Take words at face value to see if they resonate truth in your soul

[Jim Spencer]

 "The more completely man understands himself and appreciates the personality values of his fellows, the more he will crave to know the Original Personality, and the more earnestly such a God-knowing human will strive to become like the Original Personality. You can argue over opinions about God, but experience with him and in him exists above and beyond all human controversy and mere intellectual logic. The God-knowing man describes his spiritual experiences, not to convince unbelievers, but for the edification and mutual satisfaction of believers.

 Convictions about God may be arrived at through wise reasoning, but the individual becomes God-knowing only by faith, through personal experience. In much that pertains to life, probability must be reckoned with, but when contacting with spiritual reality, certainty may be experienced when such meanings and values are approached by living faith. The God-knowing soul dares to say, “I know,” even when this knowledge of God is questioned by the unbeliever who denies such certitude because it is not wholly supported by intellectual logic---or----his predetermined belief system which does not allow his mind to expand in understanding. To every such doubter the believer only replies, “How do you know that I do not know?”

"Today, the unbelievers may taunt you with preaching a gospel of love, mercy, an grace and with living lives of submission to Jesus Christ; but you are the first volunteers of a long line of sincere believers in the gospel of this kingdom who will astonish all mankind by their heroic devotion to these teachings. No armies of the world have ever displayed more courage and bravery than will be portrayed by you and your loyal successors who shall go forth to all the world proclaiming the good news — the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of men. The courage of the flesh is the lowest form of bravery. Mind bravery is a higher type of human courage, but the highest and supreme is uncompromising loyalty to the enlightened convictions of profound spiritual realities. And such courage constitutes the heroism of the God-knowing man. And you are all God-knowing men; you are in very truth the personal associates of the Son of Man; known to humans during his earth sojourn as Jesus of Nazareth and known on high as Michael of Nebadon, the Creator Son of our local universe."

"Peace be upon you. You all know that we have one Father in heaven, and that there is but one gospel of the kingdom — the good news of the gift of eternal life which men receive by faith. As you rejoice in your loyalty to the gospel, pray the Father of truth to shed abroad in your hearts a new and greater love for your brethren. You are to love all men as I have loved you; you are to serve all men as I have served you. (not the other way around)  With understanding sympathy and brotherly affection, fellowship all your brethren who are dedicated to the proclamation of the good news, whether they be Jew or gentile, Greek or Roman, Persian, Ethiopian, or, even Moonies. John proclaimed the kingdom in advance; you have preached the gospel in power; the Greeks already teach the good news; and I am soon to send forth the Spirit of Truth into the souls of all these, my brethren, who have so unselfishly dedicated their lives to the enlightenment of their fellows who sit in spiritual darkness. You are all the children of light; therefore stumble not into the misunderstanding entanglements of mortal suspicion and human intolerance. If you are ennobled, by the grace of faith, to love unbelievers, should you not also equally love those who are your fellow believers in the far-spreading household of faith? Remember, as you love one another, all men will know that you are my disciples."

 

When we read such passages---no matter where they come from---if our spirit of understanding resonates with these words---then our soul understands the truth. However, if our minds are totally closed to any information that does not agree with our own narrow understanding of what constitutes truth----we will reject it out of a fear reaction. This is what is meant by, "he who has ears to hear".

Our minds are very powerful instruments. They can show us the glories of heaven or can block our way to growth. It is the EGO---our own distorted view of our position in the universe that can stop progress. All negative emotions arise from this protector in response to perceived danger. Re-birth of the spirit means that we turn over our being to God's watchcare. Life on earth is a rugged course that causes us to turn to a higher purpose within ourselves; to escape our instinctive animal bodies---to become something better------servants of God; true children of God. God is alive and He is living on the inside----He wants to guide us each moment, each step of the way on our individual journeys.

God's universe is a magical, wonderful place of truth, beauty, goodness, and infinite discovery----all----waiting for you to open your hearts.