January 21 ~

... one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all ... the truth is in Jesus ... "I and the Father are one" ... He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible ... all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together ... for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him ...
Eph.4:6,21 (RSV); Jn.10:30 (NAS); Col.1:15,16,17 (RSV); 1 Cor.8:6 (NAS)

Fantastic! Marvelous astonishment! -
that ninety-nine percent of things that be
are hid by Thee to eye and instrument!
A flimsy nebulous reality
- a froth perceived as solid! - doth comprise
the basis of man's scientific schemes ...
Lo! Faith alone can open up his eyes
and rescue him from partial truths and dreams!
But blind he is unto Thy causal hand
nor grasps he that the little he can see
a shadow is! Nor can he understand
his sciences are rudimentary
at best - oblivious to the vaster realm
pervading all, ruled finite from Thy helm!

See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human traditions, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fulness of life in him, who is the head of all rule and authority ... Be careful that nobody spoils your faith through intellectualism or high-sounding nonsense. Such stuff is at best founded on men's ideas of the nature of the world, and disregards Christ! Yet it is in him that God gives a full and complete expression of himself ... Moreover, your own completeness is only realized in him, who is the authority over all authorities, and the supreme power over all powers ... For in him we live, and move, and have our being ...
Col.2:8-10 (RSV,JBP); Acts 17:28 (KJV).

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