Author: leekierdorf

Prepared

by leekierdorf

A man falls in love with a mermaid.

“I love you and want to be with you forever.”

“How can you? You are not prepared for this environment of water.”

“Is there a way I could change?”

The future environment for believers is one of living in the light of glory. It is loving all those around you.

Are we prepared for this kind of life? Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you.”

But the Spirit is come to prepare us for that very place prepared by him. Do you think you would live in a mansion of gold by yourself?

How am I preparing for a life of loving God and loving others? Is praising God an integral part of my life? Is leaving selfishness behind and behaving in love toward others my daily practice?

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Who did it?

by leekierdorf

Looking at creation, it is sensible to believe that a powerful, wise Being is behind it. But when one launches into describing that Being, they immediately fall short.

Why is this so? Because seeing what someone has done only tells what they can do and not who they are.

A designer of a beautiful building may turn out to be a poet. You ask how they designed the building and they wants to read you a poem.

Appreciating creation reveals more about the observer. That they have a sense of beauty and admire things well done.

How so? God created man in his image and likeness. They can recognize that One is powerful and able to create such a universe.

But they must rely on God to reveal more of Himself as He pleases.

Thanks be, He did.

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Two Builders

by leekierdorf

In Matthew 7, Jesus tells a parable: Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

So how do we build on a rock? Jesus is compared to a rock in several scriptures. Or maybe the foundation is his salvation.

Nevertheless, the building is to put in practice his teachings. I wouldn’t pick “love your enemies” as the first one but to become generous is good because its source is faith. God will provide our needs.

I have proved this in my life. And I highly recommend it as it has increased my faith. But faith must continuously be used. Each new challenge needs new faith.

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By Faith

by leekierdorf

“through faith we understand the worlds were framed by the word of God”

Do we understand it through knowledge? No. We ‘understand’ it through faith. We know God created all things. How he did it exactly, we do not know.

Some claim to know exactly how long it took. I do not. Does God seem like someone in a hurry? I don’t think so.

Why does it say “the evening and the morning were the first day”? I don’t know that either.

But for it to be 24 hour days, it could only be measured like that by someone standing on the earth and remaining in the same place for six days.

Again, it is by faith we understand the creation of all things.

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God is a Mystery

by leekierdorf

God is a mystery. He has revealed himself to us humans. But we should not try to move past this revelation into our own ideas.

As created in the image and likeness of God, we can relate to him. But can we understand him? It is like asking if you can understand the ocean. Yes, you know something of the ocean, and you can experience the ocean. But can you understand the ocean?

We should, and this is not easy, to keep a balance between reverence and love. He is our Father but he is also the greatest Being who created all and has no beginning or end and lives outside of time.

But we have so much revealed to us through Jesus to contemplate that we will not run out of reasons to love our Father in heaven.

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Contentment

by leekierdorf

Paul writes these words to Timothy. This is a letter to person not to a church.

“But godliness with contentment is good. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And if we have food and clothing, let us be content.”

We could add shelter. But it is the basics that is meant. Are we content? I’m not. I want more than that.

But God provides needs not wants. Do you have food this day? Are you clothed? Do you have shelter? Are you content? Am I content? To have God, is to have all. To have only yourself is to have nothing. Not even real life according to Jesus.

He offers eternal life with God. He said, “I go to my Father.” Is He your Father? Is He your care giver?

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Enoch Who?

by leekierdorf

Who is Enoch?

No one will make a movie about the life of Enoch like Noah or Moses.

The whole story of his life is this: Enoch walked with God.

But Enoch had no one to model his life after. Enoch spent his life walking with God and then disappeared. Did they see his footprints just end when they looked for him? He was God’s first friend.

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In Jesus Name

by leekierdorf

As a child I was taught to end a prayer “in Jesus’s name, amen.” I thought these were magic words that pleased God and would get you what you were asking…

I now think that when Jesus said: “Ask anything in my name, and you will receive it” as having a different meaning.

I think it means, if you ask something that Jesus would ask, you will receive it. To ask “in his name” cannot be just “magic words”. Is what we ask God in the nature of Jesus to ask?

If it is, we can be assured that we will receive from God. Let us align ourselves with the divine nature, asking for that which is good.

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Before the Beginning

by leekierdorf

Jesus reveals his heart as he prays with the disciples present. He says to the Father, “You have loved them, as you have loved me.” We know that the Father loves the Son very much.

He says, a bit later, to his Father, “You loved me before the foundation of the world.”

Although the first verse in Genesis says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,” Jesus reveals that before that, He was the Father who loved His Son.

He is first a loving Father before He is a creator. He is not The Prime Mover or The First Cause as the ancient Greeks said. He is the Father who loved his Son and now loves us with that same love.

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Thought on Trinity

by leekierdorf

Who is God?

You have heard God is trinity. Who says so? Not God.

God said, “I AM THAT I AM” and “The LORD, your God, is one LORD.”

Well, you say, there is The Father. And there is The Son. And don’t forget the Holy Spirit.

But we count wrong. 1 + 1 + 1 = 1. Jesus said I and the Father are one. Add the Holy Spirit and you still have one LORD.

Think about yourself. How many are you? Your consciousness of yourself is one. Your sense of good and evil informs you of wrong action. Your conscience is another you, it seems. You can disagree with yourself about what you should do.

I don’t think God thinks of himself as trinity. He is relationships. Love relationships. We, as individuals, find him hard to understand. We start out detached from God. He is not like us but we are like him.

As an individual, we are lost. But Christ came to find us and reunite us with God. We are made in the image of God, made for relationships.

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