THE LIFE JOURNEY OF PEACE, JOY AND ETERNAL GLORY
THEME: THE DIVINE JOURNEY TOWARD ETERNITY
Peace be unto all readers, their families, business colleagues, and friends. I bring glad tidings of peace, joy and rest, eternal life and glory to all.
The news I bring pertains to the life journey of man. Life, as is evident is spirit—a spirit of Divine origin imparted into the molded clay of man. It is the Divine Spirit that has made man a living soul with a personality of consciousness, creativity, and advancement in the pursuit of survival, happiness, and joy in the midst of creation.
The life story is essentially the pursuit of survival, peace, happiness, and joy to the fullness of age. That is to say, life is a journey from birth to death—from childhood through adulthood to the aged and ancient. Life journey begins from the womb, where a totally dependent and helpless clot of blood and soul-spirit that comes forth from the womb to face the realities of human existence in a peaceful but otherwise cold and often hot, violent and hostile environment.
As a soul-spirit, life begins at the mercy of natural laws and forces set in place by the Creator God. Life can be said therefore, to be dependent on the Creator God, who has determined and determines the natural endowments, abilities, capacity, destiny, the beginning as well as the ending of the soul-spirit. The same God has overall and ultimate dominion on the environment. Thus, from the womb to the grave, the soul-spirit of man is entirely dependent on the love, mercy, and goodness of the Creator who has determined, knows, and controls all the factors and issues of life. There is no life nor hope outside the design of the Creator.
Indeed, it is the divine connection, the maintenance, and sustenance thereof that in the final analysis determines the nature, content, and end of life journey. It starts and ends at the mercy and pleasure of the Creator. Such is the life journey. The maintenance of the Divine connection from beginning to end, beyond the grave to eternity constitutes life. Otherwise, life journey is but a walk in darkness and the shadow of death. To live outside the Divine connection is by definition walking in sin and darkness and the shadow of death. Sin separates the soul-spirit from God. To be totally separated from God the Creator is death—eternal death.
Because of this spiritual background to life, the Most High God Creator, in His love and mercy has sent this message of glad tidings and hope to all on earth: “Thus says the Lord Jehovah: every man born in this world and who walks upon the face of the earth is on a journey. Once he has a beginning, then there is an ending. When the end does come where will he be? Will he be in life connection with the Creator or will he be eternally separated from Him. At the time of his birth, man has no idea of how he was born. Man cannot but ask and ponder about his origin; “where did I come from and how did I come to the earth and where will I go at the end of life?” The answers to these questions will reveal (determine) how you will take the life journey. It must be stated here in this regard that man, as spirit, is an offshoot of the Creator God, who also is Spirit. Man is a spirit-being created in the image of God, deposited in a container made of dust. Man stands lower in Divine nature and attributes to God the Creator and even angels.
Trees, animals, birds, and fish all have life conditioned by innate power in the earth (dust). They eventually return to dust and are no more. However, the spirit of man is not conditioned by or subject to dust; therefore, dust cannot retain the spirit of man as such. Man, bears a nature and power beyond dust. The Bible reminds us therefore, that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. As Jesus Christ—the word of God Himself— reveals, the Word of God is spirit, life, and power. Being whom and what He is Jesus Christ was able to keep people, including children without food with His word alone for three days.
When the soul-spirit of man comes out of dust the container, it seeks for a place outside of it. It remains a spirit. It can find space or dwelling place in the earth crust—such as the gods/demons/dwarfs/mermaids etc. find dwelling place in the earth, on land or in waters. Man drawn from circulation has a place to go. He can either go to the place reserved for the righteous and God worshippers or the place reserved for the unrighteous and disobedient Satan and man worshippers.
According to the Scriptures, the Resurrection Day will bring to light whether the soul-spirit has been admitted into paradise— the place reserved for the righteous and true-worshippers—or the place reserved for the unrighteous. Hell is the ultimate place for unbelievers, Satan, and demon and man worshippers. Nipa wo bebi ko! Man, indeed is on a journey to somewhere!
The usual question among preachers of God is: ‘Where are you going?’ or ‘Where will you spend eternity?’ Those who find God and are reconciled with Him through faith in Jesus Christ—the Reconciler, Saviour, Redeemer, Life-Giver, and Judge are those who are admitted unto the side of Divine Mercy and a life journey of peace, righteousness and joy, eternal life and eternal glory in the fullness of the divine nature of the Creator.
Please note that according to the Bible, Christ alone has power to forgive sins, to reconcile man with God, to grant, breathe in and quicken dead and fallen mortal man afresh with Divine Spirit Nature (i.e. born again – Christ is the Way, Truth and Life). And this is eternal life says Jesus Christ: “that they may know the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom thou (the Father and Creator) has sent, to give life, peace, victory, joy, and hope to fallen man” (John 17:3; 6:37-40).
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July 22, 2011