Order

Disciple: James, the Son of Alpheus

Month of September

Tribe of Israel: Zebulum

Based on Revelations 21: 11-14

Orderliness is being neat and living with a sense of equanimity. It is being organized and having a place for all things when you need them. Orderliness is masterminding something so that it works, achieving it step by step, instead of going in circles. Order is putting first things first, and prioritizing and doing things you need to.

Let us get still now by gently allowing our thoughts to slow down. Let us lovingly enter the secret place of the Most High at the very center of our being. Through our spiritual nature and in child like faith, let us surrender to the dominion of the universal, indwelling Christ of Faith, knowing that Christ is God’s only way to establish Divine Order in our lives and affairs.

We now share this prayer together.

O God, our Heavenly Father, who has filled the world with beauty, open our spiritual eyes that we may behold your Divine Plan and Order in all your handiwork. By honoring and celebrating your creation, may we learn to serve you with gladness and corporate with the natural and spiritual laws of our planet and your universe, for the glory of Christ, the only begotten Son of God, in whom all things are made.
Amen.

Devotion:

Here are the words spoken by the historical Jesus in St. John 21:22-23 about the awakening and dominion of the Christ of Faith within John, the apostle. "If it is my will that he (John) remain till I come, what is that to you? Follow me! So the rumor spread in the community that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say he would not die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"

Jesus' beloved disciple John is symbolic of one’s awareness of and self-giving love of the Christ of Faith, in the spiritual body of the historical Jesus and all persons. Jesus Christ fully manifested the indwelling and incarnation of the Godhead through the indwelling Christ of Faith. In faith and humility, Jesus obeyed God’s Law and therefore realized and demonstrated God’s image, likeness and promises throughout his life. The mind of the flesh has always rejected the presence, guidance and sovereignty of the universal indwelling Christ of Faith. It ignores and disobeys the indwelling Christ of Faith and rejects God's universal metanoia model as mankind's universal sources of Life, Love, Light, Truth and Grace.

In 1 Corinthians 15:22-25, we read these words by St. Paul, "For as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming, those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom of God to the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet".

Adam rejected God’s plan of eternal and abundant life for mankind in the mind of the spirit. He refused to eat of the tree of life, through faith in the universal, indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith. He chose instead God’s promise of sure death, by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in the mind of the flesh (Genesis 2:16-17). Mankind no longer needs to follow Adam’s erroneous choice of sin and spiritual death.

Before his death, the apostle John described his spiritual awareness of the mysterious of kingdom living in the Gospel of John, and the Epistles of John. In the Book of Revelations, John in metaphor described his vision and experiences of the spiritual kingdom of the indwelling Christ of Faith, which the historical Jesus revealed and proclaimed in our midst and within us [Luke 17:20-21, Revelations 21:1-8].

St. Paul stated in Hebrews 9:28, "So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him." Here Paul describes the orderly arrangement of God’s plan of salvation, healing and personal transformation through inner spiritual awakening and surrender to the Christ of Faith in one’s spiritual body. Mankind’s regeneration and redemption are achieved, with God's help, by consciously crossing out the dominion of the mind of the flesh and seeking, serving and eagerly waiting for the dominion of the Mind and Spirit of the Christ of Faith, in one's soul, heart, mind and life.

In Matthew 5, 6, and 7, the 'Magna Charta of the Kingdom of the indwelling Chris of Faith', Jesus outlined the orderly progression and evolution of personal and collective human race-consciousness from the mind of the flesh [enmity with God’s plan], to the mind of the Spirit [harmony with God’s plan]. The apostle Paul declared that this transformation begins when one chooses to open one’s soul, heart and mind to receive and experience one’s own spiritual nature and embraces the dominion of one’s indwelling Christ of Faith in one's mindsets, feelings, emotions and affairs.

The Second Coming of the Christ of Faith is now being received in an orderly manner, in power, in majesty and in glory of the Godhead. Christ and the Holy Spirit, the eternal indwelling Co-creators with Abba Father, are now making all things new in lives and affairs of all mankind. God’s will is being done on earth as it is in heaven [John 1:1-5]. God’s time of orderly spiritual recreation is now taking place.

Daily Practical Application & Affirmations:

1. Divine Order is quickened in me.
2. I earnestly seek and embrace the orderly revelation of Christ's Presence and Power in my own life now.
3 By following Jesus Christ in living the Paschal Mystery, I know I am gradually experiencing a Divine orderly evolution in spiritual awareness, the resurrection and second coming of Christ, the very center of my being.
4 In Christ Consciousness, I am now progressively experiencing eternal communion with the Godhead, at Christ’s banquet table in the spiritual Kingdom of God, in our midst and within me.