Apr 25
Only Love Survives the End of Creation
Consider that Love may be the substance that manifests as God’s voice when he spoke creation into existence. The God of Love manifesting a temporary fantasy creation through the substance of his Being which is Love.
“Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” — John 14:21
Divine Love resides in the heart, not in the mind. The mind is busy with material justifications and physical evaluations. The heart appears to be more of a mystery because it has the potential to embody the omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence of God. The egotistical intellect evaluates creation like looking at a shattered reflection in a mirror and claims to know it all. The heart is like a container that is constantly being given more wisdom than it can contain. A basic wisdom hopefully settles into the bottom of the heart container, while whatever is needed at the moment overflows from the top.
The heart reigns supreme because it is the receptacle of God’s Love within humankind. Matthew, Mark, and Luke found it important to document the primacy of the heart by quoting Christ’s order of importance consistently in each of their gospels.
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. — Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, and Luke 10:27
“Your mind” in this verse refers to one’s personal intellectual capacity within the “all” of the universal mind that governs an intelligent creation. The soul is the container of the ego and one’s greater individuality throughout the time of creation. Both mind and soul have been subjected to the rule of the heart because both mind and soul have been created and will be destroyed.
The heart aligned with and filled with the Love of God is associated with God’s actual Being. The “I AM” who existed before creation and who will continue to exist after this creation has ceased is the only substance worthy of our attention.
Consider that the primary driving force behind fallen human behavior is fear. The greatest fear of the ego is the loss of individuality. Death of the body is feared because the ego has associated itself with a specific form. However, everything that has been created will end. Religious people usually try to transfer this possessiveness from the body receptacle to the soul container. It is easy to understand that the intellect of the individual body will end when the body dies, however even the soul will cease when creation ends.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” — Matthew 5:8
Christ Jesus did not say a clean or pure intellect would see God. He also did not say that a noble soul would see God. Jesus specifically called out the heart because the heart is the instrument of the human connection to the Divine.
The only “person” who survives beyond the end of creation is one who has aligned their self-expression with the Love of God through heart-centered choices and behaviors. The individuality that will continue is the imprint made on the substance of God through the expression of the heart. The container of the body dies. The soul receptacle is dissolved at the end of creation. What remains after creation has completed its cycle is that essence which has associated with the original Word through the heart.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. — John 1:1–4
Love is wisdom in action.. One who follows Christ Jesus must learn to lead a heart-centered life. Pray for Love, meditate until stillness is achieved, and learn to use the heart to guide all of life’s decisions.
Please read the introduction to this series on “The Lost Heart of Christ”.
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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