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OCT 5, 2026:  EVERYTHING    If I am right that God specifically showed me Genesis 2:18-25 is NOT just about Adam and Eve, but also a very specific parable-allegory about Him wanting, desiring, and preparing us to be the special companion He has longed for since before the Christ was begotten — then this whole blooming sandbox we call earth becomes easy to explain!

It is nothing less than a place to practice becoming what He desires of us to be in the ages to come.  It is ALL about learning head-body, equal-unequal, responsiveness-responsibility!  From the child becoming responsible for his toys and submitted to his parents, to the King having a clean fear of God as he learns to rule what is all a gift to him.  From the wife submitting to her husband as unto the Lord, to me at GE slowly earning to work for my boss as unto the Lord, to every head-body relationship on earth (when done right).

And therefore, what Satan pushes for:  total equality; androgynous sexuality; your rights are prime over all; tolerance of sin; and YOU are god, also becomes much easier to understand!

Here is a chart of the ideal as it applies to almost ANY godly relationship (but especially husband-wife).  Note how it all ends with “To the LORD”

 
EVERYTHING

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SEP 21, 2026:  RIGHT CHEEK    A lot of seminary trained pastors use "turn the other cheek" to push a love everybody, tolerate anything, don’t get involved, pacifism.  But the one who actually stops to think is rare.  Matthew 5:39 does say, "But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil.  But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."

Now, read it again.  It clearly says "right cheek."  And only about 10% of the world are left handed.   THINK!   If the typical right handed person hauls off to really hit you IT WILL BE ON THE LEFT SIDE of your face.  Even really slapping you, again left side!  To slap you ON THE RIGHT CHEEK normally implies they are BACK HANDING you!

The verse is an idiom!  If someone back-hands you, if some someone INSULTS you, if someone back-hands you to provoke you to dual, argue, or fight, IGNORE it.  Figuratively turn the other cheek.

Matthew is NOT about letting evil beat the crap out of you,
or our beautiful country.

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SEP 14, 2026:  SPIRITUAL MUSCLES    This is an important summation of the idea of us becoming what we focus our energy on and practice.  And again, it works for becoming sin or becoming godly.

If we were talking about juggling, first learning to ride a bike, bowling, archery, welding, any skill that requires quick eye-hand coordination, you would have zero problem understanding the need for PRACTICE!  The need to have your muscles do exactly the right thing without spending time to consciously think about it.  Now, did it ever occur to you that you have spiritual muscles, character muscles, or perhaps I should say "will power" muscles?  I tell you they MUST also be exercised, strengthened, and PRACTICED with to develop a smooth spirit-body functionality!

Knowledge, assent, THEN trust, tested and practiced by action!  That "tested" part is extremely, agelessly, important to learning!  My experience is that God starts with little things we can handle.  Perhaps learning to have the grace to handle dozens of simply discourteous humans before going on to practice on people who seriously let you down.  Perhaps dozens of let-downs before being able to handle the biggies like: abuse; being wrongly broken; abandonment; or in my case forgiving a con-man ripping me off of many thousands of dollars.

I also find that generally it isn’t even just one test of the item in question.  Yes, there may be one major point where you and the Lord agree, “Yup, it looks like you have finally got this!”  But, perhaps a year or two later there it is again.  Perhaps even slightly bigger?  Sort of like the Lord is saying, “I’m just checking, and it seems you do still understand;  I’m proud of you.”

I’m just warning you, so you won’t be surprised.

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SEP 7, 2026:  NOTHING BUT A...    The last several posts were about becoming what you focus on; and I love the way “The Great Divorce” by CS Lewis emphasizes the eternal ramifications of those earthly focuses we are all so good at!  Lewis depicts a man given to showy, theatrical, displays of “I’ve been wronged.”  That man, in the end, turns down true love and forgiveness, to hold on to his own all-important victimhood!

But the Lewis lines I love the most, on page 77 of my paperback, are the heavenly guide explaining a garrulous old woman to a visiting spirit, “The question is whether she is a grumbler, or only a grumble.”  The guide then explains that if there was even a spark of real woman under the ashes it could be blown on and brought back to life, but if there is only ashes, “we’ll not go on blowing them up in our own eyes forever.  They must be swept up.”

“The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly  Nothing.”

If you focus on any less than Christ, you can become your own  Nothing.

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AUG 31, 2026:  HOW WRITTEN    Last week was about how you become attuned to what you focus on.  A huge subject!  So, this week a bit more about focusing on the Bible.  Our Western World thinks and focuses in: Greek abstracts, word definitions, rules of logic and debate, linear thought, one dimensional one directional time, and rather rigid causality.

God is NOT like that!

God and the Bible He wrote are: concrete, pictorial, storytelling, important concepts are worked out a bit in one story - a bit more in another, three dimensional in space AND time, causality can work in both directions, and therefore He repeatedly breaks most of our nice rules of logic!  So, how do you deal with that?  Jesus repeatedly said you MUST become like a child or you will miss it.  My practical summation of that?  Soak up the whole Bible, all its stories, all its patterns, no commentaries, just you and the Bible — THEN let the Spirit do His job and bring to mind (weave together in your mind) the pieces-part He knows you need next!  We are certainly no better than the two on the road to Emmaus.

If you focus on God through the Greek filter,
you will slightly miss God’s heart for us!

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AUG 24, 2026:  IT TAKES A WHILE    Back in my college days I worked for the city of Greendale to spray and kill poison ivy from around every public building, city park, walkway, etc. in the city.  It took a while, but my brain was slowly trained to instantly recognize the patterns of poison ivy in ANY size, age, or variety possible, while someone else could be standing in it and not notice.  What does that have to do with God?  Hold on, you may not like what else I have observed.

You become trained, or sensitized to what you focus on; from chess to Trump hating.  But it gets worse.  You also tend to actually become what you continually focus your spiritual and emotional energy upon!  If you won’t forgive, as God orders you to do, you slowly become similar to the thing or person you won’t forgive!  Even if you are sure, “No, the details of MY actions are different!”  Hate?  Fear?  Negativity?  Yup, every single one of them and more.  You WILL be affected then become the effect of what you focus on and practice.

Flip side?  If you focus on Jesus (the Bible one, not the modern, progressive, butter wouldn't melt in his mouth reinterpretation of him), you will become like him.  But—

IT TAKES A WHILE

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AUG 17, 2026:  HOW?    I hear the question asked, “How can Jesus be God?”

It is really a very simple series of event, we have just buried it in so much Greek abstract logic and religiosity that we can’t see the simple.  So, here it is:  From way back, only God knows when, God (I call Him Father) had in the back of His mind the desire/want/longing for a special companion.  Finally, an eon or so ago (NOT eternity or infinity!), He spoke that desire so as to start the process of getting what He desired turned into reality.  That desire was then Him standing alongside of Himself, begotten for a specific purpose and at a specific time!  In various places in the Bible we call that spoken desire: Word, Wisdom, Christ, Anointed, Sword, It, I AM, etc., the very essence (same stuff) of the Father and His intentions, and therefore God.

Then you get the earth created, destroyed, recreated, spiritual beings stuck into biological bodies (here on assignment), Satan ticked at that, sin, Abrahamic Blood Covenant, and for the sake of the question at hand finally THAT ONE particular spiritual being (the Christ) was incarnate into the biological being we call Jesus in the womb of Mary.  It is exactly like we as spiritual beings from the Father are incarnate into the chunk of clay we presently inhabit!  God Himself was in and part of Jesus exactly like the real “spiritual you” from the Father is in and part of you.  You are that spirit, Jesus was that Christ, hence God.  It has to be in the same way for us, and for Him to qualify as a human.

Jesus-Christ and the Human race are inextricably tied!

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AUG 10, 2026:  1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-7    Love is patient and kind, but it knows that permissively letting the child, wife, employee, or even our own body do-its-own-thing leads to destruction.  Love isn’t arrogant or proud of its own accomplishments.  However, standing for God’s vision and direction will be misunderstood as being inflexible, high-handed, or narrow-minded.  Love does not seek its own way, but plans the eternal good of all involved, so it can’t always allow the loved one to have his/her own way either.  Love is happy with truth, so it knows it is not a kindness to enable or tolerate sin and wrong.  Love may carry a burden, but it must not go down into destruction with the loved one.  Love must hope and endure in the face of the interminable; it cannot go the easy route, there is always a cost to do things in God’s Parent-Husband patient way.

Pastors, if you don’t teach the balance, you are neutering your flock.

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AUG 3, 2026:  THE EMPTIES   There are times when every single one of us will feel the empty lack and deep hurt that is the natural outcome of a very sinful world colliding with our personal weak spot.  When you get the “empties,” and sooner or later you will, just because you are here, there is one important question.

Will you still trust a Father God who loves you; can you still say,…

FATHER YOU ARE RIGHT.

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JUL 27, 2026:  THE TITHE NOT TAUGHT    In all my years I find almost every Pastor knows something of what I am about to tell you, but I have only heard of ONE in Eastern Ohio (hope there are more) who would preach it to his people.

Most Christians are totally unaware that because of the incident with Israel sinning with Moab at Peor (see Numbers 25:1-18 and Numbers 31:16), God purposely changed the Tithe from something that went 100% to the Levites over to something in Deuteronomy Chapters 12:7, 14:23, and 26:14, where YOU were to consume some of God’s holy Tithe before the Lord!!!  There was still only ONE tithe, 10%, and not three totaling 23.33%!  And YOU were to FEAST, FEAR, and REJOICE before the Lord, YOU and your family, using some of that holy Tithe!!!
 

YOU are to FEAST, FEAR, and REJOICE before the Lord!
Using some of HIS holy Tithe!!!

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JUL 20, 2026:  PERSPECTIVE    I write from what some have called a very narrow viewpoint.  I DO believe: the Bible is God’s Word; that He knows what works best; says what He means; and means what He says with consistency throughout the whole Bible!  There are absolutes (based on His loving desire for our long range best).  Accordingly, there must be principles and limits which are applicable TODAY to marriage, parenting, and any godly relationship, no matter what the circumstance, no matter what type of person is involved, no matter what the situation, or no matter how much the world screams otherwise!

Also, the Lord has audibly talked to me, assigned me a specific task, pulled-off a number of flat out miracles for me, and been as real to me as a brother looking over my shoulder.  I have read the Bible 30 times cover to cover, and have experienced the Holy Spirit "bringing to mind" and weaving His concepts together in my mind!  So, I write as if:

God Is Right!  And He Is Still God!

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JUL 13, 2026:  WHY GOD LOVES US    As a physicist, retired or not, I ask WHY to almost everything.  So, why shouldn’t that include WHY does God love humans in general and me specifically?  Here are four possible answers taken from God’s own words:

Second Perspective:  I will start with God making Eve.  It is also a picture of what He wants and is doing with us.  God uses the word “helper” to describe what He is doing.  That word "helper" in the Masoretic text has three letters: Ayin, Zayin, Reysh.  The original pictures associated with those three letters are:
            Ayin, the eye - to see, know, perceive, experience;
            Zayin, a weapon - to cut off, separate;
            Reysh, the head of a man - person, the head, highest.
      When these picture letters are taken together they add to the root understanding of the word "helper."  They suggest the woman was to help by being a perspective cut off from, or separated from, Adam the head.  She was to provide for Adam a "second" set of perspectives and experiences for Adam to use in his dominion of the earth.  The Father seems to want US as His second perspective!  That would also partly explain why He wants us to experience being human.

We Can Listen:  Next we go to Genesis 6:1-7.  The hybrid humans resulting from the sons of God and the daughters of man had “every form of devising of their heart as only evil.”  They couldn’t/wouldn’t listen to God.  They and the fools are the ones called “corrupt.”  Listening is of great value to God.  Does that show up elsewhere?  Yes.
      In 1 Kings 3:11 God said to (Solomon), "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches… I now do according to your word.”  And what did Solomon ask for?  What pleased the Lord?  Despite other translations, the actual Hebrew is “lb shmo,” a heart listening!
      The word “listen” is used 163 times in the Old Testament, some of the most interesting are in Jeremiah.  My experience today is that we CAN specifically hear from God, if we are willing to listen.

Contrite Heart:  This is of great value to the Lord, therefore what He looks for in those He loves.  King David comes to mind, a man after Gods own heart.  Why?  He normally demonstrated a contrite heart by being what I call “a quick confessor.”
      Here is a more definitive verse.  Isaiah 66:2 says, “All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD.  But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.”  Contrite gets God’s attention big time!

Choosing Him:  I’m going to get subtle presenting this last word, and paint a verbal picture from Jesus’ day:  The marriage has been arranged by the families, along with the dowry and most of the details.  The groom to be and his family then make one visit to the future 14 year old bride to be, who may never have even met the groom till then.  During the visit the dowry is paid and she is given one cup of wine to share with the groom.  If she puts the cup down, the betrothal is OFF!  If she chooses to take one sip, THEY ARE BETROTHED!  It is so solid she is considered married and a decree of divorce is required if she tries to back out!  And the guy goes back to his father’s land, tribe, and inheritance, to “prepare a place” for her!  WE ARE THAT 14 YEAR OLD GIRL!

Other gods may make other choices,
BUT OUR GOD WANTS US WHO WANT HIM!

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