10/07/2005

Spirit of Word

So then a third derivation of question arises. What is the secret? What must I do? How can I attain the fruit and the blessing? Who is the watchman? Where are the doors? What do the keys look like and what is the password?

First, there is no secret, other than as I am earless to hear. However, I do not care which side of the argument you fall on, if you perceive yourself in receipt of something there is some condition by which you feel you attained the answer to the above questioins, and that others must meet the same or similar condition in order to realize the same blessing. But this may lead us to presuppose that we all have the precise same experience, personality, intellect, and spirit, which we know we do not.. If we can at least agree that we are in possession of very personal experiences with God, we can see how it follows that our experiencing God individually is not of exclusionary of us from commonality with all others who have experienced God, but the most sublime addition to our own individuality within the group of those having experienced God and a ready made testament to those who have no experience with God. I will stop here for a moment to state that the preceding statement only reflects the timbre of how I came to know Christ and receive salvation exposing a time in which I did very little, from within a desparation and realization of need, other than express hope and receive faith and assurance of salvation from God through His only begotten Son, my Lord Jesus, and manifested toward me, and within me, by the Holy Spirit.

At some point we are chosen. It is not the intent of this essay to investigate the mind of Christ as to the choosing of followers nor that timing, but rather to uncover something about what it is that informs us we are His. By defiintion, he already knows whether, or when we will respond or not, so the purpose of a set of recognizable conditions by which we experience a saving knowledge of Christ must be for our own and other brethren's edification as well as the beacon call to outsiders to join Christ with us. Or, do our actions not speak louder than our words? So then, the statement "If you don't trust Christ above all, you don't trust him at all" should reflect in our walk, ur behaviour after we have received that Holy Spirit as guide and comfort, power and endurance, knowledge and hope, and the freedom and the discipline. And while I would like to say that I am always focused on God, targeted, I know that many times it is He who has proved to still be aware of me and my need despite my unexhibited trust in Him. What is the meaning of the spirit of the word?

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