Comments on: The Higher Symbol and Human Evolutionary Consciousness http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-higher-symbol-and-human-evolutionary-consciousness/ a christian life inside an eternal plan Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:17:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: mellyreed http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-higher-symbol-and-human-evolutionary-consciousness/#comment-20907 mellyreed Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:06:09 +0000 http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-20907 Hi Vince, I thank God for your very kind and strengthening encouragement. Your prayers are very much appreciated! No, while I have felt under some degree of spiritual attack, I have not stopped contending for the faith. I have come up against some strongholds of recent (and this recent threat above) and I can only say that God must be working very mightily in the spiritual realms for these attacks to have come on. It's usually the last thing I think to cross one's mind that we are now counted worthy (because we know what we are) so to have another say so is such an awesome and quiet moment to think that the Lord <i>might</i> be pleased. All I know is that I think things are getting very close to more open hostility and persecution here but at the same time some wonderful things are close too. I think the church is near to pulling closer to reconciliation as a result. And I am really looking forward to that day of seeing the Bride getting more beautified for the Bridegroom's return. Keep praying for any strongholds to be demolished and captives freed. Be aware of any "foolish virgins". Keep your lamps full. Pray incessantly as Paul advised. You and Vee are right in that we and our families must be as strong in the Lord as possible and ready for whatever is ahead. Be settled in your hearts as to how you will stand. Dia guit. God bless you, Melly Hi Vince,

I thank God for your very kind and strengthening encouragement. Your prayers are very much appreciated! No, while I have felt under some degree of spiritual attack, I have not stopped contending for the faith. I have come up against some strongholds of recent (and this recent threat above) and I can only say that God must be working very mightily in the spiritual realms for these attacks to have come on. It’s usually the last thing I think to cross one’s mind that we are now counted worthy (because we know what we are) so to have another say so is such an awesome and quiet moment to think that the Lord might be pleased. All I know is that I think things are getting very close to more open hostility and persecution here but at the same time some wonderful things are close too. I think the church is near to pulling closer to reconciliation as a result. And I am really looking forward to that day of seeing the Bride getting more beautified for the Bridegroom’s return. Keep praying for any strongholds to be demolished and captives freed. Be aware of any “foolish virgins”. Keep your lamps full. Pray incessantly as Paul advised. You and Vee are right in that we and our families must be as strong in the Lord as possible and ready for whatever is ahead. Be settled in your hearts as to how you will stand. Dia guit.

God bless you,
Melly

]]> By: vincent lyons http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-higher-symbol-and-human-evolutionary-consciousness/#comment-20906 vincent lyons Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:15:29 +0000 http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-20906 Hey Melly, what a shock to receive such a cowardly threat, but rejoice that you have been counted worthy to suffer for His name. I am praying for you and yours and hope that you are not in any way intimidated from being a faithful witness, Dia guit, Vince. Hey Melly, what a shock to receive such a cowardly threat, but rejoice that you have been counted worthy to suffer for His name. I am praying for you and yours and hope that you are not in any way intimidated from being a faithful witness, Dia guit, Vince.

]]> By: mellyreed http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-higher-symbol-and-human-evolutionary-consciousness/#comment-20904 mellyreed Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:31:18 +0000 http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-20904 I thank God very much for you and for your prayers, Vee. They are very much needed and appreciated. I have not heard back from this particular forum. No one has responded openly to him. I think his response must have shocked everyone. The viciousness of the mental imagery is beyond what I have ever encountered before. Certainly no one today knows whether to take these things seriously or not. I'll be frank, it did frighten me. I had a nightmare of being shot on my property soon thereafter. But that has passed. I spoke with a friend/mentor from church who advised that I write to the moderator. I want to but have been hesitant to do so. God bless. Melly I thank God very much for you and for your prayers, Vee. They are very much needed and appreciated. I have not heard back from this particular forum. No one has responded openly to him. I think his response must have shocked everyone. The viciousness of the mental imagery is beyond what I have ever encountered before. Certainly no one today knows whether to take these things seriously or not. I’ll be frank, it did frighten me. I had a nightmare of being shot on my property soon thereafter. But that has passed. I spoke with a friend/mentor from church who advised that I write to the moderator. I want to but have been hesitant to do so. God bless. Melly

]]> By: livingjourney http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-higher-symbol-and-human-evolutionary-consciousness/#comment-20903 livingjourney Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:28:42 +0000 http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-20903 Melly, this is an important comment, and I feel so bad that I have been too busy to really reflect on it as much as I need to. Just know that I will read it more thoroughly, and pray for you and your safety. Please Melly, you must content for the Truth! No compromise! May God bless you too.. Sincerely Vee Melly, this is an important comment, and I feel so bad that I have been too busy to really reflect on it as much as I need to.

Just know that I will read it more thoroughly, and pray for you and your safety. Please Melly, you must content for the Truth! No compromise!

May God bless you too..

Sincerely

Vee

]]> By: mellyreed http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-higher-symbol-and-human-evolutionary-consciousness/#comment-20902 mellyreed Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:32:08 +0000 http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-20902 Thanks for posting this Vee. It's hard to keep...I'm just strugglin' to keep up with the minute, as the "Oldest Living Confederate's Widow" would say. ;-) I do feel sometimes as if I am living out of time, apart from time with what has changed so much in the current consciousness of the world estranged from God. I just got through posting to a man on what I thought was a Christian forum only to realize that the people identifying themselves as Christians were more supportive of the "Co-exist" bumper sticker than they were of Christ. More and more I see this tendency to want to compromise to "'be loving' for after all, that is all Jesus was, right?" I look in astonishment at these ones and I ask myself: what god are you worshipping? He is that... but so much more! Must you put Him in a box of your own making?" And I sense an uneasy fear and self-justification beneath this compromise to water down the truth. What are you doing for? To live a "calm quiet life" purchased at a dark peace or a manipulated one that betrays the fullness of the one true God? I weep a lot at home over it. I don't like being excluded. Nobody does. I don't like being the the one that waits and waits but then has to speak up gently only to have that gentleness misconstrued. I sense these same ones if they don't get "snatched out of the fire" will wind up on the other side of betrayal and will not be able to cross the divide again. At any rate, I prayed and wrote a final entry and was indirectly threatened with death: an inference that if I was in an Islamic country: "A few radical Islamists would dice you into tiny little pieces for uttering those words, then behead your husband for allowing you to speak publicly to a man." Here is what I wrote that illicited that response: "Being a Christian is not a belief system: Its an acceptance of the truth. Truth is not proven, it is revealed. And it is revealed by light. If it has not been revealed to you to your satisfaction it is because your heart is not ready to receive it. The Hebrews understood truth by light. The Greeks understood it by knowledge. The Romans perceived truth through glory. History has proven one thing about civilizations no matter their location nor their timing upon the stage: they tend to run from the light when it is revealed to them, fall in love with their own flashlight upon knowledge, and glorify themselves in the process. We all have the tendency to do this. It is only humility that acknowledges that we don't know everything. When that happens, no matter the educational background or the economic position, that individual is then able and most importantly willing to accept that only God is the possessor of truth. And he or she will bend the knee and humbly ask for it, be willing to be persecuted for it, but most importantly be obedient in the face of accusations, both false and half-true, to stand firm and tell it. The truth, Mr. Shoemaker, is not a cauldron of contradictions, it is a union of contrasts revealed through the light and person of Jesus. You may not like it. I didn't like it at first, but I now know it more clearly than when I started to understand. It may offend you. I was offended by many, many things about God's word. But that did not make them untrue. That I can not help. It simply is. The sun will rise tomorrow and Jesus will come again. And that, I and other Christians will continue to tell even though it costs us dearly because it is the only hope humanity has. I will continue to pray that God will reveal it to you as well. You may find that what you try to see with a telescope today, was better seen with a microscope and vice-versa. Keep seeking, Mr. Shoemaker and you will find the truth. God bless you, Melanie" Thanks for posting this Vee. It’s hard to keep…I’m just strugglin’ to keep up with the minute, as the “Oldest Living Confederate’s Widow” would say. ;-) I do feel sometimes as if I am living out of time, apart from time with what has changed so much in the current consciousness of the world estranged from God. I just got through posting to a man on what I thought was a Christian forum only to realize that the people identifying themselves as Christians were more supportive of the “Co-exist” bumper sticker than they were of Christ. More and more I see this tendency to want to compromise to “‘be loving’ for after all, that is all Jesus was, right?” I look in astonishment at these ones and I ask myself: what god are you worshipping? He is that… but so much more! Must you put Him in a box of your own making?” And I sense an uneasy fear and self-justification beneath this compromise to water down the truth. What are you doing for? To live a “calm quiet life” purchased at a dark peace or a manipulated one that betrays the fullness of the one true God? I weep a lot at home over it. I don’t like being excluded. Nobody does. I don’t like being the the one that waits and waits but then has to speak up gently only to have that gentleness misconstrued. I sense these same ones if they don’t get “snatched out of the fire” will wind up on the other side of betrayal and will not be able to cross the divide again. At any rate, I prayed and wrote a final entry and was indirectly threatened with death: an inference that if I was in an Islamic country: “A few radical Islamists would dice you into tiny little pieces for uttering those words, then behead your husband for allowing you to speak publicly to a man.” Here is what I wrote that illicited that response: “Being a Christian is not a belief system: Its an acceptance of the truth. Truth is not proven, it is revealed. And it is revealed by light. If it has not been revealed to you to your satisfaction it is because your heart is not ready to receive it. The Hebrews understood truth by light. The Greeks understood it by knowledge. The Romans perceived truth through glory. History has proven one thing about civilizations no matter their location nor their timing upon the stage: they tend to run from the light when it is revealed to them, fall in love with their own flashlight upon knowledge, and glorify themselves in the process. We all have the tendency to do this. It is only humility that acknowledges that we don’t know everything. When that happens, no matter the educational background or the economic position, that individual is then able and most importantly willing to accept that only God is the possessor of truth. And he or she will bend the knee and humbly ask for it, be willing to be persecuted for it, but most importantly be obedient in the face of accusations, both false and half-true, to stand firm and tell it. The truth, Mr. Shoemaker, is not a cauldron of contradictions, it is a union of contrasts revealed through the light and person of Jesus. You may not like it. I didn’t like it at first, but I now know it more clearly than when I started to understand. It may offend you. I was offended by many, many things about God’s word. But that did not make them untrue. That I can not help. It simply is. The sun will rise tomorrow and Jesus will come again. And that, I and other Christians will continue to tell even though it costs us dearly because it is the only hope humanity has. I will continue to pray that God will reveal it to you as well. You may find that what you try to see with a telescope today, was better seen with a microscope and vice-versa. Keep seeking, Mr. Shoemaker and you will find the truth.

God bless you,
Melanie”

]]> By: michael http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-higher-symbol-and-human-evolutionary-consciousness/#comment-20898 michael Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:41:51 +0000 http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-20898 <i>it’s Passover for you soon isn’t it?</i> Yup. In about 2 weeks. And we haven't started cleaning yet. Oy! Yeah, it's nice to able to post again, but I don't think I'll be as prolific as I used to be. Too much important stuff to do. See ya round! it’s Passover for you soon isn’t it?

Yup. In about 2 weeks. And we haven’t started cleaning yet. Oy!

Yeah, it’s nice to able to post again, but I don’t think I’ll be as prolific as I used to be. Too much important stuff to do.

See ya round!

]]> By: livingjourney http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-higher-symbol-and-human-evolutionary-consciousness/#comment-20896 livingjourney Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:53:34 +0000 http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-20896 Hiya Michael!!! How are you???... it's Passover for you soon isn't it? Nice to see you that you are back posting on your blog by the way :) prolepticlife Thanks for stopping by, I see from your blog that you have read Eckhart Tolle's new book "A New Earth" which Oprah highly endorses. For anyone who is interested... <a href="http://prolepticlife.wordpress.com/category/a-new-earth/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> is where you can find all of prolepticlife's posts on the subject. Vee Hiya Michael!!! How are you???… it’s Passover for you soon isn’t it?
Nice to see you that you are back posting on your blog by the way :)

prolepticlife

Thanks for stopping by, I see from your blog that you have read Eckhart Tolle’s new book “A New Earth” which Oprah highly endorses.

For anyone who is interested… HERE is where you can find all of prolepticlife’s posts on the subject.

Vee

]]> By: prolepticlife http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-higher-symbol-and-human-evolutionary-consciousness/#comment-20895 prolepticlife Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:56:36 +0000 http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-20895 Very good information. I will link to this with a post of my own soon if you don't mind. Very good information. I will link to this with a post of my own soon if you don’t mind.

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]]> By: michael http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/the-higher-symbol-and-human-evolutionary-consciousness/#comment-20893 michael Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:55:10 +0000 http://livingjourney.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-20893 Just to give a different spin ('cause I'm not into all the Christian stuff): I find the idea of a 'symbol' for human higher evolution pretty laughable. Going by ordinary evolutionary theory (I know, you don't believe it!), the combination of human promiscuity an the ease of modern travel have pretty much guaranteed an end to human evolution! Just to give a different spin (’cause I’m not into all the Christian stuff):
I find the idea of a ’symbol’ for human higher evolution pretty laughable.
Going by ordinary evolutionary theory (I know, you don’t believe it!), the combination of human promiscuity an the ease of modern travel have pretty much guaranteed an end to human evolution!

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