What we know and what we do not know....

     What we know is this...Sometime in our distant past, a man came  and changed everything. Jesus of Nazareth. History records, and testimony bears witness that something momentous occurred some 2000 years ago.  What we do not fully understand is   how  the man, Jesus that was of immaculate conception, born of a virgin, was sinless, and God's Son, was also the almighty. For he had shown authority over heaven an earth itself, tamed storms, and calmed the seas, cast out Spirit's and ran afoul of human governments and resisted all who thought they had God all figured out.  He shattered all of their  conceptions totally and rewrote the book on current thinking. The first shall be last, the proud and mighty brought low and the meek exalted. The feast at the end of time, a banquet open to those that  the world would despise.  Faith was a hallmark of those trusted with the newly preached good news that life was not merely what we see and grasp on a daily basis. Our treasures were now in heavenly places, governments were rightly disposed to take their place under the Kingship of one who was brutally and shamefully executed before the most powerful empire the world had known.  The Kingdom of God had come. All through Jesus.
     Out of vision and invisible is the Kingdom that awaits, and therefore most do not lay hold of what they cannot see. Death is fear itself, manifesting a terrible hold and limiting how we live our lives. We plan, for the inevitable in ways that show our limitations. All the while  joy slips away and the daily grind before our eyes transfix us to the here and now.
    Yes we must be diligent for ourselves but we must also be there for those who do not know the truths that can be known.  When the Spirit of God unites with man (and women)  things change. And if they don't then the seed has fallen on  rocky ground.
     The heart is truly a mystery, it can be moved majestically by music, Opera, hardened by immeasurable hurt, renewed by Hope and cast away with harmful words. 
     But.....thanks be to the one that broke off the yoke and bondage and took captivity, captive.  Peace Christian.