Often times I run into people who want to talk, talk about life, world affairs, politics, fears, or even the hereafter since I seem to write about it. There are a lot of potential seekers of Truth out there who want to do the right thing. Instinctively they know the life they are living cannot be what God expects of them.
Yet they feel inadequate, insignificant even, when I tell them
to talk to God or Jesus. They respond that
God or Jesus are Divine beings, with billions of people to worry about not to
mention the politicians, nations, cultures and bad people walking the earth. What could I possibly say to God without
sounding like a fool and why would God or Jesus even want to talk to me?
I truly understand their dilemma.
When you are one Soul in a world of 7.7 billion Souls, what
chance do you have of ever being heard?
No doubt, it is hard to identify your importance to the Creator
and his Son, particularly when you think like a human which we are prone to do. Here we are, surrounded by billions of people
who seem to have no interest in God, the cosmos, and beyond. Few in that mass of humanity indicate any foundation
of divine inspiration to fall back on.
People are almost afraid to encourage others to pursue a path
of hope, joy, and compassion for others because there is so much fear and
anxiety engulfing them from the negativity projected by those around you.
Collective consciousness is a powerful force for good or evil
as it has no moral compass itself but is dependent on the free will of the
people feeding it. When the collective
consciousness is devoid of divine inspiration, it is quick to embrace the malaise
of the masses we encounter daily.
Most days, if we were to assess the spiritual evolution of
humanity, your conclusion would lead you to think humanity is stuck in a
quagmire of epic proportions running counter to the teachings of Jesus.
Most days your conclusion would be right.
Now, as long as you are dwelling on observing people, try
dwelling on the example Jesus gave us when he walked the earth like you, without
the designer clothes and smartphones of course.
When you think about it, Jesus faced a much more hostile and
dangerous challenge back then. In his
day the collective consciousness was every bit as negative as today, and the accumulated
fear and outright hatred was directed at the bullseye on his back.
The Son of God came here on a mission, to bring about a paradigm
shift in humankind without the aid of modern technology like smartphones, WIFI,
the Internet, social media, television, news distribution, transportation or
any of the marvelous advances in science and technology that spoil us today.
There were no live podcasts of his beautiful message, no
videos of his talks, no interaction of Jesus and people on YouTube, no news media
coverage of him, no documentaries, books, CDs and certainly no reporting of his
inspirational message.
Social media in his day was word of mouth. If you did not see him in action, or know someone
who did, you knew very little about the Son of God. Jesus was only able to spread his message as
far as he could walk, to the next village.
If you were fortunate enough to be a witness in the crowd, you
saw a handsome young man, calm, smiling, filled with hope and joy, brimming
over with love, compassion and empathy for everyone, most certainly a man of
destiny.
He spoke Truth, often using parables rather than direct
attacks on the listener to make a point.
The real attention grabber, however, was his strange way of working
miracles that defied the human belief system, yet reinforced his message of
love to the masses.
Yet Jesus was born into life on earth knowing full well of his
impending death at an early age, 33 years old, at the hands of those very people
he loved, tried hardest to heal, and sought to awaken to the light.
There was no hint of ego in this kind soul from Nazareth and
no hint of bias in his attitude toward people.
He embraced and often healed young and old, rich and poor, Jewish
Sanhedrin and lepers, Roman rulers and the blind, and now and then an occasional
dead person.
Jesus was not an orator who spewed fire and brimstone to get attention
or make a point like his cousin John the Baptist, the Zealot. In spite of the fact Jesus knew his tragic fate
he never projected fear but hope and understanding, love and finding your way
into the light.
Oh, he knew his destiny, and even when all his apostles abandoned him at the end, leaving only his Mother and the Magdalen at his side, yet he still accepted the most horrific torture and death imaginable.
Still, when the moment came, even in a world devoid of any and
all technology and communications, millions of people around the world
experienced it with him. At the moment
of death, the evening sky turned pitch black, giant fingers of lightning
exploded throughout the horizon, where it was light it turned dark and where it
was dark it turned light all around the globe.
All the continents of the earth started shaking violently as earthquakes
ravaged the lands.
For three long days and nights people hid indoors, terrified
of the storms and the weather anomalies everywhere. What was really going on outside? If people went out during those fateful days,
they might have witnessed a glimpse of Heaven protruding from the Heavens.
The sky was filled with millions and millions of Angels in
formation behind their leader Michael the Archangel as the legions soared,
swooped, and blazed across the horizon in joyous celebration of the death of
Jesus and the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy about the Messiah. For there could be no miraculous Resurrection
of Jesus until he first died.
Today, two-thousand years after his Crucifixion, Resurrection
and Ascension, billions upon billions of people know the story of his life. They know the sacrifice of Jesus so that we
may find the Truth in his message of redemption and salvation for all the
children of God like us.
Next time you think of how insignificant one little soul like you may be in a sea of billions, think of what Jesus taught. He said we are no different than he, we are all the same children of God, and we all have the same ability to heal the sick, raise the dead, even move mountains.
One little star in the vastness of a black sky is like a beacon
of hope in a world desperate for truth.
Its brilliance pierces the black void drawing our attention away from
the depths of darkness and into the ray of light from the heavens.
If you really stop and think of all the miracles of creation
it took to create a single, functioning human, you might realize the
significance of your being.
If you open yourself up to the possibility that even you are
the beneficiary of the Creator’s miracles, you might start to understand the
love it took to create you in the first place.
Now, if you were the Creator and created a human from nothing,
whose functions and potential remain largely unknown even to this day, would
you walk away from your masterpiece? Of
course not!
You want it to succeed, to reach its potential, to radiate the
goodness, joy and happiness inherent in it.
The Creator gave you an unlimited imagination to inspire you, a free spirit
to motivate you, a Son to show you the path home, and a Holy Spirit to awaken
you to the love of God, and the desire within you to help others find their
way home.
Seek the Truth and it will find you. You are never alone and never forgotten. God will never give up on you. For you are one of God’s precious
children. Now, talk to your Father will
you!
1 comment:
Great inspirational article. Hope is our compass in Life.
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