LOVE AND SURRENDER: KEY INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

By Juan DeJesus

LOVE AND SURRENDER by Juan DeJesus

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638143680

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The Lord Wants Us Back

God’s Plan from the Beginning

In the very beginning of things, there was nothing. Nothing at all existed in any form, aspect, or idea. Hidden beyond all this nothingness and permeating the great void, only one thing was there. This very thing was ever there, is ever there, and forever will be there. From this self-created inconceivable something, all things that now are sprung forth came into existence. There was love.

Out of love, the creator God projected Himself. For love is God, and God is love. The infinite sea of energy that was, is, and that will forever be is what we have come to call God. The Creator, the Almighty, Jehovah, and many other names have been given to this inconceivable reservoir of limitless power through the course of human history. And this energy God can also be said to be love. For eons of time, the Creator moved, exuded, and existed in the cradle of His very nature—constant bliss, unending, ever new joy. This benevolent father could not help Himself. His entire component is love, and the nature of love is to share. He felt compelled to share His essence.

God said, Let there be light. Out of this infinite well of energy sprung forth light. The first begotten son of the energy father was light. His very first creation was light. And from light and through light, everything else was created. The unique portion of God that projected forth from Him or manifested into creation was light or the spirit of Christ consciousness.

I am the light of the world, Jesus will claim millions and millions of years later, for He truly was the embodiment of the Christ consciousness, first initially created aspect of the ever-existing father energy. And the word was with God (for light was with God). And the word or light was God. All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made (John 1:1, emphasis mine).

In other words, the very nature of the Father or the Father Himself as love had taken on manifestation in the first begotten Son of purest vibrational rays of the energy Father as Christ consciousness, later to find embodiment in Jesus Christ. Through the vibrational loving rays of the Christ consciousness, all could be created, and without it, nothing could ever exist. Before Abraham, I am. So Jesus Christ was the incarnation of God on earth. Naturally, the very nature of Jesus Christ was that of the heavenly Father—love itself. Jesus Christ truly was love manifested on earth.

Since He was the firstborn of the Father took upon Himself the gigantic task to incarnate on earth as a regular human being, and by the example of His life, His teachings, work, death, crucifixion, and resurrection demonstrate to all living spirits that the power of love can conquer all, even physical death. And through the act of love and obedience to God the Father, He opened the door of heaven for all God’s other errant children to return to Him, when according to the readiness of their soul, they could freely choose to do so. Jesus knew that there was no chance for us, all the fallen spirits, to return to God if it were not by one of the unfallen or pure spirits coming to earth and experiencing in flesh and bones the actual suffering of the human spirit.

Although it needed not be Him, He decided that He was best suited for the task. In this, divine justice could be best served, and the opportunity for all the fallen spirits from top to bottom to return to God would be possible. It did not necessarily have to be Jesus who came on earth for the accomplishing of this highest task; any other of the highest evolved unfallen spirits could have accomplished it or at least could have intended it. But for extremely intrinsic sublime reasons and out of His great love for humanity, Jesus thought it best that it be He. From the beginning of time till the very end, love or Christ consciousness has been and will forever be the driving force of creation, the architect, builder, building blocks, and sustainer of all that there was, all that there is, and of all that will ever be. And now abide faith, hope, and love, these three: And the greatest of these is love (Corinthians 13:13).

It was love that moved God to create us and the world. It was through love and by the power of love that God created and established His divine Laws to run the universe. It is His love and compassion for us, His fallen children, which since the beginning of things has driven Him to keep sending His Archangels, angels, and divine spirits to guide, protect, and instruct us. Whenever we fall into the pit of ignorance, choosing the thing created over the creator, and in so doing, deviate or move away from adhering to His divine precepts, He sees the need to reeducate us. And sometimes, in not so subtle ways, He points out the path back to Him. God’s divine emissaries, in whatever form He chooses, have been acting on earth in human forms or in the forms of illnesses, pestilences, or destructive forces since the beginning of time to point to us the conduit out of the delusive, entrapping force of Maya or material kingdom. Although this usually does not happen in a most pleasant way, it is, nevertheless, the necessary medicine that humanity needs at a particular given time in order to heal the endangered soul.

All that God does is out of love. Out of love and mercy, He sent Moses to liberate the enslaved Israelites out of the oppressive hands of the Egyptians. One after another, the Lord kept on sending on earth prophets, saints and sages, and all sorts of divine incarnations to straighten the path back to Him. Even though human beings in their ignorance and misunderstanding usually sacrificed and killed them, God did not give up. These acts of cruelty did not stop the Lord’s mercy and compassion. God’s messengers continued to arrive on earth, not only to guide and inspire God’s first chosen children but to also demonstrate to the entire human race by the way He dealt with them, God’s proceeding way for all of His children, His forgiveness, and eternal unconditional love.

It was pure love that moved His Holy Son, the Christ consciousness, to descend on earth. After all other means to bring back His errant children had failed, the Lord took it upon Himself to incarnate on earth in the body of Lord Jesus. The incarnation of Lord Jesus Christ in this world marked the culmination of all the previous intents. It marked the greatest intent by God to call back home His children by the establishing of the plan of salvation. The Lord Himself in the presence of His first begotten Son had taken form in a human body to establish once and for all the new pacts on earth. He came to guide and inspire His dislocated children back to their natural birthright home of love, bliss, and fulfillment, to direct them back to their lost kingdom of spirit through the plan of salvation.

In the new era, the well-being of the soul must come first. From this point on, all incarnated souls will be expected to abide under the laws of love and brotherhood, to surrender and live in all aspects of life guided by the divine spirit within. With every word Jesus uttered, with every deed He performed, with everything He did while among us, and finally with the sacrifice of His life, He sought to prepare us for our return to the heavenly kingdom. Jesus demonstrated that the only way to come back to God is by love and surrender. By the total surrender of the ego self to the divine will of God, with His resurrection, He magnificently proved to the world and to the entire creation that not even death has any power over love. For God is love, love is life, life is light, which the darkness of death can never touch. Without love, nothing can be permanent. The immense sacrifice of Jesus Christ had finally, once and for all, opened the door of heaven for all the fallen children to return to their home in God. The messages and deeds of all the prophets, saints and sages, and divine incarnations turned out to be nothing more than preparatory work for the final descension of Christ Jesus and for the accomplishment of the highest deed ever in the history of humanity.

God loves you so much. If you could only feel a tiny particle of His divine love, you would be overwhelmed and would love Him unceasingly; indeed, above all else. Ever since we separated from God, He has not ceased devising all sorts of ways through which He can bring us back to Him. He has been trying to convey to us His love and the message of the ages that only in His bosom can we find true security, happiness, abundance, and real fulfillment. But, alas, we just don’t seem to get it.

We continue to reject God’s laws and prefer darkness over the light of His omniscient wisdom. We continue to act separately under the illusive ego veil that we know better. How tragic this is for us humans. In this state of consciousness, we divide our soul’s consciousness by the either/or state of the ego self. In this realm of awareness, everything is perceived as being one or the other. Rather than tapping into the truth of God’s spirit where all is one, we remain divided, confused, and insecure. All is perceived by the binocular of either/or. In this state of lies, falsehood, and confusion, we can never find love and peace for our souls, for the ego is mastering, and the ego has been a liar from the beginning, and there is no truth in him. For as long as we insist, consciously or unconsciously, on remaining on the nebula of unreality of the ego self and refuse to submit into the hands of God, distortion, fear, and uncertainty will be our lot. Love, peace, and happiness will persistently evade us.

But the great Lord pays not much attention to our ignorance and misbehaviors. He does not alter His unconditional love for us, regardless of our misconduct. His divine love is always there, waiting to be accepted. In this aspect, the Lord is like a beggar constantly asking for the alms of our love.

Even though our stubbornness will insist on darkness rather than the light of His love, He patiently awaits our return. Constantly, He is calling us back. He cannot help Himself. His very nature of love affords Him no different way. All that exists in this world is a symbol of His truth and love. The reality of the spirit world of God is everywhere, palpable in all that we see on this earth. Through the sincere smile of another human being, through the chirping of a bird in the fresh dawning, through the love of lovers, through the beauty and fragrance of a flower, through all the good, positive, beautiful, and noble, the Lord is saying, Please return to me, my dear child. When we finally heed His calling and surrender to His divine will, we will understand and see it all as it really is. Until then, God is going to keep resounding His message of love through all the ages to come. He will be constantly uttering:

Please return to me, my prodigal children, transcend this material world. There is nothing substantial for you here. I have created this material plane only that you can prove your love for me and learn to choose the Creator rather than the things created to entertain you for a while and for the working out of your sins, your destructiveness, your negativity, and your impediments. Do not grow attached to any of this. This most wise decision you need to make on your own, for I have given you the freedom to choose. I cannot help you unless you invite me to help you.

See for yourself, my child, that all that seems so real on this plane will inevitably come to an end. Where is eternity? Where is true security? And where can you find endless happiness and abundance in this world? There is no lasting foundation in any material creation. I have given you the wisdom to discern, my child. Use it to your benefit. Do not take anything here too seriously. It is all nothing but a temporary dream. Take in all things only the symbolic message that I am conveying to you with all you see and experience here. My unseen world right underneath everything you see is the only reality. Get this, my children, and seek my love in all things.

Why do you insist, my child, to remain in darkness when I am offering you the path of light and of love? All that I ask is that you give yourself to me. All that I ask is that you abide in me and obey my divine laws. But this is only so that you may be established in my kingdom of love and truth and can live a life of happiness, peace, and abundance now unto eternity. All that I ask of you is to surrender to me without any reservation or restriction that I may guide you and resurrect you from this world of pain, suffering, and confusion. I want to make you my own once again, forever.

Love is the life of all things. The greatest commandment of all God’s given laws—Love thy God above all else and love Thy neighbor as thyself—encompasses all of the other commandments. In loving your creator above all other things in this world and your fellow being as much as yourself fulfills the given laws. All of the other commandments are encrypted in these two. Pleasing God means adhering to these divine precepts. This is because God’s spirit or the spirit of love is permeating all created things. If we love Him, truly we cannot fail to love Him in all that exists.

Love is the answer in all the dilemmas of life. All you really need is love. If we apply love into all the problems of our daily lives, our lives can become very harmonious and happy. We need love for God, first and foremost, and love for ourselves, love for our fellow man. The Lord also demands from us love for righteousness, love for justice. We need to stand justified before Him. We need to be just to our ourselves, to others, and to His creation.

The Lord actually needs us more than we need Him. He is counting on us to do the work of love in this world. Without our willing cooperation, His work of love here cannot be accomplished. He wants you and me not only to return to Him, but to bring with us as many of His errant children as we possibly can. But we only need to make ourselves available. He, through His spirit in us, will do the work.

Although the journey back to Him seems long and difficult, the temporary hardship becomes gentle and light once we have whole heartily committed ourselves to Him. In the company of His divine spirit guides and loving angels, the path turns into a journey of peace, bliss, and harmony. Guided by the power of our intuition, His divine voice within us, all of the obstacles and difficulties can be harmoniously surmounted. Indeed, by tapping and connecting with our divine being within and allowing it to guide us even in the most trivial matters of life, peace and solace can be our constant companion along the way to the higher being within. Once we have established our inner connection with the divine being, we will have fulfilled our destiny and soul mission in this lifetime. The peace, inner joy, and spirit rest that we will constantly experience clearly ensure us that we are on the right path.

Christ’s Consciousness Is Everything

The force of the spirit or the Christ consciousness is the making material of all that exist. This all-permeating force manifests itself in all sorts of colors, forms, and shapes in the universe. By changing its vibratory rays, it expresses itself in different forms in all there is. All that we can sense, feel, see, perceive, or touch is naught, more than the projection of the same higher self within us. It is this same higher being within and operative all around us, which through the condensation of its power materializes all things in this transitory world.

This being so, it is spirit, that which we call our physical bodies; it is spirit, that which sustains our bodies in the forms of food, water, and in the invisible rays of the sun light energy. It is spirit, that which we breathe as air. It is spirit, that which we love in our parents, in our wives, and in our children. And it is with spirit love that we love them. It is spirit, that which is loving them through us. It is also spirit, the very thing which in the form of automobile, train, bus, airplane, horse, donkey, and mule transports us from one place to the other. And so it is in all things. It is spirit power which contracts, expands, becomes solid, sustains, maintains, and invigorates all that exists in this world.

The destructive aspect of creation is also the Christ Consciousness manifestation. This beautiful creative force of the spirit consciousness turns itself into its opposite as a necessary remedy to restore order and justice in the world when an imbalance occurs. The pure loving spirit is reversed to its contrary nature by the injustice and by the violations of divine laws perpetrated by the beings inhabiting a particular sphere. Divine justice and divine order must always be the law of the land. If this order is broken, consciously or unconsciously by unloving disharmonious acts, order must be reestablished, even if at the expense and sacrifice of life and with the use of destructive forces. To the omniscient, omnipotent, transcendental spirit of God, the preservation of the soul surpasses, by far, the importance of the physical body and the material plane.

The temporary state of destruction is brought about as a consequence of the abuse of our free will. We as humans driven by the illusive ego self are inclined, even unconsciously, to fall into the belief that we are gods in this world. We succumb into darkness and feel that we do not have to obey any universal laws and subconsciously adhere to the belief that there is no God or universal laws. In this illusive state of existence, we tend to completely disregard divine laws and the highest divine precepts of love, justice, and order.

In this state of falsehood, we commit ourselves to the fulfillment of egotistic desires rather than to the adherence of the of divine laws. We use the divine gifts of free choice and free will in the wrong service. Driven by the little ego self, we give into all sorts of lies and perpetrate cruel acts, crimes, unkindness, and all kinds of despicable deeds. As a result of our own wrongdoings, negative thoughts, negative feelings, negative emotions and attitudes, human beings cause the divine loving energy of spirit to turn into a destructive force. This never happens out of unkindness on the side of God nor to punish anyone but only as a necessary measure to restore the lost justice and order divine.

This course of action between God and the human race has been taking place, unfortunately, since the beginning of time. Again and again, we observe in the Bible and Holy Scriptures how man’s obstinate way of life causes the wrath of God to destroy cities, countries, and most living things. It all comes about as a consequence of the breaking of God’s established precepts.

History and the Holy Scriptures are filled with examples. This is what happened in the times of Moses, King David, Noah, and Lot. All of these biblical stories demonstrate clearly some aspects of how God acts on earth; again, not to punish us but as a way to purify disobedient souls and to reset them on the right course.

Indeed, these acts of disobedience have repeated themselves over and over again throughout the course of human recorded history. Every time these deviations from divine laws have occurred, the divine medicine has had to be implemented. The exercise of destructive force in order to establish the lost balance has to have been the necessary antidote. From the times of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses through the times of Jesus and the present times, the episode of destruction and restoration has kept on repeating itself. My feeling is that it will continue this way until we finally learn the lesson to be learned. The lesson of deciding to choose love over hate, kindness over destruction, happiness over negativity, justice and fairness over injustice and abuse until we can resolutely resolve to live life in total surrender and under the jurisdiction of the divine.

The original state of all things must be kept pure at all costs, and the Christ consciousness power will always act to ensure that it is so. It is the work of the spirit to preserve, untouched, the divine reality of beauty, truth, and love. These divine attributes are the actual substance of God, and if man in his ignorance and blindness tries to mutilate or distort them, man must be destroyed. Suffering, pain, and disharmony are always going to be the ensuing consequences, but only as restorative measure.

My Perception of the Lord

There is the higher self and there is the highest self. The Father is one, and the Son is one, and the Father and the Son are one. The expression of the Father as the Son is Christ consciousness. This Christ consciousness embodied on earth in the body of Jesus and, in this human form, was referred to as the Son of Man as it is found in the biblical verses of the New Testament.

God is one. He is the unmanifested; that is, was and forever will be. He is the creator of all things, the Almighty, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, the highest ever existing self. Although the great Lord Himself remains unexpressed, unseen, He projects Himself in the presence of His Son, the Christ consciousness or higher self. And through this force springing forth directly from His divine bosom, He creates all that exists. He creates universes, constellations, planets, spirits, people, life everywhere. This higher self has found a unique, a one-time expression in this world in the body of Jesus, the Son of Man. This concept applies also to every human being living on this planet. Our physical bodies too are the Son of Man in which the spark of divine spirit also resides. This Son of Man or physical body happens to be also the expression of the pseudo soul or ego in this world. So although within the Son of Man lives the spark of God or higher self, the outer shell or physical body represents the outer ego self, which must be shelled off eventually. The Son of Man or human form appears to be the lesser divine projection of the highest self or God the Father.

A great part of Jesus’s mission in this world consisted of instructing us about the destructive power of the ego when under the influence of the lower self and how to overcome this major obstacle in humans which prohibits the unification with the higher self within. His mission was also to demonstrate to us the great reward that awaits us when through diligent spiritual work, we can reach the point of total surrender.

This ego self is the pseudo soul or outer layer that the godly spark became when it separated from the higher self. It is basically the soul existing in delusion. The ego is a sort of neutral agent. If