"Substance of Faith"

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." (Psalms 145:16)

  Maybe we cannot see everything; neither are we meant to, because if we could, we might not be able to handle that much information or knowledge. Which is probably why God only allows us a certain amount, because He knows our heart and what man might try to do with the knowledge he might gain. I was listening to a message yesterday that spoke about the atoms and how they were basically all just energy; that there is energy that is working and moving all around us, but with the human eye, we cannot see all the power that is moving in everything, seriously, everything! I use to actually use that example when sharing with a J.W. about the Trinity; how every single thing in existence has three parts, so why wouldn't God be an exact representation of all that He has created. After all, He did say, let us make man in Our image; exactly how does that work, if not for being, body, soul, and spirit? We surely cannot create something from nothing; but we can create something from something else; and man o man, are we ever creative! I can't help but think of Adam thinking of names for all the animals, how it must have stretched his mind and sparked the creative juices within that brain of his. Looking back to the 80's, how primitive things were compared to what we are seeing today. Actually, I witnessed something yesterday that was a little weird. The local grocery store that has a bank inside, which is close to the door; and as I was standing in line, there was girl that had her baby in a shopping cart; which she obviously use for her baby to sit in the cart. After she was done with her banking, as she tried to exit the store, an alarm went off, and the cart locked up as she was half-way through the door. This poor girl, she could make the cart go any further, and her baby was about to start crying. A friend of mine that was with me, was astounded, saying, What the heck! Apparently, if you have stuff in your cart, but do not have a receipt, you are not going to get out the door without being noticed. Just one more example of the technology that is being developed. And by the way, we are starting in a new era of working towards a cashless system, as China is thinking about stopping the spread of the virus by getting away from using cash, because the virus might be on the money that is exchanged from one person to the other. Anywho, we are in for some very interesting times, and it is really making me excited for Jesus coming back for His bride! There are talks among some about John's visions being something that was produced by heat exposure, or maybe from the ordeal of being boiled in oil; but it is more and more practical for those things he saw to take place; especially the mark he saw where you cannot buy or sell anything without having the mark! Actually, it might also be the case where you can't even get into the store without the mark; or the craziest thing ever, that you cannot go out in public because you are identified instantly by the mark not being detected on you. Just so you know, the chances of all the prophecies in the Bible actually happening, just the ones that involve Jesus' first coming, are off the charts impossible to have all been fulfilled. There are said to be 300 prophecies of His first coming; and the possibility of just 8 of those being fulfilled, is said to be 1 in 10 to the seventeenth power. If you don't know what those odds represent, look it up and see, because there is more proof of the Bible being real, then there is of the power that is all around us...

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." (Hebrews 11:1-6)