Delightful Light

When little children are mistreated, they have no understanding to help them process the sin perpetrated against them. The result is thinking like a child and growing up having to put away childish things. When I was about seven or eight years of age I still believed in Santa Clause. I was so adamant that the tubby red suited dude existed that I got into an argument with my older sister and younger brother about it. My sister dragged me by the arm to my parent's bedroom where she opened the closet door to reveal all the wrapped gifts that year. I stood there so stunned. Tears began to roll down my cheek. My parents had actually lied to me. The same Mom, who not three years earlier yelled and yelled at me for lying had herself been lying to me all these years. My world was literally shattered that day as I told myself, "I cannot trust my parents." The pain of it so deep I drowned the pain with repression. I spent the rest of their lives refusing to believe...

Recently I was asked, "So, what if a large group of Christian leaders told you, Diane, your beliefs were wrong. Would you submit and change what you believe?" My answer was, "It depends upon whether or not the large group of Christian leaders were in Christ." The God ordained position of "leader" as defined by American civil laws of corporations dictates the same authority described in this verse: Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples,  saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses;   therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. Matthew 23:1-3 (NASB) The problem this verse places on the shoulders of religious leaders is the loop hole Jesus gave us that reads "BUT DO NOT DO." When it comes to personal beliefs, religious leaders are not given any authority to dictate what to believe. In...

Before January 30, 2004: When I was in grade school, all my reading and writing skills were below par. The highest score I ever achieved was a B in English and only because I did a lot of extra credit work that used grammatical formulas. I never liked reading because I was made fun of by other students. Teachers, on occasion, publicly laughed at my reading failures. My reading was always slow and so was my comprehension.  My writing skills were no better. It was so bad that I had to take remedial writing classes before I was allowed to enter community college, but every class requiring writing produced the same struggle until I just simply gave up on college altogether. It was during my college struggles that I was diagnosed with a form of dyslexia that inserted incorrect words into my brain that caused the material to become confusing when I read or when I wrote. For example: I would read "hat" and the actual printed word was "cat" or I would w...

It was the first night of the camp. The teens and leaders had spent a good deal of time worshiping and the presence of God could actually be physically felt... at least by me. Nature was calling, so, I went outside where I saw a man look at me and fall down with convulsions flopping uncontrollably. My first thought was of the story in Matthew 17  of a lad having the same issue. So, I did what I had seen Jesus do for the lad in Matthew 17 . I commanded the demon to come out. Wow! Was that ever the wrong thing to do (large amount of sarcasm here). A friend of the man having convulsions immediately came up to me and began yelling in my face HOW DARE YOU ASSUME this man has a demon when all he has is epilepsy. The man's friend was so loud and angry I thought for sure he was about to cause that fist he waved behind his head to come pounding down on my head any moment. Needless to say, that night I got a good healthy dose of what was described in A...

Day One of Creation & Conclusion IT IS NOT written that God said 'let there be waters.' But, it is written that the waters burst forth out of the womb, Job 38:8 . It is also written by the apostle Peter that the earth was formed out of the waters, 2 Peter 3:5 . It's so cool that the waters also receded and produced the dry ground after the flood, Genesis 8:3-5 ? Moses was drawn out of the waters too, Exodus 2:10 . It is even cooler that the dew-waters evaporated and produced the dry flaky stuff called manna or bread from heaven, Exodus 16:14 . All these signs are related in that dry ground or dust comes out of the waters just like it did on Day 3 of creation. The significance in this relation is two-fold:   God swears by Himself by repeating Himself because there is nobody greater than God The son does what he sees the Father doing, John 5:19 .   Since God did not speak the waters into being, where did they come from? Answer: Genesis 1:1 and Job 26:10 . ...

Days Two & Three of Creation God is the source of all things, Hebrews 11:36 . He actually birthed the earth, Psalms 90:2 . That's two separate witness that testify that creation came out of God instead of "ex nihilo" or out of nothing. It also explains why both the apostle Paul and Jesus declared that God has a form, John 5:37 ;  Philippians 2:6 though that form may or may not reside in heaven. The dust of the earth that appeared on day three of creation was taken from or drawn out of the waters according to Peter in 2 Peter 3:5 . Peter wrote these words to draw our attention back to the fact that the earth or dry ground shows lineage to the waters from which it was drawn out of. But, dry ground first appeared on day three of creation. Here's how it reads: Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the w...

The Soil Shows Lineage Back to God   Now since mankind has a history of not being the most righteous of creatures, let's instead look at only the testimony of the earth since all flesh is taken from the dust of the earth and all flesh returns to the dust of the earth, Ecclesiastes 3:20. The soil or the dust of the earth really does show lineage back to God quite easily if the words in the Holy Bible are taken at their originally intended meanings chosen by the original authors.   Right about now is the time most Christians will start having a pretty big crisis of faith. Usually that offense goes something like, "if the soil's source of lineage is God then that means man has a preexistence which is not true." Therefore, these people refuse to believe that the soil could be birthed out of God.    Did you notice how the crisis of faith has nothing to do with what is written but has everything to do with the conclusion drawn by the person who has taken ...