Let’s
take a look at John (KGV)
“The
true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world”.
Here
we have God as the light that transforms itself into love and comes to all people
who are open to receive it.
Does
God love everyone or only Christians, the following passages speak for
themselves.
1
John 2:2
2
He is the propitiation (conciliation) for our sins, and not for ours only but
also for the sins of the whole world.
Romans
5:8
But
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
us.
1
John 4:8
8
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Romans
3:23
23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
John
8:12 (KJV)
Teachings
of Jesus
“12
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that
followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life”.
All
who live a Christ like life (follow me as He has taught) shall have the light
of life. These words are a great comfort
Matthew
5:14-16 (KJV)
“14
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid”.
We
are the light which shines in the heart.
“15
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick;
and it giveth light unto all that are in the house”.
“16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father which is in heaven”.
On the sermon of the mount, Jesus makes it
clear, how we should participate in the world. “You are the light of the world.
Let your light shine before others.”
1
John 1:5(KJV)
“5
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all”.
Light
in this instant is the true light by which we see clearly, because God is light.
Jesus
also uses the term enlightenment in a very similar way as in Eastern religion;
He used it as a shift in one’s seeing. It is not so much what we see, but how
we see.
This
is why meditation and or contemplation are important in one’s spiritual life.
It teaches one to develop a different way of seeing, as it evolves into intuition. The cultivation of intuitive calmness requires
unfoldment of the inner life. When developed sufficiently, intuition brings
immediate comprehension of truth. Meditation and contemplation has nothing to
do with being pious; it leads to a different kind of consciousness, or a
different way of seeing in a more holistic way. It brings us into the moment, the
eternal now.
Matthew
6:22-23 (KJV)
“22
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light”.
This
points one to the need of concentration in the higher brain centre, leading to
one-pointedness, and wisdom.
“23
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If
therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness”!
Being
intentional and being aware to what we pay attention.
We
have to get our seeing right, or we distort the best teachings, even our love
for God. In darkness we use our vision for ego satisfaction, with a sense of
superiority, separateness or whatever it is.
We
have an illustration of this in John 9: 3-5 (KJV)
A
Man Born Blind Receives Sight
9
Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His
disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that
he was born blind?”
3
Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of
God should be revealed in him. 4 I must work the works of Him who sent Me while
it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the
world, I am the light of the world.”
The
Pharisees Excommunicate the Healed Man
“13
They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees. 14 Now it was a
Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. 15 Then the Pharisees
also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put
clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
“16
Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This Man is not from God, because He
does not keep the Sabbath.”
Others
said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division
among them.
“17
They said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him because He opened
your eyes?”
He
said, “He is a prophet.”
“18
But the Jews did not believe him that he had been blind and received his sight,
until they called the parents of him who had received his sight. 19 And they
asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then
does he now see?”
John
9:39 (KJV)
“39
And Jesus said, for judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not
might see; and that they which see might be made blind”.
We
need to discriminate between what is right and that which is wrong and do what
is right and not what is expedient. In our spiritual journey, we need to
embrace a sense of awe, of faith and wonder, and seeing ourselves as
co-creators with God’s plan. We ought to be as Jesus exclaimed: “I have come to
do the work of Him that sent me”. We all are a part of creation and have a
responsibility to the whole. In this process we have to be watchful as children
of light.
1
Thessalonians 5:5 (KJV)
“5
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of
the night, nor of darkness”.
We
must be watchful. We can only get away with evil, if we explain it to ourselves
as virtue. Anyone who does wrong thinks of himself with some distorted perception,
like using violence in, let’s make the world safe for democracy or helping
others, we always have a rationale to justify our violent nature. That is the self
serving ego speaking. It does not want to admit the truth of its false
perceptions. It is never wrong.
“And
no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
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