Jul 10
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SECRET FIVE Begin NOW!
Part A
Is this the door to Heaven?
Begin what NOW? We’ll come back to what after we deal with NOW. To me, one of the most intriguing English terms in the Bible is “eternal life.” The reason that it is intriguing to me is that the words in the original language actually mean “no beginning” as well as “no ending.” Many of us have grown up with the understanding that “eternal life” means going to heaven after these physical bodies we occupy go through what we term “death,” when the words in the original (translated as “eternal life”) actually mean, THIS MOMENT. Some eastern religions and “new age” philosophies have captured the correct meaning and they emphasize it by referring to the “perfect moment of now.” Christianity, for the most part, has rejected this “perfect moment” as so much cultic mumbo-jumbo, when it is quite (and properly) Biblical!
When Jesus used this term, again, translated into English as “eternal life,” he was talking about life in the unseen realm of “spirit” and which can be accessed NOW – this moment – and never has to end from this minute forward; and has also always been.
By the way, in the original language, Jesus said to not look “here or there” for this eternal habitat …for it is within you and exists NOW.
In the reality of the spirit realm there is only NOW – in this moment. I am fully aware that I am being redundant, but how else do we get past our thinking ruts that keep us in bondage?
We who occupy these human body bags have a proclivity to put off anything until later except what feeds the physical senses pleasurably at the moment; those things we tend to rush toward. Anything that means change or growth to our spiritual side is something we want to do tomorrow, next week, next month or next year – and hopefully NEVER.
We are practiced procrastinators. We allow ourselves to be cheated – swindled out of the perfection and excitement of being in the NOW with our one and only perfect Dad.
Part of the swindle comes from our being hoodwinked into believing that seemingly good religious activity such as regular church attendance, Bible study and what the religious refer to as “prayer” coupled with “good” moral behavior and telling others about Jesus Christ (or at least inviting them to church) are the necessary ingredients to “eternal life” and such pie in the sky in the great by and by is given as a reward after we suffer and die; then we get to go “home” in “heaven” to be with God, “forever.” NO! Will we begin to see that it is NOW?
It's part of the plan, but maybe not your plan?
Jesus presented a much better plan. Avoid death altogether and come home to live in the “kingdom of God” NOW – this moment! Living in continual excitement and, yes, real peace and real joy – not as the world (including, if not especially, the “church”) gives, but as our perfect Spirit PARENT gives. Am I saying that church attendance, Bible study and “prayer” are without any spiritual value? Not at all, but I am saying if they are not contributing to continual excitement, peace and joy, right NOW, perhaps a change in focus is in order.
Here’s a bit of Bible study that will help us to, “begin now,” each and every day. Jesus said, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock, if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and we will have a time of intimate fellowship together.”
Now that I have just invited him in again – another passage comes to LIFE: “The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles: Which is CHRIST IN YOU!” [The what promised earlier is simply inviting our SPIRIT-PARENT to take over our lives at any time, 24/7, we sense the need].
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