-Jesus who?
- It's your own bro', bro.
... Now would you open the door or not?
Again, in Logion 94 which is definitely another "prequel" to the New Testament, it is all about immediacy, and that is what these logia provide by their very nature. The more you entertain a dialog with this little collection of sayings, the more this dawns on you from time to time, that their very simplicity, and the absence of the editorial context of the NT storybooks, aka. the canonical gospels, actually makes for a sense of immediacy and presence, which is really the single most important thing. It is the essential promise of the resurrection, namely that he is present to us whenever we wish, and taking up our "cross" means among other things taking responsibility for the fact that our relationship with him would be a lot better already if we quit slamming the door in his face. That realization is the essence of the path of the Course, namely to remove the obstacles to love's presence, which is our natural in heritance (ACIM:Introduction). Note please that it is the love that is our natural inheritance, not the obstacles: those are the natural inheritance of the ego. Which would you rather have? At the end of the workbook is the following quote in the voice of the Holy Spirit, which mirrors the same theme:
We
trust our ways to Him and say "Amen." In peace we will continue in His
way, and trust all things to Him. In confidence we wait His answers, as
we ask His Will in everything we do. He loves God's Son as we would
love him. And He teaches us how to behold him through His eyes, and
love him as He does. You do not walk alone. God's angels hover near and
all about. His Love surrounds you, and of this be sure; that I will
never leave you comfortless. (ACIM:W.ep.6)
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