The day of slavery to works is over. No more need you work and work and struggle to make yourself worthy to receive the God of Love. For now, you toil . . . with offerings, spells, and rule following to connive your way into the Kingdom, to safety. Ultimately, you seek safety from death, as this is your greatest fear, above all. Striving constantly for righteousness and good works you seek to vie your way into heaven, ruled by fear of failure. But this is not The Way.
God loves you and He wants you to be happy. However, your happiness cannot be won outside of the reality of the Living God. So, in order to exist . . . to obviate (make null) death you simply must be in line with the I AM THAT I AM.
Nothing can live outside of Him.
It thus pleases the Lord when you follow His directions so that He can save you from eternal death.
Now, you seek to craft your self and life into something worthy of His love, as though God will be impressed . . . by your social standing and air of importance, or by intelligence--theories and plans; or, by becoming an ascetic, showing self-discipline; or through spiritual exercises or attending church.
Or, perhaps you wish to allure God's grace through self flagellation--through denial of self and self-loathing, penance, hatred of life and shunning of enjoyment . . . .
Fundamentally, through one way or another, you work to win God's favor and grace, as though it depends on your own continual efforts to be acceptable in His eyes.
But this is impossible.
The world . . . and all in it . . . are fallen. And there is no way a creature wrought of such, can, in that state, be pleasing to God. For it goes completely against His nature. He is Light, and the darkness of corruption cannot remain in His presence.
So, here is the Good News.
The Creator Himself came into His own creation to show The Way. And He made it so simple, that even a child can do it, a means by which we can be saved from eternal death AND be restored whole and righteous to live in the Kingdom forever!
The question is: whether to believe in this or not?
The God of Love puts away all your superstitions; all your vain works and attempting to connive your way into Heaven.
Since He came and died and took on the responsibility for the world and all its fallen, now there is just to believe . . . or not . . . whether this is so.
In Believing that Jesus is the Son of God--God in the flesh, here to show The Way--all good things will follow. Once you Believe in Him, it becomes perfectly natural to want to please Him; and then, your works are pleasing.
But WITHOUT Belief in Him, all your efforts are meaningless. Every worthy thing you do . . . is for naught, as it is done without reference.
HE is not in it.
It must die. Because He is the great I AM, and all attempts outside of Him are doomed to failure.
Thus, among the unbelieving an overriding fear of death lurks, which steals joy, and makes slaves who toil away at continual self-related works and efforts, "hoping for the best" as the only consolation.
However, God the Father so loves the world . . . that He made a Way whereby we can escape the sentence of death and all unnecessary strivings and confusion and worry.
God loves you and wants you to leave the world of superstition, of appeasing gods, of fear . . . and He is so generous and merciful that He sent a Saviour into the world, to draw all those unto Him who Believe on His Holy Name, in unity, ONE with the Spirit and Love of God, beginning NOW--TODAY; and going on into all eternity.
Come into the grace of the Lord. When you do, there is no more past and no more future. No longer need you fret about the past, what you have done, not done . . . and neither will you pine for the future, worrying about things to come, or yearning as to how they should be. But, TODAY is the day of the Lord. You live in the eternal present, where I AM has His being. And it is here . . . where you can talk to the Lord and receive instruction, and simply live the day devoted to His cause and being.
Here is a freedom, unlike any other, for this freedom is holy, pure . . . .
This is not license to flaunt God's commandments and do what thou wilt. As that kind of freedom is devoid of sacredness--cannot stand, because it is detached from God and God's pleasure and is against His will.
Meanwhile, there is a freedom which is found in simply Believing in the Lord and handing your life over to Him--the past, the future. You no longer feel the shackles of adherence to self improvement . . . or suffer the vain, constantly frustrated, hopes of working your way to God.
As a result of sincerely and earnestly Believing in Him, it follows like day comes after night . . . that you, by focusing on Him, will cheerfully want to please Him. Not out of fear or worry over self, but by sheer love and gratitude at His most merciful gift--the opportunity of life eternal! Believing in Him you realize that He is Love and only wants THE BEST for your soul, your being, all in all. In simply, but profoundly, LOVING HIM, and then, in loving others, is found the one and holy secret to assuring that this life is wholly and completely successful! For there is no other purpose, at this time, on this one holy day, but to seek oneness with God and to become one in Spirit and purpose. From here, all will be blessed that you do. He is the Master and Perfect Engineer Who is able to make ALL THINGS work together for GOOD, for those who love God.
This is the first commandment, by which ALL is ordered to perfection.
Come out of the darkness and in to the Light. Come into the rest--into the comfort and guidance and supreme advocacy of the Lord of Light--He Who created it.
You can be free from the rule of others in the spirit; free from slavishness to works and routine; protected from and freed from all the realm of the dark entities who delight in misfortune, pain and destruction.
Once you are His, then all providence is bent on your behalf. The King will not allow that a single ONE of His children, seeking His Face shall be lost to the horde of darkness. And by loving Him and Believing in Him, His Light begins to fill your space, so that, eventually NO creature or tendency of the shadows, of darkness and sin, can remain.
Trusting in Him--by having faith--it is as good as done, your final birth into a new creature. For He has promised it, and though you may yet be subject to the vicissitudes of existence in a fallen and corrupt world, nonetheless, in His due and holy time, He has ordered it that you will attain perfection, to be as ONE with the Triune Deity . . . one in Spirit, one with the Lord, Jesus Christ, and one with the Father of all.
Now, your life is to be lived with profound gratitude and thanksgiving, joy and lightheartedness, where even suffering is made sweet, knowing that EVERYTHING is working to the good, once you love God.
Come into the peace,
Come into the rest
Into true and everlasting freedom. . . .
Believe
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Into the glome!
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