“He said: ‘“In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and you listened to my cry.”
– Jonah 2:2
Hi James and Ellen,
Have you had God unfold for you one of those life altering experiences that – before He created planet Earth, He encoded in your ‘soul’ to cause your ‘spirit’ to spontaneously praise Him for His saving grace and to cause your ‘strength’ to instinctively serve Him because of what Jesus did for you? What your grandpaa just wrote will sound like a lot of hocus-pocus to a guy, gal or kid who God – as God the Spirit, has yet to lead or who He will never lead to and through the faith/grace door into a family of adopted kids who God – as God the Father, chose for Himself before God – as the Triune God, formed planet Earth and whose ‘souls’ who God – as God the Father, exclusively designed for Himself. A guy, gal or kid – who God – as God the Father, still has not had God – as God the Spirit, lead him or her to and through His faith/grace door into His family of adopted kids or a guy, gal or kid who will never have God – as God the Father, have God – as God the Spirit, lead him or her to and through the faith/grace door into His family of adopted kid, has not had or will never have God – as God Spirit, awaken his or her ‘spirit’ to the sovereign predisposition of God. God – as God the Father, will only have God – as God the Spirit, lead a guy, gal and kid to and through the faith/grace door who He chose and elected before He created planet Earth in the tailored timeframe that He had or has predestined or foreordained for him or her. A guy, gal or kid who has yet to have had or will never have God – as God the Spirit, activate in his or her ‘spirit’ a personalized faith spirit that is driven by God – as God the Spirit, the prompting to accept and then to bury God – as God the Son, in his or her heart – which takes place at the moment when God – as God the Spirit, unworthily and unconditionally directs a guy, gal or kid to involuntarily see the crude, blood stained cross on which God – as God the Son, died as a ransom payment for all the guys, gals and kids who God – as God the Father, chose and elected to adopt to be His kids, cannot begin to comprehend what it means to have God – as God the Father, permanently seal him or her in His family to one day eternally reside in heaven in His holy presence. What your grandpaa has written may sound like a lot of gobbledygook even to a guy, gal or kid who God – as God the Father, has had God – as God the Spirit, lead already through His faith/grace door into His growing family of adopted kids because God – as God the Father, as the Father to His family of adopted kids, is maturing the faith spirit that He has had God – as God the Spirit, implant in each one of His adopted kids – using preplanned, individualized life altering experiences as one of His maturation tools to have the ‘spirit’ of a guy, gal or kid to continually internalize bit by bit an heartfelt understanding of the sanctifying working/cleansing/leading/teaching/counseling of God – as God the Spirit.
Your grandpaa would not be surprised if you told him that you have been wrestling with trying to understand the roles of God – as God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit, with trying to comprehend what God has to do with the bad things that happen to good people and with trying to get a handle on why God would incorporate the evil tactics of a fallen angel who God – for a reason that He only knows, ‘allowed’ a marred pride spirit to trap. Do you have a city of Nineveh in your lives? A city of Nineveh may be a place where you know that God wants you to go to but because you do not want to go there, you choose not to go there. A city of Nineveh may be a thing that you know that God wants you to do but because you do not want to do it, you choose not to do it. Nineveh cities are life altering catalysts that God uses to align Himself – as God the Spirit, bit by bit with your ‘spirit’. Your grandpaa would be surprised if God – as God the Spirit, is not having you look right now at life through the grid of what you can do through academics, prestige and money – which you are being conditioned to do so by your societal culture to have life security with an attached fun component. A real life example of a guy who knew that God – through God – as God the Spirit, was telling him to do something that he did not want to do – so he chose not to do it, was Jonah. Jonah’s city of Ninevah – a real city, was filled with guys and gals whose lives were being manipulated by evil minion spirits who were being sent by Lucifer – the fallen angel, within God’s preordered plan. Your grandpaa thinks that the lifestyle of the guys and gals who were living in the city of Nineveh – which became when Jonah was alive – which was over 2750 years ago, a key burgeoning, crossroads center for travelers, had become a lifestyle norm that traveling visitors were taking back to their hometowns, God – as God the Father, had Jonah in place to be His designated Good News messenger – which was to tell the guys and gals in the city of Nineveh that if they would stop their evil ways, that He would not zap them but if . . . the choreographed plan that God had for Jonah’s reaction to what He asked him to do was to have Jonah try to run from Him which . . .
Jonah recounts in Jonah 2 what he told God after God had a whale swallow him. Verse 2 begins what Jonah remembers desperately telling God, “He said: ‘“In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and you listened to my cry.” As God unfolded His sovereign plan for Jonah to do life processing in a whale stomach, Jonah’s ‘spirit’ convinced him to go ahead and do what God told him to do.
Jonah 2 (1178)