Jesus says to the frightened neophyte apostles aboard a boat on stormy waves 'Do not be afraid' (Jn 6-20). He announces too, 'I am', just as God announced this to Moses. 'I am' resounding across the universe, time and space, existence established. Because God is, Love is, then there is no fear, i reason, because fear we create in our own minds. Fear coming from doubt and a threat to the Self, ones own private world of walls and defence mechanisms. Christ is now. His light cuts through the dark and reveals fear as merely a shadow.
St. John writes later: In love there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother. (1 Jn 4:18-21)
Love is inclusive. We are all of God, created by Him. If we love God, Creation and the Light, then there can be no hate or fear. As lost beings finding our way back Home, we will know hate and fear, doubt and Selfishness, but these too, are shadows, me thinks, obstacles on the path and illusions created by the ego to protect all that the ego knows, namely Self (Ego's reality is the Self, maintaining 'who i am' at all costs). Thus, loving God, we love all Creation. When the tempest of fear drives us back into our Self away from reaching out to others, or any emotion that separates us from the Truth of Unity in Love, i suggest reconnecting with prayer, re-minding with the help of the Holy Ghost who always is with us, and knowing as clearly as 'I am' that God is and there need not be fear.
Like the apostles, travelling with Jesus will show me wonders both simple and grand, but it will also bring storms and fears as i willingly give up more of my own Self to discover who i really am, as countless saints have discovered. And even in those storms where i feel most vulnerable, He is there for me and i am not alone.
Deo gratias.
St. John writes later: In love there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother. (1 Jn 4:18-21)
Love is inclusive. We are all of God, created by Him. If we love God, Creation and the Light, then there can be no hate or fear. As lost beings finding our way back Home, we will know hate and fear, doubt and Selfishness, but these too, are shadows, me thinks, obstacles on the path and illusions created by the ego to protect all that the ego knows, namely Self (Ego's reality is the Self, maintaining 'who i am' at all costs). Thus, loving God, we love all Creation. When the tempest of fear drives us back into our Self away from reaching out to others, or any emotion that separates us from the Truth of Unity in Love, i suggest reconnecting with prayer, re-minding with the help of the Holy Ghost who always is with us, and knowing as clearly as 'I am' that God is and there need not be fear.
Like the apostles, travelling with Jesus will show me wonders both simple and grand, but it will also bring storms and fears as i willingly give up more of my own Self to discover who i really am, as countless saints have discovered. And even in those storms where i feel most vulnerable, He is there for me and i am not alone.
Deo gratias.
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