If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (Jn 8:31-32)
There i have it. Believe in the Truth of the Christ, believe in Love, and i shall know the Truth, and thus living in the Truth i shall be free.
Yet belief alone will not make me his disciple for i am asked to remain present in His teachings: love thy neighbour, the meek shall inherit the Earth, Virtues, Beatitudes, forgiveness, grace, all the gospels offer mankind. Being present in His teachings demands vigilance, perseverance and the moment to moment discipline of mindfulness. The path is indeed, straight and narrow. To be a disciple of the Christ demands a freely given willingness to rise above the life that we see around us, to not blindly accept that practical reality that is modern man's perceived freedom, a lesser truth, a so-called 'conventional truth'. There is no freedom in doing those things that limit me and hinder others in their re-union with the Father, the One, the source of Love itself.
The kind of freedom Christ offers in the ultimate Truth must be personally experienced.
Easier said than done.
Deo gratias.
There i have it. Believe in the Truth of the Christ, believe in Love, and i shall know the Truth, and thus living in the Truth i shall be free.
Yet belief alone will not make me his disciple for i am asked to remain present in His teachings: love thy neighbour, the meek shall inherit the Earth, Virtues, Beatitudes, forgiveness, grace, all the gospels offer mankind. Being present in His teachings demands vigilance, perseverance and the moment to moment discipline of mindfulness. The path is indeed, straight and narrow. To be a disciple of the Christ demands a freely given willingness to rise above the life that we see around us, to not blindly accept that practical reality that is modern man's perceived freedom, a lesser truth, a so-called 'conventional truth'. There is no freedom in doing those things that limit me and hinder others in their re-union with the Father, the One, the source of Love itself.
The kind of freedom Christ offers in the ultimate Truth must be personally experienced.
Easier said than done.
Deo gratias.
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