I know this is the season to speak of life and harmony and good will toward all men; a time of possible healing and renewal~~so, what has my topic got to do with all of this? On the several sites that I belong to, including a writing site, many ask the question, “Will there ever be Peace on Earth?” I’ve written my exposition on a couple of occasions and many, like you and I, ask this question time and time again. What will it take, on an individual and national and international scale for us, you and I, created by the same Creator….thus having the same Father….thus being brothers and sisters, to get along; to be at Peace, at-one [as it was]me[a]nt (“atonement”) to be?
We’ve looked here, and there; we’ve created so many laws to rule us here on earth – to tell us how to behave; what is acceptable and what is not….that I am certain I can say without a doubt that not one human being is capable of telling us all the “good will” laws (written by man) there are on planet earth that supposedly will help us to live as one with “peace on planet earth”.
We continue to look externally for an internal solution; I say internal because all evil, all greed, all hatred comes from within. It’s starts with just one man and like a pebble in a pond, because every human being has a “fear” inside of him (whether s/he will admit it or not); some fear about something, that causes him/her to react in anger or hatred. We are all weak; none is infallible; none is al-mighty in the flesh. There is a need to get at the “root” cause of our sick humanity…and thus, we must go within; I must search within myself. How can you fix it if you don’t know what is broken?
Yahshua was our at-one-ment – he was one man. When he died on the cross we are told the “veil was rent,” that is torn apart. I always thought it was some kind of external thing that kept us from “entering” out there, into the presence of YHWH. But, my thoughts these days are elsewise. My thoughts are that the veil is like a scale that over the “eyes of our soul” that keeps us from seeing “within”; from entering into the “heart” of matters; from seeing our true essence. If we could but see (not with physical sight) who we are; our completeness, our oneness; undivided and whole and “holy” because of our source of be-in-g(od) – we would know that we know that everything we ever needed, is within us; we but “think” and we “have.”
And, so I share with you a short verse I read in a book called, The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus” (his real name is the Hebrew Yahshua) by Marvin Meyer. Do you not remember his words when telling the disciples that he was going (home) to the Father, that they (you and I) would do what Yahshua did, “and even greater?” Then why aren’t you and I doing these things, and even greater? How much greater than raising a man from the dead, and yet we cannot even stop our city councilmen from quarrelling and bashing one another; we cannot even stop our children from dying under the influence of the tools of satan (alcohol and drugs); we cannot even restore the minds of our aging parents and grandparents, stricken with alzheimer’s disease.
Is it because we have not looked within; me within, you within…to get at the root cause of what ails mankind individually and collectively. Is it because we have not gone into the closet of our individual hearts, asked the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) to expose, to bring to light whatever it finds behind the closed and locked doors of our hearts, that rule us (without our even knowing) and cause us to do things that we really do not want us to do? I believe the answer is yes…and wait, before you (and I) come up with that lame excuse, “But, who am I? I am only one person. I am not the President of the USA or Prime Minister of Canada….or whatever. I am nobody. Who will or would listen to anything I have to say?” remember Yahshua is one person, born in a tiny village, son of a carpenter, didn’t go to Harvard for a degree in law or medicine (as far as I know), and yet everyone living today, everyone who has lived in the last 2009 years, knows about him (whether they believe is another story). So your, my, excuse of being a nobody, just doesn’t cut it.
Yahshua amazes me; the depth of the meaning of his parables. Even if you’ve not gone beyond reading what is in the Bible/Torah, to explore other treasures, like the Dead Sea Scrolls (Old Testament stuff) and the book I am about to quote from, you will agree that as we meditate upon his words, there is much “meat and potatoes” a lot of “wisdom and knowledge” and the Spirit gives us understanding of the true meaning behind his words.
So I challenge every reader who reads this blog, who seeks peace and harmony: within him/herself, their family, their community, their city, their country, their nation….and the world…look within and expose what it is; seek to bring it to light, to have destroyed what has been destroying us humankind for thousands of years. If you expose it, it will die. Just like that movie, “If You Build It, They Will Come,” so too I dare to say, “If you expose it, it will die,” and we will Live in Love!
As long as their [insides] are hidden, [most] beings in the world are alive and well. [If their insides] are exposed, they die, as is clear by the example of the visible part of a person. [As long as] a person’s intestines are hidden, the person is alive. [83] If the intestines are exposed and come out, the person dies. Likewise, while its root is hidden a tree sprouts and grows. If its root is exposed, the tree withers.
So it is with all things produced in the world, not only the visible but also the hidden. As long as the root of evil is hidden, it is strong. When it is recognized, it is undone, and if it is brought to light, it dies. For this reason the word says, “Already the ax is laid at the root of the trees.” It will not merely cut them down, for what is cut down sprouts up again. Rather, the ax will dig down until it cuts out the root. Jesus [Yahshua] pulled out the root of the whole place, but others did so only in part.
Let’s stop putting bandaids on our illness; let’s get to the root cause of what ails us and destroy it…before the destroyer ultimately wipes us all off the face of the earth. Let’s get to the root causes of the evil that rules this world, bring it to the light, before the Love of Yahshua, offer it to the Light of Love and have it consumed and destroyed by that Love!
