John 10:34-38

"Jesus answered them 'Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and scripture cannot be broken), do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,’ because I said, 'I am the Son of God’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father" (John 10:34-38 RSV).

Comment:

Jesus is responding to critical Pharisees by discussing and describing the Christ—the Presence of God that is the Truth of who we are. It is the Christ—the divine idea of absolute and infinite Good—that is “sent into the world” by our divine Source. We are each “consecrated” to realize and express our innate divinity through our beliefs and our choices. To suggest that some are specifically “set apart” suggests that the loving Power of God plays favorites—that some of us are chosen and set apart, while others are left out in the cold. The Allness of God is everywhere present, and equally present. We are all consecrated to spiritual purpose—and it is by accepting that consecration that we assume our roles in creating the kingdom of heaven.

Blessings!

Rev. Ed