More Thoughts

 I feel like my last post lacked something and I couldn't sleep well last night thinking that the last blog left more questions than it gave answers. I admit I am a bit different than most labeled people. I am sure that someone somewhere would be able to label me proper and all. But for now, I just want to explain a bit more. Ya'll know that GOD is not the author of confusion. And I believe it was GOD who brought me in here today to finish what I started. 

I was raised Southern Baptist and Methodist.  I have gone to many different labeled churches. But The SB and the Methodist was a mainstay for me. My maternal Grandparents were Methodist, but my sister and I would go to neighborhood SB churches for Sunday school, which taught me the fundamentals of GOD. My paternal Grandmother was Catholic. I didn't see her much and she didn't go to Church much as she became a widow when I was 6 and she had 8 kids. But she was a good person. Most Catholics are good people, even though you can find bad apples in any bunch. I still believe that most Christians are good people. And the bad ones are turned bad by emulating bad leaders who are in it for the easy money by putting on a show, but you will know them by their actions. If they are angry and judgmental and condemn you and kick you out of the church on a whim of sin, when they themselves are sinning by not following the real GOD, you'll want to find a different church.

When I was in my late 20's and early 30's I would go with my maternal grandmother to her church and teach at vacation bible school. lol... Yes, I was a vacation Bible school teacher, thanks to the wonderful ladies in the Methodist church who believed in me. This is my roots. 

With GOD it's not people who teach you, they are just setting an example, its GOD within you who leads and guides you by the Holy Ghost, 24/7... You never have to worry about finding someone to explain things to you because GOD reveals to you by the SPIRIT truth and wisdom and all things right and good. If it seems GOD is not talking to you, give it a minute and you will hear HIM. Sometimes it takes more time because you don't know what to expect and you second guess everything. It will pass and you'll get there.

We are living in a world where Satan has had thousands of years to confuse and distort our thinking. But I know truth, and by GOD, I will speak it. There are some people who want to shut me up, but like others in the SPIRIT, we are doing a 'Jesus movement thing' and we are standing up against the evil in the world, I mean if we don't... who will?

Now the demons they love picking on you. And who are demons? They are evil souls who seek to destroy and kill all that is good and right by GOD. And it is up to US to choose whom we serve. 

Now, I don't belong to any church anymore as I can watch men of GOD on tv these days. But I don't care about labels anyway. I am always happy to find people preaching about Jesus and what his message was, regardless of any labels. I believe the devil hides behind labels and fools a lot of people. But if we are diligent and know GOD, we can call them out so maybe, just maybe they can be saved from their own selves. Sometimes I don't think they even know they are doing it wrong. 

I was raised up with the King James Bible, but I have read other bibles also. My favorite Bible is the Hebrew/Greek Study Bible. I got some great information there! It changed the way I saw things. And GOD wasn't such a mystery to me anymore when I realized that GOD wasn't about magic or trickery. My mind was open to a whole new thing! And that was when GOD revealed to me that things are not always what they seem. And GOD wrote HIS word in a way to confound the wise and prudent. That was what they called people in charge who didn't have the true spirit of GOD. Most of them learned the way of Jesus and found the true spirit of GOD but there were still those who were in charge who wanted to remain in charge for the control of men. A whole issue that we still have today. The arrogance and greed of power and wealth. Which will one day cause them to step down or they will die, and the new heavens and the new earth will not suffer such fools.

I just want to share a couple examples here, I've written about this before, but I feel the need to also put it here. For one, thinking about Lot's wife, 'turning into a pillar of salt'... I don't believe she magically transformed into a statue of salt. I believe where she was standing when she turned around... a huge, gigantic pillar of salt came crashing down on her and where she was standing, she was standing no more, but squashed like a bug under that piece of giant earth.

And my favorite one here is Jesus turning water into wine. I don't believe the water magically turned into wine, but that Jesus had a great connection with the wine man, and when he saw that the wedding party was so poor, they couldn't afford wine for the celebration, Jesus sent a couple or a few of his disciples to his friend, the wine man and they told him Jesus had sent them to see about getting some wine for the wedding party. The wine man LOVED Jesus and was more than happy to help out! And so, the disciples secretly carried in the wine and changed the water one vessel at a time and to the party it was a miracle... not magic... just a miracle that Jesus was there and was able to do it! He didn't seek to be known about it, but you know how people talk and it just got out that it was changed, not how it was changed. It was just changed! What a great day it must have been for the bride and groom!

So, you see it was humans helping humans with a GODLY SPIRIT of caring and actually doing something to help others. I heard it said, GOD can't do anything without HIS PEOPLE, we are HIS hands and feet and voice! Because GOD is a SPIRIT of goodness that lives in the hearts and minds of HIS PEOPLE and causes them to help others, sometimes... most times it's in secret. 

The one thing I told GOD that I did not want to do is change the mystery and intrigue that IS GOD. I mean you can agree that Jesus changed the water into wine, we don't know how it happened, but it happened. Just because I am saying it involved PEOPLE and not magic doesn't deny the fact that it happened. I just feel like GOD clarified it for me when I asked.

I feel like a big reason people turned from GOD was because they just didn't understand it all. But maybe we are not meant to understand it all. There are some things we won't know until we are with GOD. 

Now, one more time for those who need to hear... GOD IS the culmination of all the saints and sinners that have ever been born and had the breath of life created knowledge and died. Like I have a long line of past family who are with GOD now and when I pass on, I will be able to be with them and understand all things.

In the words of Bennie Benjamin, Horace Ott and Sol Marcus...  

"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, Oh Lord please don't let me be misunderstood!" 

And that's my final thought for this post!

GOD Bless US Everyone! IJCNA