Standing upon that hill he told us it would be revelatory. Not some sudden comprehension of knowledge or compendium of information, transforming us into a new version of man, but a true remaking in the Spiritual image of God. I already had God’s form and likeness but my soul, having suffered the damage effect of sin, was ready for the rebirth into something closer to God’s essence. Upon that hill people cried and tried desperately to grasp a mystery that even regales the angels. I struggle for them but when confronted with the peaceful appeal of God’s Spirit it was then, and only then that I understood the mystery of God’s intention for humanity, salvation, re-creation, eternity.

I don’t know what it was like to be in the presence of Jesus the Man, but I know the awesome undoing of my soul each time I kneel before that Throne. It is a fearful thing to have access to the Throne-room of Almighty God. But this comes with it a comfort of belonging, not arrogantly, but knowing that this is your Father’s Dwelling, Daddy’s Office of worship, praise and power. I don’t just worship a bed of straw or a hopeful effigy upon the mantle to bring good hope, blessing and bountiful crop. I want Jesus, because He is all those things that man could not be without Him. Blessings are nice but doubt, trial, sacrifice, struggle, pain and overcoming are the true blessings in this life as we journey onward to the next. Without the problems I would have no solution and that bountiful access to God’s provision gives me ample supply to deal with and overcome all of the difficulties, challenges and seeming impossibilities of this lifetime.

It is perhaps perceivably challenging to walk through life in belief without some visual, audible or physical evidence of God’s presence among us. That I believe is the exact reason we have counseled to walk by Faith and Not By Sight, for in that belief without subsequent evidence two things are revealed. First that faith is something with which God is pleased and increases through honoring its difficult presence. And second that our senses are not the best or only register of the evidence for God’s existence. What we may only consider real with out mortal senses may only be real simply within this mortal plain. What transcends mortality and expands beyond the reach of our carnal reality must be perceived, measured and followed with the acuity only provided through senses which are no longer limited by mortal construct. We being born again may now perceive evidence beyond the boundaries of carnal thinking, Things of Spirit, which are only comprehended through those senses of Spirit.

Thus the piteous struggle of thinking man, in seated ponderance. Born to contemplate the highest thinking, feeling and believing it is the potency that divides man from lesser cousin, he is left outside absent the tools to conceive those thoughts which are extra dimensional. it is as in the irony of surrender to the Lord’s Will in order to find fulfillment and abundance. The counter intuitive nature of this puzzle confounds the thinking man’s logic to the point of escaping ignorance and denial. To find those realities and thoughts beyond mortality, I must give up that mortality and become reborn in Christ Jesus. They may not be perceived through mortal means. This is the nature of their mortal struggle and it breaks one’s heart to see them so.

Lord come to the aid of men who really want to know and are willing to humble themselves before you to find out. I am sorry for those who will not take this available moment to reach beyond the limits of death and carnal capacity to expand their horizons to the reaches of universe and beyond. Lord, I may not have had the glorious pleasure of sitting upon that hill listening to your words directly, but I have perhaps greater Spiritual Experience of Writing them upon my heart each day. You are my world and the world beyond this world. I praise you and thank you for all that you continue to give. In Faith and Belief I welcome the challenge of finishing this mortal examination.  Thank you Jesus, in Your Name I pray.