God is everywhere at the same time, God is all we see, know and feel. There is things in this world that points to God only. The Lion and the King in the animal kingdom means courage, fearlessness, life. The Lamb of God represents the pure life substance to slay the negative thinking that is not God like. Lion is the tribe of Judah (Praise) a source of new life more abundantly. We volunteered to bring The Kingdom back to this earth.

May 13-YOU ARE A ROYAL CHILD OF GOD. Gal. 4-“As long as the heir is not of age, he is no different from a slave, although he is owner of everything.” “When the fullness of time came, God sent His Son born of a woman, born under the law (judgment and condemnation knowing only the letter of the law instead of the Spirit) to ransom (bought us back a Pearl of Great Price to reconcile us back to God) 11Cor. 5:19 so that we might receive adoption that YOU ARE CHILDREN OF GOD, God sent His son Christ Jesus into our hearts (Spirit Realm) crying out ABBA Father (my very own Father) so you are no longer a slave, but a Royal Child also if a Child then an heir through God.” Romans 8:17-“We are Children Heirs of God and Joint Heirs with Christ.”Christ in us, and we all are One with God, and One with each other as Spirit Beings with no more human thoughts.

May 12-THE STONE THE BUILDERS REJECTED BECAME THE HEAD STONE. Mark 12:10. Christ Jesus is the stone the builder’s rejected became the Chief corner stone. Stones are pieces of the Truth smooth, and polished out all negative thinking. I lay a stone in Zion (Spirit Realm), a chosen and precious cornerstone, and One who trust in Him will never Be put to shame.”We are a chosen people, a royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation belonging to God. 1 Peter 2:9. The letter of the word does condemn instead of Knowing God sees us perfect creation by God in Gen. 1:27. Stones stop our growth like pain, sickness, death, no forgiveness, hatred, jealousy that is Not God. The tomb was a cave (a hole stopping growth sealed with a stone). Mark 16:8-“Who shall roll away the stone from human thinking of doubt and unbelief after 4 (world wide coverage) days the flesh stinks?”

May 11-BEYOND THIS WORLD IS THE WORLD I WANT. I want to take you on a journey in your mind where there is no sickness, pain, suffering, death, no sin (archery term we missed the mark of Being Spirit). In this place within, our thoughts are not separated from God, but a healing oil that dissolves all our negative human thoughts. There is a world beyond good and evil filled with Joy, Unconditional Love, Peace and God only. In the realm of Spirit, we can feel Unconditional Love from the top of our bodies to our feet. Immortality is here NOW. “Be you kind to One another, Tenderhearted, Forgiving one another Being One with each other and One with God. Eph. 4:32-“Be you transformed by the renewing of your mind and bathing in the Truth that sets us free.” Rom. 12:2-“I live in the present of God NOW. Gal 5:16-“I live in the Spirit and I to not desire the flesh desires.

May 10-TURN BACK THE STONE. Little stones are Spiritual Truths. David had 5 stones (number of grace), but used only ONE Stone (Christ) to defeat Goliath whose weapon was God.  Ephesians 2:8-“For it is by Grace (God’s Unmerited favor) that you are saved, and made partakers of Christ is not of yourselves of your own doing, but it is the Gift of God.” The stone that is rolled away IS your negative thoughts, and negative behavior rolled away from your thinking to the thinking of God. Stones that are stumbling blocks become stepping stones to walk under your feet to erased to victory. Acts 15:12-21- Woman caught in adultery, “Who is the first with no sin throw the first stone?” John 8:7. Sin is an archery term meaning missing the mark of who we are thought we lost our Identity as Spirit Beings and Royal children of God both male and female. Ps. 62:1- He is my Rock.

May 9-MOTHER’S DAY. We are ALL Spirit Beings created in the Image of God. Gen. 1:27. “God said, Let US (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit make man in Our Image, after Our likeness. So God created man in His Own image male and female.” Col. 3:10-“We have clothed yourself with a new spiritual self which is in the process of Being fuller, and more perfect knowledge after the image and likeness after Him who created it.” No child on earth that does not have a Father and a Mother-EL Shaddai the large breasted ONE, God Almighty, Holy Spirit the answer to the Thought of separation, the communication Link between God and ALL the children, still small voice we hear within who gives us UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, Comforter, Bridge, Guide, Mediator, Teacher. Give Love and honor to your Heavenly Mother and your Earthly Mother.

May 8-THERE IS UNDER CURRENTS IN THE WATER BY EGO THOUGHTS. 8-new beginnings-Do not swim in the rivers because they have under currents that take you under the water, and sometimes takes you far from your destination. I say these experiences is the ego thoughts within you that Edges God Out. Your own mind tries to destroy your Identity as a Spirit Being created by God in Gen. 1:27. At the cross we have the Mind of Christ nothing of thoughts of pain, suffering, and so on that is only temptations given by the ego thoughts unless we give in to these thoughts to experience these thoughts of negative words that are lies. Is. 43:2-“When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. You go THROUGH the waters, they shall not overflow you, the rivers will not sweep over you.” 2 Cor. 5:19-“God was in Christ reconciling world back to Him-self.”

May 7-THE GREAT AWAKENING. Luke 15-11-32.The Prodigal (spend thrift, very wasteful) son came to Him-self great awakening who was lost and could not find his way to Christ within saying my father’s servants have daily bread enough, and to spare, and I perish with hunger. Spiritual food awaits for a needy soul, and chooses the best food and leaves the junk food behind. In a far country of lower thinking there is a thought of separation from God. The Father saw the son from afar (in the dream state), and gave him a seamless robe (outer garment of light instead of skin). We awaken from the tombs of negative chains of human customs, beliefs and rituals. The ring of authority is given to us with Unconditional Love. Sandals to walk on the dirt of lowest human thoughts, and the washing of the feet to clear us from all human thoughts and nature. The fated calf represents abundance.

May 6-PEACE AND REGRETS BY Richard Cosentino. Regrets is one of the best tools of our Ego mind that Edges God Out. I look back with gratitude because if it weren’t for my past, I would not Be who I Am today. “I focus on forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.” Phil. 3:13. Peace and rest is some of the best tools of our Christ Mind given to us at the cross. “My peace I give to You not as the world gives. Do not let your hearts Be troubled or Be afraid.” John 14:27. Matt 11:28-“Come to me, all you are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I Am gentle and humble of heart. My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” So simple and so very real. We can make this choice every moment of every day. ” And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who MAKE PEACE. James 3:18.

May 5-WHAT IS THE EGO? The ego is idolatry thinking we are separated from God, born in a body, doomed to suffer and to end in death.You are a Spirit Being created by God perfect in Gen. 1:27. The ego is thoughts that edge God out. Anything in your life that brings chaos, argument, strife, worry, past judgment, offense, deception, competition or lies is the ego. Your Higher Self with the Mind of Christ brings you peace, harmony, Oneness with each other, and One with God. God is all there is. God is in you and AS you. God is in the form of all things. The ego is a shadow of your Real Self that is not real only thoughts in your own mind to delete. You are Divine, Saint, Beautiful, Alive, Precious,Pearl of Great Price. Christ Jesus paid the price at the cross for ALL human thoughts. We do not have any pain or suffering. It is only temptation for you to not know who you ARE.

May 4-MY LIPS SHALL NOT SPEAK WICKEDNESS. Job. 27:4. I AM a Spirit Being formed  in the image and likeness and all desires are from the Spirit realm THROUGH me at all times. I AM One with God and One with each other. My Spirit Body is not capable of good, evil, pain, suffering taken at the cross by Christ Jesus. The power of life and death is in the power of the tongue. Prov. 18:21. All negative thoughts have to Be deleted immediately because negative talks have to Be experienced. I know that every part of my body is perfect harmony. The ego thoughts cannot tempt me to say judgment, criticism, negative talk about anyone. I have the Mind of Christ that is not capable for sickness, pain, suffering because my words brings healing to all I meet to Be a Holy Encounter. The words in me that is Christ is the only power and God is all there IS. All evil is an illusion.

May 2-THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH GOD. Ps. 91.The secret place of the Most High is within you. You have the only entrance to this place by guarding it to not let any negative thoughts go within. The eviction notice is issued when anything on the outside of us tries to come where God only is on the throne. No cares of the world, sickness, pain, suffering are allowed to come in. We have the Mind of Christ. We must Be single eyed to see God only in this Secret Place. The outside world instead of Christ is temporary until we learn not to choose this realm again. This carnal mind cannot ever Be taught about Christ. go higher to feel the Presence. “I can run to the Father when I need breakthrough, and find a safe place to rest, protection and encouragement.” Ps. 32:7. When my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the Rock (Christ) that is higher than I.” Ps. 61:2.

 A POEM WRITTEN BY LINDA COSENTINO FOR JANUARY 1-2021

This is a beautiful Love story for You special, my Dear.
The Godhead is speaking, so open up your 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’s 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 to all of us.
We forgot to know we are Royal Children both male and female is a must.
The world 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 your image.
Christ Jesus said that He was telling us that He was finished.

No more pains, suffering, trials, tribulations and no more 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 overwhelmed.

He said, You will be processed on the Potter’s wheel to do great 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 this earth to finally having World Peace.

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.

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.