God's Strategic Will

In the economy of God as manifest in His kingdom there is no leadership but that of the Holy Spirit. Those who seek after the Kingdom of G...

I express myself by the way I look. The way I look does not define me. Who I think I am, I will be. Will I be, all God created me to be? D...

How can I describe the current that sweeps us along? The key word is current. Is it a warm breeze that makes us sleepy? Do we see the storm ...

Dogma is a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. [1] It serves as part of the primary basis o...

I had a friend who testified of God working in his life. And I was encouraged to see that God could work in my life too, because I could rel...

Overcoming what? Adversity or my own shortcomings? ad·ver·si·ty (d-vûrs-t) n. pl. ad·ver·si·ties 1. A state of hardship or affliction;...

I find myself discussing with myself what I'm all about. I have read my blog in reverse order, there's an app for that, and I think ...

Rev. 19:10  ...For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. If Jesus can do what He did in my life, imagine what He can do in yo...

Our choices set things in motion, you know, cause and effect. Read my blog, then tell me I'm wrong,.

Our limited perspective inhibits our comprehension of reality as a whole. We don't ever see reality. What should we do? :)

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) 5  Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6  In all your ways acknowledge...

What is the number of thoughts I can comprehend in any given moment? The rate of change can vary in a given inertial frame. Does the rate ...

My son Harrison and I have a "tradition" when I tuck him in for the night.  It's a tradition of words spoken when I have tucke...

It's an inner battle, each of us wages, because our house is still being built. He who overcomes... It's the promise we can appreh...

noun \ ˈ käm- ˌ ra-d(ə-)rē, -rə-drē, - ˌ rā-d(ə-)rē Definition of COMRADERY from : camaraderie Examples of COMRADERY the s...

It is time to break one of them in my life. Lord remind me again... http://www.randolphbrown.com/2012/12/cycles-view-is-determined-by-yo...

A county police officer has jurisdiction, therefore authority, in his county where he is recognized. If he leaves his county, his jurisdicti...

Jurisdiction (from the Latin ius, iuris meaning "law" and dicere meaning "to speak") is the practical authority gra...

cog·ni·zance /ˈkägnəzəns/ Noun Knowledge, awareness, or notice. The action of taking jurisdiction. Synonyms knowled...

A Royal Priesthood? I will have to "google" that.

Understand now, because you remember the past, and see the potential investment now can reap if you plan ahead. Just remember to expect the ...

Rejoice in the the "tribulation" for it is the loving chastisement that the Lover of your soul inflicts in hope that you "see...

char·ac·ter   (k r k-t r) n. 1. The combination of qualities or features that distinguishes one person, group, or thing from another. S...

tem·per   (t m p r) v. tem·pered , tem·per·ing , tem·pers v. tr. 1. To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate: ...

John 3:8 ISV... The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. Th...

If we embrace (take responsibility for) our past we can learn in the "Now"(a teachable heart can be renewed). A change in heart r...

There was a time in the past when someone could be alone. In fact it was normal to be alone much of the time. Left alone with our thoughts. ...

Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom. His mission was wrapped up in the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God/Heaven/Light. He came to destroy the kingdom of ...

Why? Because he loves us. Why? Because He created us. Why? To glorify Himself. Why? Because He wanted to share Himself. Why? Because by His ...

We tend to interpret our perspective by comparing it to our observation of other's actions. We see someone do something and apply our ...

Reality is perception, perception is interpretation, interpretation is where we screw up. Don't trust in your interpretation! What then?

God seems to be paying attention, maybe I should too.

God has our back. Though we "see through a glass darkly" He is the One who opens and closes doors.

A while back I was sitting in our living room and noticed, through the patio doors, a red light flashing. It was between the vertical blinds...

su·per·fi·cial (s p r-f sh l) adj. 1. Of, affecting, or being on or near the surface: a superficial wound. 2. Concerned with or ...

football  legal blocking:  in football, the legal blocking of opposing players to protect and make way for the player carrying the ball.  ...

We all exist in a unique inertial frame that is limited by a narrow degree of input of information. The information I am experiencing and re...

I'm not talking about the Roman Catholic Liturgies. More like the traditions we create with those we care most about. Here is an examp...

Tradition has a certain re-assurance. It provides a continuity with the past where God had guided and blessed with steps to take to maintain...

As you go around again, do you see the good things God is holding up in His Grace? The provision? The opportunity? The way forward. All He...

A unique date. We'll never be here again. Do you get it? Cycles don't exist. Today may look like yesterday but it's not. Cycles ...

The cool thing about "cycles" is that they bring you around again. They are closely related to "ruts". It is God's...

The interaction of mass and energy has an "inertia". Events beyond your control that sweep you along. Even when in the moment you ...

Time: A succession of moments demarcating change in the physical realm of our existence* (*1. The fact or state of existing; being. 2. T...

God's desire for us is that we would be blameless. It was not long after Christ became Lord and Savior in my life that I started coming ...

So what should we deduce from this truth? I'm not like you. Then why do I compare myself to you? It's because I want what you have...

You are unique, just like everybody else. Hmmmmmn?

"Snow flakes are unique. But they are all snow flakes."   Hudson Brown That's Hudson's interpretation of the statement h...

Swept along? Sure I am swept along by circumstance, events beyond my control. Everyone is. The issue is our position in the flow. The flow s...

Swept along? By the flow? I have to remind myself...? Hmmm, thank you Lord. http://www.randolphbrown.com/2011/04/cause-and-effect-is-in-sw...

Over the last few months I have been languishing in doubt and fear.  As I appraise my situation I find the most popular statement between Tr...

Yet, here I am. I thought the choices I made would direct the consequences that my future would reveal. Make good choices and good results w...

The well equipped, tend to trust in their equipment. Those with no sharp axe are much less likely to believe they can chop down the fore...

Our perspective informs all our opinions. Our opinions are an amalgamate (t o combine into a unified or integrated whole)  of our experience...

su·per·fi·cial  1. being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound. 2. of or pertaining to the surface: superficial me...

John 3:1-12 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and sai...

I have many times re-lit the fire on my backyard deck. I pride myself in using just one match. I look to arrange the coals from my previous ...

We all try to figure things out. We look around and our experience gives us a clue. Yet there is so much more. In our pride we take our pers...

1. The inherent ability or capacity for growth, development, or coming into being. 2. Something possessing the capacity for growth or dev...

Have you ever been distracted? Has your attention ever been occupied? Have you ever lost track of what you were paying attention too? Bein...

Look around yourself. Okay, look around your "home". Look at the stuff. It's all familiar. It all has a history. Are you surpr...

Don't be.

Psalm 37:23-25 (NKJV) 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord , And He delights in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall no...

The interaction of mass and energy have their frames of inertia. Planets cycling around suns. Stars revolving within a galaxy, Galaxies movi...

Frame within a frame, within a frame and so it goes. My inertial frame, how do I define it? Tonight I realized the house that my family live...

Who I think I am is brought into focus by the interpretation of my perception (5 Senses) which results from my perspective of what exists. T...

A southeast billow, the name of the wind which blew in the Adriatic Gulf, and which struck the ship in which Paul was wrecked on the coast o...

A natural man, yes I am, that broke free from the cycle of deception. Ill equipped to face the challenge of condemnation or exaltation, how ...

Who are you? Your past defines you if Facebook has its way. Be wary. The past provides clues to discover the real you. Mistakes, even if t...

How do we navigate through the flood of distraction and find our way to the reality of our existence? The Excellent Way has two witnesses....

I look for distraction to occupy my time. Time I have, to afford thoughts of my situation in reality. When distraction seems preferable to f...

Connecting to reality, how is my pursuit of excellence confused by distraction that warps my sense of reality? There is any number of mean...

How do we define Excellence? Is it being the best at what ever we choose to commit our time and attention to? An unlimited definition of exc...

Distract and occupy. Decieve and destroy.

Tumultuous in its energy, the current of deception is given veracity as it it mixed up with truth. The discerner of spirits will fall back t...

Continuity - Noun: 1. The unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over a period of time.  2. A state of stability and th...

It comes at you from every direction. Information.  It has many forms, emails, tweets, advertisements online and broadcast... Okay, it's...

from Old.French. sourse "a rising, beginning, fountainhead of a river or stream," fem. noun taken from pp. of sourdre "to ris...

Circumstance, it is a sea of turmoil. We all swim in it. We are swept along and most perceive not the flow. Flow? It is the current that inh...

We absorb truth from our surroundings if we understand that Wisdom, insight, understanding and knowledge... Are defined by a humble realiz...

Rejoice in the dynamic circumstance of your reality. For so intertwined is my reality with yours we cannot define reality but as "ours&...

Definition of REJOICE transitive verb : to give joy to : gladden intransitive verb : to feel joy or great delight. Joy comes in the m...

Return on investment. Multiplication is the expectation. Matthew 25:14-30 14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who cal...

In seamen's speech the zone is referred as the "doldrums" because of it's erratic weather patterns with stagnant calms and...

tur·moil –noun 1.a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; tumult; agitation; disquiet: mental turmoil caused by difficult dec...

Curious words, the depth of meaning should be plumbed.

We reproduce what we are. That's fecundity. Foibles? They are the reason for what we reproduce. An acknowledgement of our foibles is t...

Identity, Self-conception, interpretation, unique perspective. Patterns of behavior are a result of who we perceive ourselves to be, our i...

Fecundity? Let me explain what I mean. Each of us is not able to escape our Fecundity. We propagate what we are, and it is the evidence that...

Cycles are all around us. Clock time, the spin of the earth, the revolution around the sun, it all makes us think we've done this before...

Each of us live in the now. The Now is where we make our choices. Choices have ramifications. Choices. The distraction is pride. Memory ...

Cause and effect creates a flow within an inertial frame. Have you ever felt like you were in a rut? This flow tends to take the same path i...

Identity, Self conception, interpretation, unique perspective. Patterns of behavior are a result of who we perceive ourselves to be, our i...

Is our interpretation of our unique perspective a reliable foundation to base all our choices and decisions? Do we have a clear understand...

The state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., having a meaningful interrelationship: a. The relationship of aspects of a subj...

Not discovered in the solitude of study, but in the day to day trials of the familiar. Not in situations of strength but in vulnerability an...

My "present" location is in the "Now". Here I am. This "here" is in a constant state of change as the interact...

Continuity is an attribute of God. If He holds all things together by the power of His word. Hebrews 1:3 KJV, then He choreographs all th...

We can't stop making choices. Most of our choices we are oblivious to. We make them with little thought and they sweep us along a famili...

Life is pointless without God. I don't have a problem with that. Just read Ecclesiastes, but it falls short in telling me... With God, ...

Check out time 1:38... Rodney you are the man.

I exist in the "Here and Now". If I trust in what my 5 senses tell me I am trusting in the limited perspective my 5 senses provide...

Do you trust In the perspective of your five senses or trust in God's present guidance in the "Now"? Proverbs 3:5-6  KJV...

You have no choice, you cannot be anywhere other then the "Here and Now." "Now" is the same for everybody except God. &q...

My inertial frame is always present in my now. My now is limited to a horizon of relationship that is restricted to what or who is present i...

Others have tried to explain "Now" in terms defined by clock time. Google "Specious Present" and see what I mean. They t...

When we believe time exists we think that the future is something that gives us the opportunity to put off the need to change. The need to c...

Presence –noun  1. the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place. Jehovah Shammah: God is "Present" The &qu...

I had a moment tonight to talk with Hudson (he's 14). He wanted to tell me about a word he had come across that started with "N&qu...

Each of us perceive reality from our own perspective. We judge what we perceive with the limited insight that is inherent in our inertial fr...

The alone time, you know when you are by yourself. It doesn't matter your situation. Rich man or poor man, there are clues everywhere. T...

A symphony! All of it is connected. Synchronization? Not of exact copies walking in "lockstep", very impressive, but synchronizati...

Current events in North Africa and the Middle East have caused me some concern. What to do when the economic upheaval arrives here. 10:45 P...

Is there anything more important then the moment? It is where we exist. It is where we experience the momentum. It is where we remember the ...

Impetus of a nonphysical process, such as an idea or a course of event. An idea effecting a course of events. Unity, principle, common goal...

"A theory of everything (TOE) is a "putative" theory of theoretical physics that fully explains and links together all known ...

What??? How does the Tower of Babel relate to lockstep marching. Man's potential is illustrated in the Tower of Babel. When we work to...

"Lockstep marching or simply lockstep refers to marching, in the USA, in a very close single file in such a way that the leg of each pe...

The now synchronized, is a symphony created on the fly, by what He is provided with.  Our choices give Him the basis of His arrangement whic...

As I strap on the ApneaLink monitor and get ready for bed, I am presented with some evidence. What comes to mind is the word "corruptio...

Now is eternal. Now contains everything that exists. Now is constantly changing. The "moment" is recognized by the observer. It is...

Now is where we exist and have our being. Now is Synchronized with purpose, everything!  Doesn't seem like you have a purpose? Seem like...

RICHARD FOREMAN Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater Mistakes, errors, false starts ― accept them all. The ...

There is no stopping it. The cause and effect interaction of mass and energy, that changes and transforms our now, against our will. It seem...

Determinism sweeps us along. This quality of existence that permeates reality and is only overcome by choice. Determinism is an overwhelming...

The "present" is the time that is associated with the events perceived directly, not as a recollection of the past (memory) or a s...

Free will has no meaning if we don't understand the consequence of our choices. Satan is a liar. That is the truth I knew as I began my...

You can't define fantasy correctly without using distraction. Fantasy is fundamental distraction that replaces the truth with a pseudo r...

So now is here, where you are. The sum of your past, call it Gist, is the place for your next choice. But memory equips you with perspective...

The "Gist" of our now is the sum of our past. Our past is a collection of tensed facts that are unalterable. Now presents us with ...

Choices. The distraction. Memory and reason are the foundation of an observer's ability to choose. It presupposses a comprehension of ...