{"id":15715,"date":"2015-09-14T17:02:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=15715"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:41:35","slug":"this-and-even-greater-in-the-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/15715-this-and-even-greater-in-the-christ","title":{"rendered":"This and Even Greater in the Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You too shall do this and even greater. <\/strong>[John 14:12].<\/p>\n

That message from the Christ set up something such that whatever you\u2019re witnessing that the Lord is doing, then your calling is to come into what that is and even greater. There\u2019s a marker in that so we could realize, \u201cWhere I\u2019m at, I need some guidance here. I need a reference point.\u201d<\/p>\n

As has been talked about long-ago, the primary reference point is inside. So that\u2019s the first place to realize, \u201cWho and what is the Lord?\u201d The Lord is inside. But there\u2019s also the part that can be outside. It\u2019s not limited so it can never manifest into the world or into the flesh or into the reflection that\u2019s there.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreater is he within you than he that is in the world\u201d [1 John 4:4]. That\u2019s another important reference point. Don\u2019t get caught up such that your view is limited to the one in the world, for example, \u201cWhat I\u2019m seeing in the world is great-er than what I see inwardly, and so I sacrifice, or disconnect from the inner experience.\u201d That would be kind of a cardinal misstep of sorts.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a state in which you can know beyond your senses. So it\u2019s something unheard. It\u2019s unseen. It\u2019s relatively-speaking unknown, like, \u201cI\u2019m not conscious, but I still know it.\u201d There\u2019s a presence, even though the markings are invisible, inaudible, and unknowable to the perception. It\u2019s still there. That\u2019s part of the quality of what it is. It\u2019s not dependent on our senses. It\u2019s not really dependent on anything.<\/p>\n

One of the things that\u2019s important to do is suspend things like belief so that you\u2019re not locking into what your mind or feelings would tell you. That\u2019s something that could become a great limitation. You might be getting some-thing that\u2019s really interesting, fascinating, and amazing on those levels. Yet if you put an equal sign by it, as in a mathematical equation, you\u2019d realize it\u2019s still an illusion. You can be misled by what you think and feel. At the same time, it can seem to be quite amazing, like an amazing thought, like no thought you\u2019ve ever had.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where the negative power often works. It works in what would fascinate you, what would grab your attention away from what is positive. Like, \u201cThat\u2019s really wonderful! That\u2019s the most wonderful thing that could ever be!\u201d How do you know? You haven\u2019t seen anything yet, why are you declaring this as the most wonderful thing? You may be worshipping something here in the physical world instead of keeping yourself open to what is greater inside.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of ways that the transmission of Spirit comes across, where we need to suspend whatever it is we\u2019re experiencing. Yet it can be the Lord making itself known to you in a vision, what you hear or see, or through your other senses. The qualifications for what is of the Spirit are that it always works through truth, and it always works through love. So if you can put those two together and ask: Is it true? Is it love? and you get, \u201cYes,\u201d I\u2019d say you\u2019re close. You\u2019re close enough even if you consciously still don’t know for sure.<\/p>\n

Could you fool yourself by saying it\u2019s true when it\u2019s not? And saying it\u2019s love when it\u2019s not? Sure.<\/p>\n

But you\u2019re going to find out shortly. If you\u2019re concluding something\u2019s true, something\u2019s is love, and it\u2019s not, then it\u2019s going to come up short. You\u2019re going to be disillusioned, but it\u2019s in your favor to be disillusioned. So it\u2019s worth going after. If it\u2019s loving, but it makes no sense, then there\u2019s no substance in it, and then that\u2019s probably some kind of fantasy love, and it\u2019s likely to disappear shortly.<\/p>\n

Whatever\u2019s spinning you emotionally is temporary, so it won\u2019t last. So if it\u2019s an emotional love, that\u2019s short term. The mental love is also short term but may be longer. Then there\u2019s the kind like unrequited love that often works through the unconscious. Like, \u201cI know I\u2019m looking for love, but I don\u2019t know what it is. And I search for it, and I try to join up with it, and then it doesn\u2019t really happen, so it\u2019s not really it but I\u2019ve got to keep going, because I\u2019m not satisfied. I\u2019m not complete until I find this love, this great love.\u201d That could go on for a long time. Often people are in a search for the great love, not really knowing what that is.<\/p>\n

God\u2019s mystery is that the love is you. You\u2019re going to find yourself. You\u2019re going to find that God and you are one and the same. Even when it\u2019s in the flesh, it\u2019s still in some way there. It\u2019s just not all there. So you need to transcend. You need to be open to what\u2019s greater in you that is still being consciously discovered.<\/p>\n

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To Greater Loving<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Scripture, Jesus said, \u201cHe that is greatest among you shall be your servant\u201d [Matthew 23:11].
\nJohn-Roger referred to service as the highest consciousness on the planet. So if you looked at those two – who\u2019s the greatest servant and what is the highest consciousness of service – then you\u2019re going towards how you could be more loving.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to understand that your first love is within yourself, which kind of sounds self-enamored or like we\u2019re joining up with Narcissus. But it\u2019s the great Self, the Self that\u2019s in all people and all things. The great Self that\u2019s God. The service to that One who is in all of the creation and is within you.<\/p>\n

So how do you serve all things? That would be another way of saying, \u201cHow do I love for the highest good of all concerned?\u201d Often what shows up is to love whatever is in front of you. It may be as simple as, \u201cI don\u2019t like red pens. They\u2019re too loud, and you know they try to dominate all the other colors, and they\u2019re obnoxious, and I just don\u2019t like red.\u201d Yet that red pen is part of the creation.<\/p>\n

Often what we\u2019re seeking is right in us or next to us. So that\u2019s the place for the greater love – right here, right now in some way. One of the places to look is what or where you tend to try to ignore, avoid, deny, cancel out, eliminate, or negate the love.<\/p>\n

When you say, \u201cThat\u2019s no good, that\u2019s not lovable, that\u2019s not worthy, that\u2019s not worth my time,\u201d often that\u2019s an indication that you\u2019re being led to love more in some way. One of the simplest ways is what I would call, \u201cSetting it free.\u201d That would translate so whatever it is, you have no demand upon it. You release any sense that it should be different from the way it is. Try that on for size for a day and see how far you get. Like, \u201cToday I\u2019m going to go out, and I will not view anything as not being exactly perfect as it is. I will view it all as exactly perfect as it is. And I will in no way struggle or resist anything today.\u201d See how far you get.<\/p>\n

I have found it\u2019s not possible in the area of the mind or the emotions. Those fields, by their nature, contract, reduce and conceptualize. They can\u2019t help it. They\u2019re not, in a way, designed to be unlimited. They\u2019re designed to be limited, confined and to define things with a viewpoint that\u2019s not the viewing point of all things.<\/p>\n

It takes great wisdom and great dedication to stay open such that you\u2019re just looking neutrally. That would be a great key – to look at someone as they are regardless of what they are doing, even if they\u2019re snarling at you so their fangs are showing, their claws are protruding, and they\u2019re attempting to attack you. You can still look at them as a kind of phenomenon, a condition that\u2019s being revealed to you. In the revealing, your choice can be to stay free from them.<\/p>\n

When something\u2019s coming at you that stimulates your fear, so you\u2019re very aware of your fear, that may not be the easiest circumstance to find love. It can be very challenging. So often what we\u2019re brought to is what we fear and we are asked, \u201cCan we love it?\u201d Not necessarily do you hear this challenge verbally. But in the purpose of the condition or circumstance, it\u2019s asking you that question. Can you stay open? Can you stay neutral towards what is revealing your fear or negative reaction?<\/p>\n

When someone calls you a name or in some way puts forth what you would consider a threat or something less than positive, can you stay open so that it\u2019s not personal? Can you just see it as something working itself out in God\u2019s creation? That often takes a strong willingness to pull that off, to really stay in your loving so that if something hits at you, you don\u2019t hit back. Can you do that? Can you absorb the hit so it doesn\u2019t return out into the world? That\u2019s a high consciousness. That\u2019s being of service.<\/p>\n

You can just say, \u201cYes, I can.\u201d You can claim this ability that comes directly from God into all of Its creation as unconditional loving. This is your divine nature. This is your true nature in your highest consciousness.<\/p>\n

If the sins of your father and your mother come to you, even all of them – so every single one of them is put to you, even stays with you – you can bring them to the love of God within you such that they are no more. They have no more negativity and are only the pure, whole love of God for all of Its creation. Deep within you is only love in your oneness with God. \u201cGod is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him\u201d [1 John 4:16].<\/p>\n

If you can do that, it\u2019s very beautiful in terms of how it makes a contribution to you, to all others, and to the planet. It\u2019s a silent ministry – what-ever comes to you, you bring it to the love in you, and that\u2019s it. Nothing else is necessary. You don\u2019t have to under-stand it. There\u2019s no need to find out, \u201cWhy did you say that to me? Why did you do that?\u201d You just love it.<\/p>\n

Some people determine there has to be some sort of trial. And the trial is, \u201cIs this worthy of my love? Or is it worthy of my fight or my condemnation?\u201d I don\u2019t find much value in that practice. There\u2019s a far superior practice of choosing to love regardless of what \u201cit is.\u201d My view is there\u2019s a lot to do in the area of loving. It\u2019s really very simple although not necessarily easy or seemingly even possible.<\/p>\n

For example, we could look at a rug and find something about how we each look upon it that is different. We don\u2019t agree about the rug. We each express a different point-of-view. It\u2019s a perspective with variation. Our differences are not a reason to stop loving one another.<\/p>\n

There may be a lot of variation in how we see things. We each can love anyway and even love our different views. There\u2019s a lot of freedom in that approach. That\u2019s the consciousness of the Soul. It\u2019s one of the ways you know soul — everything is in freedom. There\u2019s nothing that\u2019s captive to anything else. God\u2019s not in the busi-ness of trapping us and making captives.<\/p>\n

God\u2019s in the business of expansion and liberating. So if you get in that business yourself, where you essentially set everyone and everything free, then you have no holds on anything, no demands. That\u2019s a very uplifting conscious-ness. That\u2019s a consciousness of forgiving and loving service to all. And it\u2019s the greatest challenge I have experienced in this world.<\/p>\n

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Loving It All Including You<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the level of the Soul and the Spirit, there\u2019s no hierarchy of value that one polarity is of higher or superior value to the other polarity. As we go into Spirit, it comes into an equality. So polarity has no meaning in the Spirit. It\u2019s all one. It\u2019s all integrated. This is good to know as a reference point because then as we look into the mechanistic, dualistic world, we eventually realize there\u2019s kind of an altercation that happens, a positioning that\u2019s not real. However, thank God, it\u2019s temporary.<\/p>\n

A real good reference point about that is, \u201cI\u2019m going to return to the integrity of who I am spiritually. But temporarily I will be in this polarized position, this manifest position of how my life circumstances articulate and specify. I\u2019m working through all of my experiences for what\u2019s up in my learning, growing and whatever are for my gains and upliftment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now if we take the value and the wisdom of what\u2019s here for us, we can all realize we\u2019ll just love who we are and who we are with. It doesn\u2019t matter the condition-ality of any of it. So whatever we could consider about the characteristics of a man or a woman or any form of relation-ship, there is an arbitrariness about each and every condition. Like whatever came out of the deck of cards that was dealt to us, it\u2019s always just circumstantial. And every condition in this world other than change is temporary.<\/p>\n

When we get the view from the Spirit, we see, \u201cLove it all.\u201d That would be a way to solve any circumstance. The practicality of that means as you love it all, you\u2019re included. If you\u2019re loving another, it\u2019s because you\u2019re loving yourself first, not as a stopping point, but as from where this love sources and begins to come forth. It begins in the depth of being that is who we are before we realize it as a thought or feeling.<\/p>\n

If we don\u2019t know loving within, then how can we be loving with somebody else? So we need to come into the loving within in order to experience loving with someone else. In order to experience the love of another, I need to be in the love of who I am to know that love. The love of who I am recognizes the love of who you are coming to the love of who I am. And it keeps bridging across.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking at how much you haven\u2019t loved yourself, that may hurt. That\u2019s all right. That awareness puts you in a position to adjust. Whatever you\u2019ve used as the reasons, those were arbitrary, like whatever came out of the deck – you\u2019re a blond, you\u2019re a brunette, you\u2019re five-seven, or you\u2019re this shape or this color. All those circumstances don\u2019t translate to, \u201cTherefore, I love myself.\u201d They just translate to, \u201cWhat do I love? I love this characteristic and this characteristic. I have this history. I have this involvement. I made these choices. I have these results, and I choose to love them.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very important to get your love for yourself resonant as a love of God so it\u2019s the foundation of who you are for all of the creation. Loving becomes the source for how you express yourself and how you involve yourself. What\u2019s also amazing is loving heals whatever needs healing.<\/p>\n

When you resonate in the love of who you are, it\u2019s vibrating and it\u2019s in the foundation of how you express yourself. You go forth in love as your true nature or you don\u2019t go forth. When it\u2019s in that level of resonating, then it has a way of healing all your relationships, all down the line, right through your existence. What that means is all of the things that need healing are going to be healed here and now in the way you relate to yourself and then to others with your love. What\u2019s also beautiful is your loving is not actually dependent on other people or conditions at all. Loving is truly your nature.<\/p>\n

God is in control, which is really good, be-cause God always has our best interests in mind. As we understand this control, we can then understand how God\u2019s Will is done as the loving of all. So with that understanding, then we choose to be loving of all.<\/p>\n

We are here to heal and balance ourselves with whatever has happened in our life throughout our existence. We heal by being in acceptance, loving and forgive-ness. As we can do this with ourself, we can do this with others. Complete healing is forgiveness of all things. Healing comes from the willingness to forgive.<\/p>\n

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Impeccably You<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you\u2019re true to who you are, there\u2019s an impeccability that comes through. It registers as a kind of clarity or cleanliness. You are someone who is true and clear. So how would you come into this impeccability?<\/p>\n

Part of it is how you regard and identify yourself. Of course, it would be wonderful in some way if we could just sign on as, \u201cI\u2019m loving, true, and impeccable,\u201d and just because we sign on, we are thus so. However, it\u2019s one thing to profess, but it\u2019s another thing to be a living demonstration.<\/p>\n

It takes tremendous dedication and courage to uphold impeccability. You\u2019ll find out about your commitment and courage because in the world impeccability isn\u2019t necessarily sanctified and honored. When someone has this impeccability and sense of honor, then their life has a way of holding it up. There is a kind of reliability with that person – that when they speak, they give their word to be the truth. And if their word does not hold up in the truth, then there\u2019s a real good reason that still honors the truth. It\u2019s like God spoke instead and moved what is involved in a new direction that upholds God\u2019s impeccability. One of the limitations that God puts in place is what we can handle. That\u2019s completely in our favor.<\/p>\n

God registers as the highest consciousness, the consciousness of the highest good. The omniscience allows for the knowing. The omnipotence is the ability to do what needs to be done. God has the power, the knowledge, the authority, to keep the highest good in place for all the creation. By employing the highest good, then the limited mind can be suspended and released. And what it often looks like is, \u201cI don\u2019t know how it\u2019s going to work out. I just know I want the highest good and have the willingness to do whatever that requires.\u201d When you can register that you want the highest good then you may need to ask to release any limitations that are no longer serving the highest good.<\/p>\n

Appeal to the authority of God and ask God to act as your co-creator. Trust and surrender to the Christ Beloved within you as you. And remember, you will be tested from the inside out. But the Lord is within you, as you, loving you always and forever more.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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