VIII. The Only Real Relationship, P 4
4 Think but an instant on this: God gave the Sonship to you, to ensure your perfect creation. This was His gift, for as He withheld Himself not from you, He withheld not His creation. Nothing that ever was created but is yours. Your relationships are with the universe. And this universe, being of God, is far beyond the petty sum of all the separate bodies you perceive. For all its parts are joined in God through Christ, where they become like to their Father. Christ knows of no separation from His Father, Who is His one relationship, in which He gives as His Father gives to Him.
Journal
“God gave the Sonship to you, to ensure your perfect creation.”
God gave me all of Himself and all of His creation. I am profoundly touched by this gift. I am also strongly motivated by it. How can I look on a brother in judgment, now? He is a gift from God to me to ensure my perfect creation. I have so often made the mistake of viewing with my eyes the image of what I think my brother represents. In my confused mind, I have believed in that twisted image of my own making. “God, grace me with true vision,” I pray.
“Your relationships are with the universe.”
Clearly, I don’t understand what the universe really is. Perhaps I will have to wait for that understanding. Perhaps I will have to experience it before I understand. Jesus tells us only this, the universe is of God and it is far beyond the petty sum of all the separate bodies we perceive. I suspect it is beyond all form as we know it.
“For all its parts are joined in God through Christ, where they become like to their Father.”
I don’t know what all the parts are. I am going to assume he is not talking about bodies. It seems to me that when he says the separate bodies we perceive, he is inferring that they are not real and so are not included in the universe that God created. What is clear is that all parts seen as separate are joined with God through Christ and in this joining they become like God. This joining is through Christ because He knows His Father and is not separate from Him. In fact, Jesus says that God is Christ’s one relationship.
My thinking mind is left with questions. It wants to understand the universe as described here. It wants to understand the difference between the Sonship and Christ, if there is a difference. But there are also some very important take-a ways. The most important for me is that my brothers are my gifts from God and that I want my vision of them to always reflect that. Another is that God gave me all of creation. And another is that I am in relationship with the universe, and the universe being of God means that there is nothing that is outside this relationship. This understanding is the closest I have come to understanding oneness.
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