10/11/2024
So, when Jesus the Christ says:
The things you've seen me do, you will do and greater, there is a tendency for me to just look at the quote, unquote, miracles that he performed.
However, this statement actually covers every aspect of his life. Even in the worst of times.
On a daily basis, I am challenged by what my ears hear or what my eyes see, to think things and even say things. It is at those times that I have to realign my focus and remember how, under extreme accusatory situations,when the Christ was mocked, accused, derided, and even physically abused that he didn't allow his emotions, thoughts, passions, or even his flesh to succumb to opening his mouth and saying things that would have produced something else in the Universe.
As I am made in the image and likeness of the Almighty, and as Paul wrote, I am assigned to conform to the image of Jesus the Christ, I have to remember to keep those fleshly things on a leash and not allow them to cause me to succumb.
The truth is that Peter DID walk upon the water. He actually did do something contrary to every sensibility within him, everything he'd ever known and even experienced to be true about water and for a moment, he conquered the seemingly unconquerable.
But then, when he allowed his eyes to see one dimensionally, and his ears to hear, one dimensionally, AND he allowed those senses to cause his focus to be taken off of the very present Jesus the Christ, whoosh, he fell feet first into his sensibilities. And they overtook him like a raging sea.
Lifting up my mind and my heart to be aware, to understand, and to know that the Divine Presence I AM is the source and Substance of all my good is an ever present, active awareness.