immersed in Life
Timothy Sutter
you are a creature devoted
to God's purpose. that is, God
has devoted the human being to
a useful purpose of God's own will.
this devotion is breathed in to you,
the human being, and you become devoted
to the purpose which God's will has devised.
you are a devotion.
-you are a dedication
God has dedicated the human being
to the purpose of God's own will.
that Will being the expression
of the Love which is God, and
that Will being the duplication
of God's own harmonious nature
and being not losing an identity
but gaining and maintaining one.
that Will being the purpose
of the human being's existance,
you become dedicated to the
discovery of that Will and
pursuant carrying out of that
will under natural parameters.
-you are a memorial stone
you memorialize the life, death, burial
and resurrection of Christ in your life.
Christ being that Image of God in the human being.
Christ being the author and perfector
of your personal version of the Will
of God which is Love.
-you are a marker for an empty tomb
you stand as a living memorial
to Christ's resurrection.
your life in Christ demonstrates
and signifies that Christ lives.
Christ being the Image of God in the human being.
-you are an alien in a strange world
you live in a world whose activities are
dictated by the maintainance conditions
of a temporary natural existance.
your activities are quickly becoming a
memorial signature of Christ's indestructible
Life, the express Image of Love.
this memorial signature is alien to
the world of temporary maintainance.
-it can do you neither harm nor good
as you take on the memorial signature
of Christ's indestructible Life, enslavement
to the dictates of temporary maintainance,
which is devoid of Love, diminishes.
the alien world of reaction to sensory
stimuli does no real good and loses
the ability to sever your ties to God.
that is, in a world dictated by temporary
maintainance, you may 'feel' good by having
your needs met, only to find that these needs
are the exclusive enterprise of the temporary
physical being and have zero correlation to
the devoted purpose of the human being which
is the pursuit of God's own Will which is the
emulation and characterization of Love in your
finite bounded and encapsulated personality
structure, and so, meeting these supposed
needs is not THE good which supercedes
all other goods.
and so, in a walk with Christ, which is not
beholden to prima facia sensory stimuli, you
comprehend with a clearer vision that which
is God's Will, which is this alien
characteristic, which is Love, and
become that devoted purpose for
which you were originally dedicated.
-do not look to it for good
it can not meet your intrinsic need for God.
-do not fear it for harm
no thing can stand in the way
of your relationship with God
so as to engender any separation.
you were created for the express
purpose of taking on the qualities
and characteristics of God.
and God can not be denied the
fruition of a thing which God
has expressly Willed in
to existance.
-you are home in God
God's dwelling is infinitely creative and diverse.
you become that part of God with all the characteristic
traits of God in your own unique personality structure.
you are clothed in God
immersed in Life
immersed in Love
no shackles can hold this.
so you see, we are all of these things.
there is no judgement which
may strip that from me.
i only intend to draw closer.
let's not be too casual about it.