Without Faith – Part II
WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD!
My take on the above words are quite personal and have nothing to do with my biblical knowledge, rather it has everything to do with how life has molded me and brought me to the place I currently am.
You see, I believe I am God dwelling in an earthly tent. I take very serious the idea that I am made in God’s IMAGE but for most of my life I allowed religion to tarnish that simple faith that the Father is in me and I in the Father and nothing can ever threaten the relationship that we have together.
Yes, Jesus had this simple FAITH. HE knew He was perfectly joined to the Father of all and I believe He came to show the rest of us that we when we too hold the same faith that he had we will be pleased with whatever circumstance we find ourselves in.
On the flip side, if one continues to think they must do something or be something other then what they already are they will not feel pleasing to God or themselves (which is really the same thing)
I believe that the only person God has been pleased with is His Son for whom He said, ” I am well pleased.”
We get to share that, only through faith in that Son, Jesus.
Apart from Him…everything is just “religion”. And God is not pleased with that.
You see, I believe I am God dwelling in an earthly tent. (end quote)
I am curious as to what a person means when they say they believe “they are God”. Can someone, anyone that says they believe they are God explain this to me? I have noticed that term used by several that post/comment here and simply don’t understand what is meant by it.
Roy- Wow, that’s a tough oneto explain, but not nearly as difficult as it sounds. However, I did a post on that subject some time ago. It’s basically not my idea, but the idea of someone a lot smarter than me. Here’s the link:
http://donrogers.org/?p=322
Hope this helps.
God is in us (the believer) that is for sure. His love and mercy will manifest itself as the Spirit works in and through us.
Love is not just the dominion of the believer as even pagans and atheists are capable of doing loving acts, and do so all the time.
The special love that is Christ is the love that only He can give to us. It comes to us from outside of ourselves in His Word and His sacraments of baptism and holy communion.
Not in a religious way, but in a real way. he commanded that we do those things, so if he commanded it, then he will be there in it…giving us His love and forgiveness…which we continually need.
God is with us, He is in us…but we are not God. That is what the serpent convinced Eve of (that she could be as God), that is what the Mormons are shooting for…and we ought not go down that road, because the desire to be a god is the essence of the first sin, and every sin.
Thanks very much.
– Steve M.
What has been said in this post puts me in mind of the story of Abraham. Abraham’s story is our story, it illuminates where we are at this point in time.
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Abram as he was first called, had a vision (Gen 15) – something that altered his way of walking to a higher walk and a deeper relationship to God. Up to this point Abram and Sarai had no children, so in the light of this vision he made a request, “Lord God, what will you give me seeing I go childless.” He was promised that he would live in a new country, and a seed would come from his own body. Then he was taken out of the narrow confines of his tent (a change from his narrow-minded thinking) to look at the stars ( began to ’see’ spiritually)
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But, Abram still carried a lot of ‘the world’ with him. He WANTED to be fully committed to the ONE who promised, but there were some doubts (the darkness) and he had to fight off the thoughts from his mind that would keep him from fully committing. (the birds of prey) This is that same battle Paul describes between the flesh and the spirit. I do what I don’t want to do, and what I don’t want to do, that I do! This is our problem too and we are told we can only live one life at a time (obey one authority). It is impossible for the spirit to fulfill his will and purpose in our lives until this question of authority is settled.
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The carnal mind will never let go of its own accord. IT has to die and all its aspirations ( as seen in the allegory in Gen 3,5) along with it. Abram wanted desperately to be rid of this authority ruling his life so he offered a sacrifice that was split up – the Head had to give way to a new authority, the legs had to walk a new path, the inward parts or affections had to turn from lust of what we see to love from the heart. We must REBEL against the authority of the mind and deliberately turn to the spirit. We must treat it as DEAD and BURIED by believing that Jesus took our humanity on the cross (that flesh-life), and seeing ourselves die with Him and also buried with Him. Only then can we fully commit and submit to the authority of the spirit WITHIN US. When we do then we can be a conduit or open channel for that LIFE within us, that Emmanuel to flow out to others.
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Just as there was a time-gap with Abram between ‘seeing the promise’ and ‘walking in his inheritance’, so there is with us. What we have been promised has to be mixed with faith as we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice – . (the smoking oven burning out every non-spiritual aspect of our lives and the flaming sword revealing that our ideas of what is good and what is evil all stem from the tree of knowledge and MUST DIE). Christ IN US has been hidden by this veil and remains a mystery until our belief (knowing in our head) turns to faith (comes from our heart). For Abram, this happened in the dark of the night and as this story parallels our lives in this 21st century, so something we don’t understand (in the dark) may happen in our lives that will help bring us from belief into faith. Then the covenant (the promise that greater things than this shall you do) will come in effect. This covenant is a SUBMISSION to the divine authority within us.
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Just curious Audrey NZ…..after reading and commenting on this post, do you believe you are God??? I have read your comment several times but you have “lost me” in what you are trying to say as I am sure many others that read it, if they wanted to be honest, were lost as to what you were saying as well.
I think I undesrtand what Audrey NZ is telling us.
She is telling us to live in the Spirit of Christ and not in the spirit of this world.
That is Christ, our new nature is made manifest.
She spoke of dying to sin. I believe that is explained in Romans 6 very well by Paul.
He is actually speaking of baptism, and that in baptism the old sinful self was put to death and sin no longer has dominion over us (even though we are still sinners).
We have the promise of new life right now. Why not live like it!
Maybe I was way off. But that was my take on Audrey’s remarks.
Roy, I am not saying that I am God, just as Jesus did not say that. The most he said was that he was a son of God. When he answered those who accused him (John 10, 33), he turned the tables on them by quoting from their own law Psalm 82,6 which said they were all Gods.
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To understand this you need to go back to the ‘beginnings’ in Gen 3, where our soul (mind, will, emotions) wandered away from the spirit (Adam, so there was no input of truth in this conversation) and talked to the snake. A snake is a twisted thought from our carnal mind. And what was this thought? That we would be AS GODS, knowing good and evil. In this world that our eyes became opened to we indeed act as gods, defining by our own personal standards what is good and what is evil. When the Creator-authority looked at his handiwork, he pronounced it good, he needed no other standard by which to measure goodness as there IS NO OTHER authority to compare his goodness with.
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But that is in the heavenly or spirit realm which is higher than the world we live in, and in that realm nothing that defiles can enter in. In our world however everything is defiled, even our good cannot enter the spirit realm. Going back to Psalm 82 that Jesus quoted, the first part ‘you are all gods’ means gods of this world we are BORN in, the second part ‘all of you are sons of the MOST HIGH’ refers to our sonship IN CHRIST as we were created in the Father’s likeness in the beginning – In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. That word is not the bible or any other holy writing, but it is the person of Christ, that first and last Adam and all of us were created IN HIM.
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But because we continue to remain under the authority of our carnal minds, we DIE. We cannot understand the work completed at the cross because of our blindness. The way was made open through the cross enabling us to leave the authority of our minds and turn to the authority of the spirit. That was when the veil (that blindfold over our minds) was ripped apart. However we stitch it together again by not trusting the work that Jesus did, just as Abraham could not believe the promise but tried to conceive through the little slave-girl instead of Sarah, so we blindly carry on trying to live out of our humanity, when Jesus took that with him, clothed himself in it, and IT DIED WITH HIM.
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Steve Martin – Jesus was not a sin offering – he did not take our SINS, but he took OUR HUMANITY, the part of us that causes sin. He clothed himself in us and got rid forever of the thing that has kept us in chains (our carnal minds). Now we have the opportunity to be clothed in HIM and live from his life, that is we can live like an open channel allowing the spirit to flow unhindered through us to others. The often quoted verse that says ‘without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sins’ is prefaced by ’under the law’. We are not under law, we are under grace, and it was not the blood that fell to the ground that saves us. That was dead blood, already separated from the plasma – of no good to anybody. What he gave to us that he laid down himself was HIS LIFE. That is the free gift. That is why he is waiting for us to take him at his word and start living HIS life, because it is only through us he can LIVE AGAIN. This is his COMING
Steve – I neglected to encourage you to keep on looking to your heart and going deeper, you are so right when you say Christ is our new nature and quite obviously you are beginning to ’see’. Yes, Paul explains that our old psychic being or authority that we’ve made our identity, that kept us as slaves was done away with because Christ freed us from its power. But because we have this veil over our minds we find the ‘good news’ impossible to believe so we go back under the power that IS ALREADY DEAD. Like Abram we have to GET IT BY FAITH, and if we desire it, and like a child be open-hearted and look to our heart where the spirit resides, we will ’see’ and ‘hear’ and understand. Eventually all the extraneous stuff that we’ve clung to will drop off, and we’ll be building with gold silver and precious stones on the foundation of Christ.
Audrey NZ,
Thanks Audrey!
I think I am begining to get it…only because He is giving me faith. Has giving me faith.
He has done, is doing, and will yet do all that is needful in our lives!
Maybe the only “faith” that is needed is the faith to allow ourselves to believe that God is already pleased with us. We are His creation, and each of us is exactly who He wants us to be… even with all our faults.
I have faith that I do not need to be pleasing to God, because He is already pleased with me, no matter what I do, or don’t do.
Without that faith, we will never know true peace.
Sadly, religion has taught us not to trust God, but to only trust in our ability to figure God out, and do whatever we can to try to make him happy, and keep our fingers crossed that we have. Very sad indeed.
Peace on earth, goodwill toward man.
Steve-
You said,”God is in us (the believer) that is for sure“.
I believe he is in ALL of us, believer or not, whether we know it or not. Just my opinion. Blessings to you.
Don R.,
I think you are right.
I should have been more precise in my comment.
God is present in us as he is in everything on earth, from the mountains to the oceans to the pea soup on my table. He is everywhere.
But when He makes alive again, someone who was an unbeliever in His Son Jesus, and gives them the gift of faith (in His Son Jesus), that saving faith and presence of the Holy Spirit is different than a general presence.
It is a living presence. A relational presence that brings new life, and pleases God.
Thanks, Don!
Hi there. I too like Roy find it puzzling when many people say “I am God”. In fact, I find it laughable. God lives in those of us who know Him and are getting to know Him. His Spirit is in our spirit, and by virtue of that, Christ lives in us., but we aren’t Him. One day we shall be like Him, each in His own rank. We are created by Him. He is the Father of Spirits. He is the Alpha and Omega, and always shall be. We together make up the Body of Christ, but never forget that this Body is ruled by the Head, the beautiful Jesus Christ.
Enjoy reading your site.
Sinead- It is so, so easy to misinterpret what Cliff said when we have been weighed down by doctrine & dogma of traditional religion. What Cliff speaks of is an understanding that has to come with time. The folks here, for the most part understand what Cliff is saying. It is not laughable. It is a deep truth that some readers here have discovered. I do not say this at all to place myself or Cliff above others. I say it as something I have discovered. None is equal to God. But, we are the same, made of the same “stuff”. Jesus himself in the NT said that his disciples (us) would do far greater things than he did. Panentheism helps explain a lot of this to me. You might look into it. Blessings.
I have to agree with you there Don, for one to say “I Am” takes a great deal of humility, the response often is the same as what Jesus received when he shared, in his time, that he and the father are one. A religious mind is outraged by the thought.
When we peel back the added layers of theism we see We Are, consciousness in essence, as the doctrines and dogmas that shape our mindset seem to fad away in the distance, we journey closer to realm without so much religion, into the mystery of God. Into the Wild.
G n P
Marco
I agree Marco. As the ‘mystery’ begins to unravel and the veil over our minds thins, we begin to understand we were there in the very beginning when the WORD was spoken – we surely are spiritual beings having an earth experience which is a mere ‘blip – interruption’ in the scale of things.
Thank you Don and Marco.
It is so easy to answer the question “WHAT IS GOD?”
me, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME,
YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU.
WE ARE GOD and the sooner we all realize that the sooner our planet will heal.
it makes me feel good inside to acknowledge the father and I are ONE.
HE IS EVERYTHING, IN EVERYTHING, ABOVE EVERYTHING, THROUGH EVERY THING,
EVEN THE UNBELIEVER.
I read some one say God is the sea and we are the drops of water in that sea.
Love Dan
I still have no idea what someone means when they say “they or we are God”. I have asked for someone to explain this when they make a statement like that, but to be honest most that have tried to explain what this is supposed to mean to them have not been very clear on it.
A quote from Marco’s comment: When we peel back the added layers of theism we see We Are, consciousness in essence, as the doctrines and dogmas that shape our mindset seem to fad away in the distance, we journey closer to realm without so much religion, into the mystery of God. Into the Wild.
Could you translate that into English so we can understand what you mean by that??
A quote from Cliff: WE ARE GOD and the sooner we all realize that the sooner our planet will heal.
Could you elaborate a bit more as to what you mean when you say We are God??
Perhaps I am missing something here that I am not understanding and should be understanding. But each time I have asked as to what someone means when they say they are God, no one seems to be able to explain what they mean and simply go around it and when an explanation seems to come forth it is in words that no one understands.
I know we are all entitled to our own opinions and views but to be honest, I have yet to see anywhere in Scripture that says I, we are God.
I meant to add to my comment that if it is something you cannot really explain, and it is something that is on a personal basis, I am fine with that as well. I am not trying to be critical of anyone, just trying to understand what is meant by some comments.
Hey Dan thats pretty awesome!
Roy are we not In Christ? Are we not One with God? Do we just not realize this Oneness makes us the same(in essense/spirit). We may have different opinions of HOW this is, but it is, non the less, right?
Even our friend Mike Williams would testify we are equal to God in identity. He shared this with us when he came to Yarmouth. I do not really care for the use of the word equal here only because it gives the image of seperateness, which we are not. One cannot be seperate from themselves can they? Only in the mind is any one seperate from God (their true identity), kinda like what Dan shared.
Hope this helps,
yours truly
Thanks Marco for this. It explains it a bit better.
However, it still does not make us God. I sure don’t claim to understand what it means to be “in Christ” and “Christ in us” as it is part of many things that remain a mystery. It is said that when we marry we become “one” with our spouses but it does not make us our spouse. I think the same applies when it comes to being “one with God”. It can never make us God. Then again I suppose it depends on how we perceive God.
I personally believe that He (God) is the creator of mankind, I believe in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, that He died and rose again, I believe in the virgin birth etc etc. So in saying these few things that I believe, I could never say I am God. However, for those who do not believe in these things mentioned, perhaps they are ok in saying they are God because of their perception of who or what God is. When I hear someone say they are God, I of course look at it in the way I perceive God to be and no one on earth has the right to say they are God.
To properly understand what is meant by such a statement that says a person is God, I guess one has to know how that person sees who or what God is.
I have heard that as well Dan and it’s a very good point. But it still only makes us drops and a drop of water can never be the sea. :–))
Roy- IMO, anything that does not speak of oneness with God, speaks of separation. We’re here………………………..God is here. I don’t believe that. I believe we are one WITH God. We are NOT God, certainly. But we are not separate FROM God. We are of the same stuff, spirit. We are simply having a human experience, but we are spirit. I don’t know why we are having this human experience, I suspect to learn, including learning who we really are.
Think of it this way, if God is the creator of everything, then God is in everything, part of everything, including us. There is NOTHING that is NOT God, including us. The analogy of drops of water in the sea is a good one. Each individual drop is made up of the same thing as the sea, but it is NOT the whole sea. We are made of the same thing as God, but we are NOT God.
Another analogy: As mystical theologian Matthew Fox writes: “As the ocean is in the fish and the fish are in God, so God is in everything and everything is in God.” Theologians call this Biblical position “panENtheism,” meaning literally, “all in God.” Panentheism is distinguished from pantheism, which maintains that God is all, and all is God. If you ask a fish to point to the ocean, it must point up, down, all around itself, and finally inside itself. Yet, the fish is not the ocean.
Finally, here is a portion of a post I did:When I say that “We are all one, made of the same stuff as God. God and us are the same”. There is often a misinterpretation of what that means. Typically, and recently, someone said to me, “So you believe you are God”. How arrogant that must sound to their hearing. But, they simply misunderstand. I have tried for some time to write an explanation of what it is that I mean. I have yet to sufficiently do that. However, God leads us to the answer. Neale Donald Walsch recently wrote an email which very clearly and succenctly explains this idea. What follows is the email I received from Neale:
We Are All One. We are, in other words, One with each other, One with Life, and One with God.
This means, in a sense, that we are God.
Well, not “in a sense.” I don’t want to equivocate on that. It means we are God no matter how you look at it. Yet there is a way to step into that, there is a way to embrace that and to live that, which can make it much more functional in your life.
I am clear that the message “you are Divine,” or “you are God,” is absolute truth. I am also clear that you and I are individuations of the Divine – and that statement has important implications.
Roy, I hope this helps. I understand how difficult this can be for us to figure out. It took me a long time for the light to shine in my head. I am pretty set in my ways as we all are. I had 59+ years of understanding it one way. Now I am seeing all sorts of new things. Blessings!
Thanks Don. I will read and re read what you have said.
“..But it still only makes us drops and a drop of water can never be the sea. :–))”
correct, and the other side of the coin shows us that without the collective drops of water there is no sea. just a thought
All of creation was created by THE WORD. That word was in the beginning (logos), and the word (Christ the spirit) was with God (who is spirit), and the WORD was GOD. (John 1,1)
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That means we all and all of creation came OUT of God (the spirit). That does NOT mean that the spirit is RESIDING in all that HE made, but that he gave LIFE to all that he created. He did not say to observe the lilies of the field because he was IN them, so they are a picture of HIM, but to observe ‘how they grew’ – they were connected to the SOURCE of their life IN THAT WORD. The spirit created man so that he could have a PHYSICAL dwelling place in order to REVEAL himself to all of creation, because He made us in HIS LIKENESS, with a spirit, and he gave to man the AUTHORITY over the ‘lesser’ things (created without a spirit), to enable this. When he made MAN (Gen 1), he gave HIM, (ADAM, being both male and female) the command to ‘go forth and multiply’. This is what we were created to do, but it has not yet come to pass because we have given our authority over to our carnal mind.(that twisted thought – the LIE ) believing what it reveals to us (in the ‘opening of our eyes to a physical world of good and evil’), rather than the spirit who reveals the TRUTH in our hearts. In this action we, begat after our own kind which is FLESH. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom, nor can it comprehend the Kingdom.
It is only through the spirit that we can ’see’ the KIngdom.
…..and that we can reproduce after the spiritual kind, the only kind the spirit is yearning for. But, it cannot happen until Christ is birthed within us. Christ living out of us.
oh Audrey I love it when you get all mystical
I’ve been thinking about these things. The reason why I don’t think a human being (except for Jesus) can say ‘I am God’ is because I believe God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things. No human being is the Creator and Sustainer of all things. Another related idea is that I remember being taught at school (Chemistry?) that there is an inexplicable force/power that holds atomic particles together. To me, that force was/is God. But to me, God is not just a force or power, He is a living, listening, being. I always loved the words of this song I learnt years ago:
“God is with me now, closer than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet, God has made me for Himself.
I come from God, I belong to God, God knows me, God loves me
God has a use for me, now and forever
God has made me forever.”
eg. Today I realised I’ve lost a cheque for $500 that I’ve been holding on behalf of someone else. In my thoughts I’ve been saying “Dear God, please help me find that cheque”. I’ve been talking to Him about it. And looking everywhere! I wish I could say I’ve found it but I haven’t. So I figure He must be trying to teach me something or working out His purposes in this situation somehow.
(Marco, you probably won’t like me saying “He”!)
So that’s where my thoughts are on the issue being discussed.
The reason why I don’t think a human being (except for Jesus) can say ‘I am God’ is because I believe God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things(julia)
I dont think Jesus ever said “I am G-d”
Hi Julia, I like you to say what your heart says, and if that says He then I encourage you in that.
My heart doesn’t refer to God as he any longer and I encourage me in that.
I don’t talk to God any more about lost items and wish lists. But others are free to do so, the realization that one can relate to God in any and every way that may or may not make them tremble is a step into unchartered freedom. That freedom results in losing the need to judge any others relationship with God. If I have only ever learned that in this life then so be it!
This is a very important issue to many people, apparently, so I would like to again give you a link to a post on my website. It directly deals with this issue and explains it much better than I (It was written by Neale Donald Walsch). Here’s the link:
http://donrogers.org/?p=297
Thanks to everyone! Great comments.
Jesus said , “I and the Father are one.”
Jesus said, “If you have seen me you have seen the Father.”
Jesus said, ” Your sin is forgiven.” (only God can forgive sin)
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” (only God is that)
Jesus may not have said that He is “God” in so many words, but He might as well have.
We have to remember Steve that first and foremost, Jesus is said to have said those things, as part of a developing tradition decades later (almost a century), what is important is not wether he said such and such, but what is it about this Jesus that caused them to write about him in such a way in the first place?
That is the Christ I seek, the Christ without the doctrines n stories that try and explain him that were created years and years later. I am finding that as I lose my religion(doctrines, theology) I get a lil closer to knowing. Crazy thing is it is not so much of a mind/thinking knowing as it is a heart/spirit knowing.
Consciousness has evolved in these past 2000 years, yet Jesus, I suspect was fully conscious. He knew his oneness with God and this caused him to live and breathe this oneness. `Abide in me` compels me forward.
Another way to help explain the ONENESS that is being revealed through those feelings in our hearts is to see that the word ONE is not a place-holder as is two and three etc. But it means ‘the ONE in whom every other one is incorporated’. There is only ONE son, but IN him we are. We are of the same substance and were created IN him when the WORD was spoken IN THE BEGINNING. IN him we live and move and have our being. His NATURE is ours, a nature of non-resistance, the lamb. So we can confidently say with Isaiah ‘unto us a child is born, (the WORD became flesh and dwelt among us), unto us a son is given (we are in him – the son is created, not born), and the government shall be upon his shoulder (Kingdom authority) and his nature is Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace and the increasing extent of his authority is LIMITLESS.
Nice comment Marco.
Yes, Jesus had the oneness of God (with God) because he was of the same essence as God (undefiled, pure, holy). We are not.
Only through His dearth and forgiveness do we get to share in that oneness.
So, for us, Christ is everything. He is our life. Apart from Him we can do nothing.
his death was not necessary, it was voluntary, this is what makes it so beautiful and magnificant, yet tragic at the same time. A man loving so wastefully and living so fully as to give it all away without a second thought, that is power, that is grace that is love. That is so powerful a testimony I doubt any could deny.
we are of the same cloth as Christ, the essense in him is the essense in us, and in his lifetime he shared with others this same kingdom (essense) is within you, this was before the events of cross and the tradition that developed thereafter.
we share in the Oneness simply by being born into this world, awareness of this oneness comes in its own time.
grace to you all my friends, I ran 18 miles today as part of my training for the Boston Marathon coming up April 20, really excited, the family is excited its all good, sitting here with a little glass of wine I give thanks for life expirence and the goodness that comes with Christ consciousness.
Marco
“we are of the same cloth as Christ, the essence in him is the essence in us, and in his lifetime he shared with others this same kingdom (essence) is within you,…” (Marco)
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Marco, I found it really uplifting that you should use the word ‘cloth’ in regard to the substance of Jesus There are several things I’ve been seeing lately, all to do with clothing as in a garment. It began with a physical covering I made for my pear tree to prevent the birds from stealing the fruit. After I’d made it, and stood admiring my handiwork and listening to the angry birds, I saw spiritually how our LIFE is hidden (concealed and locked together) WITHIN that essence/substance/righteousness of Christ. Nothing but nothing can touch it, and nothing can defile it.
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The second thing I saw was this. When Jesus went to Gethsemane, (the olive press) he took the cup from Father and drank it. From that point he wore our humanity like a garment (our carnal mind) and KNEW SEPARATION for the first time. He saw his soul as being separate from the spirit – that garment/material ‘veil’ caused him to be vulnerable to everything that defiles, and so he sweat like great drops of blood.
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The next insight was when Jesus came back to his sleeping disciples (us) and calls himself the ‘SON OF MAN’ (the son of ONESELF). He was ‘wearing’ us – that garment that SEPARATES.
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The next was seeing that young man that was following Jesus, when they grabbed him, he left his garment (carnal mind/this world-life/SEPARATION) and escaped – escaped from what? DEATH!!
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The next one was that when Jesus died, the temple veil (that same cloth of SEPARATION) was torn from top to bottom, but just like those 3 disciples we have slept on, and have been UNAWARE of what this means.
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The most recent was finding out the meaning of the word ‘twinkling’ as in his appearing we shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye. That word means ‘casting off as in casting off a garment’. That does not refer to some future event. It is for now as we SEE HIM WITHIN US. That is his COMING. When we see THERE IS NO SEPARATION – it’s all part of the ILLUSION.
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