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Friday, August 16, 2019

Relationships Continued

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. - Thomas a Kempis

A relationship in the Spirit is a struggle in itself. Why? The world we live in has pretty much come to the point of denying that the spiritual world exists in any form we can experience. In short, to the western mind, it does not exist. Our hearts and spirits tell us it does but our minds and sensibilities say it does not exist. The scary rise of interest in heart stopping hero and monster movies as well as ghost "adventure" TV shows attests to the fact we seek it to be real. In many cases a dangerous game. The bible is rife with examples of contact with Angels and spirits. As I shared when I began this series of posts, Eden is a prime example of the hidden world of God. There are many examples of Spiritual beings coming to prophets and individuals, not to mention animals. Stories? Fictitious or examples of the drawing back of the veil of the unseen world? Jesus rose from the dead into everlasting life. Is He out there somewhere or is He born again, into the unseen realm? How are we to have a relationship with Jesus let alone God if the unseen world does not exist?  If it does not exist we are lost. The Holy Spirit of God is of that realm. Belief in Christ is a stretch without believing the unseen world is real. Our love of our maker and His son cannot be fully realized if we do not believe in the realm from which they come. How does this impact a relationship? If you are unable to touch someone you love in this world you soon move on to someone or something you can touch. The lack of personal, up close, eye to eye contact is what this world is about. The problem is in how the world dulls our perception of the unseen world. I walk when the weather permits, sometimes as much as 6 or more miles. I often thank Jesus, the Holy Spirit and Yahweh for the day and ask them to walk with me. Often their presence is felt while walking. It isn't a full on visual experience but a definite presence. Then again I believe in the hidden world. If you believe in Christ, in God or the Holy Spirit then you must believe in the unseen world. There is still more which I will touch on in the next post.

This summer has been brutal. The office area that my computer is in has been unbearable since it has NO air conditioning. Temperature have been in excess of 100 deg. F on a regular basis in here. There have been inquiries about my well being so it was decided that I would at least spend some time in the early morning to at least get a post in. This post is being done on a Linux machine that does not have access to my graphics at present. That will be fixed before long. For now I will say thank you for the kind thoughts. Remember to always Love The Details. Leave a comment if you wish to reach me. I will be happy to get back to you. Sales or solicitations will not be responded to but locked out. God Bless and keep you. 





















3 comments:

  1. Sorry about the heat. We have had similar temps here over weeks and also no air conditioning, so I know how hard it is. Thomas a Kempis came from Kempen, a little walled town from the middle ages about 10 miles from here. You can see pics here:
    https://www.google.com/search?q=kempen&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjamuWqvIfkAhUKElAKHUTNBRYQ_AUIEigC&biw=1586&bih=747
    Hugs, Valerie

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  2. Beautiful words from the heart of a truly spiritual and loved man. Thank you xoxo

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  3. Sorry to hear of the heat you are enduring - Praise God your Autumn is due to arrive and we may be able to hear from you more often
    Yes, it is hard to go against the tide and believe in the Spirit(ual) realm - I had a revelation (for lack of a better word) that the Spirit realm is actually more "real" than this physical world - not an easy concept to get your head around. It is good to know that we are loved, and have been redeemed, by God.
    Blessings
    Maxine

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