Nothing.

Out of nothing can come nothing. ~ Alan Watts

I’ve heard some say there is nothing beyond this world and beyond this life. You live. You die. There is nothing beyond this existence.

The apostle Paul said if I only have hope in the after life but there is nothing beyond this life then my unrealized hope will make me of all people, most miserable.

Hope and despair are inseperately linked. Two sides of the same coin.

I am persuaded to believe differently than the atheist. I respect the atheist but can’t go along with the atheist.

Paul also said if there is nothing beyond this life and this consciousness that we should eat, drink and be merry all of the time. Glutinous and self indulgent living are in order if there is nothing to live for after our short life here.

If nothingness is nothing then out of nothing can come nothing. ~ Alan Watts

But that’s not what we have is it?

This life is something and if it had come from nothing then there wouldn’t be something.

I may not understand life but it’s definitely something and I believe the something it came from is divine intelligence and divine love.

I believe in God. I can’t see God but in faith I feel God. Much like the wind that I cannot see, I don’t see the wind but I feel the wind. When the wind blows and I see the plants and trees react I know that there is something because I see the winds affects on the leaves, the branches and so forth.

I’ve seen a sick man who was terminally sick be healed. I’ve seen the homeless pick themselves up and become a success. I’ve seen the life long drunk become permanently sober. I’ve seen the abusive become kind. The Holy Spirit is the master alchemist and able to take what we call nothing and make something.

True submission in faith to the Christ has the potential to make what appears to be nothing into something.

My testimony today is that without Christ, I am nothing and only in Christ am I anything, which is something. To live is Christ and to die is gain.

So while I respect my atheist acquaintances, I cannot believe in nothing.

Do you fear anything? Then that is proof that there is something? If there was only nothing then there would be nothing to fear? Yet you inherently fear something.

By the way, once you fear God there is nothing remaining to fear. Fear God and keep His commandments and then whom or what shall I fear? Death where is thy sting and grave where is thy victory?

Existence is eternal and real. This body of mine will one day be sown corruptible and terrestrial but in Christ, will be raised incorruptible and as a celestial body.

The one true alchemist will take my body of dishonor, wood and stubble and transform it into a body of honor and one like pure gold tried in the fire.

Love lights the way and I love Jesus, precious Jesus. He isn’t just my something, He is my everything.

My ramblings and musings.

My testimony, Tuesday, August 2, 2022.