The Joining:
Acts 17:27 “though he be not far from every one of us.” Another way to say this is 'he is close to every one of us.' God is close to every one of us. Christ is close to every one of us. Of course, some will accept and some will reject. The question remains, how close is he to every one of us? He is nature-close, he is identity-close, he is mind-close. How close is that? Romans 10:8 tells us that the word of God (Jesus, the message, the way, the truth, the life, the favored method) is so close that it can be found in our thoughts and communications. Again, some will accept, some will reject.
Tuning forks and the weight of the world. Many of us carry the weight of the world on our shoulders; we are not interested in the finer philosophical ruminations. We say, take what you are peddling down the road. One might speak of things important, urgent, necessary, but that heavy load some people assume leaves no room for resonance. In physics, a vibrating tuning fork will cause another nearby to resonate at the same frequency. I pulled the following from an internet search: “Striking one tuning fork will cause the other to resonate at the same frequency. When a weight is attached to one tuning fork, they are no longer identical. Thus, one will not cause the other to resonate.”
When one tuning fork is truth, then truth resonates in the other, unless 'the weight' staves it off. Communication is that way. Each of us has within us all we need to understand another person. That is because what we share in common is spiritual. With enough effort, we can understand what a person speaking a foreign language is trying to say. We tune in on body language and emotion. The pantomime gets through to us. Thoughts and concepts being spiritual, the resonance is akin to equalization, or Brownian Movement. It is like gold and silver placed together. A point will come where the silver includes gold, and the gold includes silver. John 18:37 “To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.”
We have something in our individual spirit which is identical to the spiritual makeup of all other spiritual beings. Where does it come from? What is it? It is an investiture, a connection, a real and calculated constituency. It is like the badge a Marshal gives to his deputy that places in both of their hands the facility of law. It is a resonance, a vibe, an aptitude that proves a true link. 1 John 2:20 “But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.”
Deputizing an individual is an act of authorization, as the imposition of hands, a touching and connecting. It is the investiture of approval and communion, an act of acceptance, assent, admission. In a real sense, the spiritual bond that is passed between us is a sanctification. It is easy to see. Look at two lawyers speaking to one another. They speak 'the same language.' It is an understanding identical in both parties. It is an acceptance, an approval, a communion. This is true for all individuals who are accepted into a group under the auspices of a shared bond, a communal language. The bodies are not identical, but the resonance is. Those who plant and those who reap are paid by the same landowner. Hebrews 2:11 “For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.”
Please note the application of the expression “all of one.” Whether we accept it or not, all of us are “of one.” Those who reject the one, reject their own internal makeup. Those who accept the one, resonate at the frequency of one. Refer back to 1 John 2:20 and the “Holy One.” The “all things” that we know are the things that the One knows. It is a trickle-down process by which the Son is made one with the Father, and the disciple is made one with the Son. Each knows the truth because the truth is the one. It is that spiritual communion that exists above the nuts and bolts of the world. John 17:11 “And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me; that they may be one, as we are.”
What is “thine own name?” It is One. Oneness has the dual meaning of both parties being a part of the other. For a bag of apples, one is just as much the apples in the bag as the bag containing apples. You can look at it from either perspective and see that it is true. My brother is just as much my brother as I am his. My wife is just as much my wife as I am her husband. To be part of the body whole is to be imbued with the nature of the whole. Just as Christ is imbued with the very nature of God, the disciple is imbued with the very nature of Christ. Any distinction is moot. Are you a Christian? Then Christ is actually, believably, in you. You are Christ to the world. You are truth to the world, the way, and the life, no less than Jesus. You are the message of oneness to the world. John 17:21 “That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.”
Is God the only one with glory? Is Christ the only one with glory? Now, there is a word we don't think about as much as we should. What is glory? Certainly, it is not some shiny external attribute. It is not found in our individual taste in clothing. It is not seen in a shiny Lamborghini. There is one truth, the truth of Truth. There is one glory, the glory of the One. Glory is the spiritual bond we share with God and Christ through the Holy One, knowing all things. John 17:22 “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.”
There are two points to be clear on. First, perfection is found in the bond. That bond accepts rather than rejects. That bond loves rather than hates. That bond unites into a single identity. Second, the world is every weighted spirit that mistakenly seeks perfection outside of the bond. Because they are outside, they exalt individualism through competition and hatred, through differences, strife, and war. They practice rejection by default. In actuality, they seek a bond, but they will never find it with others who practice being apart. They must be convinced, and they will be when they are helped to realize their true spiritual nature. John 17:23 “I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.”
I have saved the mystery of this section for last. It is found in Ephesians 4:4 “There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling.” All bodies on the earth are one body. All of their individual spirits are one spirit. We are all one when we are gathered together in the light. Unfortunately, some of us are still scattered in darkness. God spared not the angels, but cast them into hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness. Earlier, I made a mysterious play on words: the truth of Truth. What is Truth? It is everything that is. Colossians 1:15-17 “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”
Therefore, evil and the devil are the rejection of our godly nature, just as darkness is the absence of light. Many of us are gathered as one in One, as truth in Truth, and that message is for the scattered. That message goes out to all those poor souls buried under chains of darkness. We are called in one hope of our calling. What does that mean? The calling goes forth broadcast to all the bodies and spirits in the earth. The Shepherd has left the ninety and nine to seek the lost. The one hope is One. Oneness seeks oneness, the convinced, the 'whosoever will.'
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