"What Thing is This?"

 "Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?" (John 6:60 KJV) 

  "And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight. And remember, out Lord's patience gives people time to be saved. This is what our beloved brother Paul wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him - speaking of things in all of his letters. Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters to mean something quite different, just as they do with other parts of Scripture. And this will be their destruction." (2 Peter 3:14-16 NLT)

 As I was driving to church yesterday, I listened to a message regarding leaving the presence of God. It is impossible to get out of God's presence, because God is everywhere at all times; but it is possible to move out of His presence. Simply put, when we know what God wants us to do, and we choose to do that which He does not want us to do, we step out of the presence of God! 

 Yes, I know, it is not really all that simple to picture that in our minds; but it is rather simple to avoid it happening! There are only two choices, obey, or do not obey! Adam had the same options, to not eat of the fruit, or to eat of it; the same simple options, which were really not all that complex. So, what thing is this, that has caused so many to be confused? 

 If you could have been there, where would you stand? How much lack of understanding could you take, before you threw in the towel, and said enough is enough? Curious what or why, yet, confused about the direction! How many times did Jesus say that He came from Heaven? How many that misunderstood have any knowledge of what Heaven is like? Let alone, even really know where Heaven actually might be? 

 And yet, if we can be out of His presence, yet He is always present, then were did we go, or what is it that we have become? Curious to see what that might look like...

"This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin." (1 John 1:5-7 NLT)