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Christ as an inner awakening to real life -

Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey
Brottby, Sweden.
 
The Inward Journey; Outward Bound

The people which sat in darkness saw great light;
and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. Matthew:4:16:

The earth is but a mote of dust in the awesome vastness of the universe,
The known universe that is.
The more we know
The greater God becomes.

The spiritual awakening of the Christly reborn
is akin to the sudden dawning of the greatness of the awesome glory of God.
The extent of unimaginable authority manifested in man
through Christ Jesus,
The seeming littleness of everything else
When contemplated against the Eternal glory of Christ resurrected
and passed on to the believer.

It calls forth a search for understanding the comprehension of which is enlightenment.
That no matter how great the understanding,
the glory of redemption implies in the one individual person touched by the love of Christ, the rest of humanity is for the most part hopelessly lost in the darkness of ignorance and giving undue attention to petty trivialities, when the incomparable power of making the love of God transform the world, which is but a mote of dust in the sight of God, the discernible begin a progressive transitional journey into the light of awareness, one that is so profound in the descent of true knowledge that the petty contrivances around which earthly reality evolves is subdued and fade into insignificance.
These transformations cannot be adequately carried across to the mind that is unprepared to receive that awareness neither are the eyes of the mind of the earthly bound, capable of seeing into this understanding.
It is the inner journey outwards to beyond the darkness.
The meaning of reality is redefined
as the inner journey, outwards,
leaves behind the world caught in its darkness.

However, the obvious awareness permeates
all of mankind of the inadequacy of the human essence
in its totality as it presently finds expression.
The awareness that there is just so much more
than humanity is worth and
yet is incapable of giving expression to abounds
and is within the conscious awareness of the dross and unlighted.
It is at this level that the great teacher,
the Holy Spirit, seeks to first find a landing pad and lead the lost
into their true heritage, as images of a mighty Father.

Yet peace is far removed from this “mote of dust.”

It is only in the decadent mind
of the earthly man that God is set within a time construct
Of Christ being a miracle event of the past,
Of miracles being unusual events
Of science and education being separated
from the universality of God’s provision.

There is order in the universe
The universe within and that without,
Which with simple emphasis
Indicates an imposition of conditions unchanging
An awareness that comes only to the minds opened to receive that knowledge.

The outpouring of understanding
In the expanding knowledge
Will push the frontiers of possibilities
And will lead to an explosion of Godly worship
Of the kind that the ancients would have been incapable
Since they knew just so much
in their setting, in their time.

Deception would work against itself
In revealing through its “secret”
The commonplace.
In each era of the cycle of human existence
Suffering is directly linked to man’s ignorance
And hatred is the self-imposition of suffering-

As love for the fellow man is an acclamation of the divine providence
Yet how many can understand
when the wise have traversed into an inner world,
outward bound?

No matter how difficult the circumstances man faces
There is the freewill
of choice of action
The sphere of influence of that activity
Expands with the roll of influence a person has
It makes sense in that sense of perception
To acknowledge that human action or inaction
Depending on role responsibilities of the individual, each action
Has consequences for humanity as a defined collective.

Knowledge is a state of acquired awareness
The deeper the search, the more revealing the awareness gained,
In Searching for order in the universe, which basically is what education is all about
Both in form, content, and its products,
Knowledge only creates an awareness of God’s awesome grandeur-

And man’s inconsequence when compared with that grandeur
It produces a sense of deep appreciation when man attains that level of awareness
Thus is the beginning of wisdom
The fear of the Lord.

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