THIS LATEST EPISODE is one of those content pillars that just needs to be in there. Part of the mix (like fiber). A pivot; a connector beam.
I admit, it's a bit of a ride through rolling hills, if you will, but a necessary one to see the broader landscape of the country we’re traveling through, spiritually speaking.
This particular ground covers aspects of God, faith, awareness, and discovery (hidden and revealed), which are building blocks used in the main approach of our coming to know God, and we will revisit them later.
Because I’ve never thought about any of this out loud before, it took a while to write my thoughts down in spoken narrative form. I’ve also been working toward a more productive, quality outflow. In the end, I figure like most human efforts, even things inspired by the Holy Spirit, sometimes you just have to put it out there. Like me, this is a work in progress.
It goes without saying how honored I am to have the opportunity to do what I can to help open hearts & minds to God’s saving love and share the joy that comes from living with and learning from Him, but I can’t do it alone. As most of you know, I’m completely shadow-banned on Twitter/X and have yet to set up SM profiles elsewhere. If you value the work, please spread the message.
Also, I’m going to start adding the original Audio Script for each epi to give you something to refer back to when you can’t properly make out what I’m saying.
Non silui amplius (silent no more).
With you in Him,
Mark
Audio Script:
THE ARK | 3 | The God Code
We OPEN ON STREET RIOTS, a state of unease, conflict as old as the world itself, and ROLL INTO THE ARK THEME …
NARRATOR: Adam and Eve got us into this mess … and only Jesus gets us out.
The Ark, Chapter 3. The God Code.
God has a plan, and does nothing without reason. There’s always more to the story and everything He does, He does in our best interest.
Such is life under our Heavenly Creator in Whom we live, move, and have our being. [Acts 17:28]
And yet, … surrounded by wonders, we remain predictably defensive, prone to doing that which serves our basic instincts and self-interest — thoughts and actions shaped by appetites that never miss a meal.
And given that the majority go along to get along, it’s easy to see how some lose sight of life’s more mystical leanings, … and why, for instance, we might view our need for a saving Ark strictly in material terms, shelter being a staple after all.
But if we define it only as a place to weather the storm and run out the clock in comfort, we risk losing the greater gift intrinsic to the meaning of shelter altogether.
‘There is a more excellent way’ [1 Cor 12:31].
Not only does nothing exist in isolation, again, but there are indelible threads joining all of it and all of us to something loftier than the ground we live on and fight over, and the box we call home,
… for which these invisible tendrils become readily visible for those with eyes to see.
The Flood reminds us spiritual things dominate Creation and that despite our best efforts to disappear in a haze of self-reward and numbing consolation, none of us are uncoupled from each other in the grand scheme of things, nor for that matter from the grand scheme of things …
… and if so, then how much more are we and do we remain connected to God at every moment of our lives?
Believe otherwise, if you want to, but the Divine plan leaves nothing to chance.
If it did, it wouldn’t be Divine.
(Pause)
And no, WE ARE NOT HERE by some microbial accident, in case you wonder.
We’re here for all the right reasons consistent with the terms of service subject to our origin story,
… which is to say, ONE REASON, and that is to make our way back to God from Whom and whence we came.
So different than what most of us think and the world would have us believe.
Grasping the Bigger Picture begins with the realization that finding THE ARK, possessing the Ark, getting on and staying on the Ark is every bit as essential as our need for a roof over our head …
(even more so) …
… an elemental truth borne of the seeds of grace first by way of Creation, and then by faith subject to our own free will.
Our universal desire for the true Ark, then — not just safety from the elements, but Salvation from condemnation thanks to the legacy of our first parents —
… reflects a pre-existing yearning — the ‘God code' — each soul’s default setting that in an ideal world would be the shortest distance between two points, given our supernatural inclination to answer the call.
But the world isn't perfect, far from it: obstacles prevail, enemies lurk, and dangers persist …
… unseen forces and their human agents who constantly interfere with our reception of this homing beacon to keep us from making sense of the first part of this grail quest …
in order to stop us from completing the circle and fulfilling our true purpose.
Diabolical.
And so this is the cosmic gist of it: the heart of the conflict at the center of every life that ultimately decides eternal outcomes …
… Yours and mine:
WILL WE continue to fall for the lies of a world that pulverize our ability to hear and respond to the God code, …
… or WILL WE wake up, rip the tubes out, and finally join the pieces connecting revelation with revelation …
… from our pain and confusion here in the wilderness of exile, to God’s outstretched hand, …
two ends of the same rope severed by Original Sin, …
… an impassable gap bridged only by our Crucified Savior Who ALONE restores our relationship with the Father shattered in 3 Genesis …
and cancels the curse hanging over every head, stretching all the way from Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden to belief in the One Sent [JN 6:29].
Will we or won’t we?
'Return to me and I will return to you' [Malachi 3:7], God says.
‘I am the way, the truth, and the life,’ Jesus says, and 'No one comes to the Father except thru me' [JN 14:6].
And there it is, beloved. Everything. All of it.
Mystery solved.
Now, go and tell someone.
(Pause)
Mark for Redpin, next time.
END
/Attribution/
STREET RIOTING | Public sources varied
ARK THEME MUSIC | Olsted Harten ‘The Fence’, Blue Dot sessions
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