I have spent the past week or so pondering the the reality and the significance of Col 1:27 Christ in you, the Hope of Glory.

As I have said before, at the root of that word glory is view and opinion. In other words, the only way that we live a life as good as God says it can be is by having an awareness of and being in communion with the living Jesus in you.

As I again spent time pondering the reality of this scripture, I began to have a desire to understand why Jesus in us is the only way to achieve the life that God desires for us. Even though the early answers were more than likely just a part of my religious past surfacing to my conscience, they are still true and significant; we need Jesus in our heart to give us the strength to live life as God intended!

But as I again spent time pondering this early this morning and communing with Jesus in my heart, I believe I may have grasped the real weight of why this was written to us. We will never see how good God intended our life to be apart from Jesus in us telling us!

1 Cor 2:9-12 (NLT) That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.

With our carnal minds we will never grasp how good God wants our lives to be. We come up with all sorts of ideas that sound nice but they will be limited to this world's system and in the end, we will continue to come up with religious excuses for our miserable existence and continue to fall short of God's view and opinion of how our lives should be (glory).

Read Romans 5:17 from the Message Bible:

If death got the upper hand through one man's wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?

Jesus in you will continually remind you how good life was meant to be! He will not condemn you but convince you that you are as you should be because of what He accomplished for you!

I will continue pondering these things and I look forward to sharing the fruit of it!

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Peace and Blessings!

Something that my favorite preacher said in one of his recent messages brought to my remembrance something that I have pondered in the past and opened up what I believe to be new insight, for me anyhow. He was teaching about identity and he said that before Adam fell, he lived out of his heart and that his brain was used just for observation. In the past, I have pondered the verse: Genesis 3:7 (NLT) At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. When I heard my preacher say what he said it struck a chord with what I had pondered in the past and began to see some distinct possibilities. 
 
It is obvious that in Genesis 3:7 that this eye opening was not good like we usually associate with eye openings in the bible. I have believed it to be some sort of carnal awakening when Adam began to pass judgments based on opinions formed in his brain instead of what was flowing from his heart in communion with God in his spirit. The first judgment that he passed was that his body needed to be covered when God says that it was very good.  
 
At this point, man ceased to live from his heart in communion with his creator. I believe at this point, the world began to slip back into chaos because in Genesis 1:26-28, God gave dominion of planet earth to man and even in his fallen state he still has dominion! I believe that the corruption in man's heart has corrupted this world!
 
We are shown in Romans 8:18-22 (ASV) For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward. For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
 
Is it possible that we can give life to the creation around us by the beliefs of our heart which emerge through Christ in us? Colossians 1:27 
 
There is a time coming when all things in this world will be set straight. But what if we can become what God says that we are right now?
What if we can be in this world like Jesus is right now like it says in 1 John 4:17? Could we see life the way that God intended it to be even in the midst of the worst darkness this world has ever seen?
 
Something to ponder! Life was meant to be an incredible journey!
 
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Blessings and Peace!

Yesterday morning I awoke with a desire to escape this world's aka man's system.

God gave man dominion of this world in the garden and what we are experiencing in current world events is the result of the evil pouring forth from the hearts of fallen mankind.

Consider these verses:

Romans 8:19-22
For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God's sons to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to futility-not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it-in the hope that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God's children. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.

John 16:33
These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Colossians 1:27 
God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

In the above scriptures, the word translated glory has to do with the brightness, splendor, and majesty of God, but at the root of it's meaning it has more to do with God's view and opinion. We have fallen short of God's opinion of us!

When Paul prayed for the Ephesians, he prayed that Christ would dwell in our hearts through faith.

Experiencing a living, breathing, loving Jesus in your heart will reveal to you what life was intended to be. It will allow you to live beyond this world's system and live the life that God intended for us all along. We were created in the likeness and image of God and we create the world live in by the beliefs of our hearts. 

With all of the earth's inhabitants being programed by the same corrupt sources; schools, media, etc. it is no wonder where we have ended up!

We can escape though! 

As I said at the start of this, I awoke with a desire to escape. I then quieted my mind and entered the peaceful place in my heart and sought God. He almost immediately showed me that to escape this worlds system, I must live out of my heart, listening to His voice in my heart!

To walk in peace in a world full of turmoil, you must have peace in your heart. If you live in stress, you will not hear the voice of God in your heart.

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Peace!