The God In Us

April 22-ONE STONE SHOT KILLED GOLIATH. The One stone is the Christ Jesus. 1 Samuel 17.The strong man fully armed is Christ Jesus. Goliath means revealing, conspicuous, taken off, a soothsayer. This Goliath is thoughts in our own minds that are aggressive, that tries to dominate, brag about their power, with fearful threats of disaster in your own carnal mind that is not real, but temptations to destroy your perfect Identity as a Spirit Being. This fear is Goliath. David means beloved of God in able to Love after God’s own heart. David was sure of himself to know we all have the ability to destroy thoughts and words spoken that gives us fear (false evidence appearing real) to Be done away with and erased. He picked 5 the number of Grace Smooth stones of Faith, Courage, Trust, Obedience, Praise. We are dealing now Goliath’s brothers that is done away with Christ of our Being.

April 21-ARE YOU FEEDING YOUR INNER SPIRIT? We know that we have to eat human food with plenty of nourishment each day to stay alive. So our inner Spirit where God dwells needs all day nourishment to stay alive and stay as Spirit Beings not to go back to Being carnal flesh Beings. In the physical body, it needs exercise. We need to exercise our Spirit teachings each day by Faith to believe in an Impossible God to walk with God, talk with God in order to speak only Godly thoughts with nothing negative to cause us to experience negative thoughts of pain, suffering, sickness, depression, fear (false evidence appearing real) and any emotions that tempts us from Being God like in everything we do and say. The human carnal mind wants to Be on the throne of mind each day to cancel our Identity as Spirit Beings. “We are Being renewed in the Spirit of our minds.”Eph. 3:23

April 20-TRUTH INSTEAD OF ILLUSIONS. Illusions are false ideas, misleading appearances, not real, only in our own minds. No more thinking good and evil, but choose God only. We can choose Truth. Salvation is saving us from human thinking to thinking, and speaking God’s words. We have a plan and purpose as Spirit Beings. Gen. 1:27. Temptations are not real only when we make them real, and then we have to experience them. Christ took away fear, guilt and all human emotions and thoughts or words. We can choose our on destiny with peace. We are One with God, One with each other, One body of Christ. We are here to change our thinking and speaking because words create. We watch what we say to speak. We speak only what the Holy Spirit tells us what to say and do to Be God like in everything we do and say. Action from God cannot Be hindered.

April 19-I AM A SPIRIT BEING. Your Identity is Spirit. By the Truth of who you are has saved you from the insane thoughts of your own mind. You are Spirit with your Father’s Love, Peace, and Joy. You are the extension of God which completes Him-self who is with you always, as you are with Him. Matt. 28:20. Spirit I AM, a holy Son and Daughter of God, free of limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive and free to save the world. Many saviors will come from Mt. Zion-Spirit Realm who are prepared to Be God like in everything they say and do to Be Saviors of the world meaning save us from human thinking to the thinking of God only. Knowing you are a Spirit Being will save you from temptation to the words of our own carnal mind instead of the Mind of Christ to save us from consequences to believe in a lie instead of the Truth of your Being. Obadiah 1:21

April 18-HIS WAYS ARE PAST FINDING OUT. Rom. 11:33-“Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain unto it” “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments (turning points), and His ways finding out” “Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” His law is Love God and Love Your neighbor as yourself. To Be God like in everything we do and say, we must not try to Be right, argue or fight. Let go and let God. Do you real-eyes that to Be God like is to pray for your enemies, and see All the people in the WORLD already are reconciled back to God where we came from at the cross because God was in Christ Jesus at the cross. 2 Cor. 5:19 He has a perfect time to bring all evil to the surface to bring forth the Kingdom of God on this earth body (Spirit Body) who we really ARE.

April 17-FAITH MAKES THINGS HAPPEN. Matt. 21:21-“If you have faith, and doubt not, you shall do to the fig tree, but also you shall say unto this mountain (all the negative things that hinder us from growth), Be thou removed, and Be cast into the sea, it shall Be done.” Thought and words spoken  is very powerful in that it creates whether it is good or evil, we must experience it or get rid of the thought or words. All things happen in the mind. We must cast all thoughts that is not God to Be erased. Christ in us cannot receive any pain, suffering and so on because of these thoughts and words. Christ Jesus went to the cross and erased all sin-missing the mark of who and what we are, dis-ease, depression or anything the carnal mind may give us to destroy our Identity as Spirit Beings created perfect by God in Gen. 1:27. We have the right to choose our destiny to God only.

April 16-YOUR FAITH HAS MADE YOU WHOLE. Matt. 8:13-“And Jesus said unto the centurion. Go thy way, and as thou has believed, so be it done unto you.” When we have faith, we believe it is a substance (Christ Jesus) within us we do not see, but still Believe and Know. No person or situation can take this Truth away from us. We release our word of affirmation prayers to the creative Mind of Christ to know this will happen in God’s timing. We give thanks to this miracle to a Impossible God that can heal by “His stripes” at the cross ago and certainly for right Now. We go to the Resurrection side of prayer without seeing, but still believing. Have Joy, anticipation, and Faith to know who you are and what is your purpose in life. Put this faith in practice to Know and Believe this is God’s will in your life. The centurion soldier believed for his servant, and it was done.

April 15-GOD GIVES US THE DESIRES OF OUR HEART. Ps. 37:4. My desires of my heart is to Be Christ Like in every thing I do and say. These thoughts of God takes time a little at a time when the old thoughts are transformed into new ones in the Mind of Christ. All good belongs to us without any rejection. Fear is gone when we real-eyes every human thoughts are illusions compared to the Kingdom of God and vanished at the cross to Resurrection. I dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High God to feel His Presence through out the day. Ps. 91. “There is no human thoughts that can keep me from Knowing the Living God that dwells in me and will never leave me or forsake me.” Heb. 13:5. I can erase my past negative thinking and erase them like I can use an eraser on a pencil. I can only have happy memories to cherish. The past is gone and I live only NOW.

April 14-GOD PERFECTS WHAT IS CREATED FOR YOU. Ps. 138:8-“God will perfect that which concerns you.”We are awakening to the Spirit Realm to use the Mind of Christ only One Mind, a deeper awakening to the Soul of who and what we ARE. A veil between matter and Spirit is beginning to Be opened to where there is no human thinking only God thinking. We live in a Spiritual Universe with the Truth of our Being as Spirit cannot be denied. All old things are passing away to make room for the brand new body all things NEW. Our True Self within the Christ to flow through with a born again, again experience to know all about the Kingdom of God. 1 Peter 1:11-25-“You have purified yourself by learning the Truth how to Love each other from the Heart. You have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable by the Living Word of God.”

April 13-GOD CREATED ALL THINGS. John 1:3-“All things by Him, and without Him was not any thing that was made.” You have a right to obtain all things from Christ. The difference between man and all creation is the ability to talk, reason, think, choose righteousness and many more reasons why we are Royal Children of God both male and female. God speaks to us each day if we listen to the still small voice inside of us where God dwells in and through you. You can each day create a day where we have peace, happiness, and Love that is real. Whenever we have negative thoughts they create, and if not erased we experience our negative feelings and thoughts. We have the power to become masters of our lives according to our beliefs and knowings that God is in control, and God is all there is. Healing is for you NOW. God gets glory when you give your testimony of Life.

April 12-THERE IS NO DEATH. Christ Jesus at the cross gave us eternal life. We went to the cross, and now we must go on the Resurrection side of the cross where there is “Life and Life more abundantly.” John 10:10. Prov. 12:28-“In the way of righteousness is life, and the pathway there is no death.” On the Resurrection side of the cross is a Born Again experience to a new horizon of greater possibilities within us. We can feel His Presence to know His wonderful power of a God with the Mind of Christ to a God of impossibilities with Peace, Happiness and Joy. From the river of Life, we surrender our little self to our Real Self to God’s ways only. We feel Unconditional Love embraces us from top to bottom. There is no negative living any more that God created us all new to Be our true Identity as Spirit Beings created perfect after the image and likeness of God in Gen. 1:27

 8. Mindfulness- The mind is the center of our world and if we let fears or stressors rule our whole being can suffer. In Chinese medicine we say the “5 emotions” are the internal cause of disease.  It is important during any global panic to take a few minutes a day to still ones mind and focus on the breath. Taking deep breaths and stilling the mind can help reduce stress. Take some time out of your day to count your blessings in life. Many of us live with many privileges for which our ancestors would only have dreamed of. Running water, warm homes, food on the table, loving relatives, friends and partners etc. If we can focus on the positive in our life we can reduce the impact of daily stresses in our life. Stress impacts the immune system. If we are hopeful we generate more immune cells and produce less stress hormones for our body to process. Another great reason to make it to YOGA. 

April 10-GOD DOES NOT PLAY BY HUMAN RULES. Man made rules are punishment, war, hatred, pain and suffering, argue to Be right. God’s rules is number one Love and Love each other. Rom. 13:1-“There is no authority except from God.” Acts 5:29-“We must obey God rather than man.” 2 Timothy 3:16-“All scripture is for teaching, correction, training in righteous, so that man of God may Be complete, equipped for every good work.” Col. 3:23-“Whatever you do, work heartily as to God and not men.” Luke 16:27-“Heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of law of God to become void.” Rom. 8:28-“All things work together for good.” 1 Cor. 10:13-“No temptation has overtaken you that is common to man. God is faithful not to Be tempted beyond your ability. Gal. 5:14-“Love God and your neighbor as yourself. God is all there Is, and we are one with each other.

April 9-HOW DID GOD CREATE MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE. God extended Him-self into Father, Mother-Holy Spirit, Sons and Daughters. Gen. 1:27. No child born that does not have a Mother, Father. Every living creation reproduces after his kind. God made us a Spirit Being part of Christ within. Soul is my mind, will, emotions, and intellect until we Know only the Christ Mind, God’s will, God’s one emotion of Unconditional Love, and God’s intellect. I can do nothing of myself. Phil. 4:13. We wanted to Be god and have our own way. We are clothed our self and remolded into fuller and more perfect Knowledge of who we are in the likeness and image of God. Man can talk, think, choose, and speak all positive words with the Mind of Christ. Our bodies are the vehicle to bring forth salvation of the whole world to a world that has no light to get rid of all darkness. 

January 18-WHAT DOES THE YEAR OF JUBILEE MEAN? Now is the Day OF SALVATION (free of man’s kingdom to God’s Kingdom).2nd Cor. 6:2. Lev. 25-“The year of Jubilee shall be a sabbath of rest.” The Jubilee is the year of the end of seven cycles have a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel (all of us). Fifty of rest, forgiveness of all debts, liberation, and servants to their native lands, and liberty. The Jubilee year is to show Jesus Christ in all that I do with the Christ in me. The Kingdom of God including you to transform world to Jesus Christ. Jubilee is natural rhythm, harmony, Joy of life that is experienced when the Soul radiates grace, beauty of Thought and character of the body to Be transformed to Spirit Body. We are waiting for the manifestation of the Sons and Daughters of God for the redemption of our bodies. Rom. 8:19

 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.