Secrete Place

Psalms 31: 20 The songster David describes his God.

You (God) hide them in the secret place of your presence from the conspiracies of man; You (God) keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues. NASB

We humans are social animals. Does this offend you? It shouldn’t. The Rufus monkeys are social animals. Their language is not our language but among Rufus monkeys, they relate to one another as a group, socially. So it is with we humans, verbal language or body language, we are a specific group in the animal world who are necessarily socially related. I wonder if monkeys have secrets, maybe, maybe not?

We humans do have our secrets but more importantly we have a secret God place. This place will not show up on a map or an X ray, it can be denied, laughed at and ignored but this place always has the lights on. The secrete place is possibly the only place for us in this world with total privacy. Do you secretly desire such a place with total privacy, to be totally alone? Such a place is free from all the social gamesmanship of this world. That avoided desire for such freedom is a seeking after the unavoidable God secrete place we find in our aloneness. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.  

 

 

 

 

Fair Play

A message for the soon to be new Secret Service, detail all the recent Woke hires to protect Joe Biden and friends! 

Need we ask the opinion of those were burned alive and the thousands of recent homeless in the LA fires? Without competence in government, we all are doomed as a nation.  Where are the celebrities now?  

Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Many

The reality of God is not mental high jinks or accepted tradition. The reality of God is only experience, one person at a time being touched by the eternal.  If so, why so few? Are the many mere spoiled goods to be trashed or recycled? What our world has always and most needed is not a theology of the few but a God understanding of the many.  All of us, arrived with nothing and leave this world with everything.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Going Dark

Yup!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Betrayal

The nameless writer of the Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes was a thinker that today we would consider to be an existentialist. Such a thinker believes that the individual person is responsible for creating purpose and meaning in their own lives. Gods, governments, parents, teachers and all secondary authorities are only advisory. Like Friedrich Nietzsche, the God is dead philosopher, most of these thinkers do not believe in a God or Gods.

The writer of Ecclesiastes was an everyday existentialist but a God believer in the long-term. To him, in the short term, all of life is meaningless and beyond our understanding.  All of life is “a chasing after the wind". (1:14; 1:17; 2:11; 2:17, 2:26; 4:4; 4:6;4:16, 6:9 TNIV) This was the short-term conclusion he arrived at after observing and experiencing all the goings on here on earth. 

“All this I tested by wisdom and I said, I am determined to be wise but this is beyond me. Whatever exists is far off and most profound-who can discover it? " (7:23,24 TNIV)

The writer tested with wisdom, today we would say we are testing the evidence. No evidence was readily available to prove the existence of God, then or now.  He looked around, concluding: 

" The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; BUT TIME AND CHANCE HAPPEN TO THEM ALL." (My Capitals: 9: 11, TNIV)

Where did the cosmic disciplinarian God go?  Surly God would be handing out benefits and bonuses to the good guys.   

"There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked how get what the righteous deserve." (8:14, TNIV) 

God did not and does not make sense in the short term. Our Gods can betray us, religion can betray us, governments can betray us, family can betray us, teachers can betray us, in whom can we trust? The only possible answer is the long-term God hiding in our midst. 

That God, the God that snuggled up to the nobody Jesus, snuggling up so close that Jesus called this God Father. That God who promised us in the words of Jesus another reality in our world and beyond death. Jesus named that reality the Kingdom of God. We arrived with nothing and leave with everything (gg). 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.  

 

 

 

Fire!

The front porch is habitable again. My porch faces east and the house is a natural shelter from the breezes that come off the ocean.  The Santa Anna winds, however, are another story. Without the sun and the winds blowing fiercely, the only shelter is indoors. My morning smoke on the porch stops when these miserable winds blow as they have the last few days.

How miserable can they get?  Just ask the folk in the Los Angeles inferno who lost their homes the last few days. I hesitate to make the winds political but there it is, Los Angeles has reaped the reward of voting for the liberal environmentalists who would rather budget social wokism than available water and fire safety. Elections do have consequences, sometimes firry consequences.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.    

 

Unity

The One hidden God living among us is the God we humans have consistently turned into a variety of religions, each of which serves only to separate we humans. No religion works to our good and they are all dead ends. Thank God, the One hidden God living among us is bigger than our petty pipe dreams. Just wait, unity will be had by all, someday soon.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.