Heart Awakening
Martin Cecil July 30,
1979 from Assembly — Sunrise Ranch
Our words rightly carry weight, if they are the words
springing forth by reason of spiritual expression. And words are found to be
creative commands in spiritual expression; therefore we need to be very, very
careful with our words. We have a tool here for spiritual expression, and if it
is the tool of spiritual expression it will be used with competence and
effectiveness. And the impact of it will extend way beyond the immediate
situation. The One who sits upon the throne says "Behold, I make all
things new." We let Him sit on the throne that we provide, and He makes
this statement through our spiritual expression.
“And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all
things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.”
It is so. “And he said unto me, It is
done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.” There is nothing
outside of the competence of the One who sits upon the throne. He has lacked a
throne upon which to sit in this human world. Now we provide Him with one. The
throne is the symbol of authority. “I will give unto him that is athirst of the
fountain of the water of life freely.” That's spiritual expression. “He that
overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my
son.” What was the Master's statement? “I and my Father are one.”
“He that overcometh shall inherit all things.” In human nature
the thought is “Oh goody; everything that I need is going to come to me; this will
be a worthwhile exercise.” Will inherit all things; it doesn't say all good
things; all things, the whole range. All this is brought to us. It comes to us,
part of our inheritance. If we look it over and say, “Well I rather like this
but that I don't like so well; I'll accept this but I'll reject that.”—What
sort of an attitude would that be toward the one who is providing us with this
inheritance? The inheritance is of all things, that we may reveal the fact of
our son‑ship, one with the Father, in the handling of all these things in the
process by which all these things are made new.
There may be some things that come to you that you like. You
say, “Well these don't need to be made new, I like them.” But there are other
things that probably you say “Well I don't like them. Well clearly enough they
need to be made new then.” However, of course what does appear, correctly, is
not based in any human likes or dislikes. It simply is what it should be. And
we have the responsibility of handling our inheritance.
Inherit the kingdom. All right, if that is to be done all
things need to be made new. If we are taking the attitude that our inheritance
is the kingdom of heaven on earth, well we have the responsibility of receiving
it, and if it is to be received into outer form and expression all things must
be made new. We have been looking at this from the standpoint of
the field of education—it applies to every other field—but it is spiritual
education that has been lacking in the world. The tools for the rest of the
education are all there presumably. We are not particularly concerned with the
form of things. We know that that is going to be transformed—that's what we're
there for. That relates to form; it's going to be transformed. It is what it
is.
The weight for us is in spirit. You
know, if there are to be those who are spiritual leaders, it means that there
must be an awakening to the reality of spirit in the individual's own experience—that
is spiritual education. That can't be brought about by explaining the
principles of reality. The individual may nod his head sagely but have no more
awareness of spirit than he had before the explanation. There must be an
awakening to spirit.
People say they believe in God, some of them. The only way
that God may be known is by reason of His spirit. Therefore, awakening to His
spirit, there is an awakening to God. But awakening to His spirit is not merely
learning something mentally. It is the heart that awakens to spirit—the organ
by which spirit may be sensed. This organ, as we know, has been occupied with
other things; but when it is purely concerned with discerning spirit, then
there is a spiritual awakening and the consequent possibility of spiritual
expression.
Spiritual expression is impossible on the basis of
intellectual learning. It is a heart awakening, a heart perception, a heart
sensing, of spirit, so that we become aware of spirit. We become aware of many
things by our eyes or by our ears or by the sense of touch or smell, but we
become aware of the reality of spirit, and therefore the reality of God, by
reason of the heart sensing. That's the organ that is used. If it's occupied
with other things we have no tool for that use.
Because there is an awakening to spirit, there comes an awakening
to the expression of spirit, because spirit is not static. You don't touch
spirit—“Ah, there; now I see spirit. Not with the eyes but I sense it. There it
is.” But spirit is not just sitting there waiting for you to sense it. Spirit
is constantly moving. Life is one of the primary characteristics of spirit,
isn't it? And life is characterized by movement. So sensing spirit we sense
movement. We don't sense some ethereal structure. The sensing is of motion, of
energy. And sensing that we are compelled into the expression of it, into
movement with it.
You can't sense spirit without moving with spirit—without experiencing
that measure of spiritual expression. You can’t sense spirit as some sort of an
isolated, static entity. It isn't that. It is an experience of life, of motion,
of energy; something on the move. And one finds that touching what is on the
move one is associated with that. You would have to withdraw your touching of
that in order to stop the expression of that. And this, of course, is what
frequently happens, because the heart becomes involved with this over there,
and that over here, and loses contact with what it is that is actually moving—the
spirit of God.
When we are associated with that spirit and it is a habitual
thing with us, then it doesn't matter where we are, what we are doing, that
movement of life, of spirit is present there. And it has a strong effect. We
may say “I am come that they might have life and that they might have it
abundantly—because that's what I am.” Sensing spirit is not sensing something
separate from ourselves. It's sensing what we are and engenders the experience
of what we are, which is life in motion. So there's always a pressure brought
to bear where there is spiritual expression.
You have known this from the standpoint of being recipients of
that pressure, maybe in this hour, and you have known it also from the
standpoint of the fact that you have seen evidences of the pressure that you
have brought to bear in a situation. You may often not have associated what
happened with the pressure you brought to bear, but you begin to see the
creative word being spoken: “Behold, I make all things new.” Because you carry
the authority of the One who sits upon the throne. You carry that authority in
your living—spirit in expression, spiritual expression.
That is what happened to the disciples at one point, wasn't
it. They were sent forth to preach the gospel. We begin to understand what that
means. We don't retire into our ivory tower but go forth to do what needs to be
done in the transformation process. “Behold, I make all things new.” That is
the command. All right, the command has always been there. What has been
lacking has been the throne, so that the One might sit upon the throne where
the command is needed. And once that happens the authority of the One who sits
upon the throne is conveyed by reason of the throne. The throne is a symbol of
authority and in spiritual expression, as has often been said, the job gets done.
But let us not look upon that as a platitude either. It's an active experience.
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