I was reading through the gospel of John for class (#seminarianlife) and I came across this line in John 1:12…
12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
The focus of the text here is crucial…
Power isn’t about BEING or BECOMING God (or even GOD-LIKE)…
Human power is to BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD.
Our power isn’t found in our active individualistic human will of blood and flesh…
Turns out, in the Johannine sense anyway, human power isn’t an active thing. It’s an utterly passive one.
God, the Logos, is what animates and moves us.
But the human mind can’t see this. We see this power coming from our flesh, but it doesn’t. Flesh and blood is rotting material. Something is living us but our minds are wired to not be able to see it.
This is where faith comes in…
We can’t believe this or even conceptualize it in a practical sense from our human perspective.
From the egoic sense, we are the source and center of life. This is the nature of sin - failing to see that every iota of life itself is a divine gift, not a right.
We have to know that it is so
without being certain that it is so.
Lord, help my faith.
Amen.
Grace & Godspeed,
Jonas
Fits perfectly with my New Law of Manifestation belief: --- letting God (and Higher Beings) do the work 'through' us as pure channels, as opposed to the idea that we 'make' it happen by our magnetic means of the Law of Attraction (aka the Old Law of Manifestation). Many thanks, Jonas, for your fresh perspectives on age-old views of Christianity.
Hi Jonas, just doing some catching up on your writings. I was wondering do you see some of what the New Thought movement may have been getting at here? From my own perspective, I learn a lot from other paths that I have walked but kept walking. g