INVO-DOMINICUS

I'm old enough now to see deaths' visitation increasingly invasive intrusion into my own little world.  For so long I had been isolated from this scourge of torment, of loss, of separation; no longer armed with the illusion of the invulnerable armor accompanied many times with youth. The veil-the illusion- has been stripped away, and death whispers the age old lie of victory, seizing the reins of life and hope, to drive one's own-self down the path of fear and regret. One spends more time looking back. Assessing things either not done or paths regretfully taken, hurtful wrongs that caused pain to others, or the painful assessment of just letting time slip away. Things not said,  things not done, purposeless existence now knocking incessantly at the door; and you cry what have I done? I'm here, I'm alive, but death haunts and I'm feeling more dead than alive. Death drains the life from the living, stealing from you God's most precious gift. 

It's not time [the gift] if that 's what you're thinking. Time has an ending also. Time is like a bank account and time spent decreases the accounts balance. I have come to acknowledge that. It is somewhat bothersome wondering how much time we have in that account and death would like that to be our overriding focus. Death loves to rob and steal and hastens the day of our demise. Death provides a culture of it's own. Death whispers a lie, a solution to life to some. Death whispers to some that life is bettered if life is forfeited for the good of others. Death reigns supreme on the altar of life for some. Death is demeaning and death claims time has no reason. 

Time has a reason; yes, and time has a season for each of us. I woke up with a word again; Dominicus.  I'm thinking that sounds cool. I had to remember that word before I woke up. As a musician, I'm thinking what a cool name for a song or project. Still' I'm thinking, while I'm sleeping, it needs something else. So I attach 'In' to it; Indominicus, and later Invo-Dominicus. I get up and grab my 1828 Webster's dictionary and find that dominicus means lord, and that "in" means in; giving Indominicus to mean being in the Lord. Adding Invo means to call or invoke. Invo-dominicus becomes to call and or to invoke the Lord. I love it when this happens. The Lord has an answer to death. 

Time flies, and time someday has an end. Death comes and someday death has an end; but God does not live in time and God is everlasting. God is the great I Am that I Am. God is man's greatest gift; not anything he does or can give you, but God Himself. That being said; Invo-Dominicus is to be in or invoke the God of the universe and let Him have His way and to hell with death. Death for me will still bring with it sorrow as it did for Jesus, but it doesn't rule the day. Don't side step or waste your time. Accept the Lord now and start living today!

  5.And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6. and sware by Him that liveth forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things that therein are, that there should be time no longer.                                                                    Revelation 10:5-6

Profundity of Thought

Where in the world did this topic come from? This feels a lot like a homework assignment. God must surely have a sense of humor. I'll leave the profundity portion of this topic alone for now as it will become evident despite any avenue a person may pursue to broach the subject. "I think therefore I am," Rene Descartes 1637, a statement that just about everyone will recognize, is simple, undeniable, and irrefutable. This declaration on thought flings devastating blows to many a philosophical assessment. 

 The first thing to be done is to differentiate between thought and thoughts. It's as essential as differentiating between sin and sins. For example, sin or the sin nature, as Oswald Chambers observes, is something that God takes the responsibility for as seen by the sacrificial atonement; whereas sins are on our plate, through choice, which in turn are remedied through repentance. Thought can be seen in much the same way, which may be seen as God's stamp of His image on our being. God created the playground of thought on which we play, but the responsibility of our thoughts or thinking process also remains with us through choice. "I think therefore I am." Well, what exactly am I? God has already taken the I Am that I Am. "Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yawheh is one [Echad]. Echad is the word the Holy Spirit chose instead of yachid, which is the numeric one; whereas echad is most used as a unified one [the two shall become one]. I brought this up because of the Bible's teaching that man is body, soul, and spirit; a union of its own. Thought resides somewhere here. Spirit has been taught as being eternal, given directly from God. Soul is more the personality makeup of each person and body as the husk in which spirit and soul reside. This also is a union and the home of individual thought. In 1st Corinthians 2:16 Paul says "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." This is the point where we start wading into deeper waters. The mind of Christ? Purposeful, sacrificial, loving, and yet the obverse when considering the wrath of God. Justice embodied, wisdom personified, the author of everything created, including our ability to know Him. That would include the thought you're now thinking. 

 To have the mind of Christ kicks the stool out from beneath our feet with our obsession with self-realization. It's not about me. The answers we seek are not found in self absorption. When we start "thinking" about the chaos surrounding us, it is imperative to understand where the the battlefield really lies. Objective thought obviously has an objective. Consider that for a moment. Your line of thinking may be the objective of the objective. It usually is! Anti-christ thinking rarely leaves the realm of self. It always keeps the battleground where the defenses are weakest. To remove yourself out of the sights of manipulation is not to have a mind of your own, but to have the mind of Him who created and defines us. This will make absolutely no sense to the majority of mankind. "A seed must die to live", "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain", If any man desires to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all"; are scriptures exhorted to be avenues for success and or fulfillment in this journey through life. Still, we are resolved or tend to lean towards a more reasonable reason, a more rational self ingratiating mode of enlightenment. Servitude as a substitution for tangible life changing gain? We're all about the chasing of the carrot, but to what end. We may think thoughts til the cows come home, but little is resolved unless obedience and or the application thereof is pursued. There is a tendency to chase ones tail here, but this discourse is aimed toward an objective, leading to an eternal destination. 

My summary: I have some thoughts on this. I think, therefore I am. I am, therefore I think. But to what end? Is there ever an end to thought? It is more than reasonable to me that thought had to exist before I could exist to think. That for me is the one stone no man can lift. God is self-evident. Therefore I think because God is. Once again, God is actuality, which from all that is potentiality, springs forth. To me that is the profundity of thought.

Frontline - Gordon Bieber