Visitation

2000-4-14 11:04:00

Been very busy my friends. Sometimes I wish I just had a 'nine to five' job instead of being self employed with such a demanding business, but the thought is brief. The freedom from the beast of authority means a lot. I've only worked for someone else a couple years of my adult life and that was enough to cure me.

During one short period that I attempted to work for someone else I went through about six businesses that went out of business shortly after I went to work for them. The last one had been in business for 130 years. After going through this experience I thought that maybe a higher power was telling me to work for myself and become self sufficient.

This I have done. If my business fell apart tomorrow and I lost everything I have, I could still go to work the next day and make money because I understand sales. There are thousands of products out there to sell and many companies pleading for a good salesman to appear.

Thus circumstances have forced me, a born introvert, to learn the skills of the extrovert, so hopefully I can avoid the pitfalls of most visionaries who are often somewhat disconnected from reality.

I appreciate your comments Rick and am glad you missed my usual daily post. What's in store for us you ask? Perhaps the best answer to that question comes from the words of Jesus:

Matt 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Matt 24:43 But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Matt 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Matt 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Matt 24:46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Matt 24:47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

The keynote of this parable is that your Lord will come in an hour that you think not. Now forget for the moment about any mass appearance of the Christ and instead consider your individual relationship with God. If you follow the highest you know there will come a time when you will be visited by a Presence, either visible or invisible. It will come at a time that you least expect it and a time when perhaps you feel the least prepared spiritually, but it will come.

To dream and wish for the experience of Christ coming will only delay the happening;
But if you take the highest you know and go forward in the vineyard of the Master;
And serve with no end in sight, in season and out of season, in good times and bad;
If you serve with love in the dark of night with the same strength as in the light of day;
If you continue with loving service through the fiery darts of hate, malice and betrayal;

And above all, if it appears that even your Master and your God seem to completely ignore you as if you do not exist;
Through all this, if you will continue to serve with the highest you know;
If you continue even if God himself seems to be your enemy putting every obstacle possible in your path;
And laughing at you as you stumble and fall, If through all this, you rise up and continue;

The time will come that it will not seem to matter to you any more if friends, God or the Masters approve of you or not;
It matters not if you are some great chosen one, or are looked upon by the Master as the least and most needy of the brethren;
You will now serve for the sake of selfless love alone because the need is out there and you sense the need.

When this stage is reached in your being, one of the Great Ones will take notice and speak:
"Behold the servant! He has become as one of us. Let us invite him into the circle of higher friendship, brotherhood and service."

But even here the invitation will not come as you expected. All your expectations are shattered and soon replaced by newer ones and the groping in the dark is replaced by walking the path with vision. The reward for your selfless service is sight and as you see the path ahead your heart is filled with joy. That which you see is not what you imagined, but more than you imagined.

More soon...