ZIONWORKS NEWS for OCTOBER 3rd, 2025
STARTING WITH A LIST OF CONCLUSIONS. BE ASSURED:
God never changes.
God sees, acts and exists in and through all earth-time and all eternity.
He is all-intelligent.
He is love and the origin and originator of all real love. All that He has created and that ever will be discovered reveal him and his majesty.
He loves you with the deepest personal love.
He created your mind with potentially infinite capacity for that which is physical and that which is spiritual. These capacities include love, thought, imagination, inquisitiveness, creativity, joy, sorrow, unlimited learning, perception, foresight, hindsight, the longing for fulfillment of life, the love of and longing for truth, justice and fair play among our friends, loved ones and all people: He created you with the capacity for the full range of human and spiritual experience, and even the capacity to, at times, experience what is beyond the veil.
He gives us the ability to communicate with each other, to develop in our communication skills, to tell great stories or trivial stories, the capacity for humor and the capacity for light-heartedness.
He gave us the ability to experience great injustices, personal agony and deliberate harm, even great physical pain and disabilities. He gives us affinity for other’s suffering and the desire and capacity to help them, soothe them and bear their burdens. We long for and work for fairness in this life, but it can’t always be so because people are free to choose harm and evil here, and because all of us can misunderstand our duties, roles and attitudes here.
He placed us on/in this probationary state to be tested and tried, to develop strength of character in dedication and action for that which is loving, just, fair, happy and eternally fulfilling for all.
He gave us the capacity (and responsibility) to discern evil from good.
He gave us the powerful ability to use all of our senses and faculties to seek out adventure, careers, fellowships, personal worship and group worship. He gave us the capacity to experience joy. He gave us the capacity for friendships, for great respect for others and the curiosity and capacity to try to understand why people act the way they do. He gave us the ability to try to understand unfamiliar cultures, to perceive the hearts of those that are unfamiliar to us and to love them. He gave us the remarkable privilege to pray for his kingdom on earth to become happy reality here as it is in Heaven and to give it our hopes and energies in all we do, for all to see and for all of his pure-in-heart to flee to.
He gives us languages, history (including that in the making and beyond), science and scriptures
He gave us, and still gives us, prophecy. We are assured that all prophecy is or will be fulfilled in its due time and in his way. Being human, we may miss it as it passes by or misinterpret or mistake it; so we pray for enlightened vision and awareness.
It is obvious that all we want to achieve, learn and experience just can’t happen in the short time we have here. With all of the spiritual and physical wonders of the universe gloriously begging to be discovered and experienced, our souls will never stop yearning for and taking wonder in God’s marvelous creation, even if it takes an eternity.
Here on earth, and assuredly beyond, God has given us serious responsibilities to recognize him, honor him and obey him. We are to embody his nature and employ his love in all of our responsibilities, duties and privileges. Having been placed here for this short time of testing and experiencing, there is great fulfillment potential, as mentioned earlier, in our friendships, relationships, observations, dedication, worship, careers, necessary tasks, fun activities, adventures, misadventures, short-comings and misunderstandings.
Glory to God. He gave us his son as an example and as a sacrifice to save us from our sins if we will accept his marvelous love. Of all that have ever lived, none have suffered more pain, grief, agony and tears than God and Jesus over the sin and injustice that “we” inflict on others and ourselves. And yet, we are bid to trade our grief and shame for pure and unjudged joy if we will accept the offer to give up our sins to Him who is pure and did no sin. This is so humbling…so humbling and true…God said that he is, that man[kind] may have joy. Still…so humbling.
Looking back on all of these things, their eternal nature and origin in God’s glory; the fact that we are created and entrusted to behold, experience and interact with them is almost too powerful to appreciate.
Dear Heavenly Father, knowing our guilt and faults, we recognize that the joy you offer can only be that true, authentic, eternal joy. Thank you, Heavenly Father.
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“…every man that will not take up his sword against his neighbor must needs flee unto Zion for safety. And there shall be gathered unto it out of every nation under Heaven; and it shall be the only people that shall not be at war with one another.”
Zionworks exists to facilitate this gathering of peace, unity and cooperative work for the establishment of Christ’s kingdom on this earthly realm to be lived and experienced as in his kingdom in Heaven.
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CALENDAR
Next Zionworks Meeting: This coming Sunday, October 5th, at Central Branch, 919 S. Delaware, Independence at 2:00 PM. On the agenda: Your dedication to Zion, your curiosities about Zion and the work, physical and spiritual contributions, dedication and planning to cooperatively make it reality under Christ’s direction. Please come with your ideas and desires for Christ-guided and Christ-blessed fellowship and coordinated effort. All are welcome, of course.
You are welcome to bring barterables in the way of handy, intriguing, nutritious or tasty items, and to bring items or stories to tell about.
With Jesus and his love as our bond,
Your friends at Zionworks
