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Terry Trombley's avatar

In prayer some decades ago, I was advised that every act of true charity embodies within it the perfect selflessness of Christ and that a more perfect charity expects expects no reward at all, not even a spiritual reward, and that it's only hope for reward is possible observation of the pleasure of God as it is exercised. In addition I was able to observe that true charity is no mere state or the exercise of a disposition of human virtue that one can simply choose to employ. True charity originates and rises from within the very nature and the Person of God. Charity is the evidence and the expression in all created beings who live in surrender to God, that He has become resident within them. In effect, we have disposed ourselves to embodiment of the living "substance" of God that true charity is. When this expression is allowed to become one that is utterly selfless in its expression and in its expectation of any reward, even of possible observation of the pleasure of God, it has then become perfect. The result of these dispositions is that true and lasting treasure, the "treasure" of Heaven is imparted to us and awaits only our arrival there. I think few on earth understand that when we adopt the constructs of participation in our impending Sainthood while here on earth, we can become beneficiaries to that very treasure even now. I certainly have. Remember that the single salient activity in Heaven of all who reside there is that they each attend and adore God incessantly. When we surrender to God to become participants in our unique individual Sainthood, it is in this state, engaged at the feet of our Father, that we then become participants.

We are enabled in storing up treasure in Heaven, and as well from Heaven, by our unqualified surrender to God here on earth that binds us incessantly in a communion with Him which actually resides in Heaven. Once our communion with God is initiated and we have become irrevocably bound to One Another, the very life and Presence of God to whom we have now become consummately at risk, becomes established and domiciled within us. A full participation in the state and the disposition of our utterly unique Sainthood in Heaven begins at the moment our unqualified surrender, tendered to God, occurs.

These are just a few observations encountered in my life with God I have no idea how any of this squares with current theological conviction or a more astute understanding of Scripture. Just sayin' I guess,

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Kathleen's avatar

Amen!

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