2/4/2023 1 John 4:4-5 [NIV]


    “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.  They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them”

    It comforts me to know there is One within me who is greater than the one who is in the world.  We are not alone: we are possessed.  Within every human is a spirit that dwells in both the spiritual and natural realms.  This consciousness marks us from the rest of creation.  We are not mere animals, not because we have travelled to the moon, but because we imagined we could.  Our understanding of physics and math enables us to take command of our environment and travel beyond our world, but it is incapable of grasping spiritual truth and understanding.  Those who limit their understanding based on ‘science’ or natural wisdom imagine those who believe in God and in angels and demons, heaven and hell, to be psychologically damaged and inferior.  

    They cannot understand they too are possessed by a spirit – of unbelief that believes it is the only legitimate ruler of this world.  They cannot face the reality of life after death, or obvious questions about the physical world like where, really, did all the matter that made up our entire universe – proto particles that existed in a point of space smaller than an atom just before the big bang – come from?  The miracle of creation itself does not allow math-based physics to grasp eternity, or before the beginning of time, or even the absolute beginning of time itself.  

    They cannot or will not believe in God and so must imagine there is something that explains a universe without God.  Call me crazy, but the One who is within me makes it impossible for me to imagine a universe without Him.  And He loves me and has assured me, really, that He will one day answer all my questions and take me Home.


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