Seek and You Will Find

A familiar theme, and Logion 92  falls in the "prequel" category, for nearly identical expressions occur in Matthew and Luke and researchers think that a variant of the same expression is also to be found in the "Q" sayings tradition.

There is one thing that needs to be said about these logia. They are truly the most "original" source of how Jesus really spoke, and if you read them intensely it cannot fail to dawn on you, that he is speaking directly to you. Many people have that experience with A Course In Miracles,  and I would not doubt that Thomas Jefferson had some of the same experience when he composed his The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. Perhaps Jefferson took some editiorial license which I might disagree with, but by and large he was right in almost hearing the original voice and tuning in with his intuition. As I've pointed out elsewhere this is the only thing that would explain how he could distill something that corresponded so closely to the Thomas Gospel, which was not to be rediscovered until some hundred and twenty five years later. It is an experience that has come to readers of the Thomas Gospel and to students of the Course. It is an experience that is available to anyone, for if you truly tune in with the heart, and hear the content behind the words, you are truly entering into a relationship with your Inner Teacher, in which the words are now simply an aide mémoire.

Thus, now that we're talking to him directly, listen what he has to say: "Don't give up seeking, you will find the answers. However notice how when you just started looking for me, I did not always give you all the answers you were looking for. Now that you've come closer, and I'm willing to tell them, but you're not asking." I just paraphrased the saying, making it a tad more "vernacular." To carry that just a little bit further, the whole thing might be summed up as: "Do not give up seeking, for you will find. Now that you've come this far, don't drop the ball and turn around. I'm here, ready to tell you, but you're forgetting to ask." Thus he is reminding us of the fact that we are afraid of him, and some part of us (the ego) does not want to hear him, but we should overcome our reticence, and ask him. He is there. Here follows an almost parallel passage from the Course (Note the use of the capital Him, so this refers to the Holy Spirit):

    No evidence will convince you of the truth of what you do not want. Yet your relationship with Him is real. Regard this not with fear, but with rejoicing. The One you called upon is with you. Bid Him welcome, and honor the witnesses who bring you the glad tidings He has come. It is true, just as you fear, that to acknowledge Him is to deny all that you think you know. But what you think you know was never true. What gain is there to you in clinging to it, and denying the evidence for truth? For you have come too near to truth to renounce it now, and you will yield to its compelling attraction. You can delay this now, but only a little while. The Host of God has called to you, and you have heard. Never again will you be wholly willing not to listen.
(ACIM:T-16.II.6)