21/05/2025

We have all read or listened to the extended discourse that concludes "The Last Supper" many times. Jesus can now also conclude his worldly life with deeds that always speak louder than words. 

He and the Apostles walk out into the night and cross the Kedron to wait for the "Prince of this world" to take his part in completing the will of God that we all, every single one of us, have the means, the guide and support to defeat the "Ruler of this world" in our own span of time on Earth.

We are all subjects of the "ruler of this world". Our consciousness does not exist out side of our flesh and human life always happens in bodies that are subject to the "laws" of material science and are constantly changing in time.

Jesus is "true man" but his "human life" is not "subject to the Prince of this world". "He (the ruler of this world) has no claim on me". He is "true man" because he is the sinless perfection of what Adam should have been.

He is also "true God" for IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT reveals that even the smallest sin needs to be countered by the totality of divine mercy which can only be accessed by total contrition inspired by the Resurrection from total death of Jesus IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

 When we face our God in true humility there can no reservations on our part for we are only one being even though we try to compartmentalise ourselves. The sins of my youth are still my sins even though I have sought forgiveness. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is loving mercy and it was to show this to all generations that, having concluded his discourse,  he walked out of the upper room to conclude his earthly mission in his bodily reality.

"But I do as the Father has commanded me to let the world know that I love the Father."

 20/05/25

During "those days" when Jesus lived the perfect human life in this world, Palestine was enjoying the worldly peace named "Pax Romana" in our History books.

Worldly peace always comes about because war stops when the most powerful wins. In my lifetime this "peace" has been the result of the mutual fear of total annihilation that has existed between Moscow and Washington.

We have always devoted "Worldly Peace" to the pursuit of Mammon and celebration of our "humanity" by our joy at living, self satisfaction and pride in our creativity and thus a forgetfulness of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT enhanced by use of the substances, natural or otherwise that bring "joy to the heart". 

In "these days", when we live as human beings in "our own now" the joys of the material world are available as never before. Each of us can plaster our consciousness with a thick layer of  materialism and so carry an almost impenetrable carapace of wilful "blindness" as so many tortoises on our self chosen "route " deliberatly avoiding "the Way, the Truth and the Life".

While we are on earth our lives consist of words and deeds, The Gospels are the record of the Incarnation in word and deed. "The Acts" are the deeds of the Apostles. Jesus tells us that our foundational deed is to believe. "The Father and I are one". Then we accept our lives "Take up your cross and follow me". We follow because we know that he is the "Peace that passeth all understanding" it is peace without fear.

Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you. 

Not as the world gives do I give to you to you. 

Let you hearts be untroubled; be not afraid.

 19/05/2025

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows that the "stumbling-block" that is the question asked by the "other Judas" in this morning's Gospel can only be overcome by the complete faith that is our acceptance of every word that comes from the mouth of God.

I have never been able to answer "Why did IAMIAM love the Jews more than the Nations?" except with "Because he did". Similarly "Why did the Incarnation become manifest in Palestine at the point in  time that he did ? "Because he did". I too know that I am because I am and know that "iam" is known by IAMIAM.

The whole of creation in which God recognises his own "Good" has "Image and Likeness" as the highest form of created being. We have been created to act as God himself would do in the circumstances of our time on earth. On earth we have to choose to live out our lives in loving obedience but we have never made it on our own.

There is something great about the stupidity of mankind in that even in the knowledge that "this too will pass away" we never stop scurrying about fascinated by the physical universe and our own power to analyse and understand it.

The Incarnation is the greatest event that has ever happened in the material world. Mankind has seen the Resurrection, the everlasting state of physical being that will be the only reality after Jesus' promised return. Its time and place is important but not more so than its time and place in my being, my living faith that strives to know the living God in obedience and love.

Maranatha Lord, Come Lord, Jesus come.

 18/05/2025

I sometimes think that to have been born in the generation that knew the Apostles and had become part of the Resurrection Church must be the greatest gift that our time of birth could have given to any soul.

Many of us in these days know that the world of which we know ourselves to be a miniscule part is not of the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. We cannot look at our screens this morning and recognise in any of the news headlines that God is with us guiding his humanity in the ways of righteousness.

But we can turn to this morning's readings and recognise the success of Barnabas and Paul we can wonder at the depth of the Psalmist's faith, "I will bless your name for ever my God and king" and then also wonder how that Faith could have crucified Jesus, how its descendants can mercilessly continue to slaughter thousands in Gaza. 

Looking back through historical time it can be seen that Jesus meant it to be taken literally when he said "My kingdom is not of this world". We do know that the Father did not stop the crucifixion. I cannot understand the ways of God but I live in  results in this twenty-first century that are certainly of man but permitted by God. We are all waiting for the return of Jesus which will bring the Eschaton. "Behold he who was sitting on the throne said " I am making all things new."

This morning John makes a prediction that we will all be comforted but only when we become truly honest friends of Jesus. The History of Mankind from "those days to these" has never been without the human prideful warfare that the Incarnation was to have brought to an end. Was the Albigensian Crusade or the burning of Joan of Arc a fulfillment of 

" A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another

Just as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

By this all peoples will know that you are my disciples

If you have love for one another."

 17/05/2025

I have to believe every word that comes from the mouth of God. I have to make the right choices. Although my body is deteriorating my soul is still free to follow the way, the truth and the life and can do so with hope in my heart.

I am still picking up the details of the Good News but do not have a completely systemized version in my head. There has to be a "my" version  of the Truth for each of us for we are all individual consciousnesses informed by our own experiences and known as such by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT who is always one but has never been seen as such by any of us.

We all have to use the Scriptures to form "my" version for they are the record of what has been achieved in human time by the those who have followed the "Law", "the way the truth and the light". This also is true for the Apostles for whom not everything that their Rabbi had said or done was easy to contain in their consciousnesses but inspired them when they took on their missions and spoke from their hearts the "Word of God".

St Paul's version of the truth often seems to include the concept that is  "Predestination". It is a very important part of his teaching that he is following a path that has been preordained for him. 

He was blinded into Resurrection Faith by Jesus on the Road to Damascus. There was not much evidence of his free will in that historical event. 

Today in the Acts there is a qualification, to the success of his preaching, "and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed". I have always to ask why it was not all of them "who chose eternal life, believed".

I believe that part of the "image and likeness" of my created being is freedom. 

I am not compelled to commit any sin. The evil Popes of much of European History knew that the persecutions they initiated, the wars that they prolonged and wealth that they acquired were not fulfilling the will of God. There has never been a moment in time that has had an evil outcome that could not have been avoided if the ones perpetrating it had made choices according to the will of God.

We have never lived true to the final revelation. The life, death and resurrection of Jesus has destroyed the power of Satan but we constantly seek him out and thus turn our backs on our crucified Lord.

Please Lord help us to end present Evil in the only way that we can. Let us all believe "That whatever you ask in my name, this I will do. If you ask me for anything in my name  I will do it" and let our world change or come to the end. Maranatha Lord, Jesus come. Amen.

 16/05/2025

The formatting of my prayer and reflection records over the last couple of days has gone haywire and I have lost the the little knowledge that I had of how to correct it. I hope that today I will be able to solve the problem and produce a record that looks right.

The thoughts are all my own, grown out of the experience I have had during my lifetime. I know that my deeds have not always matched my intentions and that I am trying to rectify that in these my "end times".

St Paul did not have to contend with technology but he did have to preach the Word of God  with the fluency of both thought and tongue that would be God's Truth preached to Jew and Gentile in the provinces of Anatolia.

St John towards the end of his life was able to review all that he had experienced from the moment he was called "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men" through both the quiet times spent with Our Lady and the intensity of the persecutions which he had resisted.

He has heard "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am you also must be." He also remembers the reaction of St. Thomas their empirical scientist. "Lord we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?

Is there anything more that we need to know than

"I am the way, the truth and the light."

Our response has got to be 

"Maranatha! Come! Lord Jesus come!

The words may keep on changing but this is the only prayer that I can make for it is the Lord who has the message of eternal life.

 15/05/2025

My morning prayer is always my choice to start each day aware that I am living in the presence of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. It is first of all an Act of Faith. I know that I am one of the billions of souls who are or have ever lived who are known in the infinite possibilities of their beings by the "Ever-Greater".  

It is simultaneously an Act of Hope for I "raise my heart and mind" to God by  following the history of our Salvation recorded in the Scriptures knowing that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT never lies and that the truth of His Word is guaranteed by the real-time events of the Incarnation.

          Those times and these are bound together by the Love that is the "Good" our creator "saw" in his           creation and revealed to Adam by giving him the freedom to choose to be with the Supreme                  Being in Eternal life or to place his trust solely in his own consciousness of being the Human                  whom God has chosen to do his will on the material earth as it is done in the realm of the Spirit.

          I know that "good intentions" are not necessarily "good deeds". The above is the "best me" and I           know that I have often knowingly rejected the Will of God and thus driven nails through the                  hands of Our Saviour.

           Sometimes the scriptures have saddened me as it sometimes appears that our freedom of will is               knowingly curtailed by God's Predestination. In the Old Testament God allows the Israelites to               ethnically cleanse the Holy Land of seven nations to make room for his chosen ones. In today's               Gospel passage  St John records that in Jesus' own summary of the "Incarnation Event" he                       remarks 

"I know whom I have chosen."

         Dear Lord, This morning's prayers have to include a petition for the wisdom to come to an                     understanding of how prescience is not the same as predestination when it is an Act of God. You             know that I am completely sincere in this question and that I truly want to believe in my personal             freedom. How could it be that you are responsible for the failings of my life, my freely chosen                 sins.?