God smiles when we love God supremely! God wants our relationship and to have fellowship with us. God first loved us and now wants us to also love God in return for God’s Love. God is omniscient- knowing everything, omnipotent - having very great power without limit and omnipresent - present everywhere. Therefore, with God nothing is impossible. Yet God is most mercifully compassionate, lovingly just and unconditionally forgiving. This is our God. This is a God that deals with us.
God created the first man and woman to God’s Likeness and Image. With Christ Jesus in mind, we are therefore created in the physical image and the spiritual image-our soul, like Our Triune God. When with God, in Eden, the period of delight, Adam and Eve loved and obeyed God and like the angles before the ‘ fall’ were of the same single-mindedness. Knowing only God and accepting very thing as the ‘Goodness’ of God. Since God is Just God is prepared to share everything with humankind without concealing anything. Therefore, God revealed reluctantly the existing ‘evil’ as the forbidden ‘fruit’ and accepting ‘evil’ would mean the death of ‘good’. Since ‘evil’ and ‘good’ cannot co-exist at ant one moment. It is like darkness and light. When one exists the other disappears. The choice was given to the first man and woman. Adam and Eve took ‘evil’ and were prepared to loose ‘good’ that is, were prepared to reject God and God’s love and instead were prepared to listen to Satan and to be under the influence of Satan. God Being Omniscient, knew this would happen, therefore, existed as a Triune God. Being unconditionally forgiving and mercifully compassionate had God’s Holy Plan of Redemption for the Salvation of the humankind. Being a Just God, God cannot take a challenge with one of God’s own creative fallen angle, Satan, by God’s own-self. Therefore, God prepared God’s Holy Word to take flesh in the Virgin Mary and to be born the Son of Man. Jesus, as 100% human became the second spiritual Adam and Mary the spiritual Eve. The second Spiritual Adam and the second Spiritual Eve broke the back bone of Satan and enabled God the Father to restore the Image of the Triune God in the Soul of all humankind, with Divine Grace and Eternal Life. Therefore, now every humankind has a Soul created to the Image and Likeness of God, with Divine Grace and has Eternal Life. Unless we are reborn in this Spirit we will still remain as flesh (John 3:6-7). One of the most important criteria is for rebirth for humankind is to surrender the forbidden ‘fruit’ that is to undertake daily, the first thing in the mornings, to surrender one’s own free will, to reject ‘good’ and accept ‘evil’ to God and instead to accept ‘good’ and remain in the loving obedience to God’s Holy Will. In other words to reject duality and return to single-mindedness. Instead of doing our own will, to do the Holy Will of God in every thing and every one God enables us to encounter each day in our vocation, occupation/profession, community and in society with that love of God and the love for one another, with total humility and absolute truthfulness. For this, one needs to transform one’s physical -self into one’s spiritual-self, that is to enable one’s soul that is in the Image and Likeness of God, to enter into the Kingdom of God within us and to be in the presence of God in Spiritual Oneness. There, to be deeply strengthen in the love of God and for the love of one another, with total humility and absolute truth, in the deepening with God’s Divine Grace and God’s Spiritual Wisdom and there after to continue this Eternally.
Sit physically still and up-right and in the silence of the mind and know God lives in us! Amen!
Francis Andrew