I haven’t given up on writing about eschatological writings, but for now I have a more perplexing issue at hand. My studies have led me to an area of thinking I have not delved into before.

I tried to express my thoughts to my wife. However, I cannot sufficiently do so as I don’t have a handle on it as yet and that is what makes me troubled. God is very slowly opening up something to me I have yet to understand fully enough to get a full picture of it.

We go to church. We hear preaching on how we should live out lives and have altar calls where we can confess our shortcomings. My concern is there is something we should be looking into after we clean up ourselves. Still next service it’s the same thing. People end up at the altar to “clean up”. There has to be a time when we stop focusing on our past and shortcomings and look to God’s view of who He sees we are in Him.

If we can look at ourselves through His eyes we will see not a being that is dirty and short of the person we could be, but a victorious overcomer. Once and for all we no longer should be carrying in our thinking of who we were or short of. Positivity in our thinking should be our focus.

Phil 4:13 – I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

We should be searching and seeking God for direction that goes outside of ourselves. What are we to be doing? What is our calling? What is YOUR calling? Do you know? Persue God until you get an answer if you have none. If you do, what are your plans to fulfill that calling?

My studies have me perplexed in that there has to be a shift in thinking in myself. There is a key to that shift I’m searching for. I will find it. God doesn’t alway simply hand things like this to His own. It is when we find it for ourselves that the value is more precious and taken to heart in such fashion as it will never to be lost. It becomes foundational in our lives. I want that.

I’ve heard so much Word in my lifetime, yet only the last year or two has those Words become life to me in a deeper fashion. Recent studies has shown me the life after this life on earth is done. We have been here on this earth in a training session that consists of every moment of our waking hours. I heard it said many years ago that this life is “training time for reigning time”. We need to seek what our duty station will be in eternity.

Having been in the military I found boot camp was a stressful time. Drill Sergeants were there to tear down who we were or thought we were. Our character is eventually left naked with no preconcieved notions of who we thought we were. Most often we are for ourselves only. The base line I learned was we are taught to not be timid to confront our enemy, but more than that we are to drop our self-care for assimulation into a group mentality where our concern involves the possible sacrifice of ourselves for the lives of those next to us. By the end of training our lives are secondary to the ones next to us in battle. I suppose my strength lies in my ability to give myself for the life of another. Go figure. Isn’t that what Jesus did for us?

John 3:16-17 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Can you imagine not being condemned? When I get close to this in meditation I am humbled more than I’d ever imagined concerning the grace of God. He saved me. He saved you. He saved all mankind. No one is lost except for those who do not acknowledge this saving grace.

John 3:18-21 – He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

It is so simple to confess we were born into sin and cannot escape its hold until we do so. All of mankind’s names are already written in the Book of Life. We just need to acknowledge this fact of the new covenant. The striking out of our name from the Book of Life comes when we reject that this is so. When we do so our name is removed and we walk under condemnation by our own thoughts and hand.

Why would anyone want to reject this gift of eternal life? Not because of fear for our own being, but from the desire to want to join the family of God because we recognize the love of God is strong and we desire to return that love to Him who has created and saved us.