Sacrifice
As I receive from God the
dispensation giving light to my possible total healing, I am disposed to forget
thoroughly everything that had transpired in my past even with my childhood
regarding some incidents that was not known by my parents unaware of what
happened to me while I was yet a child.
The miracle is that things no longer disturbs me and it is enough
that I receive compassion from those involved and there’s no need anymore that
somebody admit it because it was totally resolved. I’m even revitalized and
feel a new person and had been freed totally from my past unmindful of the
details and there’s no need for a dialogue because I have already accepted what
happened and did resolved to forgive and forget totally that those incidents
did happen.
Even Jesus though he was God had forgiven his oppressor. Who am I
to hold in my heart a clear picture of old scenes? I’m already happy of the
present bonding and God is so good to bestow divine intervention taking away
from me those scales of past that had covered my eyes before. I believe that
I’ll not be going back to my past anymore even with the eventual occurrence of
pressure. The Divine Mercy did helped me a lot, even as of all the
organizations, I try to avoid this one before for some very personal reason.
Though at first I have some fear of entering this religious
organization, I’m glad now that I was proven wrong regarding my fear, and have
benefited from the miracles and enlightenment I gained. I did not stop till I
was drawn to the enticement to such sort of religious gathering for the reason
that if I prevent myself from establishing healthy ties with everyone and
everything, I would be preventing my healing too.
Even Jesus extended help to the centurion and the Gentile woman
that each of their children might be healed. Though I’m not Jesus, I want to
put to garbage everything that had to do with the filth of my past resolved or
unresolved, even the tiny single memory of whatever occurred long long ago
because as Jesus became man, it is his desire that man also may become of God.
Who am I to prevent the grace of God that things may happen according to his
desire that I may also live happily in a very healthy way.
As I bring to mind one of the colorful mirages I have had with
him, I’m convinced that he really had been human in all sense of the word
human. The pain he endured with the cross as it tears his shoulder, the twinge
of the thorns in his head, and the paroxysm of the tearing flesh in his palms
and feet was not some kind of fable but a reality one cannot deny or ignore.
And who is He that endures all these things? The scripture states 20:17 ).” And what can Jesus say
clearly: Jesus said to her (Mary of Magdala), “Stop holding unto me, for I have
not yet ascended to the Father (John
of the Father? In John 10:29-30, Jesus declared: “My Father, who has given them
to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.
The Father and I are one.”
Furthermore Jesus plainly explained in clear terms: “All things
have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except
the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son
wishes to reveal himself to (Luke 10:22).” Somehow though the Father and Jesus
here are fused as one, they are subject to each other’s wishes and desire even
though they have the same feeling having one spirit as attested in the
scriptures.
Philip somehow is insistent of one thing: that Jesus would show
them the Father. Likewise Jesus having compassion with him said to Philip:
“Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip?
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words
that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is
doing his works (John 14:9-10).
In the above statement, there is plain clarification here of the
one whom are being indwelt with and the one dwelling into with Christ not
saying ‘I am the Father’, but ‘the Father is in him and he is in the Father’.
This instance does not say that the one who is in the person becomes he except
if they share the same Divinity or one spirit Holy Ghost. What is clear here is
that there is a God in a God that we may sometimes say Christ Jesus if we refer
to his humanity and Jesus Christ if we are referring to his Divinity.
Somehow the spirit of the Lord did rest upon Jesus (Isaiah 11:2).
It rested in such a way that it remained in him. On the other hand, the Father
did dwell in Jesus (John 14:10), meaning it did reside in Jesus. For the entire
time that Jesus lived on earth as a human, he continue to function with the
intelligence of the Father not that he may be highly exalted but that though he
was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God as something to be
grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in
human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming
obedient to death, even death on a cross (Philippians 2:6-8).
In John 3:16, God gave his only begotten Son, that everyone who
believes in him may have eternal life. But this is not the only thing that God
did. Because Jesus was lowly, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the
name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should
bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians
2:9-11). God also asserts this to himself in Isaiah. Somehow, in I John 3:16,
there is this God who laid down his life for us, so we ought to lay down our
lives for our brothers.
-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra
