A New Possibility Awaits You
By Abba Jimmy (Theoloscience).
If the divine gifts you received when you were baptized are buried, dig them up. They are buried due to your own unawareness of them. To unbury them, you must contemplate the knowledge of the truth. For a long time, you have believed what is not. Now you must turn your gaze to what it is. He said: “I am.”
The I Am does not want the sinner’s death but that he repents, be converted, and live (Cf. Ezekiel 33:11). You may have heard that phrase before with the material eardrums of your ears. Now, you must learn to listen with your spirit to wake up and come out of the lethargy you find yourself in.
The Word of truth is intangible. However, it can communicate new life. That is conversion, and it is what repentance means: Embracing new life, the life that the divine Word speaks when we contemplate the truth that the Word communicates to us.
Repentance, which is true conversion, occurs when you hear the Word, not just with your ears, everything that the divine Word wants to tell you. It is letting yourself be enlightened by that Word. It is allowing yourself to be awakened by that Word. It is letting yourself be freed by that Word. Remember how Jesus ended Parables: “They who have ears, let them hear.” In other words, be willing to understand. Open your mind and heart. Whoever is ready to come and see where He lives must go and see by himself. He said, “Come and see” (See John 1:39).
Understands that many things are not as you thought they were, as they told you, or as you had believed them for many years. Repentance — true conversion consists of listening to the voice of truth that the Word communicates and believing that truth. The hard part for you will be to leave your former way of thinking to think and feel in a new way.
Do not try to guide others while you are still blind. First, wake up you who are still asleep and let the Light of a new dawn, the Light of the Word of truth, illuminate you. “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you” (See Ephesians 5:14).
This form of repentance and conversion requires special care to receive the Word — the Verb, the Logos in your house; that is to say, in your heart, in your mind. And let your understanding and your intelligence shine with the Light of wisdom. This will lead you to acquire new habits in holding new internal and external dialogues. Therefore, clean your house to receive the Guest. Remove from it all the rottenness of your old beliefs.
If you receive the Word with a willing heart, God will give you a better and greater understanding of his Word through the Holy Spirit. Then, the Light of the divine Word will shine in you.
So, clean your house, and remember that the best way to clean the house is through the sacrament of penance. By your regular participation in the sacrament of penance, the soul begins a movement toward repentance and conversion. Look what this movement of the soul entails: an examination to discover the enemy’s strategies. The compass that will guide you along the way is in the First and the most important of all the commandments: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend on all the Law and the Prophets.” — Jesus (See Mathew 22:37–40). This is the first and most significant of the commandments — this is the compass that will guide you.
Therefore, remove everything that hinders your heart to make it a worthy dwelling for the One who created you, and then recognize that God dwells in you. Do this first. Then, read all the letters of Saint Paul carefully, and remember what is said there. One of the things that Saint Paul constantly repeats is: Do not return to eat your own vomit; better eat the Bread of Life. Feed yourself with the Word of truth. Live here mindful of eternity.
Remember that you were anointed with the holy chrism and received the white garments in baptism. So let your mind, soul, intelligence, and will ascend towards the holy mountain, to the sacred place of meeting with God. Approach the holy mountain, which is the Tabernacle of the Lord, with clean and innocent hands. Remember that you must become childlike to be close to the Lord of Lords.
