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Hello Friends, today I wish to keep the conflict in Israel/Gaza in my prayers especially ass it seems that things will escalate more over the next week. I pray that civilians in each area get to safety.
To continue in my study on Who God truly is I move on to "L" and meditate on God as being LIFE.
God revealed Himself to Moses in Exodus 3:14 as "I AM WHO I AM" which speaks to His self-existence. He does not derive His existence from any other, nor did He ever begin to exist at any time, nor will He ever not exit. This is impossible for Him.
When He calls Himself "I AM, it is perhaps one of the profoundest statement we can know. HE IS!
He is clearly stating that He exists, o if, and, or buts about it. He has always existed, and will exist forever.
John 1:4 says that Life is in God. He is the source of all life. Because He is the Life. john 11:25 Jesus calls Himself the Resurrection and the Life. John 5:26 Jesus says that He has Life within Himself just as the Father has life within Himself. Thus saying that He is God , just as the Father is God. John 6:63 Jesus says that the Spirit gives life, affirming that the Spirit is God. And with these statements Jesus is saying that within the Godhead there are three who together gives life since they are Life itself. Nothing comes into existence without being created by God and it is He who give any creature life. In John 6:63.
God made us. Each person of the Godhead is involved in giving us life because they are Life itself, as Jesus says in John 14:6 when He says that He is the way, the truth, and the life.
Romans 5:10 speaks of how we are saved through the life of Christ. By the power of God's everlasting life, Jesus' body was resurrected from the dead and lives forever. This is how we receive salvation. Because He lives, we will live. And since all people ever created receive their natural life from God, those who are chosen by God to be saved, receive their spiritual life from God as well. see part 2
In God's Essence, Life is His natural state of being. In our life her, which is our natural state of being, the life we have is derived from God, so we should be thankful for each day of life He grants us, rather that He wills for our life to continue from when He started it ---years ago. Our spiritual life is also derived from God through the Holy Spirit, who gives it, Jesus who gives it, and the Father who gives it. We should be ever thankful for having begun this life in us through the regeneration of the Spirit and the washing of the Word and that He will continue this spiritual life eternally. It too is a derived life, being graciously bestowed on us by our God who loves us so. But this spiritual life is supernatural to us, as it goes above and beyond our natural life her in time. This life is not supernatural for God because He is all of life essentially.
Those without faith in our Lord also will live forever after the resurrection of our bodies, but this life is equated with eternal death or the second death as Rev. 20:14 calls the lake of fire judgment of God. This judgement is death, though a person is alive eternally in a state of being dead to God away from His presence, goodness, grace, and mercy; without joy, contentment, nor anything we associate with living a life full of goodness.
God is the author of all life, but no one authored God into life. He is unique in this way from all other beings. I was thinking on this the last few days. I think of how we have attempted to displace God from the generation of life. First is came with the working of conception prevention, then with abortion. And then it jumped to manipulating conception through artificial means, then to embryonic transplantation, then to attempts to clone a human, and now scientists are working on creating organs from stem cells for transplantation. Scientists are at work with gene splicing, gene modification, genome isolation and experimentation transhuman.
Now that you have reappeared on this forum as it were I suppose I could ask if the love of God was touched upon yet. I could try to make a stab at that in the next day or two although I'm sure your comments would be more complete than mine...
So, Richard, I realize that most people have no interest in what I 've shared. But I have found researching this about our families to be very interesting, especially to discover how many were believers and their willingness to leave the comforts of manors in England to be settlers in a new land for the English; and, with my family, to come from Europe to homestead and work the land to produce needed crops for the market and to support their families. My family was generally poor with no known nobility or people of significance historically, yet, here we are, my husband and I from two very different family backgrounds making a new family background that differs from that of our pasts. God has had His hand on us and our ancestors to bring us to one another in faith and love.
Beyond what I have shared, I really have never had much interest in discovering the past of our families, but now that I have some good information, I am glad that I did this. We all have a family history, much like the people in the Bible. In every family there is good and bad that is done and that happens to family members, blessings and curses, as Deut. tells us. But God know s the beginning from the end and in the end, our pedigree or history means nothing in terms of our reward in Christ. But I think we all have something to learn from history, whether our own, our countries, world, or the history set forth in the Bible.
I am well aware of Titus 3:9 says about avoiding foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the law, for they are unprofitable and vain. And because of this verse I have avoided doing genealogical research. However, I do not think this is talking about knowing one's genealogy (that was necessary to prove your Israelite heritage, especially one from Judah or Levi), but in the context here it is speaking about using one's genealogy to prove any sort of status in any circumstance. It just doesn't matter for believers as it does not merit us.
To continue, just for human interest here: My husband's family were some of the founding Pilgrims and Puritans of Massachusetts, Jamestown, VA., the Puritan colony in Connecticut, the Quaker colony of William Penn in PA. At that time in history, many of these sects fled to America due to persecution in England for "non-conformists".
His ancestors were the first English Govenor of New York after he negotiated it away from the Dutch of New Amsterdam and changed the name to New York, being sent from King Charles II to do this. Another ancestor was the recorder of this assignment and he settled on Long Island being awarded most of the Island by the King.
And then three branches of his family (different surnames) migrated to Maryland at the same timeframe and were among the first settlers of this colony, settling in what eventually became Annapolis. Others migrated to Virginia, then to the Carolinas and then to Alabama where all three families (of different surnames) ended up in the same city in Alabama. They were homesteaders there since Alabama was the frontier at that time. Many of these were "planters" as they were called who were of nobility sent by the King to plant tobacco farms, thus being awarded hundreds of acres to farm by the King. These soon became plantations with the history that accompanied these as far as social, economic, and culture, some of which created some of the sad history of slavery in our country, as it ready was practiced in England.
I also discovered that Thomas Jefferson's first cousin Lucy, married a direct member of my husband's line. I say all this to show what I have been busy with. I want to create a history of these families with historical and cultural information for my three sons, since they are the only sons to carry forward the family name. I thought it would be good to do before I get too old.
My family tree is pretty much the opposite of my husband's, coming to America in the 1800's as simple homesteaders.
I have not written about LOVE, so go right ahead and write of it! I was debating between the two for "L" but it seems that the Spirit has caused me to think on how He is life over the past few days, so I went with that lead
Good to hear from you, Richard. I pray that your health is being renewed after your BIG DEAL you suffered recently. I am so glad you received the right treatment for that illness and that you returned home. How is your job going?
I have been here, but have not felt very led to share much in recent weeks. I check in daily to read posts and consider what is being said here.
Also, my sister in law, (husband's sister) is into the ancestry thing. I have not been. But she recently found that my husband's family is related to Elvis. Which is really funny because since I first met my husband I noticed resemblances in expressions as well as some facial resemblance. So I went online to find out how this relationship was brought about. Turns out that My husband's dad and Elvis were 4th cousins, going back to a common great, great grandfather on both maternal sides.
From that I have been researching the lines of my husband's families back to Normandy with William the Conqueror. Not related to him, but fought with him in the Conquest, were friends with him, served in his and other courts of Kings and that William the Conqueror awarded earldoms and baronages to many who fought with him and came from Normandy with him as a result. So many of my husband's ancestors were Earls, Barons, and Knights. Earls and Barons (Dukes and Lords) served in the Parliament in the House of Lords representing their fief or section of the county their manors were. One even was one of the signers of the Magna Carta. So I researched this to refresh my learning.
Then I researched how and when they came to America. Found out that many of ancestors left England in the early 1600's to settle the new colonies. Many of them were the founding settlers.
To continue in my study on Who God truly is I move on to "L" and meditate on God as being LIFE.
God revealed Himself to Moses in Exodus 3:14 as "I AM WHO I AM" which speaks to His self-existence. He does not derive His existence from any other, nor did He ever begin to exist at any time, nor will He ever not exit. This is impossible for Him.
When He calls Himself "I AM, it is perhaps one of the profoundest statement we can know. HE IS!
He is clearly stating that He exists, o if, and, or buts about it. He has always existed, and will exist forever.
John 1:4 says that Life is in God. He is the source of all life. Because He is the Life. john 11:25 Jesus calls Himself the Resurrection and the Life. John 5:26 Jesus says that He has Life within Himself just as the Father has life within Himself. Thus saying that He is God , just as the Father is God. John 6:63 Jesus says that the Spirit gives life, affirming that the Spirit is God. And with these statements Jesus is saying that within the Godhead there are three who together gives life since they are Life itself. Nothing comes into existence without being created by God and it is He who give any creature life. In John 6:63.
God made us. Each person of the Godhead is involved in giving us life because they are Life itself, as Jesus says in John 14:6 when He says that He is the way, the truth, and the life.
Romans 5:10 speaks of how we are saved through the life of Christ. By the power of God's everlasting life, Jesus' body was resurrected from the dead and lives forever. This is how we receive salvation. Because He lives, we will live. And since all people ever created receive their natural life from God, those who are chosen by God to be saved, receive their spiritual life from God as well. see part 2
God Bless everyone
God Bless
Part 2
In God's Essence, Life is His natural state of being. In our life her, which is our natural state of being, the life we have is derived from God, so we should be thankful for each day of life He grants us, rather that He wills for our life to continue from when He started it ---years ago. Our spiritual life is also derived from God through the Holy Spirit, who gives it, Jesus who gives it, and the Father who gives it. We should be ever thankful for having begun this life in us through the regeneration of the Spirit and the washing of the Word and that He will continue this spiritual life eternally. It too is a derived life, being graciously bestowed on us by our God who loves us so. But this spiritual life is supernatural to us, as it goes above and beyond our natural life her in time. This life is not supernatural for God because He is all of life essentially.
Those without faith in our Lord also will live forever after the resurrection of our bodies, but this life is equated with eternal death or the second death as Rev. 20:14 calls the lake of fire judgment of God. This judgement is death, though a person is alive eternally in a state of being dead to God away from His presence, goodness, grace, and mercy; without joy, contentment, nor anything we associate with living a life full of goodness.
God is the author of all life, but no one authored God into life. He is unique in this way from all other beings. I was thinking on this the last few days. I think of how we have attempted to displace God from the generation of life. First is came with the working of conception prevention, then with abortion. And then it jumped to manipulating conception through artificial means, then to embryonic transplantation, then to attempts to clone a human, and now scientists are working on creating organs from stem cells for transplantation. Scientists are at work with gene splicing, gene modification, genome isolation and experimentation transhuman.
Beyond what I have shared, I really have never had much interest in discovering the past of our families, but now that I have some good information, I am glad that I did this. We all have a family history, much like the people in the Bible. In every family there is good and bad that is done and that happens to family members, blessings and curses, as Deut. tells us. But God know s the beginning from the end and in the end, our pedigree or history means nothing in terms of our reward in Christ. But I think we all have something to learn from history, whether our own, our countries, world, or the history set forth in the Bible.
I am well aware of Titus 3:9 says about avoiding foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the law, for they are unprofitable and vain. And because of this verse I have avoided doing genealogical research. However, I do not think this is talking about knowing one's genealogy (that was necessary to prove your Israelite heritage, especially one from Judah or Levi), but in the context here it is speaking about using one's genealogy to prove any sort of status in any circumstance. It just doesn't matter for believers as it does not merit us.
To continue, just for human interest here: My husband's family were some of the founding Pilgrims and Puritans of Massachusetts, Jamestown, VA., the Puritan colony in Connecticut, the Quaker colony of William Penn in PA. At that time in history, many of these sects fled to America due to persecution in England for "non-conformists".
His ancestors were the first English Govenor of New York after he negotiated it away from the Dutch of New Amsterdam and changed the name to New York, being sent from King Charles II to do this. Another ancestor was the recorder of this assignment and he settled on Long Island being awarded most of the Island by the King.
And then three branches of his family (different surnames) migrated to Maryland at the same timeframe and were among the first settlers of this colony, settling in what eventually became Annapolis. Others migrated to Virginia, then to the Carolinas and then to Alabama where all three families (of different surnames) ended up in the same city in Alabama. They were homesteaders there since Alabama was the frontier at that time. Many of these were "planters" as they were called who were of nobility sent by the King to plant tobacco farms, thus being awarded hundreds of acres to farm by the King. These soon became plantations with the history that accompanied these as far as social, economic, and culture, some of which created some of the sad history of slavery in our country, as it ready was practiced in England.
I also discovered that Thomas Jefferson's first cousin Lucy, married a direct member of my husband's line. I say all this to show what I have been busy with. I want to create a history of these families with historical and cultural information for my three sons, since they are the only sons to carry forward the family name. I thought it would be good to do before I get too old.
My family tree is pretty much the opposite of my husband's, coming to America in the 1800's as simple homesteaders.
I have not written about LOVE, so go right ahead and write of it! I was debating between the two for "L" but it seems that the Spirit has caused me to think on how He is life over the past few days, so I went with that lead
Good to hear from you, Richard. I pray that your health is being renewed after your BIG DEAL you suffered recently. I am so glad you received the right treatment for that illness and that you returned home. How is your job going?
I have been here, but have not felt very led to share much in recent weeks. I check in daily to read posts and consider what is being said here.
Also, my sister in law, (husband's sister) is into the ancestry thing. I have not been. But she recently found that my husband's family is related to Elvis. Which is really funny because since I first met my husband I noticed resemblances in expressions as well as some facial resemblance. So I went online to find out how this relationship was brought about. Turns out that My husband's dad and Elvis were 4th cousins, going back to a common great, great grandfather on both maternal sides.
From that I have been researching the lines of my husband's families back to Normandy with William the Conqueror. Not related to him, but fought with him in the Conquest, were friends with him, served in his and other courts of Kings and that William the Conqueror awarded earldoms and baronages to many who fought with him and came from Normandy with him as a result. So many of my husband's ancestors were Earls, Barons, and Knights. Earls and Barons (Dukes and Lords) served in the Parliament in the House of Lords representing their fief or section of the county their manors were. One even was one of the signers of the Magna Carta. So I researched this to refresh my learning.
Then I researched how and when they came to America. Found out that many of ancestors left England in the early 1600's to settle the new colonies. Many of them were the founding settlers.
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