A trial in the middle of a trial...

I'm in Mexico City right now, and it seems that time has stopped running, the days are going by super slowly, I wonder why it feels like that, I think it is relative to the way my brain works, who knows.  Maybe one day I will tell you all the details of the last couple of days, I don't feel like writing it all down right now because I'm in pain, but it hasn't been fun at all; it wasn't supposed to be fun I guess.

Last night I got a text from my daughter saying that my grandson got hit by a car; he is in Children's Hospital with a broken arm and a split liver, and I'm so far away, about 1,500 miles away.  I wanted to run back home and go to the hospital and hold his hand and pray for him but I couldn't, and I won't be able to do it until the end of next week, by which time I hope he is out of danger. What happened?  I have no clue, I don't have any details, but I know he was with his father, or at least his father was supposed to be watching him, I'm not trying to blame him either, it is what it is.  I know he was riding his scooter on the sidewalk and he went into the street at the wrong time, that is all I know, he probably didn't look for cars as he usually does, the good thing is that the car was going very slow, and he is still alive.

It is at times like this that I thank God for His sovereignty, my bible says that He controls all things and all events in my life, from the smallest one to the greatest one, from the most comforting one to the most painful one; all events are under the power of His providence, and I have to lean hard on this doctrine or else I would lose all hope.

Doctrines like the sovereignty of God, election, predestination, providence, omnipotence, and so forth, are a solid rock under my feet in times of distress, even in times of peace; these are doctrines that bring comfort to God's children, they bring me comfort; to know and understand that in my life there will be times of sorrow, and of pain, and tribulation, and that during those times I will still be under His care, to know that is real comfort.  But at the end it will never be about me and my life, but about God and His glory, and His renown.

This afternoon I got a call from my daughter via FaceTime, an Apple app that allows you to see the person calling; she was at the hospital and she handed the phone to my grandson, he had an IV in his arm, a cast on the other arm, scratches all over his face, a huge brown scratch on his left cheek, and he was smiling and being his 9 year old self; I was relieved to see him, I asked him if he was in pain and he said no, so that is a good thing, I hate pain.  The call was interrupted by a poor connection but God put me at ease.  Thank you God for your goodness.

Like I said, I really don't feel like writing so I'm going to stop here, but I have to ask you to pray for my grandson, his name is Travis, pray for the doctors, pray for the rest of my trip to end on a good note; thank you.

Have a nice day.

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Another trip coming...

Hi.  How are you today?  Really.  Tell me what is going on in your life, are you enjoying the life God has given you?  Maybe you are in the middle of a trial?  Or maybe you are just going through the motions waiting for the day to end so you can go rest your weary flesh on the couch?  Maybe you have nothing to look forward to, except just another day like yesterday, or like today?  Maybe you are getting ready to take a trip to an island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean; I know someone who is, or maybe you wish you were.

What is really going on in your life?  I often wonder; what are my dear friends and my brothers and sisters going through today?  I ask myself that question, and I often find the answer by looking at my own life.  We are all often vexed by this world and the things that happen around us, at least I am; I see the sullenness all around me (maybe irony is a better word), the darkness, the sin, the corruption, the endless stream of death related events around the world; technically speaking I see the second law of thermodynamics at work even at the spiritual level; everything seems to be corrupted, and it is; it is a vexing, and sometimes daunting, thing, isn't it?  It is for me.

I don't think anybody likes to suffer, but at one point every one does; at one unforeseen point in every one's life suffering will come, suffering is the nature of this world, life itself is brought about by suffering and pain in child bearing, even creation itself is suffering right now, just as Paul says in Romans, the world itself is groaning, waiting for the day of our redemption, and the only comfort I can find is in the word of God, and in God's promises that He will indeed bring an end to this system of corruption.

The inescapable reality is that pain and suffering, and evil and death are present in this life; this is my reality, and as I said, it is vexing, it is a real burden that I can't shake off my shoulders no matter what I do.  This is the reality that brings those questions to my mind; how are my brothers and sisters doing today?  I can usually answer the question, like I said before, by looking at my own existence, because that is what God says it is, and that is what reality confirms in firm congruence with it.

The hope I have is that this life will end one day, and that in that day I will experience what God has promised in His word; as King David said, one day I will wake up in the likeness of Him; and that is what I have to look forward to; that is what brings comfort and hope, and contentment to my soul, what I really desire is that one day I will think, and say, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith; and the world, this flesh, this evil, and all worries and tears, will disappear and vanish forever.  In the meantime, all I have to do is finish this day well, tomorrow will take care of itself, just as Jesus said.

The bottom line is that I have nothing to worry about if I put my trust in the Lord Jesus, if I live a life based on His promises and do what He says to do I will have nothing to fear, in fact He says that I would be as a wise man that built his house upon a rock, and when the storm came and the winds blew upon it, it never fell, because it had a real foundation, a solid foundation; a foundation bigger than the house itself.

I'm not getting ready to take a trip to an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, I wish I was, I am getting ready to take a trip to the murder capital of the world (I'm not kidding about that), Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.  I'm leaving on the 19th of this month of April, 2015.  I'm flying to Mexico City to get my mother, and then we are both flying to Ciudad Juarez, on the border with El Paso, Texas, on the 24th.  The next morning at 8:30 AM, she has an appointment to have her fingerprints taken by the ASC of the US Consulate; then two days later on Monday morning at 10:45, she will have an immigration interview at the Consulate in order for her to obtain an immigrant visa.  Then on the following day, we will fly back to Mexico City, and then I will come home on Sunday, May 3rd.

No, she will not get her visa there after her interview, that would be too easy, they will send it via DHL to a place near her house in Mexico City so she can go pick it up, even though DHL delivers to any address, she has to go get it at their office; then after she pays the immigrant fee of 165.00 dollars (yes another fee on top of the 3 or 4 previous fees paid to various government dependencies), she will be free to travel to the US, and then they will send her green card to my house, finally.

It has taken about two and a half years to come to this point, the whole thing has been an adventure, maybe one day I will tell you about it, it is full of contradictions and senseless traits; but I am grateful we are going; what doesn't make any sense is that they (the government) makes us travel 1,500 miles one way, for an interview that could take place at the embassy in Mexico City; it is the truth.  So I have to travel 1,500 miles one way, another 1,500 miles back to the border, 1,500 miles back to Mexico City, and 1,500 miles back home; that's 4 plane tickets and almost 6 thousand miles of travel for me (the 1,500 figure is approximate), and two tickets for my mom, plus three nights at a hotel in a city that is considered the most dangerous place in the world because of the sheer number of murders that take place there, let's not talk about robberies and assaults.

In fact, the US Consulate warnings for those having interviews are scary, they open the doors at 6:30 in the morning, and they tell you not to be there before that time because of the number of robberies that have taken place around the consulate; imagine that, the warning is two pages long.  They warn you not to trust anyone offering to help you fill out any forms, they warn you to not bring anything but what you need, you can't even bring a pen into the consulate, no cell phones, not belt buckles, no hair pins, no liquids, no food, no drinks, etc, etc, if you bring a car don't leave anything inside of it.  It's worse than the hassle of the International Departures, terminal 2, at the airport.

I am not complaining though, I want to make that clear, I am very grateful that there is a way for my mom to come and live here if she wants to, I am very grateful to be a US citizen, it is a gift from God to me.

When I think about this trip I get anxious; then I start thinking about my dear daughter having to deal with her soon to be ex husband, I think about my grand kids spending the night at his girlfriend's house and it burns my heart; it gets worse when I hear he took them to The Rock with her; yeah he has no fear of God and he's a hypocrite, what audacity to show up at church in the middle of his adultery, and to drag my grand kids with him into his sin, I can't stand the thought of it; it makes me very angry.

But, God is not mocked, and he will pay eventually; but that brings no comfort to me, or anyone else for that matter, the only comfort I find is, as I said at the beginning, that God's promises are real, and He is in charge of all things, and He will be glorified in my life, and in my death eventually.

I also find comfort to know that my sisters and brothers are at the other end of this computer connection, and that they are praying for me as I am praying for them; 2 Cor. 1:3-5  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,  (4)  who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.  (5)  For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

Thank you for your prayers.

Have a nice day.

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Praise God for His word...

I took that picture with my phone a few minutes ago, it is 2:05 am right now, and as I looked at the moon in the middle of the clouds, I thought about how appropriate it is for my current circumstances; The Lord shines His grace in the midst of my darkness and cloudiness.

I guess I wrote this a few months back, I can't remember when I wrote but I did, so here it is.
Hi, Alex here, I'm back.  It has been months maybe, or weeks, I have no idea, time is flying away as fast as it is coming in the morning; it seems like the earth is spinning faster than ever before; at least in my world it is, and that means that I am getting old fast; which means that the day when I will see The King is coming very fast, as fast as the twinkling of an eye.  I think this is the first time that I have ever used my name in a post, I guess I don't really care what anyone thinks of me, except God, and I know what He thinks so it is fine.

I was thinking about the parable of the sower; have you read it before?  I'm sure you have, but here it is again so you don't have to look it up:

Mat 13:3-9  And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.  (4)  And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.  (5)  Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil,  (6)  but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away.  (7)  Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.  (8)  Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.  (9)  He who has ears, let him hear."

Jesus' disciples asked Him, "why do you speak to them in parables?"; to which He responded: Mat 13:11-16  And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.  (12)  For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.  (13)  This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.  (14)  Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: "'You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.  (15)  For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'  (16)  But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

What?  Yeah, you have read that right, Jesus spoke to them in parables as a judgment; He spoke parables to the people so they would NOT understand them.  Up to this point He had already preached all over the country, and He was constantly rejected; people were following Him just for what He could give them, not because of who He is; John says the people even tried to make Him King over them by force, because He could give them free lunch and heal their diseases.  One time He went back to His home town, went into the synagogue to preach, and immediately after, they tried to throw Him down a cliff!

In the book of John, after He declares simply and openly that He is God in human flesh, "many of His disciples walked with Him no more"; they all left Him, then He turned to the 12 and asked them "do you also want to go away?", to which Peter responded, "to whom shall we go?  You have the words of eternal life"; do you remember that? I hope you do.

Do you think that what I am writing is all disconnected?  I do, but I hope I will make sense eventually, or maybe not, maybe you ran out of patience and can no longer bear these long posts, well, that is a bummer, but that is the way life is, it is filled with contradictions, and apparent paradoxes, and endless testing of your patience, and another email to read.

Getting back to Jesus, He is preaching in parables so that people would not understand what He was saying; not only is this a judgment on His part due to their rejecting Him, it is also a mercy on His part, and this is because to continue to speak truth and life to them would only make their final judgment worse and stronger; and here I see the mercy of God in display again.

Matthew, Mark and Luke give and account of this parable, but think about this (I already wrote a ton of stuff about this in the past, so I'm repeating myself at this point, but so be it); the prophecy that Jesus quotes comes from the book of Isaiah, chapter 6 specifically, and this prophecy is used by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul.  That is how important this is; when the bible repeats something twice it is to make an emphasis, verily, verily, when it repeats it three times, it is like using an exclamation point and you better be paying attention, holy holy holy is the Lord God Almighty, but when the bible repeats something six times, I think I really need to apply myself to understand and meditate on what it means, but that is just me, and I'm just saying; maybe you don't care about anything I'm saying, and that is fine too, I'm personally caring less lately about what some things in the bible mean; sometimes I just want to finish this race in peace and see Jesus' face.

Anyway, back to the parable; is it not brilliant?  Only Jesus could have come up with something like this; it is amazing to me; His words are sweeter than honey indeed; to me it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, that blows my mind, what an awesome privilege; but here He describes exactly how people respond to the gospel, and how the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled even today in all those who are described here in this parable.

Jesus explains it to His disciples:  Mat 13:18-23  "Hear then the parable of the sower:  (19)  When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.  (20)  As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,  (21)  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.  (22)  As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.  (23)  As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty."

The different kinds of soil represent different kinds of people's hearts; it is amazing to me that I have seen these different hearts in my own life, people who have received the gospel from my lips, even though they are few, have been placed in my life so that I can see this parable come to life in my own life, redundantly redundant.

I have known those who received it with joy and when the troubles of the Christian life came their way, they just fell away, I have seen it with these two eyes; I have also seen those who have a thorny heart, they received the gospel and I was convinced that they were the real deal, at least they played the game well; until the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches, money and success, choked the word in them, and little by little they fell away.

In all the many years that I was involved in ministry to recovering addicts and alcoholics, I have seen all the types of soil that Jesus mentions; some people were even brought out from the darkness and given a new life, and then suddenly they just threw it all away; and time after time, without failure, the first thing that these people stopped doing is reading their bible.  After that, they stopped going to church, then they started compromising with the things of this world, a little sex here and there, a drink here and a drink there; a dishonest deal at work, etc., then the next thing I knew was that they were full on in apostasy mode living in TJ in some kind of black hole in the dark.

Of course this doesn't happen in one day, it might take years but it will eventually happen, they just fall away and they turn their backs on Jesus.  Maybe this is why Paul admonished the Corinthians  "Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall"; of course the context of what he is saying is putting God to the test by grumbling, by sexual immorality, unbelief, etc; but it also applies here, I think.

One thing is certain, you can tell right away where some people are by the way they speak, can't you?  Think about it and you will probably agree with me because as Jesus said, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.  Whatever is your treasure, that you will constantly speak about; it is obvious from the kind of soils He describes.

I find it fascinating that Jesus doesn't describe the sower, or the seed, He just says the seed is the word, the gospel; the main emphasis is on the soil, and its different configurations, and whether it produces or not; so who is in charge of the soil?  The sower is, the sower is the owner of the soil, the ground that has been prepared to be sown with seed has been tilled by the sower, it is obvious, right?  Even where the seed falls is determined by the sower; the sower reaches in his bag, grabs a handful of seed and throws it on the ground, in a broadcasting manner, so the seed falls in different kinds of soil because there are different kinds of soil on that piece of ground.  It is obvious, isn't it?

God is in control of the seed, and in control of the soil, and in control of the produce; He is in control of all variables; and the soil can do nothing, the soil is just there, either well prepared or filled with rocks and weeds, it is either deeply tilled and moist or not; the responsibility for producing anything falls on the way the seed is sown and the way the soil is prepared; not on the soil itself.  Can you blame the soil for growing weeds, or being rocky?  I think not since the soil is rocky and filled with weeds naturally; every where that I have seen soil that is ready to be planted or has been planted, it looks like someone worked on it before sowing anything in it.

This is the very reason why Jesus explains that Isaiah's prophecy is being fulfilled in them; because there is such a thing as a remnant, a "holy stump" as Isaiah says; there is such a thing as predestination, and election in the bible; there is such a thing as a prophecy that is quoted by the main writers of the new testament, and by the King of Kings Himself to make a point that it is not up to man to choose to produce grain, thirty, sixty or a hundredfold; it is not up to us to even decide to believe or not.  A miracle has to take place before anything happens to a man or a woman for them to produce anything of value for the kingdom of God; and that miracle is regeneration, being born from above.

This passage is pretty much a parallel passage to John 3 in the sense that it is not our choice to be born; no one decides to be born; being born in this world just happens to us, not by us; we had nothing to do with our birth in this world, and we don't have anything to do with being born from above either.  Jesus chose that analogy to speak to Nicodemus because of this very reason; to demonstrate to him that the kingdom of God was out of his reach, and that all his religion could not accomplish anything of value in the sight of God; it was all dung, as Paul said.

The only thing we can do is throw the seed out, and it is up to God to make it grow, it is not mine to decide.  I don't even have the choice of throwing the seed on good soil because I can't see the good soil, only God can see the heart of a man; the soil just looks like soil to me; I am blind to the details and the state of the human heart in people; the only thing I know is what the bible says, that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, and only God knows it perfectly.  Wretched men that we are.

Even as I write these words I see this reality taking place in my own world, people who talk the talk but do not walk the walk are everywhere, and sometimes very close, like my soon to be ex son in law; it is a very pathetic situation, it boggles my mind, and it pains my heart because of all the pain it is causing my own kids; and then I see beyond the appearances, and the evidence demands a verdict, but I am not the ultimate judge, and that is a good thing.

That was the end to the post that I wrote a few months ago.  Today I was thinking about the same parable again, and that is not a coincidence, at least in my world it is not.  The word of God is amazing, I can read it and read it and I always learn something, even if it is a very small thing that I could not see before; and it brings peace to my heart; it brings peace to my heart even when I don't learn anything new.  I find comfort in knowing that God is in control of everything that happens, if the bible didn't teach that, I would not believe it, and without believing it, my life would be in shambles, I would have fallen down a long time ago.  This is what having the privilege of being given to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of God causes in me, it causes me to worship God.

This doctrine of the sovereignty of God has been a rock under my feet since I learned of it; and when I say sovereignty I mean over every imaginable thing in my life, and over all circumstances, and over all people, and all events in history, past, present and future; in fact God demonstrates it every day to me; He is amazing and deserves all of my praise and adoration forever and ever, even if God never saved me, He would still deserve all praise and adoration from me, and every one of His creatures.

So I praise Him for His word, and His promises, and His salvation, and sanctification and glorification; praise be to God the Father, and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit for this trinitarian work in me; I praise The Father for choosing to save me, and The Son for coming to save me, and for The Spirit for applying this salvation to me and bringing it to completion; we are truly a work of art in His hands; we are the trophies of His triumph over human sin, and my sin; you can probably spend hours and hours just praising God for all that He has done; and one day we will do it non stop, I can't wait.

Psa 107:8-22  Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!  (9)  For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.  (10)  Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,  (11)  for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.  (12)  So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.  (13)  Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.  (14)  He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.  (15)  Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!  (16)  For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.  (17)  Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;  (18)  they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.  (19)  Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.  (20)  He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.  (21)  Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!  (22)  And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!

Have a nice day.

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Absolute truth....

Absolute truth.  Everything we see in this universe is made of atoms; from the tiniest particle of sand to the biggest star, even light is made of atoms that behave as a particle and a wave, we just call them photons; everything is made of this energy that binds all that we know as physical reality.  In this reality the laws that govern it cannot lie or be untruthful, gravity always pulls, negative charges attract the positive and viceversa, light travels at 300 thousand kilometers per second, an A note always vibrates at 440 hz, and an E note always sounds like an E, even when is played in a triad, an E chord is always an E in any octave.

The words that describe that a musical note always vibrates at a certain frequency in the audio spectrum, even the words, cannot lie in what they describe, whether they are written or pronounced, language demands truthfulness, even when used to lie, language demands the right words to say a lie, and in that sense language cannot be untruthful.  That trips me out; and it does because I see the necessity of truth, absolute truth.

Gravity cannot lie, it will never pull you down for a minute and then let you float for another minute, electricity cannot stop from being the movement of free electrons in a system or circuit, the movement of an electron from the orbit of one atom to the other is always at the speed of light; these absolute truths are so absolute that, in fact, they are called constants, because they always are in existence and no one can deny them or stop them from being in a state of being truthful.

The universe and all realities experienced by the human race are ruled by an underlying truth that supports the very existence of it all; and there is such thing as absolute truth; an A is absolutely always vibrating at 440hz or it would not be an A; the same applies to the existence of each human; of all the created beings, only humans have the ability to reason and discover the realities of the physical universe, as well as the other reality of the spirit; that is a clear example of an absolute truth; man is the only being in existence with the power to think and to create; this truth is as evident and absolute as the truth that states that the orbit of the earth around the sun is 186 million miles in diameter; at least in 1945 that was the truth; I haven't checked lately, but I suspect it is about the same.  I'm not a scientist, so whatever, I hope you see my point.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and it always has a number of 1, that is the atomic number for H, which means that H has one proton in the nucleus and one electron orbiting around it, and H, which is the symbol for hydrogen, always means the same thing, hydrogen comes from the greek words hydro and gene; hydro always means water, and gene always means forming or creating, so hydrogen always means water forming, water is always H2O, all of the above is an absolute truth.  All matter cannot be either created or destroyed, only transformed; so the universe contains all that it needs to exist with all of its operational laws, as for example, those of thermodynamics, these are all absolute truths.

Absolute truth is real even in death.  All humans must die because the laws of the universe demand that they do.  No one knows the absolute reality of the afterlife because knowing death is an impossibility as long as we are alive, that is an absolute truth.  In view of all of the absolute truths that humans know, including the existence of evil, it is obvious that for anyone with the ability to to reason, it would be impossible to deny the existence of another reality that we do not see; our own physical reality points to that very truth; just look at the way things are made, everything is formed of atoms, and all atoms have a precise number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus and a precise number of electrons spinning around the nucleus; even our bodies are formed of the same building blocks, the mighty atom and its electrical and gravitational forces.  This is a reality that we do not see but know that is real, we prove that it is real every time we turn the light on, or use the computer, or when we get the gas and electric bill, the ultimate reality is when we pay the bill, I'm getting side tracked.

The absolute truth, my point is, cannot be denied; and death is an absolute truth; it is as real as the existence of Israel in the world today; their Prime Minister was just here at the beginning of last month; everyone knows it is an absolute truth that he was here at the beginning of last month; there is documented evidence that he was here, and there are millions of witnesses that Israel's Prime Minister was here in the U.S; a thousand years from now nobody will be able to deny that reality.

The existence of that tiny country is as real as the existence of the atom forming everything we see and feel in the universe; their existence has been documented with millions of testimonies of men and women who have known that nation for thousands of years; it is an undeniable truth that Abraham was the father of the nation of Israel, Moses their liberator, and Jesus our Savior.  There is that undeniable truth; Jesus was born and raised and murdered in Israel, there were thousands of witnesses to all the miracles He performed; people actually wrote the undeniable story; so undeniable and absolute the truth is of His existence, that time itself has been divided in view of His being here on the earth, and in Israel specifically; we all give testimony to this fact every time we write the date down; that is why we have "before Christ" and "after Christ", He is the very reason this year is numbered as 2015.

Another one of these absolute truths is that of cause and effect, there is always an effect for every cause; what goes up must come down, the earth must spin on its axis one full revolution every 24 hours; one hour always has 60 minutes, one minute always has 60 seconds, and after one second passes another comes after it, and everything, and I mean everything, must be transformed from one state to another, sooner or later it will happen; all animals must die, all insects must die, all humans must die, even the earth will eventually die, and the universe itself.

You reap what you sow, you sow apple seeds and you get apple trees, if you get apple trees you will get apples one day, and then eventually  the apple tree must die; everything is subject to the same universal laws, and the laws are always there as long as this universe exists in its current state.

For every act of goodness there is always a goodness effect, for every act of evil there is always an evil effect; no one can deny this, it is also a universal constant.  Then there is the constant of choices, and choices have consequences, always.  Even if we choose to deny it and not believe these truths, they will not stop being there; for the Amazonian aborigen that has never seen the ocean, the ocean is a fantasy, and he might choose to not believe there is an ocean but his choice doesn't nullify the truth.

There is a reality of life after death, and our choice to not believe it will not nullify the truth that there is a reality that we will see after we die; in this sense our choices are irrelevant.  The same applies to that man that has chosen to leave his family and brake all his vows by committing adultery, retribution is coming his way, sooner or later he will reap what he has sown, and it is never a pretty sight to behold.  My bible says that God is not mocked, a man will reap corruption from the flesh, and everlasting joy and life from the Spirit; and my precious bible says that even that choice he made to be an adulterer is not really under his control; God reigns over the hearts of men and women all over the world, in every age and epoch, and He overrules all of men's choices for the good of His people.

We might choose to believe that electricity is not real, and it matters not, if you grab those white and black wires coming out of the wall with each hand, you will certainly become part of the circuit and that electromotive force we call voltage will go through your body, which is made of atoms with electrons in them, and the result will always be that you will be electrocuted, and you will die when that electrical force stops your heart from beating one more time.  It is a certainty that this is reality.

One unit of electricity, called the Joule, is comprised of 6.24X10 to the 18th electrons; that is a 6 with 18 zeroes after it, I don't even know what to call that number, 6 quintillions?  It is irrelevant, whatever the number is called, it is real, and it will kill you all the same, whether you believe it or not, a tenth of an Ampere going through your heart will stop it from beating again, death is certain if that happens, death is certain if you are ignorant or stupid enough to grab those wires and become part of the circuit.

So what is the point of all this?  You might ask.  I have no idea, I just sat here and started writing whatever came into my mind, sorry to have wasted your time; but there is a point to be made: there is absolute truth in operation, always, forever, in every realm and in all of the universe, absolute truth liberates me, and more than that, absolute truth gives me comfort, and in a weird way, joy.

Absolute truth will always be liberating for those who know it, that is what Jesus said, 'if you continue in my word, then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free'; that is a universal constant; the truth of Jesus will always set you free, and this is so because He is the way, the truth and the life, according to His own words; and to know Jesus is to know truth incarnate, that is reality, and that is perhaps the only reality that brings any joy to my heart lately.

If you think very carefully about atoms and electrons, you will soon discover that everything has an electric charge, even air has it; even your very thoughts generate an electrical field, that is why the lie detector was invented; it is all very fascinating to me, how everything is connected by this force; it would be foolishness to deny what we all know, and that is the point that I think will be evident to all who read this; we cannot expect to live a life based on lies and the imaginations of our hearts and at the same time experience true happiness and joy; that would be delusional to me.

Absolute truth is always absolute, it is a universal constant; and the very existence of absolute truth demands the absolute denial of it by the absolute depravity of the human heart; indeed, humans are the only beings with the ability to do that, to deny the truth in unrighteousness, just as Paul said in Romans; but it makes no difference at all, the truth will always be the truth, physical, mental, or spiritual, it is always absolute.

I'll leave you with John's words:

2Jn 1:1-13  The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,  (2)  because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:  (3)  Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.  (4)  I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.  (5)  And now I ask you, dear lady--not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning--that we love one another.  (6)  And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.  (7)  For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.  (8)  Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.  (9)  Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.  (10)  If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,  (11)  for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.  (12)  Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete.  (13)  The children of your elect sister greet you.

Have a nice day.

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