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| El Greco |
John 14: 23-31
Jesus replied, “He who truly
loves me reveals my Spirit, and my Father will love him and we will come to him
and prepare with him a dwelling in the everlasting [an eternal dwelling]. He
who does not love me cannot reveal my Spirit. And the spirit power of the word
that you hear is not from me; it is the speaking of the Father who sent me.
I have said this to you while I am still with you.
But he who is called down, the health-bringing Spirit, whom the Father will
send in my name, he will teach you everything and will awaken within you all
that I have said to you.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do
not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do
not be afraid [have no fear].
You have heard how I said to you, ‘I am going away,
and yet I am coming to you’. If you loved me you would rejoice because I am
going to the Father[ly Ground of the World], for the Father is mightier than I
am.
I have told you now, before it happens, so that
when it happens you may find trust. I no longer have much to say to you, for
soon the prince of this world is coming. Yet over me he has no power.
But the world shall see in this how I love the
Father [Ground of the World] and how I act in accordance with the Father’s
purpose, as it was entrusted to me. Arise, let us go on from here. [let us be
on our way.]
Whitsun II
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| Botticelli |
June 9, 2014
John
14: 23 – 31
A son is engendered, brought forth, through his father. Before
anything yet was, God, the living Source, cradled all things in the universe in
his heart. When he wanted to give it all physical form, he spoke. And the first
thing to emerge from his speaking was the Word, the Logos. This was his son, Christ born
in eternity. Christ is the spirit power of the word, the speaking of the father
who brought everything to life. He spoke, “let there be…” and gradually the
world came into physical being.
Eventually Christ, too, lived on earth as a human being, in
Jesus. He came to create the kingdom of his Father here on earth, in human
hearts. He came to help ensure that we would not only have physical lives on
earth; he came so that we could so immerse ourselves in the Father’s love that
we would build a house of love to continue to live in after we die. This was
the Father’s purpose in sending him.
William Penn said:
They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can spirits ever be divided,
that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their
friendship.
This is the comfort of friends,
that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in
the best sense, ever present, because immortal.[1]
May God the Son create this love in us.
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