Explaining how to go into The Kingdom within is about as simple as explaining how to make love. I’m not kidding. And the greatest problem is describing the spontaneity in Love. Mankind has written poems and books about the surge of the heart, and the overwhelming ability of Love to take over and obliterate our mind.
And that is exactly how to go into The Kingdom. It is the epitome of Love, itself, living at the core of our being. And being in love with him is the only way to go there.
To begin, it’s important for me to schedule a bit of private time where I won’t be interrupted. Just like making love, the worst thing that can happen is to be interrupted in the middle of it. And it’s extremely difficult to pull my heart out and engage my mind again if interruption happens.
I know this sounds a lot like the worship many of us have learned to do in church. But I don’t go to The Kingdom this way in church anymore because I’ve been in the middle of his loving embrace and suddenly worship was finished, everyone sat down, and the speaker was talking. I felt naked and exposed.
This is personal and very private between me and Father God / Jesus / Holy Spirit. This is where all my inhibitions are down and my heart is completely open without reservation. I don’t expose that extreme intimacy openly when it applies to my marriage, and I don’t expose it when it applies to the lover of my soul. That would feel inappropriate, even pornographic to me. And the fact that churches encourage us to do this, well, that feels like an invasion into my Holy of Holies in the Temple of my soul. That place is meant for only me and him. And I don’t believe God encouraged crowds into the Holy of Holies in the Temple in Jerusalem, either.
But as this relationship matured, I learned how to touch The Kingdom a little differently, maybe with a memory of a previous loving encounter, when I’m in public. Like walking through a store, and remembering my lover. I can touch the warmth like oil in my heart just enough to communicate but not to become enraptured and passionate. Just like with a lover, I can’t wait to be alone with him, but in public, we can talk. He has shared insights or guided me to something special, while I’m shopping, or doing chores or entertaining guests. And just like a lover, we have acquired our way of being public, and our way in private. I believe this would equate to the outer courts of the Temple. The inner courts would only be accessed in the company of like-minded, close personal friends. Leaving the Holy of Holies completely private.
With time we have settled into an easy enjoyment of our relationship that doesn’t always require passionate loving.
Sometimes we sit together and have wonderful conversations. Often when we’re talking and he’s describing something, I can see an image of it in my imagination. Very similar to when Hunny and I talk and he describes something from his past, I imagine what it looked like.
Father has a way of making those scenes and illustrations play freely as a part of his conversation so I can understand more clearly what he’s saying. This is how Jesus took me to the mountain top and showed me my Seat. It was simply spontaneous as we were talking, he took my hand and said, “I want to show you something. Take a walk with me.” We were alone, so I closed my eyes and let the scene spontaneously play across my imagination.
His use of my imagination is more than a movie screen and more like the projection of a hologram with me in it, but real. Sometimes, I not only see, but touch, and feel, smell, and taste, and hear.
This is The Kingdom within, and it’s all happening inside me, my spirit and my heart. It’s like making love because of its spontaneous flow and like an actual living relationship in an actual living place. It’s a spontaneous life. I never know beforehand what will happen.
This life, and this place, The Kingdom, is where the truest me exists and lives. This is where I’ll be when my body gives up life on earth. I’ll never die. I’ll simply continue living my eternal life, my true reality.
Blessings on your journey into your Kingdom,
Faith