Thursday 6 May 2021

Knowledge of the known is not all

Listening to Jesus 

Jesus is talking in Manna. He "walks and talks with me" in a beautiful place that He has brought me. Faith is built by reading and speaking while belief is easy and instant, like a mustard seed. 

It helps not to be too rich. Rich, for example, as a well to do man who already thinks he has afforded his own heaven. But also there is the educated man who is burdened by too much seen-knowledge of unsophisticated education that falls behind the unseen truths because he cannot keep up with the growing knowledge of his expanding ignorance.

All his worldly knowledge creates so much doubt it magnifies belief only as far as the believable . I suspect that even the knowledge taught in a seminary has educated professors out of a belief in God. Does meaning actualize belief? 

Monday 3 May 2021

John 17:1

High Priestly prayer

Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said

high priestly prayer
John 17

 "Father, the hour has come, Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him."

My mother used to read this entire chapter every morning on rising. I recall her reading it, sometimes out loud. I was a caregiver and an atheist at the time.