You want to be one with the Creator, right? You’re working as hard as you possible can to see this come to fruition, right? Sure, there are a few rough spots which you are working through, people-wise, but as soon as they…things will be cool.
Joh 17:21-23 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (22) And the glory which thou gave me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: (23) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
There is no way for this to be sugar coated to make it palatable. Your pride, the protection mechanism of your ego, both natural and spiritual, is keeping you from oneness with All.
Oneness with the Father means oneness with Jesus, who is one with, and within, you. Yet, your pride views this claim as a spiritual trophy to be captured in the long ordeal of living through the long dark night of the soul. You overcame, making you an “overcomer.” Your ego has survived intact. Your pride now has another notch on its belt to show to thousands who will hear your testimony. For it is the thrill of the testimony which your ego relishes. The accolades, shouts of “hallelujah” and “praise the Lord” feeding your malnourished spiritual pride are what you crave, like an addict craves its drug of choice. Face it, under the veil of pursuing spiritual maturity, your ego has devolved into a spiritual zombie junkie, seeking a weekly or bi-weekly meal/fix among the brethren.
Before you cast this aside for being too harsh, I speak from this place of a recovering spiritual zombie junkie. I know the highs and the lows, the tricks, and traps of this lifestyle. I can assure you there is no 12 step programs to pull you out of the dive your in. Crash and burn is the only solution. Why? Death of your ego is what must happen to finally achieve oneness.
Consider this for a moment. Oneness with the Father does not apply just to you. It is already a reality with ALL about you. All creation is one with its Creator. There are no sub-classes, no elements living on the periphery waiting for inclusion. ALL is One. Now.
Pride keeps score. Every score greater or less than One is evidence of pride in operation. Pride seeks delineation as the means to keep score. Greater than, less than, better, worse, higher, lower, black, white, shades of grey, country, ethnicity, gender, age, education, social status, wealth, religious affiliation, on and on it goes racking up points to be elevated “above” and diminish those “below.”
The gift of grace is simply to remedy the pride of your ego, for how every long it takes, for you to come to the knowledge of who you are already One with. So long as you see differences there will be grace to balance what is seen with what can’t be seen with natural eyes. Grace will always keep the score at One.
We are told that no one has seen the Father except the Son who came from Him. We seek oneness with a being who cannot be seen in this realm with natural eyes. Pride only functions within a material realm. Even spiritual pride operates in the material realm.
Delineation of any kind is material through the means of identification. If you can see it, there is a word you can assign to it which will be used to classify it for all who encounter it. The ranking or positionality of this classifying word is purely determined by the perception of each person who sees this either as a threat or an asset to their survival.
The spiritual realm lacks the language the material realm functions with. The spiritual realm only has the Word. All is one with the Word. You, me, us, them are all one in the Word. Be what you already are, not what an ego tries to make you be. The work has never been about you but the rest of One.
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