Have You Become Love?

Have you become Love, yet?

Has the hermit grown into God-is-Love? Has the hermit become Love?

Shortly before midnight, an "assignee" called the hermit. We talked. The assignee is having difficulty breaking free of past wants, of wanting to do what it is most likely (by all indications) the Lord has not willed for him, good as it is...what he desires to do.

The hermit offered this assignee a glimpse of the peace and freedom that comes in finally dying to what the self wills, and of being nothing. But nothing? Not quite.

The hermit spoke of perspective and of becoming God, of growing into God, of growing into God-is-Love, of growing into Love. In this state, one must be an observer. One must observe Jesus and comprehend what is Love. Then one must love.

Jesus observed. He looked over Jerusalem. Then He wept. He watched Zaccheus up in the tree; then He called Him down and the miracle ensued. He observed His disciples sleeping in Gethsemani; then He awoke them and spoke. He saw the devil enter into Judas; then He sent him on his way. He observed Martha and Mary; then He admonished one and upheld the other as example of choosing the better part. The observations of Jesus go on and on.

The assignee is not "there", yet. We both know this. The hermit was not "there" for a long time: years. But the dying came, and it is like going through the tunnel of death, and it is good. The death and resurrection require only surrender of an emptied self, with no place else to turn except God alone. To turn to God, to become Him, to become Love.

We went over the word become. It is only the self that stands in the way of union with Christ. Once the union is made and the caterpillar has become a butterfly (and maybe a common cabbage butterfly, but a butterfly all the same), the soul must view as God views, must love as God loves, since both are One, and all are One.

To be in God's will brings freedom and peace. Jesus bequeath's His peace upon the soul in union with Him: united in God's will.

The hermit commented upon Corinthians 13 and admitted must study these points on Love. The hermit must learn about Love in specific and in general; and then the hermit must live this Love, practice Love, incline to Love, and adore and adorn Love.

The Douey translation appeals. Here is Love, described:

Charity is patient, is kind;
charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up;
Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own; is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never falleth away....

But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be put away....

In observation and in practice, the hermit--amidst the Nine S'--must be:
patient, kind, not envious, involved only in good endeavors;
humble, not ambitious, seek nothing for self, not provoked/not angry, think only on good;
rejoice in truth and not in sin;
bear, believe, hope, and endure all.

This Love must never fall away, never cease.
When one grows into perfection--when perfect God, perfect Love is come--no longer will be imperfection, no more will exist disunion or partial union. Love will be full and fulfilled.