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Success
mikebenson, Thursday, 30. December 2004, 11:07
by Mike Benson
Has it ever occurred to you that if we wanted to judge our Lord's success as a TEACHER, we probably wouldn't want to look at his disciples around the time of his crucifixion? Why not? Well, because one of his disciples betrayed him and then later committed suicide (Mark 14:10,11,18; Matthew 27:3-5). Another tried to start a fight, denied even knowing Jesus, and then cursed when someone suggested that he was a disciple (Matthew 26:51,52). In fact, the Bible says that eventually all of his disciples forsook him and fled (Mark 14:50).Of course, it might be helpful for us to look on "down the line" and see these same men days, even years, after the crucifixion. Scripture says that all of the disciples, except Judas, were boldly preaching Christ as Lord (Acts 4:13,18-19,31; 9:29; 14:3; 19:8). Teacher, when results aren't immediately forthcoming, when you wonder if you're making any impact, and when you're ready to throw in the towel because it seems like nobody is listening, it is then that you must not give up. Remember, it may take awhile before you ever see the fruits of your labor. Think about it.
megan1, 2004.12.31, 10:12
Living in the Spirit
Me beeing a teacher too, I can really understand what you're saying and often I think about this matter; I would like to submit this story including some reflections of mine about live and teach in the Spirit. Thank you.
"Do you believe it?" - What should I believe, Megan? - The "Metempsicosis" - Oh sure, the reincarnation…Yes Megan, I believe in it. And what about you, do you believe in it? - I don't know, I have to make some evaluations, but to consider it I have to decode my little mental scheme; I have to think about the reason why this concept has been removed from the Sacred Writings, who has done this, but above all to what purpose! - I am a good teacher, I think that you, student, will be able of to surpass me? - I don't believe it, my Soul; you are the chosen, you are the immortal one, the Light of the knowledge… - This is true Megan, but consider that I am your Soul! - What do you mean? - I mean that so many Souls vegetate desperate, confined in bodies of anthropomorphic Beings exhaling smell of hell; they are keeping them imprisoned, they don't nourish them and they refuse to be fed and led by them; they treat their Souls badly, as if they didn't exist and so many other things that they want to forget…They have no more tears, my poor sisters! I'm so sad, Megan! The man has finally succeeded in separating what God had united. Yes my dear, the soul was united to Physical Body and to Spirit. Now each of them is on its own and the man dies, castaway of himself. People speak about spirituality, but they don't know the Spirit's essence, therefore it is only a vain "pour parler". My dear Megan, remember that as Love is the Sun of the Earth, so Humility is the yeast of life. It's easy to preach to the others the humility, but then we don't experience it in our own existence. Pride, Megan, you don't know what's about it, but it's the fire that lights the fuse in souls using the Sacred Flame, inherited by God, to burn, damage and kick up a din. Megan, don't just stand there with the open mouth while I am speaking to you. Just breathes deeply and tell me something. - I am struck dumb, my Soul, I'm astonished by the human stupidity… I want to ask you what is happening in the world, do you know it? What does it happen to all this people dieing ? Their Souls, how will they end ? - Megan, what do you think of it? In your opinion, where is God now? - I don't believe God is punishing humanity, because I surely know that all that happens is roused by the same humanity with bad thoughts and bad actions. God is Love and rectitude… - It's true Megan, it's just as you say, but I will explain you what is happening. We, Souls, we know everything, present, past and future are well visible for us; we are connected to God with a gold umbilical cord and we don't part from this vital energy nourishing us and making us immortal. First, I want to cheer up your heart telling you that the Souls of people dead in this great tragedy have been all saved, so that they don't remain tied up to the earth's places, wandering desperate and shattered. They have been immediately rescued! - This is a wonderful new, my Soul! - Sure Megan, God's messengers they know how to quickly act for the best and don't waste their time on trifles, like the men do. God wants the Earth to return straight, so that there can be only one season, He wants to restore the ancient global Eden using His energetic strength; the Evil must disappear from this earth, so beautiful in its nature, but denaturalised by demoniac Beings managing it. All people are afraid to admit that the time has arrived, the time to do new all things. The sacrifice of few for the salvation of many, God desires the salvation of everybody, and I sustain that the Goddess doesn't want to lose none of Her children. God, He loves her and tries to favour her desire, but this is almost impossible because humanity doesn't want to recognize them and, lost in the personal prides, is avoiding them with their hands held out. This is terrible, Megan, because we, Souls, record every thing that happens to the Beings and being immortal, we are really the true Beings and, from birth to birth, we have to take care of us not to live in terror and illness. My dear, men that have manipulated the Sacred Writings have also removed from them inimitable teachings that Jesus had left. These men, led by the Evil, have made a great service to the King of the Demons, because people, convinced to live only one life, are like little boys running wild in a park and they take, with their hands full, all they can grab, unaware and irresponsible that each action they did, it has repercussions on the following lives. Life doesn't end with death, but it continues from a Dimension to the other. On Earth, it exists the betrayal called Forgetfulness, this is the real stumbling block, cause if the Being doesn't awaken in the first years of life it is possible for it to do the same mistakes, while it's educated with the same ironic doctrines and wrong social concepts. - It's horrible what you're saying, my Soul! - No Megan, it's the truth! Horrible is all that the system, held up by the human madness, sends ahead as the true reality of true life! - I want to go away from this planet now, immediately! - Megan, calm down! This is not the way to restore true life; it is not with the hysteria, the fear, the ignorance and the religious fanaticism that we can help the God and the Goddess putting everything back in the correct place, but it's with the calm, the love, the self-criticism, the right self-esteem, the courage to also seek the truth in other places, in other histories, in other lives, in other books. Above all, it 's putting yourselves on the line and be auto-ironic and open-minded. These are the first footsteps that many of you are starting to do, but society still doesn't take it as model and, rather, it tacit and tries to suppress this, just like it has always done! - But They are here and they will finally win, I am sure of it; they will find, in the world, good people that will help them, won't they? - They will win! Megan 2004.29.12 ... Link ... Comment |
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