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GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD
‘When you are ready--I will do the works through you.'
‘For GOD so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.'
Suddenly, like a burst of light that pierces the dark
clouds of night, comes the revelation that God so LOVED the world--yes, this
very world that you have been calling hell; that you have found so full of
everything evil; that you have been trying to die out of, or trying to escape.
Yes, this very world God has LOVED. It must be that we have hypnotized ourselves
into something that is unlovely. Yet we find that God so LOVED the world. If God
had found it one-tenth as evil as we have been taught to believe it is, He would
certainly not have loved it; He would have destroyed it. Can it be that we, you
and I, are mistaken regarding the world--have we been seeing through a glass
darkly and mistaking the shadows of the human belief for the reality, to such an
extent that we have come to hate that which God loved?
‘Awake, thou that sleepest, and Christ shall give
thee Light'--the Light which will enable you to start the Love Process and set
yourself free from the prison house of your own making.
‘When you are ready' ...
‘If you cannot love those whom you see, how can
you love God whom you do not see?' A question asked and passed over too
lightly. The same thing might be asked: ‘If you cannot love the world
which you can see, how can you love the Kingdom which you cannot see?' It is
time that we awakened from the mesmeric sleep that we have cast over ourselves.
We have been stupefied by the heavy drug called procrastination. Half the people
are 'knowing the Truth' are merely waiting for something in the future to happen
and are at the same time despising the present manifestation.
There be those who will say, ‘Love not the world,'
and by the word ‘world' they mean just the antithesis of what is meant
when it is stated that ‘God so loved the world.' It is made quite clear that
if we cannot love our fellow-creatures we cannot love God. And eventually
we begin to see that we glorify that which we love. The power of love that is
within every man is the power to transform appearances. ‘Love never faileth'
would indicate that all else can fail. Also, ‘Perfect love casteth out
fear.' We are beginning to see the power of Love. When we Love our
fellow-beings, they become God-like, and display God-like qualities. And
when we love the earth as God loved it, then we transform it into heaven.
Self-examination shows, however, that to most of us
this world is just a battle-ground. Each morning we rise and set forth
to battle evil, always looking for way and means of overcoming the almost
insurmountable obstacles that arise before us like a Goliath. This fighting
spirit stays with us, in spite of the command, ‘Ye do not need to fight--set
yourself and see the salvation of the Lord.'
In the beautiful God-loved world there is nothing to
fight, but in the world of man's creating he finds evil everywhere. It is for
man to choose in which of these habitats he will live. Surely, as soon as
he sees God in man, man becomes God-like, and just so surely as he sees Heaven
here and now the world becomes again the Garden of Eden--the very Garden that
God loved. And for this purpose He gave His Son--the Christ--and said that
whosoever believed upon Him should have everlasting life. The Son is given to
each of us when we are ready to accept the priceless gift within
ourselves.
‘I came not to destroy, but to fulfill'--that is the
message of the I am coming into expression in your life. I the Christ, the You
of You, came not to destroy, but to fulfill the law of God, and to fulfill and
bring out the reason why ‘God so loved the world.' We are missing it all as
long as we keep on the hunt after evil. We are missing the great and grand
issue of life when we keep pounding away at imaginary beliefs and thinking that
our business In the world is to fight evil. ‘Put up your sword'--'When you are
ready...'
‘God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.'
The idea of a perishing body or kingdom, then, is lost in the
consciousness of the everlasting life. Do you think for a moment you can
continue everlastingly in the same personality? Do you see this would be
quite as impossible, as it would be for you to continue a baby forever? The
constant revelation that is coming with this imperishable Life is such that it
drops off one belief after another and lets the perfect manifestation come into
being. Revelations, one after another, break over the universe of the newly
found soul. The former things are remembered no more; they cannot come into
mind; for the mind has been made new, and it naturally has nothing in it that
answers to the former limitations and beliefs. ‘The prince of this world (the
ugly, hated world that you have been living in) cometh, and findeth nothing in
you,' because you have renewed your mind and there is nothing in this new state
that responds to the former evils and limitations. Do you begin to see the new
day that is dawning?
Small wonder, then, that the command came, ‘Go forth,
heal the sick, open the prisons,' etc. How can this be done except the power is
given with the command?--the power of revelation. ‘Where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty.' and the Spirit is everywhere, and when it is
recognized in that place the limitations of the human belief are suddenly burst
asunder and the manifestation is set free.
A shell does not hold a chick one moment after it has
grown to the limitations of the shell. When you recognize the presence of God,
the limitations that bound you are broken asunder by the sudden expansion of
this new knowledge. Be still--do not talk--it is well with thee. ‘I AM HE that
should come'--and you will begin to understand the difference between overcoming
and realization or revelation. Be still, be still, be still. Remember in your
quiet that GOD SO LOVED this world that you are finding so hateful and ugly. Be
still; you will see and understand.
The presence of the very God that LOVED this world is
in everything and through everything--even in your hell, in your prison, in your
problem--and contains everything for the complete satisfaction of every human
desire interpreted in its truest form. Be still--be still. It is well. Right in
the midst of it all, there am I; and I am everything that you can possibly ask
or think.
For God so LOVED the world (note from A.P. Adams:
world, i.e. Kosmos, which is interpreted as, "the order of things')--what
are you doing with it? Why did God so LOVE the place (or the ‘order of
things') that you hate and find so filled with all undesirable things? Be
still--be still--and see if the Son which was given does not come to abide with
you and make all the desires of your heart possible by the process of
revellation. And GOD so LOVED the world--LOVED the world.
Are you ready? Answer ME--I AM."
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