The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
~ Mother Teresa
Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
~ paul, The Least of The Apostles, in 2 Corinthians 12
He must increase, but I must decrease.
~ John The Baptist, The Greatest Prophet, in John 3
The population of this planet actually topped out at the time of Noah’s flood. Best scholarship seems to place the world population at about nine billion souls during that event. And since their demise, with the survival of the eight on that ship, we have yet to return to that level. Still, some ~40 billion people have lived since Adam was formed from the dust and made a living spirit.
And of those 40 billion, naught but about 200 have truly brought significant change to the world. Yeah, that is a rate of 0.0000005% for those who figure out the secret.
Abandonment
Abject
Complete
Utter
Total
Unlimited
Absolute Surrender to the will of G_d for one’s life.
So, can one person change the world? Yes. Only One. Him. And the Power these scant numbers of humans have tapped into is the very power that made them in the first place. The change-power they find is the Power who breathed stars into existence and wove gravity across the space-time continuum.
Him.
And there is only one power He allows to stop Him.
Us.
The constants of other-centered and unconditional Love drive the Great Lover of our souls to allow us to hold Him at a distance. And this we do. However, we do it to the nearly-infinite detriment of our being. For our flesh – regardless of any power we generate – is finite. And the Power He would work within us is inversely proportional to our yieldedness to His work in us and through us. So, only in absolute surrender to Him, can the infinite Power and fullness of the Godhead dwell fully in us in full communion.
Now, surely beloved, this yieldedness is not a requirement for entry into heaven one day. Only Jesus, and His work on the cross will get us to that place. And we have but to believe on Him alone for passage to that place one day. But what seems to be more evident to this fool of a writer each day is that heaven is not something we have to wait for. His goodness – His rivers (notice the plural) of Living Water – are set to burst forth within us RIGHT NOW.
If we simply let them flow.
Can we see it? Nobody, but someone with infinite power, can change the cosmos. However, infinite power can fill a multitude of those willing to empty themselves of “themself” and let Him work in them, and through them.
Oh beloved, the world tells us that losing ourselves is a fool’s errand. And maybe it is. But what if just 200 of us do what 200 others have done over the centuries – but we do it now?
What if?
Anyone care to join this fool on his errand into eternity?
