Pentecost
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.]
Whitmonday
May 28,
2007
Whitmonday
John 14: 23-31
A plant whose roots are torn from the soil will wither and
die. One grown where there is no light will be pale and weak.
The service
speaks of sin as weakness and infirmity. Our common human sickness comes from
not being rooted in the Father Ground of the World. It comes from living in the
darkness, of not understanding our true task as human beings.
Our true task is to grow and become ever more truly
ourselves: to become strong souls, whose thinking is clear and objective toward
the spirit; whose feeling is freed of
subjectivity in order to be an organ of perception for others; whose will is
perceived as coming from others, affirmed as our own.
Our true
task is to become well and whole.
Christ
gathered around Him twelve such striving disciples to become members of a
community. This community was to become His body, the place where His spirit
would live and work on earth. We are gathered for this service in order to
consecrate ourselves, so that we become His community, His body on earth.
We are the vase of God, He fills us to the brim,
He is the ocean deep, contained are we in Him.[1]
www.thechristiancommunity.org
[1]
After “God Within and Around Me” by
Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer,
p. 96
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