Chapter 15: The Writing Resumes

...and also knowing that in the time of our existence, every task and situation is filled with purpose. As a result we have a responsibility to bring our lives to a successful conclusion.

Oh, if only in our times of distress all we human beings would focus on the truth that God loves us; then, without doubt, we would trust in Him and be enabled to accept and cope with our distress. Our trust in God would help us, encouraging us to believe that since He allowed this terrible thing to happen, it would in fact ultimately work for our good.

Speaking for myself, even though I am suffering and beset with pain, when I focus on God’s love for me and my love for Him, I do experience the victory of inner peace and joy. With that disposition and its accompanying attitude, I am able to give Him thanks for allowing me to live, to make use of the opportunity to be drawn closer to Him and to give Him all praise, glory and honor.

Just as the human body, made up of all different parts, is still one body, so too is the whole of humanity. Human beings of different gender, shape, color, and creed make up the whole of humanity, and are to be seen as one body on Earth, a part of the One Body of God. His Body is comprised of the whole of humanity and of all other entities which, though unknown to us, may exist in the universe, each body having an effect upon the other, like a circle within a circle within a circle ad infinitum. A need exists for the whole of humanity to recognize this affinity and unite in turning to God, otherwise disintegration on Earth could occur.

This could become manifest and operative in the same way as it does in the human body. When an individual is besieged with pain, burden or disease and does not know God, who is Hope, often he or she is drowned in a state of negativity and isolation which causes desolation. A total breaking apart of body and spirit occurs, leading to ultimate disintegration. In contrast, an individual who is besieged in the same way but does know God and has hope, seeing purpose in life that is beyond life, without doubt that person will be at peace.

Trust in God results in the stabilization of self, a binding together with God and in God, which in turn enables the person to cope. Therefore we are called to concern ourselves not only with this unity of self within God, but to realize that the unified state has an effect upon and works toward the binding together of humanity in the whole world, the whole universe, the whole Body of God.

But what would happen if we were to present such a lofty idea to someone? What if any of us were to say to another that their individual personal being can have an effect on the universe? Most likely we would be laughed at; the idea would seem impossible. Most likely anyone hearing such a claim would be inclined to scoff, to laugh and throw up their hands in disbelief.

To most of us, our minuscule place in the universe would seem to be ineffectual, inconsequential, having no merit. The very state of disunity prevalent in the world is monumental, and though we have no knowledge of its effect on the universe, even the most remote possibility that it might have such an effect can strain the parameters of our minds to the breaking point!

Yet, to entertain the feasibility of this idea, one has only to recognize the importance of a single cell in the operation of the whole human body. Often, its activity or inactivity is responsible for the health or demise of the entire body. Consequently, it is necessary for each of us to see ourselves as having purpose and meaning in the whole of humanity, the world, the universe, the Body of God.

For the sake of analogy, we are able to see how certain individuals have altered and affected the whole body of humanity. Our prime example is Jesus Christ, He has brought the message of love to us, and when it is internalized so as to produce an effect, the resulting outcome has the power to bind us together, and could work in the same way with the whole of humanity. Further, love will enable ongoing eternal participation in the Whole Eternal Body of God.

Today there is such a need for the world to experience the fulfillment of Christ’s promise, that of relationship with Him through His Holy Spirit. For the Spirit alerts man to the reality of a Living God at work in the world. A manifestation of this truth surfaces when we read God’s Word in scripture; it becomes alive. Speaking for myself, prior to the release of the Holy Spirit in my life, I had merely read the Word. Before that time, it had not initiated any internal activity alerting me to God’s reality.