The Spiritual Realm

In memory of Leo Ramos
In early mornings, spiritual analogies come to me. I write them down, even if for an audience of one. 

When Jesus healed the eyes of a blind man, Jesus made clay out of dust and his spit and rubbed it on the man's eyes. "What do you see?" Jesus asked him. "I see men as TRESS walking. Then Jesus rubbed the blind man's eyes again and said, "What do you see now?" - "I see men!" exclaimed the man. He was healed.* 

Now some preachers say, "Jesus didn't heal the man perfectly the first time, he didn't see clearly" (as if Jesus' power was not operating at 100%). But I say, Jesus healed the man so beyond physical healing that he saw into the spiritual realm! And that's why he saw men as trees, because that's what trees represent in the Bible, spirits. Jesus is the "Tree of Life."

When trees are uprooted, are they alive? Are they dead? Think. What determines an uprooted tree's life or it's death will depend on whether the uprooted is watered, regardless if it's replanted in soil or not. Trees may live without soil, but they cannot live without water, if a tree does not recieve water, it will die eventually. 

We are all like trees walking. Are we drinking of the "Water of Life"?

Jesus said, "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." ~John 4:14

*~Mark 8:22-26

~dkg

Sacrificial Love

In memory of Leo Ramos
Where does Love originate? In that, sacrificial love? The unconditional love that would die in the place of another. Love that Jephthah did not have for his own flesh and blood. He could have offered himself to die in his daughter's place. Old Testament sacrificial law allowed substitution. 

Read the tragic story of Jephthah and his daughter here:

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Judges-Chapter-11/

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." ~John 15:13

~dkg

Time

In memory of Leo Ramos

"In the beginning, God created the heaven and earth." 

~Genesis 1:1

What was before "in the beginning"? ETERNITY.

Time is a fleeting, temporary. There is coming a time when time, as we know and experience time, shall be no more.

After the vision that God gave to the Apostle John on the Isle of Patmos, John wrote:

"And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." ~Revelation 10

After time, then what? 

ETERNITY.

~dkg

In memory of Leo Ramos