Portal – Summary
I feel closer to God out of doors. For me, God is all the created universe. Communion happens everywhere. But it’s easier for me alone on my porch, watching and listening to the music of Creation.
God’s responsible for the whole “enchilada”. Life shapes our spirit and soul. Like a sculptor fashions a beautiful form from clay. Over time, we finish better than when we started… or dead if we choose to listen to Satan. We can thank God for all that shapes us. Good and bad. ❤️
We are designed with the good that binds our resolve to achieve and the bad that strengthens our resilience to challenge…
Some feel Scripture is bogus. We can “thank” Satan and human narcissistic tendencies for that. Mankind’s practice of applying “Glory to Men”, illustrates the root cause of division among us. The Bible’s recorded Holy and Divine messages from God, illustrate the root cause of uniting us.
ALL of us have capacity to unconditionally love. But we also have capacity to hate. Christ’s most important and misunderstood lesson in his teaching is between the “lines”… ‘We don’t need to know Jesus,’ but we must love Creation and our Creator. Many do that by their own choosing… outside the Christian Bible. We may identify Christ as someone or something else because not all of us are introduced to, or believe in, Jesus. Yet we can still follow God’s direction to Love. ❤️
We connect with God inside our heart. God’s Holy messaging in the Bible explains how. It’s not complicated. Love is what Jesus teaches. The Bible is also a reference containing stories and testimony from inspired humans who are not Divinity. God’s recorded messaging alone is Divine. God alone is Divinity. We’re not.
We can feel God and ‘hear’ Truth both inside and outside the Bible. But the devil whispers pride in our “ear” and we can mistakenly and/or emotionally elevate ourselves and other natural humans to lofty positioning because we narcissistically and deliberately want glory for ourselves.
ALL humans are equal in God’s image. We’re His toddler children… no matter how lost or old we get. ☺️
We are designed to spiritually grow or wither. That’s up to us. Outside of severe and debilitating mental illness, we freely decide what we think and do.
In summary of the summary…
No one else but God knows all that goes on in our head. God has infinite capacity and has been measuring and messaging us for a long time, but Truth is not always easy to hear. We do well to listen with our ‘heart’, where God’s image lives and ‘breathes’ with us.
God communicates with us using all of creation. God ‘speaks’ to us AND gave Satan a ‘voice’ in the mix. We “hear” with our thoughts and emotions. Christ taught us that we don’t have to know Jesus, only dismiss the evil one by loving God and Creation with all we have to muster.
Christianity isn’t the only means of loving God and Creation. Our spiritual compass is in our ‘heart’. Our moral successes and failures show up in our daily actions and emotional relationship with creation and the Creator… Most apparently with family, spouse, children, pets, friends, neighbors, and ‘enemies’. God knows how we love creation by our thoughts and actions.
Satan was created to challenge us. Jesus was born to help us. He awaits us within our “heart” where our free-willed soul lives or dies. God’s perfection alludes us but compassion is always within reach.
When meeting or reading someone for the first time, it’s usually a good practice to start with the thought that they could’ve had a much more traumatic and tragic life than you. That’s compassion. ❤️
Like a good parent, God walked the earth so that we could know His aspiration. We begin to understand with a need in our brain and an opening in our heart. ❤️
Link to Portal Prelude (next)
