The Kin-dom of Heaven is at hand;
even now is! Entering the Kin-dom is not like crossing the borders of some
earthly kingdom. The Gates to the Kin-dom of Heaven are not guarded by soldiers
with guns and attack dogs, demanding to see your credentials; wherefore did the
Master say that ‘Entrance into the Kin-dom does not wait upon marching armies
or the overthrowing of thrones of power!’ One cannot take the Kin-dom by coup d’état!
The Kin-dom of Heaven does not invade, unbidden, the human heart. Ever does the
Prince of Peace stand watch at the gates of the human heart - waiting patiently,
and with overflowing love, ready to extend the mercies of Heaven to all who
wish to receive them. The Kin-dom of Heaven is open to all, and all that
sincerely crave entrance will receive an abundant welcome.
The sincere desire to enter the Kin-dom,
the hunger to know divine truth, bespeaks of the fact that the Kin-dom has ALREADY entered you, that the divine
seed has already taken root in your soul. Hunger for divine verities is
a symptom of indwelling divinity; that a character of divine potential has
begun to grow in you.
Once this instinct for the divine
engages you do not achieve FINAL PEACE until you attain the very Presence of
the Divine Source that first initiated it in the human heart. Then, as you
ascend the scale of being from the human to the divine, from time to eternity,
from finitude of being to the Presence of the Limitless One, you are – on the
one hand – shedding your material and temporal natures while, at the same time,
you are acquiring, manifesting, or actualising the potential divine character
of your spiritual and eternal nature. Indeed, as this hunger for divine
verities grow - the transforming power of these truths similarly expand. In
fact, you find that the more you know God - the more you want to know Him, and
the more you learn of Him – the more you discover there is to know, and so,
onward you go on your never-ending, ever expanding journey of endless revelation
into the infinite nature of the Limitless One.
The very desire to ‘enter the Kin-dom’
is equal to the desire to know God, to know Truth, to know Abiding Peace, for
these are experientially equivalent, indicates that you are already
in the Kin-dom, for only the divine can long for and have understanding and
loving commune with the Divine, only spiritual beings can yearn to
experientially realise spiritual realities. That you thus yearn indicates that
the Father has managed to contact and thereby spiritually awaken His sleeping material
child, testifies that the Father has managed to quicken the seed divinity He
placed in you when He conceived you. Thus quickened this seed will eventually
burst forth from the material pod wherein it has been cocooned. Having been
thus awakened, now that awareness of the divine values of the Kin-dom has
finally dawned, your next challenge is to, not only NOT IMPEDE the growth of
this seed but to endeavour in all ways to facilitate it in the actualisation of
its potential.
As this grows, as your divine
potential is actualised, doubt diminishes while faith grows stronger, confusion
recedes while clarity increases, hope springs continually even as despair dries
up. You learn that the spiritual value of divine verities increase in direct
proportion to the time spent contemplating them. Indeed, the light of the Kin-dom
grows in direct proportion to our sincere longing therefore, spiritual
illumination increases in a quotient correlated to our aspiration.
The Father gladly fills the
spiritual bellies of everyone that sincerely hungers for spiritual truth, not
one is turned away. Not only that, He serves it in a manner most appealing to
each individual child – His recipes are as limitless as His children are
numerous - each one concocted to suit
the culture, gender, race, religion, education, class, and general preferences
of each child. Some kids like salt, some do not; some prefer butter, others
milk; more like sugar but still others prefer ketchup, the options and tastes
are truly limitless, but if earthly parents are so considerate of the
preferences of their children how much more so is the Father of All! When
children fight over doctrine and dogma they are in truth fighting over the individual
recipes the Father uses to cater to the tastes of His diverse progeny!
