Divine Love
”Jesus’ devotion to the Father’s will and the service of man was even more than mortal decision and human determination; it was a wholehearted consecration of himself to such an unreserved bestowal of love.” (Urantia Book Paper 196)
If there was one word that I could use to say what the message is all about from all the celestials in the vast administrations of the Kingdom of Heaven to the Creator Son of our Universe and ultimately from God the Father The First Source and Center is … love. That is what this entire eternal gift of life is all about. That is the the reason and purpose of the plan for ascension. And so from the words that came from the very heart of God Jesus taught us that the most important commandments of all were “and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, with all your mind and strength.” This is the first and great commandment. And the second commandment is like the first; indeed, it springs directly therefrom, and it is: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ‘There is no other commandments greater than these.” There is no greater demonstration of love, than a man who gives his life for his friend.”
The more advanced worlds of light and life operate their worlds with a love based mentality they already know what can happen to a civilization that does not live with the philosophy of love. Actually that is what Lucifer’s argument has always been that we do not need to live with love that it is possible to progress on our own without God. The way I see it, it’s really not that complicated the opposite of love is hate and there is no way anyone can really say with any confidence that any civilization that operates with a hate/fear based mentality or for that matter without God, will prosper for very long. Many civilizations have already been there and done it made their mistakes and learned that hard but valuable lesson of Love.
“Sonship in the kingdom, from the standpoint of advancing civilization, should assist you in becoming the ideal citizens of the kingdoms of this world since brotherhood and service are the cornerstones of the gospel of the kingdom. The love call of the spiritual kingdom should prove to be the effective destroyer of the hate urge of the unbelieving and war-minded citizens of the earthly kingdoms. But these material-minded sons in darkness will never know of your spiritual light of truth unless you draw very near them with that unselfish social service which is the natural outgrowth of the bearing of the fruits of the spirit in the life experience of each individual believer”-Urantia Book
Our Creator Son Christ Michael said “this generation shall not pass away until they see the coming of the Son of man” for a reason to let us know that we are not destined for extinction.We are going to make our mistakes where ever they may be first but we will learn to go on and become like those other beautiful advanced worlds that the Urantia Book refers to as worlds of light and life. Our destiny is to become a world of light and life, too. We are all a part of the bigger plan of evolution and progression. From an individual level to an entire civilization one by one world by world,we all keeping flowing forward into the higher levels of evolutionary progression slowly but surely making our way through eternityand being drawn all along the way by the love of God to Paradise.
Something that should be so simple and natural for us human beings to do living our lives expressing the love of God by doing good to others is really what it’s all about…In his letter to the Corinthian Church Paul from the Bible writes about the importance of love, ” If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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