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John 16: 24-33
Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name. Pray
from the heart, and it will be given to your heart, that your joy may be
fulfilled.
All this I have given to your souls in imagery. But
the hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in pictures, but will
tell you openly and unveiled about my Father, so that you can grasp it in full,
knowing consciousness. Thus will I proclaim to you the being of the Father. On
that day you will ask out of my power and in my name. And no longer will I ask
the Father on your behalf. For the Father himself will love you because you
have loved me, and have known in your hearts that I have come forth from the
Father. I have come forth from the Father and I have come into this world.
I leave the sense world again and return to the
world of the Father, of which you say that it is the world of death.”
Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking
in clear thought and without imagery. Now we know that all things are revealed
to you and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This
makes us believe that you came from God.”
Jesus answered, “Do you now feel my power in your
heart? Behold, the time is coming, and has already come, when you will be
scattered, each to his own loneliness. You will then also leave me alone. But I
am not alone, for the Father is eternally united with me.
All this I have spoken to you so that in me you may
find peace. In this world you will have great fear and hardship. But take
courage. I have overcome the world.”
Ascension May 17,
2007
Ascension
John 16:24-33
At the center of each flower, in
the depths of its chalice, are the seeds. In the flower’s heart, its future
life is embedded. In the course of its blossoming and fading, its future is
ripening. In a simple dandelion, the seeds form a globe of what looks like tiny
white stars, a potential new world, which will lift off and fly in all
directions to new destinations.
At the
bottom of our heart, in our innermost core, is a place so secret that we
ourselves often cannot find it. But there the thought seeds, the feeling seeds,
the seed of the deeds of our future life are gradually ripening. Some have
already matured into the lives we are now living. Others are just on the verge,
about to rise and enter our awareness. Others we carry in secret for a long
time, perhaps lifetimes, until they find fertile ground. Some may fly out,
carried by the wind of the times, to grow in others.
At the time
of His Ascension, Christ had reached a stage of full ripening. All His
thoughts, all His hopes for mankind, all He had done for us, had emerged. Like
a new world, a globe of stars, He was about to rise and expand, to fly in all
directions. Carried on the Spirit-Wind, he courageously encircled the earth, as
seeds to grow in others’ hearts.
Even now He
speaks: “Do you now feel my power in your heart? The time will come when you
will be scattered….In this world you will have great fear and hardship. But
take courage. I have overcome the world!” John
16:31-33
