Ascension
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| Ascension, Reichenauer |
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 9 and
12, 2013
John 16: 24
– 33
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| Codex Aurius |
In earlier
times one needed a letter of introduction in order to legitimately approach
someone whom one did not yet know. Through this letter a friend would recommend
you and vouch for you. The same thing happens today with letters of
recommendation for employment.
Christ Jesus
has a secret name. He is the Great I-AM of humanity. His name could more fully
be rendered: I am he who was, who is, and who is to come. Or even more
dynamically: I will be what I will be. [1]
For He is the reality that is ever evolving, ever making real what is
potential, ever creating anew.
When He says
we are to ask the Father in His name, he
means that we are to ask, not for the preservation of the old, but for the
strength and courage to develop what is not yet. We are to orient ourselves
toward the future, toward making real what is yet only potential, toward
creating the new. This is His power in our hearts. This is the power of love that
overcomes fear and loneliness. This is the power of courage that overcomes the
hindrances of the world.
This
creative power of His in our hearts is our ‘letter of introduction’ to the
Father; for the Father is the Greater Reality that embraces not only what is,
but what will be. Christ’s power in our hearts is His letter of recommendation
on our behalf for the tasks of transformation that the Father would give us.
