Do you at times feel you've mortgaged your life to the brutes of time and its debt has felled you to your face?

That is a mighty good place to renew one's mind, but prayer is not the answer there; trust is!

You own the deed - God's gift - your birthright - Your life! The power and authority of reclaim are yours free and clear.

Yes, YOU own the deed. Come on now!

It might seem a problem, but if a problem has a solution it is not a problem, it is a decision.

Act out your decision.

Anxiety and fear are rooted in uncertainty. Let whatever is in the way become the way. (You'll find this to be an able strategy.)

Shout Hallelujah, if you're so inclined! Or Amen! Or just nod. Or smile like me. The key is in your hand - the one God made.

Throughout our current exploration we discovered many things, uncovered many things, and recovered many things of great value. I suspect we will continue discovering, uncovering and recovering whatever is set to marvel, delight and mystify us.

Click your heels!

Ooops.

Did that hurt?

Here is a situation-set we dusted off then unpacked.

Broadly speaking . . . very broadly, that is. . . and reduced to its simplest and sincerest essence, there exists this reality: saved by grace!

Punto final!

For some, this salvation is a grateful escape from a frightening death-spiral compliments of the wages of sin. It is the ticket to heaven, hereafter, where there is neither pain nor sorrow. This salvation offers in this world a grand opportunity to earn jewels for incorruptible crowns worn up there where life is everlasting and joys are forever!

Are you with me? (Discuss)

Of this saved lot, for some, the ticket in hand is a booked seat (as solid as gold); no one else can claim that spot. For some others of this lot the ticket is just a place-holder, an offer contingent on working out one's salvation with fear and trembling. You have to work it.

There is a second group of understanding and engagement, and of acceptance and expectation - broadly speaking, very broadly, that is - amongst believers experiencing being saved by grace!

For these believers, this salvation - at the behest of the love of Jesus Christ operating in obedient sacrifice - is freedom from guilt and shame. It is a reconnection with God, The Divine, who is well-pleased with the sacrifice of Jesus, The Christ. This salvation is the re-empowerment to be the fullest complement of the embodied spirit of God.

QUESTION: where (even if approximately) do you find yourself best fitted? How so? (Discuss)

The reality in which one finds one's self hotly impacts and influences one's perception (or understanding) of how best to comport oneself in this life and every expectation of the next.

To put this in earthy terms: two people operating side by side, if one truly believes earth is flat and the other truly believes earth is round, every perception of their actual experience will be different. Without this understanding, it is pretty hard for either to trust the other in that space, for most everything each of these two does or sees or feels pretty much confirms what each believes. I have a name for it, but we'll keep that in my pocket for a while.

Here is the deal! (Drum roll.) Ooops! (Not so loud, drummer-boy. You gave that fellow a fright!)

Onward - pass our eye-popping exploration of Love - I'll 'beam' you up to the lean side of the mountain, where Our Lord Jesus Christ is still speaking. Yes, the famous Sermon on The Mount!

Excited? Have you heard it?