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The Obedient To The Word. by philoedu(m): 11:22am On Dec 27, 2023
The obedience to the Word is the power of family or community strength of love which is the basis of a happy culture and independent people. It is the manifestation of individual dignity with a strong supportive family or community structure less vulnerable and less dependent on outside resources and interference. It is a structure less easily controlled and less tempted by any promise of power and material indulgence, but more connected to one another and with God. It also endow with a compelling necessity as it prevail over external negative influence with a strong and intimate equal partnership, based on mutual respect and enduring love.
The enduring love that goes a long way to sustaining individual member family or community during any challenge similar to that of love of a mother and father relationship.
The choice of our life style may vary in terms of intimate partnership, which has nothing to do with God, except in our quality of love we share in compassion, kindness, and forgiveness within the family or community structure with others in our interactions. It is this quality in our relationship that inspires individuals to feel the Glory and presence of God, through which love strives. In any created power structure which becomes an institution of authority over individual, love do not often strives because it carries with it the right and responsibility to interpret or misinterpret virtually everything.
But love can only expand within any family and community structure through the heart and mind that bring joy to all who experience it. Because God is love as the only prime creator who is the only enduring love, be it individually and in togetherness, except with those who may be under the influence of dark-energies or forces, who may be influenced in dwelling about suffering and punishment as they envision hate , instead of love which is God. It must be made clear that oppression bread anger as it create conflict between and among people. But we must be confident, not to be under the yoke of economic, religions and indeed, political slavery.

On the contrary, we must strive to relief ourselves of any imposed quilt, shame and any resultant resentment through which we remain a free man and free women. As free men/women, we can begin to experience ourselves as the kind and loving race of created being, capable of any thing with the possibility of doing any thing any human being is created to be. And this is the only avenue to arrest any form of divisiveness, separation and alienation, that replace what might be called the spirit of generosity, acceptance, friendship and service to others and to our planet -mother Earth. It is also true, that the path and authentic way is nothing short but love through which every one must come discover that “you are God, Light and Love”. And the very awareness and recognition that we are created in the image and likeness of God which demonstrate and goes a long way to dwell in the only pathway of Love which is God.

What is expected of everyone , is obedience to the word of Love which is -God, of which the definition of obedience carries with it the very idea of -subservience to others. The same is true; because human beings are endow with intelligent capable of independent thought and action, not without immerse possibility to face up with any challenges. This human condition, no doubt, offer a special challenge, not without the knowledge of what is past and future, of what may exist outside the earthly existence, but we are bound and required to find our highest level of functioning of which we are just capable and equip to carry out at any given time . In the process, we may discover the connections in our heart, that is innate in our makeup with our creator, and which is a process, through trials and error of our experience of which we discover the inner guidance which connect us to God. It is also true that we are bound by our contract with God as our creator, to live in freedom without interference and to be allowed to work through the lesson of our life time of which history cannot be ignored.

The history of a life time is not without experience of lesson of consequences of our actions that often time, outrageous and extreme, it may sound through distraction instead of reflection. Although murder may come to be understood as self-defense, and may come to be forgiven, but when the connections to the heart are completely lost, it gets connected with the dark-energy by choice and preference, but not without the possibility of a return to the fold. The possibility of return is always there through introspection, closely related to human self -reflection and examination of conscience of which human being is endowed, unlike the animals.
And in this perspective , the human life becomes valuable as the Great Plan of Soul Ascension, but not an end in itself, because there is no end in sight. In this perspective, we must encourage ourselves, not without individual effort, to alleviate the suffering of those around us and within our rich, but must also be cautioned in the process not to interfere with individual contract. According .Freire, in his (Pedagogy of the oppressed) “any attempt to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act, is to treat them as object which must be saved from a burning building”.
Although, there exist a myriad of difficulties to experience along the pathway, but it remain a project seen throughout the cosmos, as a highly respected endeavor. Therefore, we have no reason for any self-inflicted guilt or regret, because at any moment in time, we can always turn to the light, to achieve and partake in what, one might choose to called the Salvific- banquet that await everyone. The same is true, that we stand to gain the necessary relief from delusion, anguish and pain as we rise to a higher level of consciousness which is the goal of all soul in the cosmos.
It must be emphasized though, that to educate and practice freedom is not a responsibility that must be taken literarily, or pinch of salt, on the contrary, any one committed to critical understanding of freedom must be extra careful not to contribute in the act of dehumanizing. The same is true, that real freedom cannot be given but must be achieved and not without individual effort to earn it. Although authentic freedom may never be achieved, but educating for freedom becomes the only hope for any authentic change and in the empowerment of everyone in the historical and evolutionary process of a life time.

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