The Reality of God's Presence

Does your daily life reflect the reality of God's presence in you? It is not in the great things that we are witnesses of "Christ in us," but rather it is in the everyday interactions with our co-workers, spouses, family members and friends, that it will become evident.  The opportunity to serve one another, love one another and submit to one another while on this earth is God's spiritual lab whereby you and I learn to "walk in the Spirit" (Romans 8:4).

Walking in the Spirit means first acknowledging that the Spirit of God lives in you. When the Paul spoke to the church of Corinth, he provided them with a solution to their unbalanced and immature spiritual lives; that solution was for them to know that their bodies were a temple of God.  Have you reflected on this fact in your life?  Have you meditated on the incredible fact that the living God resides in your heart.  This single reality should immediately lead us to a place of holy reverence towards God. Christ is not offering us a changed life through His death on the cross, but instead He makes available to you and I an exchanged life. It is His Holy life and His loving Spirit that we are to offer those whom we deal with on this earth.  Too often as Christians we try to offer our abilities, and our human kindness to the world and these are but counterfeit and temporary at best.  Christ died on the cross so that He would be made real in each and everyone of our lives and in turn that we would reflect His life to everyone whom we come in contact with.

You Shall Be Holy

It is our relationship with Christ which produces His life in us.  You and I must exercise our will to be obedient to God- "for it is God who works in you (us) both to will and to do for His good pleasure"Philippians 2:12. Meaning that God gives us the desire to do good and also the ability to do good for His "good pleasure." So we must be obedient to the desire that He places in us and then by His grace He honors the desire that He gave us by giving us the power to do it.

Our choices in life should revolve around ways to exhibit Christ in our lives, not ways to be holy.  We are told in Leviticus 11:44 "You shall be holy; for I am holy and in

I Peter 1:16 "Be holy, for I am holy."  It is the holy Christ in us who seeks to live His life through our sacrificed lives (See Romans 12:1).  Allow Him to live through you today and everyday.

Sitting together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus

Once a person has received the revelation of salvation (meaning that the Holy Spirit has revealed and confirmed in them), the certainty that Jesus Christ has died on the cross for their sins; their natural inclination will be to accept this "gift" of eternal life made available to them "by grace, through faith."  This of course is the main focus of many Christians today and it's significance cannot be overstated. However there is still further revelation to complete the reality of this great act of love by God through His Son.  We have a clue to this further revelation  in the following verses from Ephesians 2:4-6:
 "But God who is rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses (sin), made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus."

In addition we have this verse from Colossians to further give us revelation in regards to our salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:27 "To them (the saints) God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

It is Christ in us which produces holiness to His glory.  "He is holy and therefore we are holy."  By what right might we make this claim?  It is by His sanctification that we are justified and reconciled back to God.  The fact that He lives in us is the only reason that you and I are saved and sanctified. As a result we "sit together in heavenly places (not with Jesus), but "in Christ Jesus." We dwell with God today at the right hand of the Father because of His life in us.  Hallelujah!! We are told that not only does Christ dwell in us, but that we dwell in Him.

John 14:20  "At that day you will know that I am in My Father and you in Me and I in you."

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth

The Bible accurately stated that the earth was a circle, approximately 420 years before scientist confirmed that the earth was a sphere. In the book of Isaiah 40:21 we are told that "It is He (God) who sits above the circle of the earth. The book of Isaiah was written somewhere between 701 and 681BC and the scientist/philosopher Eratosthenes confirmed the earth as being a circumference in 240BC. That is an astounding 4 centuries later than the Bible's mention of it. I wonder how long it will be before man catches up to the idea that God did indeed create the earth in 6 days as told in the Bible? The bottom line is that science has always been and will always be fallible, but the God of the Bible is infallible.

Of course God would know that the earth was a circle. He created it!
You can have confidence in the accuracy and the truth of the Bible, but you have to read it to know what it says.

Don't be a Bible dummy-study the word. lol

Please send other interesting facts about the bible to our blog. Or simply comment on this blog. PS-check out the video on God and Dinosaurs that we just posted this week. It looks distorted at first but when you click it on it will start and work correctly.

God and Dinosaurs Video

Start video at 51:03 and go to 1:51 to see video pertaining to dinosaurs and the Bible.

Are Dinosaurs in the bible?

As a kid growing up I used to visit the Museum of Natural Man in San Diego. There I would see all of the great exhbits of dinosaurs and other pre-historic animals. Of course the center piece of all of these displays was Tyrannosaurus Rex. There it would stand above all of our heads with this sheepish; somewhat sinnister grin on it's face. Our classroom would leave the museum with our little minds full of fear mingled with fascination and mostly glad that we didn't have to live in pre-historic times with those great monsters we had just seen.

Later as I grew up and began to embrace Christianity, the images and thoughts of what I had witnessed at the museum, began to puzzle me and cause considerable doubt in my mind concerning the authenticity of the bible. I knew that dinosaurs must be real because I had seen them (or their representation-which is another point all it's own), with my own eyes and yet I had never heard a preacher or other Christians talk about them. Somewhere in the back of my mind was the nagging desire to know if God, dinosaurs and the bible could co-exist.

It wasn't until many years later while studying the bible that I discovered just where these great creatures (which we call dinosaurs today) are spoken of in the bible. The following verses are a few places where God Himself describes these massive creatures to His servant Job. In the book of Job chapter 40 verse 15 we hear God refer to these beasts as behemoths. This passage makes it clear that these animals were the "chief" or greatest of God's creations in terms of size, strength and scope. The Hippo and Elephant (which had other Hebrew names), don't qualify as the largest animal described by God at that time. Nor does their anatomy fit the clear language found in Job 40:17. In this verse these great creatures are described as having tails like "cedar trees." In Job chapter 41 we find a description of a terrible animal called a Leviathan by God. The Leviathan is said to have "sharp teeth, and was a scaled sea animal whose habitat was in deep waters.

These are just a couple of places in which dinosaurs can be found in the bible. I would encourage you to take the time to read the book of Job Chapters 40 and 41 for a little more detailed regarding these great animals.

Tomorrow's blog? did God create the Dinosaur or did they evolve over millions or billions of years ago?