Hug the One that you may be released in All
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- Nov 12, 2022
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Updated: Jun 3, 2024
Day 262
I am always here – in your thoughts, in your ways, in your heart. It is My home. I would be nowhere else. It is My joy to lead you into the places you would go – the desires of your heart, the places of the mind that are always open for us to explore.
Would you learn to create? Would you learn to discover? Would you see that which cannot be imagined? I am all those, and more. Come closer, take My hand, be not afraid to stare into My eyes. For in them you will find the familiar – the kindness I hold out to you, the fondness of presence together, the love of our hearts.
Never hide in the dark and see a place of unworthiness, or in the shadows that hide an embarrassed presence. Run to Me; come very near, behold the universe within My eyes. We are one, never to be separated in the light. I will grasp your hand as you grasp Mine, and we will know in truth what we have known all along: that we were never apart, and never shall be; you have found a place with Me and we will cherish it together, forever. Hug the One that you may be released in All.

Equally remarkable, as breathing serenest confidence, is the wonderful filial prayer. Our Lord speaks as if the miracle were already accomplished, so sure is He: ‘You heard Me.’ Does this thanksgiving bring Him down to the level of other servants of God who have wrought miracles by divine power granted them? Certainly not; for it is in full accord with the teaching of all this Gospel, according to which ‘the Son can do nothing of Himself,’ but yet, whatsoever things the Father does, ‘these also does the Son likewise.’ Both sides of the truth must be kept in view. The Son is not independent of the Father, but the Son is so constantly and perfectly one with the Father that He is conscious of unbroken communion, of continual wielding of the whole divine power.
So for every one of us that heart is wide open, and you and I, brethren, may contract such personal relations to the Master that we shall live with Christ as a man with his friend, and may feel that His heart is all ours.
– MacLaren
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