Bob Crawford

Well, Dear, you’ve stirred something up in me! I thought I would try to make some sense of the feelings and whirling dervish of unspoken thoughts and jumbled words erupting in my mind. I’m dizzy for sure.

I’ve spent a lot of time reading Thomas Troward’s works, a couple more than once. It tickled me when I read Norman referencing him in one of his letters and reaffirmed to me that I wasn’t just crazy and moving to the outer edge of belief with no real foundation. Troward is very clear once you’ve read enough of him to get his language and approach  to things. His book on “The Creative Process in the Individual”  has spurred a lot of thought. Troward’s logic is that the Spirit creates through Self-contemplation. All that is created is a result of the thoughts of God, the Word, spoken into existence. We too, then are each the self-contemplation of the Spirit, manifested in our physical form through the entire biological process that He set into place. Nothing that has been created has ever existed except in the imagination of God and through all of us made in His Image and capable of an unlimited imagination. Everything that exists on this plane, created by humans, was first born in the imagination, Believed to be possible, and pursued until it was manifested. 

So those two thoughts, that each of us IS the self-contemplation of God as US, and that we have been made in His Creative image, with an unlimited imagination, are therefore, able to not only believe, but also are inherently involved in what is created in our lives by our beliefs.

We are the limiting factors to the expansion of the Kingdom, certainly not God who knows no limitations. And here is where I think we/I got tied up. We became so focused on defending, propagating, analyzing, dogmatizing, theologizing the “What” of belief, that we completely missed the point of the Who of belief (The Spirit in US as US). We made Jesus The ONLY son God, raised him up to a standard that minimized our identity to human, sinful, flesh, and thereby, shut us out from the very thing I think he came to initiate by being in very nature, like us. It wasn’t a bait and switch in a manger. It was the eternal emptying of Spirit, in His self-contemplation of being everything that He thought to become. Jesus got that, exemplified it, preached it, displayed it, lived it. He is the Way, the Life, and the Truth, and the church has yet to grasp that he meant for us to be the same, each of us, in our own way, our own remarkable, unbelievable, manifestation of His glory!

We don’t need another Jesus. We have billions of them walking around completely asleep to who they really are, calling themselves, Christians, and acting like “sinners saved by grace, ” fully human and “born again of the Spirit” but denying Him in their very form. Their unbelief is in who they are not in who Jesus is.  This is the Log in the Eye that keeps us from seeing the insignificant splinter in the eyes of others. The church is blind to its own divinity, purpose, and power ( All Power by the way, in Heaven and on Earth) to be the Love that this world is desperate to experience. 

The church always  seems to end up putting new wine into old wineskins even though that Wine will burst out of the seams and seem to be lost. It wasn’t meant to be contained in the first place, so let’s stop trying to capture it, label it, reproduce it, and sell it with a new brand, franchise or movement. The Spirit blows where He Wills! Who are we to think we can contain the Wind? We ARE the Wind! We are the Spirit!

Well, that was a heart full!  Love, Love, LOVE YOU!

Bobby