“Doth a fountain send
forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren,
bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt
water and fresh.” (James
3:11 & 12; New King James Bible Version (NKJV). “Many are the
afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
(Psalm 34:19; (NKJV) Throughout our world’s ancient biblical
texts, stories abound in the attempt to convince earth’s inhabitants of God’s
good will toward humanity. Yet, from many
Old Testament writings, various descriptions of God’s will toward earthlings
doesn’t always sound very good. Sometimes
God is depicted as a loving God, while other times God is portrayed as an angry
deity who often punishes mankind. So, the
Old Testament writings often give the reader mixed-messages concerning God’s
nature. Over
time, ancient beliefs began to fade away in the world. Old superstitions fell away, bringing new
ideas to replace them. New thoughts of God’s nature and goodness
began to bring a broader sense of God’s nature and creation. As the primitive paths of humanity fell away, a
more reaIistic sense of God grew into a more spiritual sense of God as a
powerful, loving Parent, or Source of all good.
Thus, the New Testament Bible was born,
not to erase the old testament, but to simply add newer concepts to it. These concepts brought in more spiritual
understanding of who we are as God’s own spiritual, rather than material, children. Jesus was the messenger who brought the newer
spiritual insights to humanity. He
and his disciples spread the word of a more loving God, whose nature was one of
infinite Love for humanity. Thus, the teachings of ‘Jesus, the Christ’
became the focus of the new path, meaning that the teachings of Jesus taught
more metaphysical explanations of the universal Christ symbol
that belongs to everyone. The universal
Christ identity signifies our true, spiritual,
everlasting, identities. This
universal Christ-Self never dies. Our material
body forms pass away, but we don’t
go with them. Material body forms never were our
ever-lasting identities. Our
everlasting, spiritual identities leave this material realm, never to
return. Our earthly life experiences
were always temporary. The material body
forms leave us at the moment of death; but our true bodies, which are
spiritual, never leave us; nor do we ever really lose our ever-lasting
consciousness in material death. Our
spiritual Selves don’t ever lose each other, because we don’t die. We meet our loved ones on the other side,
when we can join them again.. During his short time in this material
experience, Christ Jesus and his disciples spoke to the crowds that followed
them, but the beliefs of the ancients were often misunderstood. Even so, the Master spoke on and even healed
from a spiritual, rather than material standpoint. Many of his spiritual healings seemed
miraculous to the crowds around him, but Jesus knew the spiritual laws that
brought wholeness and normalcy back to even those who didn’t understand how it
worked. The master knew that it took the mental
beliefs of a person to create the change of sickness back to their own health,
so he often asked someone who came to him for healing, if they believed he
could do it, or believed they could be healed. No
doubt, Jesus knew that, if they did trust in spiritual healing, their own
belief would heal them. But if they
didn’t believe in spiritual healing, no one can be healed against their will or
deep-seeded beliefs. For example: if someone said they
didn’t believe in spiritual healing, they were unlikely to be healed. That’s because we are masters of our own selves,
and each individual child of God is the ruler of its own body experience. But one can’t be double-minded. If an individual wants to be spiritually
healed, but doesn’t believe in his heart that spiritual healing can work, for
that one, it won’t work. Why? because we are the masters of our own fate, and
body; and no one can really take over anyone else’s body, unless that person
yields all control to someone else. So, Jesus spoke of spiritual ways and
tried to help people advance back to the kingdom of God by waking up to
spiritual truth. He told his followers: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John
14:6; KJV). Now, with these words, the Master is telling
humanity three, important things:
1. His spiritual way is
the only way we are all meant
to follow.
2. His spiritual truth is the only truth of every one of
us.
3. His spiritual life is the only real life we can ever
have. We are all made out of ‘spiritual
stuff’ rather than material stuff, and that’s a good thing; for material flesh
has a short life cycle. Yet, we mentally
cling to our material forms, instead of learning of our ever-lasting spiritual
bodies that never wear out. We
earthlings haven’t pursued all that exists in our spiritual realm of
thought. We don’t pursue spiritual
knowledge while the finite, physical forms of everything still call to us, even
as they decay around us. We are slow to learn our way Home,
although Home has never left us for a moment.
But we don’t See it with these eyes, nor Touch it with
material fingers, nor Smell it with our nose, nor Hear it with
ears, nor Taste it with our tongue.
Home is with us, wherever we go, and wherever we are. Home is within our memory banks that we have
pushed way back into a corner of our mind’s closet, until we’re ready to find
it again. |
