Kingdom's Keys Fellowship
Where God's Kingdom Meets Man's Heart.
Every Next Moment
To savor the moment, to find that each moment is a promise of fulfillment, to enter each moment anticipating its promise of being filled, to see each moment as the horizon where moments cease, where the series of moments slowly lose their definition as separate and become a stream of moments blending into one constant, continuing, uninterrupted awareness where time ceases. It is as though time’s very purpose is to cease being time, time blending into awareness and awareness being the goal. It is as though Creation itself exists in order to cease being. That Creation is here to become not just be. Creation itself is a promise that something newer, deeper, more profound, more personal, thoroughly complete will take its place. Awareness tilts its head towards us on that moment-ceasing horizon beckoning us to enter.
Lurking close to each moment is the hint that the purpose of everything is to cease in order to show that conscious awareness is the completion of the incomplete. Every particle of the seen and the unseen is a step, a path, a movement toward its intention. Life, that living, breathing self-awareness, self-conscious reality, is a movement dressed in the future tense. That reality we know as the ‘what is’ exists between the ‘already’ and the ‘not yet,’ between what has been and what is yet to come. We live in the shadow of what will be. We live in a sea of expectation, speculation about what lies ahead as though there is a gate, a threshold waits for us to be carried toward, entered, crossed, and over into.
The present paves its way relentlessly toward a total immersion in a constant aware present, a permanent, final, complete reality toward which the experience we call reality is merely a temporary pointer. It is a present that replaces what we call the present and it never ceases to be anything but a present awareness, one without a past and a future. It simply is because it has always been and always will be. Everything that is seen and unseen is its intended forerunner, its womb, its placenta, its nurturing envelope, its pasture, its field of dreams and opportunities.
That awareness is the reality every heart longs to be in. That is the life every heart hungers for. It is the life where conscious thought is the energy that drives the desire to plummet headlong into the specifics of knowing, the mind actively achieving its identity, informing the growing heart of its vitality and driving the spirit within to step into the endless depth, fearlessly excited, apprehending in their unity the minuteness of detail and the immensity of its ultimate environment.
To conceptualize thought after thought, keeping them in the treasure box of memory, finding an ultimate joy in the mind. It is the life where the spirit within accepts the embrace of the fit, the comfort, the final sense of acceptance that is the release of the heart from what has bound it to what opens it, from the anxieties and stresses encumbering it to the peace that is more than the lack of conflict and the freedom that is more than unrestricted encounter. That is the life that replaces the assorted maelstrom of guarded awareness and defensive egoism holding our hopes, dreams and fears in the forgotten baggage room of this world.
To enter from a limited life in a body to that aware life in the spirit begins with being spiritually conscious, spiritually aware, spiritually focused to see behind, beneath, over, below and around what presents itself in every next moment. It is spiritually seeing what the physical senses introduce, that in every next moment a destination of awareness is emerges in detail. It is as though there is a built in destination behind every visible and physical event. There is in each of us an innate question mark pointing to a dimension beyond sight and sound. It is shaped in the quest of purpose---seeking, asking, knocking---why we are here and our sense that there is a destination. This destination is behind what we physically and emotionally sense. It is an inner awareness that, though incomplete in this world, will be our outer existence. An awareness experienced within coming from without yet openly shared.
It is not a life we intuit, speculate about, guess or deduce. It is a personal revelation that comes to each individual, to each mind, heart and spirit. Revelation is the key. It is a revelation that engages both the surface and the depth of what we call being a person, an individual. It is a revelation intended to sharpen our sense of uniqueness, our sense of being an ‘I am.’ It is a revelation of what it means to be human in the truest sense. It is borne by one person whose very nature is a picture, an image and a paradigm of what it means to be aware, of what it means to exist, of what it is to be embraced by the joy of being alive and how our limited awareness can be the foundation for that permanent awareness that is boundless, endless, complete and filled to the full.
It is a revelation that takes all experience from that which we consider bad and good, right and wrong, moral and immoral, diseased and healthy, complete and incomplete and rearranges them in a context of thought, feeling, trust and principle to reshape and recover them to fit into that one person who makes the recovery possible. It is a revelation that grows us step by step from rejection to acceptance, from being alone to be being in relationship, from one growing defined awareness of the great awareness that awaits. It is not doctrinal yet taught, not inhibiting yet individuating, not limited yet boundless in its growth. It is personally aware while unifying, relational and caring, spiritual energy enacting every aspect.
This real life comes through revelation in every next moment, something without which a life of complete awareness is unobtainable. It cannot be experienced by introspection for a number of reasons.
First, we are incomplete which is mirrored in our imperfections. We have a limited mind, incomplete wisdom, shifting emotionality and impaired spirituality, the burdens carried into every next moment. All we have to do is to observe the cauldron we call frustration, suffering, struggle, desiring and yearning.
Second, all of this occurs in an alone mind, heart and spirit. We look out through this self-alone awareness. Every next moment is an unknown and it is by definition dependent on choice and decision made in the context of imperfection. Choice and decision are the mechanics of the unseen dimension. If we are truly honest with ourselves there is no question that a guide is needed to lead us through the ‘every-next-moment’ events. The very fact of the invisible reality of good and evil as contrasting polar forces inhabit every choice and decision with their uncertainty.
Third, one cannot escape this basic reality, it takes faith, trust and belief in someone or something from outside to leap into every next moment’s uncertainty without the benefit of knowing what lies in its trenches. Our imperfections declare the need for perfection and plead by their nature for a perfect mind, a perfect heart and a perfect spirit to be our eyes in the unseen. Our imperfections limit us to the self we may call ego, the ‘I am’, the person and that gnawing energy called pride that ‘egoizes’ us through fear and narrows our interchange with one another. That pride, the process tool of self defense, constant self-protection, is rooted in the fear of exposing what we all know in ourselves and one another, that we are alone, imperfect and running on empty not wanting that exposed.
But suppose, just suppose, that there is a person who is perfect, whose mind, heart and spirit are blended perfectly. For him every next moment is filled with an aware certainty of who he is, where he is going and why he is here. Every next moment is met with perfect wisdom in handling the events confronting him. This person knows and expects what is in the unseen and has perfect perception when it comes to navigating in both dimensions. He can see, feel, know and attitudinally show the way through visible reality and lead perfectly through the unseen, which is the substance of every next moment. We can follow someone like this. We are not being led into an impersonal obliqueness but a personal reality.
Just suppose this person has endured suffering at every level of human experience, demonstrated that perfect awareness that can be trusted to overcome the imperfections in every mind, heart and spirit in every next moment. Not only that but consider he dies a real human death and returns from death to life as proof that a relationship with Him as personal guide is the only way for the heart, the only understanding for the mind and the only means for the spirit act in every next moment. Add to that His manner, His presence, His teaching, His considerable control over physical reality. His awareness of who He is, whose will directs Him to principle His life and the Spirit to think, to sense and empower the very depth of mind, heart and spirit restore balance to an imperfect and out-of-balance humanity. He is one who never has to ponder an answer, explore options, consult references and precedents. He is who he is and is totally confident in every next moment as to how he thinks and what he says. He speaks and acts without fear, hesitation or reluctance. He moves with the assurance that he is perfectly aware. In fact His perfect humanity is always available to those willing to take Him up on His offer.
He reveals not only the problem that has made us imperfect, He became the solution through His death and return from death to define every next moment as a personal, mind developing, spiritual experience that becomes a series of stepson a never-ending journey into perfect awareness. He defines imperfection as sin, the spiritual barricade of self-defensive posing we use to control who and what we believe ourselves to be. It was this negative process of spiritual self-preservation, belief in an imperfect self that blunted all human awareness and drove us away from its benefits.
Sin is the ego-driving force through which the play for power, for control of self, blunts the energy of awareness. It was this spiritual condition of fear, distrust and pride that formed the conspiracy of political, social and religious leadership to kill Jesus on the Cross for daring to imply that true living awareness in every next moment was possible through a relationship with Him. By dying on the Cross and rising from the dead Jesus made Himself available as the gatekeeper of awareness. It is an awareness of the particulars of mind, heart and spirit and relishing them that make us who we are. It is the awareness that relationship is first spiritual then personal then relational. It is the awareness that being aware involves every next moment, savoring its juices so to speak. That is, seeing all things working to inform us and opening us even further to the personal reality that is God, the ultimately aware personal reality.
This awareness is personal and interpersonal. It is finding the common ground through belief in the mind, trusting in the heart and faith in our spirit to see the One person who can bring us into full awareness which is the promise of every next moment being the trail we follow Him through. The unseen, the unknown, the uncertainty, the unsecured conscious self that sin has laced with fear and pride has been given a reprieve by Jesus through His death and resurrection. He has given us definition, understanding and Himself as a companion on the journey through every next moment. He is the guide through the unseen, the unknown, the uncertainty and the unsecured that brings us into knowledge, into spiritual sight, facing the uncertain in His perspective and finding a growing security in the ongoing maturing relationship He offers.
Real, final, complete and perfect awareness is the nature of Jesus. Belief, trust and faith shift from us from self-centered anxiety to Him. As He has defined what it means to be a person who has a mind, heart and spirit enjoying full awareness so He, through the narrow path of His Cross and Resurrection, has opened to each of us the ever widening gate of what we were created and designed to experience in eternity---Him. Heaven is not a place but an awareness of His presence and the presence of all those whose hearts, minds and spirits have bridged the gap leaving sin behind and moving into the promise ahead. That is the purpose and the goal of every next moment.
Lurking close to each moment is the hint that the purpose of everything is to cease in order to show that conscious awareness is the completion of the incomplete. Every particle of the seen and the unseen is a step, a path, a movement toward its intention. Life, that living, breathing self-awareness, self-conscious reality, is a movement dressed in the future tense. That reality we know as the ‘what is’ exists between the ‘already’ and the ‘not yet,’ between what has been and what is yet to come. We live in the shadow of what will be. We live in a sea of expectation, speculation about what lies ahead as though there is a gate, a threshold waits for us to be carried toward, entered, crossed, and over into.
The present paves its way relentlessly toward a total immersion in a constant aware present, a permanent, final, complete reality toward which the experience we call reality is merely a temporary pointer. It is a present that replaces what we call the present and it never ceases to be anything but a present awareness, one without a past and a future. It simply is because it has always been and always will be. Everything that is seen and unseen is its intended forerunner, its womb, its placenta, its nurturing envelope, its pasture, its field of dreams and opportunities.
That awareness is the reality every heart longs to be in. That is the life every heart hungers for. It is the life where conscious thought is the energy that drives the desire to plummet headlong into the specifics of knowing, the mind actively achieving its identity, informing the growing heart of its vitality and driving the spirit within to step into the endless depth, fearlessly excited, apprehending in their unity the minuteness of detail and the immensity of its ultimate environment.
To conceptualize thought after thought, keeping them in the treasure box of memory, finding an ultimate joy in the mind. It is the life where the spirit within accepts the embrace of the fit, the comfort, the final sense of acceptance that is the release of the heart from what has bound it to what opens it, from the anxieties and stresses encumbering it to the peace that is more than the lack of conflict and the freedom that is more than unrestricted encounter. That is the life that replaces the assorted maelstrom of guarded awareness and defensive egoism holding our hopes, dreams and fears in the forgotten baggage room of this world.
To enter from a limited life in a body to that aware life in the spirit begins with being spiritually conscious, spiritually aware, spiritually focused to see behind, beneath, over, below and around what presents itself in every next moment. It is spiritually seeing what the physical senses introduce, that in every next moment a destination of awareness is emerges in detail. It is as though there is a built in destination behind every visible and physical event. There is in each of us an innate question mark pointing to a dimension beyond sight and sound. It is shaped in the quest of purpose---seeking, asking, knocking---why we are here and our sense that there is a destination. This destination is behind what we physically and emotionally sense. It is an inner awareness that, though incomplete in this world, will be our outer existence. An awareness experienced within coming from without yet openly shared.
It is not a life we intuit, speculate about, guess or deduce. It is a personal revelation that comes to each individual, to each mind, heart and spirit. Revelation is the key. It is a revelation that engages both the surface and the depth of what we call being a person, an individual. It is a revelation intended to sharpen our sense of uniqueness, our sense of being an ‘I am.’ It is a revelation of what it means to be human in the truest sense. It is borne by one person whose very nature is a picture, an image and a paradigm of what it means to be aware, of what it means to exist, of what it is to be embraced by the joy of being alive and how our limited awareness can be the foundation for that permanent awareness that is boundless, endless, complete and filled to the full.
It is a revelation that takes all experience from that which we consider bad and good, right and wrong, moral and immoral, diseased and healthy, complete and incomplete and rearranges them in a context of thought, feeling, trust and principle to reshape and recover them to fit into that one person who makes the recovery possible. It is a revelation that grows us step by step from rejection to acceptance, from being alone to be being in relationship, from one growing defined awareness of the great awareness that awaits. It is not doctrinal yet taught, not inhibiting yet individuating, not limited yet boundless in its growth. It is personally aware while unifying, relational and caring, spiritual energy enacting every aspect.
This real life comes through revelation in every next moment, something without which a life of complete awareness is unobtainable. It cannot be experienced by introspection for a number of reasons.
First, we are incomplete which is mirrored in our imperfections. We have a limited mind, incomplete wisdom, shifting emotionality and impaired spirituality, the burdens carried into every next moment. All we have to do is to observe the cauldron we call frustration, suffering, struggle, desiring and yearning.
Second, all of this occurs in an alone mind, heart and spirit. We look out through this self-alone awareness. Every next moment is an unknown and it is by definition dependent on choice and decision made in the context of imperfection. Choice and decision are the mechanics of the unseen dimension. If we are truly honest with ourselves there is no question that a guide is needed to lead us through the ‘every-next-moment’ events. The very fact of the invisible reality of good and evil as contrasting polar forces inhabit every choice and decision with their uncertainty.
Third, one cannot escape this basic reality, it takes faith, trust and belief in someone or something from outside to leap into every next moment’s uncertainty without the benefit of knowing what lies in its trenches. Our imperfections declare the need for perfection and plead by their nature for a perfect mind, a perfect heart and a perfect spirit to be our eyes in the unseen. Our imperfections limit us to the self we may call ego, the ‘I am’, the person and that gnawing energy called pride that ‘egoizes’ us through fear and narrows our interchange with one another. That pride, the process tool of self defense, constant self-protection, is rooted in the fear of exposing what we all know in ourselves and one another, that we are alone, imperfect and running on empty not wanting that exposed.
But suppose, just suppose, that there is a person who is perfect, whose mind, heart and spirit are blended perfectly. For him every next moment is filled with an aware certainty of who he is, where he is going and why he is here. Every next moment is met with perfect wisdom in handling the events confronting him. This person knows and expects what is in the unseen and has perfect perception when it comes to navigating in both dimensions. He can see, feel, know and attitudinally show the way through visible reality and lead perfectly through the unseen, which is the substance of every next moment. We can follow someone like this. We are not being led into an impersonal obliqueness but a personal reality.
Just suppose this person has endured suffering at every level of human experience, demonstrated that perfect awareness that can be trusted to overcome the imperfections in every mind, heart and spirit in every next moment. Not only that but consider he dies a real human death and returns from death to life as proof that a relationship with Him as personal guide is the only way for the heart, the only understanding for the mind and the only means for the spirit act in every next moment. Add to that His manner, His presence, His teaching, His considerable control over physical reality. His awareness of who He is, whose will directs Him to principle His life and the Spirit to think, to sense and empower the very depth of mind, heart and spirit restore balance to an imperfect and out-of-balance humanity. He is one who never has to ponder an answer, explore options, consult references and precedents. He is who he is and is totally confident in every next moment as to how he thinks and what he says. He speaks and acts without fear, hesitation or reluctance. He moves with the assurance that he is perfectly aware. In fact His perfect humanity is always available to those willing to take Him up on His offer.
He reveals not only the problem that has made us imperfect, He became the solution through His death and return from death to define every next moment as a personal, mind developing, spiritual experience that becomes a series of stepson a never-ending journey into perfect awareness. He defines imperfection as sin, the spiritual barricade of self-defensive posing we use to control who and what we believe ourselves to be. It was this negative process of spiritual self-preservation, belief in an imperfect self that blunted all human awareness and drove us away from its benefits.
Sin is the ego-driving force through which the play for power, for control of self, blunts the energy of awareness. It was this spiritual condition of fear, distrust and pride that formed the conspiracy of political, social and religious leadership to kill Jesus on the Cross for daring to imply that true living awareness in every next moment was possible through a relationship with Him. By dying on the Cross and rising from the dead Jesus made Himself available as the gatekeeper of awareness. It is an awareness of the particulars of mind, heart and spirit and relishing them that make us who we are. It is the awareness that relationship is first spiritual then personal then relational. It is the awareness that being aware involves every next moment, savoring its juices so to speak. That is, seeing all things working to inform us and opening us even further to the personal reality that is God, the ultimately aware personal reality.
This awareness is personal and interpersonal. It is finding the common ground through belief in the mind, trusting in the heart and faith in our spirit to see the One person who can bring us into full awareness which is the promise of every next moment being the trail we follow Him through. The unseen, the unknown, the uncertainty, the unsecured conscious self that sin has laced with fear and pride has been given a reprieve by Jesus through His death and resurrection. He has given us definition, understanding and Himself as a companion on the journey through every next moment. He is the guide through the unseen, the unknown, the uncertainty and the unsecured that brings us into knowledge, into spiritual sight, facing the uncertain in His perspective and finding a growing security in the ongoing maturing relationship He offers.
Real, final, complete and perfect awareness is the nature of Jesus. Belief, trust and faith shift from us from self-centered anxiety to Him. As He has defined what it means to be a person who has a mind, heart and spirit enjoying full awareness so He, through the narrow path of His Cross and Resurrection, has opened to each of us the ever widening gate of what we were created and designed to experience in eternity---Him. Heaven is not a place but an awareness of His presence and the presence of all those whose hearts, minds and spirits have bridged the gap leaving sin behind and moving into the promise ahead. That is the purpose and the goal of every next moment.
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