God is revealing himself (1) as Nature and natural law; (2) as Spirit and as moral law; and (3) as Jesus Christ of the Cross and of the Resurrection. There is the light of the sun in natural laws, the light of the soul in the moral law, but whoever wants the highest light of all will seek it in the risen and glorified Jesus, whose Light can illumine our path and guide our steps and ultimately change us into His likeness and His spirit.
If we go all the way with Jesus we are to be like Him and become partners with Him in making all things like Him, even making the Creation over in His nature, and in the glorious liberty and innocence of the redeemed and glorified Sons of God.
There appear to be seven steps by which His high predestination for us and the Creation is to be achieved:
(1) By us choosing to walk in the Light, “the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” (John 1:9).
(2) By receiving Jesus Christ and choosing to follow Him, by committing ourselves to Him, and His Way of Life as Love, as Truth and as Perfect Everything Else.
(3) By entering into ineffable union with Him through the baptism of the Holy Spirit and through living His life of limitless love, goodwill and good sense.
(4) By becoming full overcomers and growing up in Him.
(5) By becoming happily and wholly His. This will make real to us that He is wholly ours. This is the marriage with Him and in fullness will bring rejuvenation to our whole beings, including our bodies.
(6) By fully yielding and responding to Him, to be made ready to be changed even bodily into His likeness, either by rapture or resurrection.
(7) By becoming active partners with Him in bringing all things to His likeness, so the Creation itself will be liberated and brought to the glorious liberty of the Sons of God. It appears that in the fullness of the Divine achievement, the Universe itself will be the glorified visibility and tangibility of God in His universal manifestation.
The first and continuous requirement to become like the Glorified Jesus is to walk in His Light. St. Paul calls this Light, “The law written in the heart” (Romans 2:15). George Fox calls this Light “the That of God in every man.” Thomas Kelly calls it “the Holy in every man.”
This Light so perfectly manifested in Jesus was revealed in occasional shafts of light in places where Jesus was not, but always in a way that directed men’s attention to Jesus Himself in whom this Light of Heaven shone in all its fullness and glory.
Socrates, seemingly the most Christian of all the pagans, obeyed the Divine Light and Voice with such faithfulness that a second generation of Christians referred to him as a “disciple born out of due time.” He looked forward to a higher revelation which he said “would be by the Grace of God.” Plato, his favourite pupil, seeing what Athens did to Socrates, “the best man he ever knew,” prophesied that when the perfectly Just Man appeared he would be “taken to the Cross.” A recent brilliant Platonist, George Moore, says that if Plato had met Jesus in the flesh he would have cried out, “My Lord and My God!”
From the book Perfect Everything by Rufus Moseley.
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