empowerment. All people must learn to draw from their own Implanted Spirit,
which is the only thing that will help them in the long run anyway. Jesus gives
them the courage to trust their own “inner Christ”—and not just its outer
manifestation in himself. Go reread the Gospels and see if that is not true!
You might say that the Eternal Christ is the symbolic “superconductor” of the
Divine Energies into this world. Jesus ramps down the ohms so we can handle
divine love and receive it through ordinary human mediums.
To complete the circuit of Divine Love, we often need a moment of awe, a
person who evokes that electric conductivity, something we can deeply respect,
or even call “Father” or “Mother” or “Lover” or just “beautiful.” Only then do
we find the courage and confidence to complete God’s circuit from our side.
This is why people know they do not fully choose love; they fall into it, allow it,
and then receive its strong charge. The evidence that you are involved in this
flow will often seem two-sided. You are simultaneously losing control and
finding it.
When Peter tells Jesus with gushing enthusiasm, “You are the Christ, the Son
of the Living God!” Jesus then tells him that “flesh and blood”—meaning human
logic or effort from our side—cannot get you to this conclusion, but “My Father
in heaven has revealed this to you” (Matthew 16:16–17).*4 Similarly, as I look at
the things and people I have tried to love in my life, I would have to say, “They
made me do it!” It was the inherent goodness, inner beauty, vulnerability, deep
honesty, or generosity of spirit from the other side that drew me out of myself
and toward them. In a very real sense, I did not initiate love toward them.
Rather, it was taken from me! It was pulled out of me—by them.
Grace is just the natural loving flow of things when we allow it, instead of
resisting it.
Sin is any cutting or limiting of that circuit. And we all sin now and then.
But an occasional power outage can help you appreciate how much you need
unearned love and deeply rely upon it. Failure is part of the deal!