One & Zero

One and Zero. These numbers reason to represent elements of our God's omni-presence, -potence, -science. This reasoning of the numbers 1 and 0 are not an attempt to limit God. They are, rather, to explain his limitless power.

You see, in use of the number "1", there is always a bigger picture. Nothing, from the smallest to the greatest piece of matter, time or space or energy stands alone. It can always be grouped in with something more profound or extensive than itself. Making a collaberative body of one which, in turn, links with others like it or at least relative to it and again soverignty is stripped away. Thus seceding to the enjoinment that again brings it to oneness again and again. This cycle endlessly continues until it reaches the threshold of God. We know that he "is in all and through all" and thus the cycle ends. Knowing "the end from the beginning" he alone can stand without being enjoined to anything or anyone. It is also written, "There is none beside me". Whether speaking of marbles or of planets they can all be grouped together into something more complex than itself because it unites its own complexities with the others it is grouped with. The number 1 stands alone and holds within it, limitless dimensions. In fact, being dimensionless, it is the closest we will ever come in this life to comprehending the transcendant nature of infinity.

As for "0", in our finiteness, we also fall unyieldingly short of discerning what oblivion really is. What the naked eye may see and register as empty, void or vanished, may in fact hold incomparable and unparalled matter, energy or other sorts of particles as such. Secular science holds that "matter can be neither created nor destroyed", claiming that everything came from nothing. Yet we know that negatives lie in the theoretical, and have not been proven to create anything. Even so, they seal their own fate either way. One thing always breaks down into another. It is conjunctive with displacement. It is said that "seeing is believing" but what is seen (or unseen) does not equate to truth necessarily.

We are told to fear "the One who can destroy both body and soul" and as said, so we should. For the infinite One, that is Christ, who created all that was once nothing has the right to make it as void as it once was.

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A "Peace" of Fruit

What a peace the Lord has offered man! Truly it "passes all understanding". It is offered by the One "who provides the increase". It would be absurd to reject the fruit of the Spirit which bears life in joyful abundance. Are we not told that "the harvest is plentiful" and again, "who works in the field and does not eat of its fruit?"
All fruit that is good bears yet more seed. This is wisdom from the Lord, life should bear life. Death can bear nothing except eternal destruction, perpetual and ever breaking down without ceasing to be. The fruit of Life is sweet and wholesome and good. Strengthening the drive of whoever consumes it. Motivating thought and stirring the soul, the awakening rush overtaking the spirit and urging it to press on. What is in the natural, is but a mere reflection of its spiritual relativity. The wisdom of the Lord outreaches the lengths and depths of our capacity to conceive of it.

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A Call for Study

It is said, "The Spirit searches the deep things of God". There are those who complain of the complexities of the word of God, they then refuse themselves the study of it. "these things are spirtually discerned", we are reminded. Would you go across rough, unfamiliar terrain alone? Would you refuse someone to lead you to the summit? You would soon perish, finding yourself in foreign waters! Do you not see your need? Will you be so stubborn? Call for the Guide and you shall be successful. Is it not his job to comprehend what you do not? He imparts understanding along the way, so that you may benefit and not himself. Will you continue to study the things that shall pass away while refusing to grasp the exquisite truths of those things that shall never expire? Let it not be so! Great truth is always profound, involving a continual renewal of itself in you. Do not boast that you have attained, yet rejoice in what has been revealed. "His way are higher than ours."

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A Few Proverbs

What is heard is only a shade of what is seen, though what is seen is a mere glimpse of what is experienced.

One who holds only a knowledge of salvation will reap the experience of an eternity in hell.

Truth may be an offense to all, but in itself is its own defense.

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Spirit and Truth, the Witness

"...true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth..." and again "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord."

King Agrippa was taken back by Paul's testimony to the point where he declared that Paul had almost convinced him to become a Christian. Paul had testified through the Spirit of Christ concerning the very truth of the Word of God which are the same, an paradoxical union. True worship is not blind to the truth, but rather in response to it. Truth, whether it be at the cosmic level or at the atomic always points to the extraordinary purpose placed in it. Whether it is yet revealed or even accepted does not disannul the fact that it is. Furthermore, this truth is inseparably reciprocal of the Spirit from which it comes.

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