Short journal entries #2 of 2

6/9/12
Every person is an eternal being. They will live forever. Think of that when you see people walking on the streets, in the groceries stores, and places where you think people are less than average. ALL people are valuable, having in them certain facets of their creator, even as unbelievers.

6/5/12
God exists in trinity. Members of the trinity love each other and support each other. Likewise we, made in Gods image, naturally outpour to something, and this is an/our idol.

6/4/12
See people as pyramids (that is, personal truth and top-down processing pyramids). Christians are people whose pyramids are right at the top (to an extent), but the stuff below is in-process, top down alignment processing. Let me try to explain that in more common language: Christians are people who know the most important things in life, and they have those down for the most part (though we have other things as idols above God nearly all the time). However, Christians haven't finished aligning the rest of their beliefs, or rather their heart, to what they know to be true.
For instance, you become a Christian and know that God loves you like crazy. However, you may not yet realize, or have it applied to your heart, that HE therefore, replaces your desperate need for relationships, for he is the greatest and only forever relationship. Sometime down the road, as a part of your sanctification, you realize this in your head, and work towards training your heart to follow so that you treat relationships, women, your wife, etc in a God-honoring way.

6/4/12
To add to sets of two:
There is a balance (or we might just say a duality) between work and rest in Christian life, and they are based on two truths coming from God. In terms of work, there is the glory and sonship that God has called us to, the Great Commission and life living like him. On the other hand, we are still fallen, still sinful, still weak. We need to remember that JC paid for it all on the cross, that 'my yoke is easy and my burden is light', that God will never tempt us beyond what we can bear, that he loves us as dear children.
So, I would add another line to the list of sets of two:

Past                 Future/ongoing               Category
Blood              Body                              Communion
Death              Baptism                          Life of JC
Communion    Baptism                         Sacraments
Blood              Water                             JC wound, 1 John 5:8
Human*          Divine                            JC duality
Rest                 Work                              Christian life

*JC is not done being human, so maybe this doesn't fit.