Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Selfishness overcome by the stil small voice?
In a lifetime of selfishness I have found the stunning brilliance of something more, something beyond the ordinary. The only force that may penetrate the selfishness inherent within each of us is simply and intricately love. More specifically the love of Christ, which is beyond the world and yet ever-presently dwelling in the world, so much so that Christ transcends the beyond and is both of this present darkness and in the world as it is to become, on earth as it is in heaven. In this present darkness Christ has overpowered and overcome my selfishness, not simply so that I can have freedom for myself or for any individual matter of liberty, but rather so that I am totally and utterly free for the other, and God willing many others. This is the very nature of freedom; we are freed from the bondage our selfishness so that we may sacrificially love the other in all truth and light. We are freed for one another to unlock the mystery of Christ in the world by living in the ever-present body of Christ, which is present in the world only through the presence of Christ in the other. To unlock the mysterious presence of Christ is to present myself free to the other, being as a key to a locked chest which contains all the precious riches of beauty itself, only when a key and a lock are together are they complete or useful. For Christ is present in community through the word spoken in community and becomes physically present in the other when there is fellowship. We as individuals all have keys by the power of God’s word and work to unlock the ‘Pandora’s box’ of Christ within the other, this is where we unleash a flood of such magnitude that it swallows and engulfs the most entrenched hatreds and the deepest wounds and seals them up and covers them over so that they exist no more in any reality. God is not in the storm, nor the earthquake nor the wind nor the sea, nor in the vast voids of outer space, God is in the still small voice, however, this voice is not an abstract utterance from the heavens, rather it is present in our midst in the other. As individual believers in community, God is ever present in the still small voice of the other, the incarnate immanence of the very transcendence inherent within the deity standing before you in the body of the other present in all the righteousness and majesty of Christ, for one day the other will be what they have not the power to be without assistance. One day they will be defined purely and simply by Christ alone, and on that day in all the trueness and glory of beauty and truth, God will remain in the still small voice of the other, and we shall see clearly that in a simple stare face to face we as well as the triune God see Christ. In our bodies we will grow perfection, and from our tongues will flow rivers of ceaseless praise of mutual adoration and all that we dream of here and now will come and with this future, so much more. To be defined by that future makes us all free for each other. And in you lies the beauty to change, to love, to hope, to be freed, and to go one ever for we remember that Christ is with us even unto the end of all things in the still small voice of the other and beyond.
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