I AM

After spending 40 years in Median as a shepherd, which was a time of deconstructing the ego that was developed as a Prince of Egypt, Moses goes on a journey to ‘the far side of the wilderness’ and arrives at Horeb, the mountain of God. Here he would finally be introduced to Him-Self.

Horeb represents the place where our journey of seeking ends and the answer to all questions pertaining to life and godliness are answered. It is the place to which we are all called and where we are set free from our self-imposed slavery. Here we are able to worship God in the highest and where the rivers of living water flow. Here, the Light of the 'burning bush' reveals that the only answer to the ancient question, “Who am I” is, “I AM THAT I AM”.

In the ‘burning bush’ we find the oneness of God and Man. The fire is within the bush but they are not two as the fire never consumes the bush – it is not fire and bush, but a ‘burning bush’ – One identity, One ‘I’. It is holy (whole, perfect) ground. “On that day you will know that I AM in my Father, you are in me and I AM in you”. ‘That day’ is our Horeb.

God is the only ‘I’ that there is, the One Indivisible Self in whom we all exist. The ‘ego-I’ that Moses had created (which we all have done) was false and therefore not real. However, it is stubborn and will not easily let us go. The only way is Christ, our rod and our staff. The Christ-Way is the absolute identification with God – “I and my Father are One”. It declares that we are the I AM-Self, the God-Self, the Christ-Self, the True-Self. There is no other self in Reality. We need to know ourselves as God knows us – as Him-Self. Horeb was intended by God as the only stop for Israel on the way to the Promised Land, where they were to worship I AM.

Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father is our True identity. For many though, climbing the heights of Horeb may seem like a step too far and that camping at the base of Mount Sinai, the place of law and separation may seem more palatable, but the Voice of Love will forever be calling your name from within, until you respond, "Here I AM".

יהוה

Exodus 3:1-14

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. ² There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. ³ So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

⁴ When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”And Moses said, “Here I am.”

⁵ “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” ⁶ Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

⁷ The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. ⁸ So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. ⁹ And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. ¹⁰ So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

¹¹ But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

¹² And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”

¹³ Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

¹⁴ God said to Moses, “I am that I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

Be Still

God is Spirit. One Spirit – the ‘all-in-all’, the Absolute, Infinite One. Nothing exists outside of Him and everything has its being in Him. Spirit is indivisible and is therefore both the universal and the individual. Spirit has no opposite and is completely unforced, the Perfect Harmony of all things that pertain to Life and Godliness. Spirit is Truth. Spirit is Reality. Spirit is ‘I AM' (The Father).

The Soul is begotten or birthed by Spirit, however, they are never separated. Spirit and Soul exist in perfect union, which is called Heaven. In this sense though, Spirit is ‘greater’ or ‘higher’ than Soul. Soul is fully aware of Spirit and is where choices are made (The Son) and Spirit is experienced (The Holy Spirit). In creation, the Soul functions like a spotless mirror, reflecting the Light of Spirit into form. In other words, Spirit creates perfectly through the Soul, or the Father through the Son by the Holy Spirit. Heaven on Earth.

The Christ-man is a Body in which the Union of Spirit and Soul exists and by which it is expressed. The Spirit, Soul and Body are One.

However, if the surface of this ‘mirror’ was to become marked or misted over, the reflection would no longer be True. It could even be that the Truth would not be visible at all. The difference between the reflection of Truth and falsity is merely a thin veil. The Christ-man would no longer function as Himself.

Nothing in Reality would have changed though and as long as One ‘mirror' remained spotless, the entire creation would remain Perfect, just not ‘seen’ as such by the others. The only remedy would be for this veil to be removed, however, those with the veiled ‘mirror’ could not be aware that this was required. They would need to witness the One and awaken to the Truth.

Today, if our lives are not bearing witness to (reflecting) the Truth, if we are not experiencing Heaven on Earth, it is only due to the thinly veiled mist covering the awareness of our Souls. We are all the Christ-man – there is no other type of man.

After the Fall (veiling of the Soul), The Tree of Life (Union) in the Garden was guarded by angels and a sword of fire, which symbolizes Revelation and Truth. This is the only way back into the Garden – the Revelation (Knowledge) of Truth – of Who we Are and always have been - the Christ-man. We are commanded in the scriptures to love the Revelation of Truth (Lord) with all our Souls - this is our hope of glory. The Apostle John received this Revelation in the vision of the New Jerusalem (amongst others).

Knowledge is Truth (unlike perception), and with it comes peace, the stillness of Soul. Just like the Sea of Galilee, when still, perfectly reflects the light of the sun, so it is with us when we have this stillness of Soul, we perfectly reflect the Light of the Son – our True Selves – into our world. Jesus un-veiled this Perfect Truth, Way and Life.

“Be still and know that I AM God”  - Read Psalm 46

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Truth Uncovered

Before anything was, the Son was face-to-face with the Father (I AM) in Love (Spirit). The bible describes Him as being permanently ‘turned toward’ the Father. He intentionally wills within his soul to remain focused on His Father and what it is His Father wills – that is, for Him to Be the Son that He is. This is the Obedience of Christ, the Light. This face-to-face union between the Father and the Son is Eternal Life which is called Heaven.

Adam, a Son, an extension of this union, enjoyed blissful Life in fellowship with ‘I AM’ within himself, living in the Light. ‘The eyes of his heart’ remained focused on 'I AM' and he enjoyed the reality of the ‘Obedience of Christ’. He was being his True Self.

Over time however, through deception, a change took place whereby Adams vision shifted from his inner ‘I AM’ to an outer ‘I AM NOT’. The separation within his soul from ‘I AM’ resulted in fear and the darkness that this created was such that he could no longer ‘see' ‘I AM’ within – he could therefore no longer be Himself.  In order to try and deal with the shame, he attempted to ‘cover it up’ by creating a false self, called the ego.

The ego-life was one of trying to overcome this ‘I AM NOT', however, this was impossible in the darkness. It was a life of pretence, reason, cause and effect, control, pain, sickness and poverty - an endless cycle of disappointment. This ‘covered up’ lie-life is called Hell.[1]

Then when the time came, the Father sent Jesus, His first-born Son, to Adam, to shine His Light into Adams darkness. Before being crucified, Jesus was ‘covered up’ in kings garb exposing the ultimate in Adams self-deception and three days later he left the grave clothes of Adams 'I AM NOT' behind in the tomb, revealing the Truth to him.

In the Light of Truth, Adam could once again ‘see’ ‘I AM’ within, choose to turn towards Him and Live in Heaven - the Father and His Son in perfect union.

האמת חשפו

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[1] The modern English word Hell is derived from Old English hel, helle (about 725 AD to refer to a nether world of the dead) reaching into the Anglo-Saxon pagan period, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *halja, meaning "one who covers up or hides something" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell#Etymology_and_Germanic_mythology

Allow God to Happen to You

Love

God is Love. Only love. Everything that He has ever created has been created in love, including all of humanity. Not only have we been created in love, but are sustained by that love every moment of our lives.

God is Spirit. Not ‘a’ spirit, but Spirit - His love expressed. All of creation, including humanity, is a expressed form of Spirit or 'Spirit slowed down to the point of visibility'. Spirit is Oneness and therefore all things (and beings) are connected.

Spirit is love. God in action - relentlessly and tirelessly manifesting goodness in every microscopic detail of the universe, including our lives. The Fathers loving intention for creation is that it be good. That life be good!

Fear

Separation from the Father (called the Fall) is an idea that developed inside the mind of mankind over time. The result was fear and in order to try and deal with it, we developed an ego which thrives on gaining acceptance and control.

These three linked ideas - separation, fear and ego are false (an illusion), based on an incorrect perception rather than knowledge of the Father and ourselves. With ego firmly entrenched, mankind went about building a world (by the sweat of his brow) with all its fear-based mind-sets and systems.

We are not born with fear. This is not a part of our natural being – the Father created us in love, to be loved and to love. This is why fear feels so bad and uncomfortable (dis-ease) and love feels so good. Fear is something that we learn from our parents, friends, religions, schools, business and governments. 

Truth

Jesus is the only type of human that exists. He said, “In that day you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me and I am in you”. Separation from the Father is not possible in creation or hereafter. Humanity is the Sonship, of which Jesus is the first-born, the head and older brother.

Many within the Sonship are ignorant of the fact that they are Sons. Others believe that they can be if they try hard enough. This is ‘the absurdity of trying to get into a room in which you are already standing’.

The Choice

Spirit or Ego, Love or Fear, Allow or Resist, Surrender or Control.

Faith is 'allowing God to love you’. Ego will resist this as it cannot comprehend Spirit. Trying to fix the ego with Spirit will be fruitless as Spirit does not recognise the reality of ego. Oftentimes we try to fix the ego with the ego which as we can see is insanity - the blind leading the blind.

Surrender to the Spirit of Truth and allow Him to love you in every detail of your life. Give up the fight of the ego to manage life and control outcomes! Allow God to happen to you. The result is peace, rest and joy and a life that works and is abundantly good - your grand design and the Fathers eternal purpose.

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