We cannot separate ourselves from the divine garment or tapestry of life. We didn’t make the world, let alone even our own soul, or being. The highly complex and detailed aspects of our lives are being over-stimulated and we’re about to discover that we are not only not alone, we’re not separate! As Christopher Bache said, “The beginning and end of one’s individual life become extremely completely unretrievable, and one realizes that one’s life never existed as a separate ‘thing‘ even for a moment.”
We are all ONE!
We are a “part” of the whole, the wave of the ocean that cannot exist outside of the ocean. We’re following one wave, ahead of another wave, and locked into union with waves on either side. An individual ego death has always been the goal of mankind regardless of religious label. From Buddha to Jesus and across the spectrum of religions and their leaders, the message has always been death of the ego.
And the ego wants nothing of such a thought!
There is but ONE God regardless of the name or nature we give to this Being. We can even deny that such a concept or Being even exists but that doesn’t change the truth. It’s time for the church, particularly in America, to wake up to it’s purpose and calling, which among other things is UNITY and INCLUSIVENESS. Is it not obvious that when there are tens of thousands of denominations that we’re missing something?
Differences there are but why the need to condemn and kill those who think differently?
A common definition of matrix is, “something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form.” That something is God, the Divine, of which we are ALL a part. May we begin to treat one another as such.
So what happens when you have a surge of emotions such as this fast paced culture we call here in America the fast paced lifestyle?
Just a reminder of our humanhood and our need for that which is greater than we. And then we can rest in knowing that what we can’t control, what we can’t fix is already being handled- so REST in the One who knows.
I agree that God loves everyone (John 3:16) and we should do likewise. I Corinthians 13 states that love does not demand its own way, overlooks faults, etc. and that enables us to choose to love others no matter who they are or how they believe. The Christian, however, does have an advantage in that we have the Holy Spirit that the world cannot receive (John 14:17). He guides us into the truth and helps us to discern the spirit of truth instead of the spirit of error (I John 3:6) Knowing the truth we should speak it in love, not blast others. Therefore, the difference between us and others is a God-given asset we should use to help others. Mark Hall, from Casting Crowns, states it like this, “What this world needs is for us to stop hiding behind our relevance, blending in so well that people can’t see the difference, and it’s the difference that sets the world free.”
Agree, as too often Christians have worn that “religious label” and see it as important as some in the word wear their Designer label“. Both are simply pride.
I Timothy 2:5 – For there is One God, and One mediator between God
My point is that our “labels” seek to exclude any of the three of
and Man, the MAN CHRIST JESUS. When one reads these words, there
is a sense of running over it. However, Reconciliation includes
God, Christ Consciouness and Principle and the Inner Sphere of Man.
What is Man, that thou art conjured up in His Thoughts?(Psalms
this Oneness, is the work of the Ego. The MAN CHRIST JESUS Is
a powerful term because is involves a concept that religious
terminology cannot handle. It wraps it all up in one. We are
told in Western Mind that All other Religions see “Spirit as Breath.”
We tell it is the Sanskrit word Prana. However, Experts in Sanskrit
say there is length writtings about the Spirit and the Soul. We
are told things due to “Labeling Religious Terminology.” The Truth
is that God is Beyond all this, His Peace is “Pass, Trascends the
comprehension of the Ego, or Perception.”(Phil 4:7 Eaton Paraphrase).
The Day I hear a definition of the Soul, one’s inner Experience of
God is whole and not fractured is the day I understand the Being of
God. What we have in most teachings is “Flawed conceptions of an
Offence” that didn’t orginate with God.
Ponderings
Mark
Great ponderings sometimes just need more of it and less attempts at answers- so I ponder,