Last fall I became eligible for Social Security and the small in
stature check is automatically deposited. At first it was only when I received
my bank statement at the end of the month that I realized I’d failed to enter
the deposit into the check register. As a reminder I’ve now started penciling
in the check amount two or three months in advance because I can depend on it
being deposited and being the same amount each month. You would think that same
security would somehow translate into spiritual matters. Maybe I need to start
writing some of those Bible promises in my day timer to remind me that the Lord
had already deposited them into my account, ‘fear
not…, greater is He that is in you…you cannot be tempted beyond…’
2 comments:
Gail;
-----”Portal” is on my short list of favorite words. Although I think with it often, I don’t speak it much. I fear most people will misunderstand me to be meaning portals like those of science fiction stories leading from one place to another or one time to another. I’m not whacked out that way. God has an existence more certain and effectual than our physical one, more defined and more a place than this one, and more to be desired. While my body’s life constrains me from either stepping from this physical place into His, or from my even physically seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, or tasting it, it forbids me neither the certainty of His place nor my desire to be there. The effects of His place upon our place and His definitions given into our place come through portals, and with them comes security. Therefore, I search for portals.
-----The human spirit is made of the same celestial material obeying the same laws of spiritual physics that make His place, yet it is dead because sin separates it from God. By our call on Christ, though, God’s Holy Spirit joins ours and makes it alive. Our very spirit is then in direct contact with God the same way our physical bodies are in direct contact with the physical world. That is why I like to say we resemble sandwiches having one physical slice of bread participating in our place and one spiritual slice of bread participating in God’s place. That is security.
-----Between these slices of bread is the heart and mind through which most portals from His place into the world run (I‘m not a Deist; God moves rocks when He wishes, and those movements are also portals.) Peering through portals is what Jesus meant by eyes to see and ears to hear the effects and definitions God delivers. The heart and mind of man are meat loaf. The heart and mind of God are Canadian bacon, smoked duck, exotic olives, rich tomato, with just a bit of fine garlic and onion. Yet meatloaf does not become these merely by His Spirit mixing into the spiritual slice of our bread, but rather by its being transformed through portals. So I search for portals.
-----Proverbs 2 defines the nature of portal. Crying out and searching for wisdom and insight and treasuring God’s Word received develops understanding of righteousness, justice, equity, and every good way. Just receiving God’s Word does not transform meatloaf until it’s treasury is accumulating within the physical slice of bread. You see, there’s an inseparable link between physical reality and the meatloaf, just like there is between spiritual reality and the mind of God. For the meatloaf to become Canadian bacon, duck, olive, tomato, onion, and garlic it must effect the physical slice of bread with their substance. Then seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting the effects of loving kindness and goodness actually happening, the meatloaf begins to be transformed by understanding. The love, kindness, goodness, sympathy, forgiveness, forbearance and all of the attributes of godliness done unto others are each a portal for transforming the meatloaf into something of better taste and for transporting the security and reality of His place into the elements of ours. Portal is just one small aspect of, “Thy Kingdom come.”
Love you all,
Steve Corey
Hi, greetings from Bali Wedding. Good article and I really enjoyed reading it. Thank you
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