Warm air soon becomes hot

From a song by yours truly and son…

Snowflakes and flaky people love it where the air is warm

Floating every which way, without collision means no harm

One floats to earth, the other flies

No mind of their own, the thought’s appalling

Riding cloud nine’s hot air, rising and gently falling

People with lots of religious books beside the sacred texts also are known to have a lot more than others to say. These guys are in the warm zone.  Exactly how many of these persons with sacred text and their own books are actually literate does not take a guess.  There ain’t no 39 book collection that satisfies flaky people. Is there a 27 book collection that people find satisfactory?  No! All the people who claim to believe the Bible, the 66 books of the Old and New Testament, are flaky when they insist that there are other books that people need to read.  We ought to know that truth has been in the house ever since Christ built his house.  The circulating air moving secular and sacred texts around is going to warm up, all the way to hot.

No mind of their own?

When we say someone is mindless we are not insulting them.  God made brains for high level and low level operations; so let no one impress you that they have information to which no one else has access.  If you, like me, ever bought that lie, you are in eternal danger.  When membership means asking no questions and just doing as you’re told you are in a cult of death.  “Dying to self”  has become an essential plank in the deluding of souls. You probably believe that you need to deny your DNA, your ancestry, your humanity, your nationality, your individuality and your consequently, all accountability.  What can God demand of you when you deny your personhood?  You have no SELF for God to use, and no uniqueness of person to interact with other humans. You are willing to forget that Christ saved you, which allows you to deny that you are saved.  Consequently,  many find no rest, no peace, and remain juvenile and in bondage.

Kid blowing in the wind

Let us be aware that there are countless screwed up “kids” with access to mass scope implements and vessels. They are called in the net set by false prophets.  In the net are presidents, prime ministers, rabbis, gurus, imams, prophets, apostles, pastors and, yes, juveniles who have not even learned how to eat their daily bread with fingers, spoon, or fork.  The cycle of activity gives the impression of energy and heat, but looks can be deceiving.  Thankfully, God’s ceiling is not a lot of words but genuine love, that is, caring for the others.  Paul’s teaching on the spoiled and fallen brats is not difficult to understand.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: (Galatians 4:3)

How different from the children are the grown-ups?

9. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10. Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 11. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. (Galatians 4:9-11)

To be saved, people all across the world and in every age need God’s grace to save them.  They await a judgment – a verdict – of grace that forgives and adopts. This is why the moment Christ died graves were opened and the saints from ancient times rose to life. All of the rest, the thousands of words written, amount to a lot of hot air, because the apostolic witness, written and kept safe for us for two millennia is more than enough. You do not have to be a snowflake.

Wake-up time.  LLC17 -LIGHT

Sunday May 17 LIGHT

Faith – day – LIGHT; seeing dawn as resurrection |

The bright lights of human creation are usually multiple lamps or fires.  Their longevity does not match the needs of our feet or our path.  When the tomb is empty faith is seen relieving the women while the men seem to have lost their faith.

Hope – day – LIGHT; trusting illumination |

The arrival of life coincides with the babe of Bethlehem, but it is the death of the Lamb of God that opens the tombs of the sleeping saints.

50. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, (Mat 27:50-52)

Love – day – LIGHT; embracing warmth |

A lit lamp changes the environment. Before people realize what the light of each day means and before they can make a plan to make use of the light of day there is a subconscious affirmation of the light.

19. Now when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were together due to fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” 20. And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord. (John 20:19-20)

Death – day – LIGHT; becoming dusk’s paradox |

10. It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. 11. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. (Luke 24:10-11)

Who would have thought that life would stream from a dying man, and from a man condemned to die for crimes brought by religious people?  The darkness of the tomb leaps off the page as a perfect partner to light when Sunday arrives.  Christ was hurriedly buried at dusk and as soon as daylight arrived on Sunday the light was too much to believe.

Change – LLC16

Saturday May 16 CHANGE

Faith – CHANGE-  LIGHT; seeing constancy in transformation |

While it is hard to find people in the Torah exercising faith the search for faith that brings change can be aborted once Israelite resistance to correction surfaces. The light shining in those ancient circumstances exposes and increases the definition of sin.  The transformation is rare and precious.

Hope – CHANGE-  LIGHT; trusting renewal |

The light and life cycle is reliable and people who are soberly aware of who they are know that better can come.  They know that progress satisfies God and humanity.  Hoping to be different is good.  Hoping for better is better.  When we hope for the best we are in the domain of infinite goodness. Hoping does not make anyone godly, godliness is always a transparent confession away.

Love – CHANGE – LIGHT; embracing adaptability |

Concepts like change are hotwired into revelation.  Correction is necessary for everyone. God’s love includes setting the record straight and forgiving human sin.

Death – CHANGE – LIGHT; becoming Sabbath rest

Sabbath, any sabbath,  is and will always be a sign.  The point at which people participate in sabbath, in a perfect scenario, is where they have and use their creative powers for six days. There is no such week in human history.

Food and Warmth – LLC15

Friday May 15 | MOTHER |

Faith – mother – LIGHT; seeing nurture as promise |

Babies have no challenges with believing that the source of food and warmth will always give.  Mother’s milk and the comforting warmth of her body endure to the end.  A mother will always call her son or daughter her “baby”. Sons and daughters know that their mothers will nurture them on demand and without invitation, even when sons and daughters have their own families.

Hope – mother – LIGHT; trusting gestation |

We can easily underestimate the 9 months between conception and childbirth, especially if we are males, and I am sure that the purveyors of ungodliness have drummed up a gestation period for the realm of spiritual life. That spiritual gestation period is bound to be fantasy and nonsense, because the wind, like God’s Spirit, blows where it wishes and its origin, direction, and destination are unknown. So how, on God’s green earth are illiterate people like most Muslims, most Jews, and most Christians (and even those who see themselves as reformers) of the 19th and 20th centuries going to gain the trust of literate people in the 21st century?

Love – mother – LIGHT; embracing care |

Mothers are where God turns on the megalamp.  You name the mother and a little meditation will bring us to the traffic lights of heaven’s priorities. Do not be deceived by the annual fluff on Mother’s Day. Many people have no recurring or ever-increasing memo of their mothers. Even if the mother child relationship goes south the mother has made her mark by embracing the light of caring.

Death – mother – LIGHT; becoming portal to Immortal’s life |

To say that there is a cult of Mary is a moronic giveaway.  Do you think that the companions of Jesus recognized the humanity of Israel’s God without explicit recognition of Mary?  Or do you suppose that the early believers took notice of Jesus’ divinity without explicit recognition of purity?  It has to be said that holiness was housed in a vessel prepared for the purpose.

PREGNANT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

But when he had thought this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. (Mat 1:20)

THE CHILD IS LORD (YAHWEH)

for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. (Luk 2:11)

SALVATION IS VISIBLE AND TANGIBLE

For my eyes have seen Your salvation, (Luk 2:30)

Taking the eyewitnesses’ testimony as absolutely reliable the Word of life delivers food and warmth.  The company of the lady Mary is inevitable.  Through her son’s death Mary becomes the mother – grand and great – of every believer. Some Christians dare not call her mother of God because they have dug a ditch and can’t get out of it

Thunder whispering – LLC14

May 14 | Thu | VOX DEI |

Faith – VOX DEI – LIGHT; seeing divine word |

God’s voice can be soft or loud.  Its volume is not commensurate with his immensity.  He can shout and the ant hears, is not injured, and says “Amen”. God designed people with the capacity to see his word.

By faith we understand that the world has been created by the word of God so that what is seen has not been made out of things that are visible. (Heb 11:3)

Hope – VOX DEI – LIGHT; trusting utterance |

Having a strong attachment to imminent change does not necessarily yield the desired fruit. The wicked and the strong have hopes but their expectations fizzle

When a wicked person dies, his expectation will perish, And the hope of strong people perishes. (Pro 11:7)

The news cycle seems to point to worsening conditions and no relief on the horizon.  God predicted this very scenario, but the people who are suffering see light flooding into their tunnels.

For the needy will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever. (Psa 9:18)

Love – VOX DEI – LIGHT; embracing echo |

Once a person hears God’s word he is unlikely to unhear it.  God’s word carries life to the dead.  If we follow the oldest revelation of the  voice of God we see too that it brings light where there is darkness.  The dramatic nature of the encounter with God’s voice ensures that people keep hearing it and this repeat – the echoing of the voice in people’s minds – is one way the listener keeps his joy full.

Death – VOX DEI – LIGHT; becoming final word |

You must have been to a meeting where you could not wait for the end to come, so that when the vote for adjournment arises you finally breathe a sigh of relief. An adjournment vote cannot be discussed.  The last word has a unique profile. What Christ, on the cross, said had come to an end was final, and needed no spin. The cross is final and fully effective.  What he came to do was accomplished.

Sages of the ages- LLC13

Wednesday May 13 – WISDOM

Faith – WISDOM –  LIGHT; seeing reverence |

What could possibly bring a wise person to conclude that wisdom and light are  comparable to foolishness and darkness?  Was that sage seeing what Paul saw arising from his experience, namely, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the sight of God. (1 Corinthians 3:19a)?

Then I saw that wisdom surpasses foolishness as light surpasses darkness. (Ecclesiastes 2:13)

We know that the ancients acted like they saw something other than what God predicted. They rebelled against everything except their own pride of pedigree. Men, not just Moses’ contemporaries, do not like the light because it exposes their ungodly deeds.

Hope – WISDOM – LIGHT; trusting unfolding |

Few persons would argue that the helplessness and despair of human life are the bread and butter of advancement and progress. The quickest path to a conclusion about human expectations is for us to ask what was the experience of people to whom faith was the test of the relationship with God.

Love – WISDOM – LIGHT; embracing guidance |

Not even love, on full display, convinces the unteachable.  Look at how Israel turned against Moses, a man who loved the Hebrew people to the extent of offering himself so they can live, when Yahweh was considering destroying the rebellious and faithless people. Guidance is the chosen pathway of God, not compelled obedience.

A scoffer does not love one who rebukes him; He will not go to the wise. (Pro 15:12)

Death – WISDOM –  LIGHT; becoming teacher |

When the Lord Jesus Christ began to talk to people about being born again, and that there is a spiritual component to what he called the kingdom of god, they were shocked; some were completely scandalized.  They stumbled and fell.  The primary interests of God’s kingdom stand up when the spirit brings them to the individual’s attention.

Sin, righteousness, and judgment

“And He [the Holy Spirit], when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment: (Joh 16:8)

If  the sages of the ages could see us now, they would laugh and wonder how could the generation with so much history to help them avoid falling catastrophically into the ditch.

Warrior’s Weakness – LLC12

Tuesday May 12 War

Faith – war – LIGHT; seeing courage in conflict |

Not even the armies of the greatest power on earth could be allowed to keep people in bondage when Yahweh orders their release. Moses was in his best form when he said “Chill out and see Yahweh’s salvation”.  How many people do we know who would take no action against an attacking army?  There is Israel’s uncommon courage in the face of existential threat.

But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will perform for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again, ever. (Exo 14:13)

Shared using AndBible: Bible Study. (https://andbible.github.io)

Hope – war – LIGHT; trusting endurance |

The release of Abraham’s descendants, 400 years after the promise to Abraham, is graphic evidence of God’s providence. We do not know what the oral tradition of the promise looked like, but we know that, in the end, God I responded to the cry of his people on the Egyptian oppression.

Then God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years. (Gen 15:13)

Shared using AndBible: Bible Study. (https://andbible.github.io)

And the Lord said, “I have certainly seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their outcry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. (Exo 3:7)

Shared using AndBible: Bible Study. (https://andbible.github.io)

Love – war – LIGHT; embracing reconciliation |

Love appears in the ancient narrative without mushy love talk, but love’s dimensions are unmistakable.  Reconciliation is never one-sided but needs to end in a new status, not necessarily something one had before.

7. “The Lord did not make you His beloved nor choose you because you were greater in number than any of the peoples, since you were the fewest of all peoples, 8. but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (Deu 7:7-8)

The armies of the world fight to make new realities; they contend for territory, for control of people’s lives, and they seek to establish their reputation as supreme, but God swears to liberate people from Egyptian power.  He has shown that he is capable of reducing any superpower to rubble.  Who else can make wars end?

Death – war – LIGHT; becoming silence after struggle |

Which warrior does not go to war in order to win?  Prayer warrior, civil rights warrior, religious reformers,  activists for the rights of freed slaves, all struggle to change the world. The customary follow up to war is partying, parades, and a lot of primping and strutting.  Christ takes the unusual step of sitting down in silence and near perfect rest. If warfare sat at the top of Christ’s agenda then the cross marked the point where the soldier checked out.  Beautiful golden silence.

Lunar maximum – LLC11

Monday May 11 2026 – Evening

Faith – night – LIGHT; seeing lamp in darkness |

Do not be deceived: a full moon is no match for the sun either at dust or dawn. The featured full moon of eternal life establishes the maximum light. The light in our darkness does not come from the moon, even when the daylight fades.

Hope – night – LIGHT; trusting stars |🔭

We have become aware that the countless twinkling little lights of our night sky are siblings to our sun.  They are so far away we get no heat from them.  When night falls and the moon is new and  we are content to wait for the full and waning moon  to light our night.  At least, we tell ourselves, the seemingly innumerable little twinklers bring light to our eyes, though they provide nothing for our feet.

Love – night – LIGHT; embracing intimacy |

No one dares to talk of moonlight illuminating the day even on the day when timing is perfectly aligned with a full moon. What is Mount Sinai compared to Mount Zion Calvary?

Death – night – LIGHT; becoming veil of mortality |

With the moon under her feet, the mother is resplendent.  Lesser light is still not light for anyone’s feet, especially in the daytime.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; (Rev 12:1)