The thought passed my mind that the most important lesson for me today in the New Testament is the one about Jesus working on the Sabbath to help the workers in the field gather their crops before the storm hit and destroyed their crops and their livelihood.
That is looming large today for to Jesus that was going against the commandment about resting on the Sabbath, and to me, it means going against the letter of the law for to do good.
We must seek still more spiritual growth by studying, changing our mind, learning, changing our mind, accepting the unacceptable, changing our mind...until we know, and we know we know.
Comes the lowering of the boom. If we are "lucky," or remain teachable, we slowly, quick fast and in a hurry, realize that we know nothing.
We've got the keys to the kingdom, but the keys do not unlock the door to a higher consciousness. We have a more spiritually educated reasoning mind, but we are still in the reasoning mind, no matter how elevated our lessons.
Now comes a whole nother lesson: We must go beyond reason to love and to understanding, spiritual understanding. We find that going against the letter of the law is also of God...sometimes a bald-faced lie is saving grace, a judgment is a necessary kindness, a resentment is a good reminder.
Standing on the letter of the law is to make that letter our God...oh, how limited that God.
Clearly...or according to me...that is why we only have two commandments: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, body and brains, and love your enemy as yourself. (My take.)
There. That's why it takes all the repeated learning, changing, surrendering unto accepting that it takes...to shuck our Self of our self.
This does not happen in one lifetime but be not dismayed: We keep coming back until we get it right. Which is precisely why we need to clean up our act now and daily...cuts down on the lag time.
Thank you.
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