Anthologies from Genesis

Genesis 1 All the earth has God’s creative energy, and God’s spirit is over, in, and around the earth. God gives form (shape, meaning, purpose) to the earth. The light is symbolic of enlightenment. Time is an earthly creation that encumbers, limits, and blocks us from freedom and creativity. In many ways, the time framework causes much tension and anxiety among humanity in societies that are bound strongly around the concept and structure of time. There is only the amount of space between us and heaven (or God) that we make of it. The other side is within our reach. The presence of God is in, is through, and is around us. The energy of God holds us together physically, mentally, and psychologically. We are spiritual entities, and all else about us is a manifestation of our spirit. Your spirit is the essence of you. You are your spirit, and your spirit is you. “I am that I am” (Exod. 3:4). The spirit holds all things together because the spirit of God is the energy of the universe that is all of life, and that energy is the glue that holds all else together. When the energy of life leaves any entity that we know on the earth to be living, that form of living falls apart by what we call deterioration. There is no longer the glue of life around the form holding it together. That doesn’t mean that the thing or being no longer lives, but rather, that it did change its form of life. Life itself is eternal and simply changes form. We can have eternal life in fellowship with God or outside of fellowship with God. The outside of fellowship with God is Hell. Life continues in the now and there is only the forever now. Space and time are relative to our perception of both. Humanity has a strong need to think in terms of time parameters from now and into the past or future when there is only now. The past and the future are only a perception or memory because of what we call time. All of life is going forward because we move forward in action, but time stands still in the sense that we have only now. I guess one could say we have an experiential series of the now in our life that collectively builds our experiences. The Bible says, “Now is the time of salvation.” II Corinthians 2:2 CSB “For he says: At an acceptable time, I listened to you, and on the day of salvation I helped you. See, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation!” God (who gives life and energy) provides all we “need.” I put the word need in quotes because life and energy are all we need and that is from God. Our sense of need is often a figment of the mind. We only want and do not have needs. You could argue about the basic needs of life for existence, but those are even relative to the desire to live as a physical being, which is a desire. We need nothing. We are life, and we create our own sense of need. Yet God in creation has provided all that is present for a beautiful, fulfilling, and rewarding existence on earth. He provides for sustenance and full enjoyment of this physical life. Matthew 6:25-31CSB Vs 26, “Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?” and Vs.30, “If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you – you of little faith?” Seasons represent growth passages. Growth, and renewal never cease. The energy of God (life) is everywhere and in all things. Life transcends this physical existence yet is the essence of this life. Physical life is just a form of eternal life that God has given each for His purposes in our growth in the form of experiencing. We experience in all forms, but physical experiencing is special and allows us to gain insights and understanding like no other. Psalms 22: 9-10 CSB “It was you who brought me out of the womb, making me secure at my mother’s breast. I was given over to you at birth; you have been my God from my mother’s womb.” Jeremiah 1:5 CSB “I chose you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart before you were born. I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Life in the physical is a life of opposites or contrasts. Life in the spiritual world that is not physical does not provide the opposites from which we can learn. We learn the meaning of love best when there is also hate. We learn warmth best when there is also cold. We learn patience and serenity best when there is impatience and stress. You get the picture that this world is fully a place of contrasts that we can bless and be thankful for giving us an opportunity to truly experience the opposite of our perfection and to fully appreciate the essence of our being. By essence, I mean the “very basic, real, and invariable nature” (Dictionary.com) of humanity. God is seen in the creative energy of all life, so we can also think of life or creative energy as the presence of God. We cannot separate life from God, nor can we separate God from life. God, the giver of life, is everywhere and in all things.