6th Easter
John 14: 1-31
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in the power that
leads you to the Fatherly Ground of the World and to me. In my Father’s house
there are many rooms. If it were not so, how could I have said to you, ‘I go
there to prepare a place for you’? And
when I have gone and prepared a place for you, I will come again and take you
up into the realm of my being and working, so that where I work, you also may
work. And you know the way where I am going.”
Then Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are
going. How can we know the way?”
Jesus answered, “I myself am the Way—the Truth— and the
Life. No one finds his way to the Father but through me. If you had really
known my Being, you would have recognized my Father as well. From now on you do
know him and have seen Him.”
Then Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father; that
would satisfy our deepest yearning.”
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long and yet you
do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say,
‘Show us the Father’? Does your heart’s voice not tell you that I am in the
Father and the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. But
the Father, who lives eternally in me, continues to do his works in them. Build
your faith on the power of my Being that lets you know: I in the Father, the
Father in me. Or at least learn to trust through looking at the works
themselves that have arisen.
Truly, truly I say to you, whoever trusts in my Being will
also do the works that I do --and greater deeds will he do, because I go to
the Father. Whatever you ask for in
unity with me, I will do it, so that the deeds of the Father may be revealed in
the working of the Son. When you turn to me in prayer in the power of my name,
I will be the Creating One in all your works. If you truly love me, you will
share in my spiritual goals. And I will ask the Father and He will send to you
another Counselor, who will stand by you forever, even the Spirit of Truth. The
earthly world cannot receive this Counselor, for it cannot perceive his working
and does not recognize him. But you know him, for he will live with you and
will work in you.
I will not leave you desolate—I will come to you. Yet a
little while, and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I
live, you will live also. On that day you will truly know what it means that I
am in the Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Whoever bears my spiritual goals within himself, and brings
them to revelation in his working, is one who truly loves me. And whoever truly
loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself
to him.”
Then Judas, (not the Iscariot) said, “But Lord, how is it
that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the people who are in the world?
Jesus replied, “Whoever 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]. Whoever 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.
These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.
But the health-bringing Spirit, the Counselor whom the Father will send in my
name, he will teach you everything and will bring to your remembrance all that
I have said to you.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. Not as the
world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled nor let them be
afraid.
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and yet I am
coming to you’. If you loved me you would have rejoiced, because I am going to
the Father, for the Father is greater 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
ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.
But I act in accordance with the Father’s purpose, as it was
entrusted to me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Do the
same. Arise, let us be on our way.
6th Easter
John 14: 1-31
May 10, 2015
Christ says: Trust in the power that leads you to the Father
and to me.” What is this power that leads us to them? It is the power of trust
itself. Trust means that our souls can place themselves confidently within a
greater context than our own wishes and desires. With trust our souls can
expand into the matrix of all that we know and have experienced, firsthand or
otherwise. We can even trust and grow into what we do not yet know.
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| Red Thread of Destiny |
If we look back on our lives, we can often see a red thread
of guidance running through it, a through-line. This guidance has brought us to
where we are today, to who and what we are. Things may not have turned out as
we would have wished or expected. Nevertheless we have met people important to
us. Our lives have taken meaningful, if sometimes painful, turns. There must
have been a roadmap of intentions for us.
Christ has provided each of us with a personal guide who never
sleeps, who never leaves us - our guardian angel. The whisperings of our
angel inspire the turnings of our lives. We are free to hearken, or not.
In any case, Christ holds within his heart the red threads
of the destinies of each and every human being. These red threads are leading
us gradually to a greater and more conscious relationship with Him. They are
leading us home, to Himself and to our Father’s house.
