Dauthor Jacqueline (Jackie) Richey Weber
Nighttime dreams can be seen as a parable which enables us to better understand the life
we seem to be living in this world
where, as Jesus said, we will have tribulation.
Since Jesus said that He had overcome the world, we know that it is not something that God created, but rather our false concept of the world created by God.
We are oftentimes reminded in Scripture that I
am God, and there is none else
Deuteronomy 4:35,39; 1Kings 8:60; Isaiah 45:5, 18,21; 46:9
There’s a song from The Sound of Music
that goes something like this:
It was in the Garden of Gethsemane that Jesus, who, though tempted in all ways as we are, knew no sin (no sense of separation from God, His Father) agreed to become sin (take upon Himself that sense of separation—My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?
) in order to experience death for every man that we could become the righteousness of God
As Christians, we have attempted to worship God as portrayed in the Old Testament (a god of wrath, judgment and punishment) and also the God of the New Testament revealed by Jesus as Father and by Paul as Christ, the Father who judges no man John 5:22, the God who has mercy upon all,
Romans 11:32, the Christ in whom there is no condemnation John 8:11; Romans 8:1
Several years ago I wrote and posted on my website a contemplation entitled God’s Call wherein I acknowledged that I was called by God to write and had committed myself to that call. In 2012-2013 I posted about 70 Contemplations and abruptly stopped posting anything. I didn’t stop writing altogether, but I reached the place where I believed that I had to spend my time and energy walking out what I had already written before I could legitimately post anything else.
I don’t know if this is revelation or imagination, but I want to write it down to contemplate.
When I took upon myself a body and came into this world, I also took upon myself a persona, or personality, which is not my true identity. God descended in the form of Jesus, “made of a woman” and also came into this world, taking upon Himself a persona and experiencing all the emotions of that persona, just as we do—so that He could take it to the death of the cross, thus destroying all persona (the devil) to free us from the bondage that we came into by fearing the death of that persona, since, in our true identity (which is the Christ) we can never die and therefore needn’t fear death.
Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
I went to bed at 9:00 last night and awakened this New Year’s morning at 1:30, hearing the still small voice inside speaking words of life. I understood that I can never justifiably judge, condemn or criticize another because we are all on the same spiritual journey from the darkness of personality into the light of our true identity which is the Christ,
Yesterday afternoon my best girlfriend and I of nearly 40 years had something of an “altercation” in which I responded out of my humanity and immediately regretted having said anything. I knew there was but one thing for me to do: get quiet inside and listen. I have long since learned (and written) that the Christ inside (which is my true identity) has a solution to any so-called “problem” that I can experience in my humanity. I understand that I in my humanity cannot rectify any condition that I have attracted to myself as a result of my fears, insecurities and false beliefs. I cannot blame another for what I myself create by living out of my human consciousness rather than out of my God consciousness (the “mind of Christ” that we all have (1Corinthians 2:16) but are often unaware of).
My husband and I are visiting Bowling Green, Ohio, where we lived for over 30 years before moving away. Waldemar had expressed the desire to visit Amish country and buy some garlic knocks
to take home with us. He wanted to go home via our son’s house and have him make a bonfire to roast the knocks
as we had so often done when he was a child and we were camping. We had decided some days ago that we would go yesterday. But night before last we looked at weather.com and saw that the high temperature for the day was to be 56 degrees and that it was to be mostly cloudy
and 17mph winds. Since our reason for choosing this time of year for our visit was to see the autumn colors, it didn’t seem like a very good choice to go yesterday. We saw that Monday was supposed to be sunny
and 64 degrees; so we went to bed believing that we would go Monday.