I know. I haven’t written much lately. I didn’t know life could be so busy when I retired. Being off for the summer from driving a school bus lets me sleep in a bit longer, but I still have summer school driving starting the 10th of July for a couple of weeks. I drove some middle schoolers to the aquarium Friday before last.

We’ve bought a deck kit for a 24×16 deck that I will start on tomorrow. Bills to pay for the month. I set them up all at once and date them to hit on their pay date. I don’t like the heat. Summer is finally here with 90 degree temps. I mow our church lawn and mine, so that is on for one day this week.

With all that I still find time to talk with God. He’s been quite fascinating lately. I’ve started a post on sin conciousness. But for this evening I’m just letting those of you that read my blog that I’m still here. In my studies of the First Book of Enoch I’m having a paradymn shift in my belief system. I’ve spoken with another minister in Europe that tells me that Enoch is included in the Bible they use and it holds equal reverence as the 66 books we employ in our Protestant Bible. I really believe we need to expand out thinking and weigh Biblical and Hebrew writings. Weighing Enoch against Biblical canon I find it weaves itself into the books and explains scriptures that are vague. I’ve even sat with my pastor and assistant pastor and discussed it with them as well as read and watched videos concerning Enoch’s content.

Right now at this moment God is tugging at my heart to write something. I don’t know what, but I will kind of freewheel and let His Spirit guide me.

I find most churches are a mile wide and a quarter inch deep. Most of what is preached is “feel good” messages. There is nothing in them that contains instruction into the deeper things of Christ so that we may conform to Him. Most of what I hear is telling people how to fix what’s wrong with them and to me it has become a word that focuses on what’s wrong and what needs fixing. You have a past. I have a past. It died with our conversion. I know we have to grow in Him. That’s a given. However we need to stop looking back and start looking forward to what God has planned for us. We need to be dropping our past like a hot rock while looking forward towards our goal in Him. That goal is to become a mature (perfect) spirit in Him. We speak of perfect wrongly in Christian terms. No one is perfect (mature), but we are being perfected (matured) through our growth in Him.

Matt 5:48 – Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance defines it this way: 5056; complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as noun, with 3588) completeness:–of full age, man, perfect.

Perfection isn’t attained all at once. It’s a process of growth. We are being told by Jesus to grow up. Falling down in our walk isn’t failure. Getting up and continuing the walk is what makes us grow. We are bound to fall down. It’s the getting up that counts.

In the process we mature in Christ. Don’t let yesterday’s failure or even today’s failure be discouraging. Just get up. That’s how you’ll grow up.