THE REALM OF THE DIVINE

Good Friday, April 10, 2020.

Warning: this is a Holy Week reflection. Not everybody will be able to understand it, and no everybody, therefore, will accept it or agree with it. I already know that. This is written for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see, as Jesus said. (Matthew 13:9-15).

I will try to be brief and explicit.

Jesus announced that “the kingdom of God is near” and called to “repent”.

Repentance is the door you have to open to have access to the kingdom of God.

Jesus said: “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door” (Luke 13:24).

The word translated in our language as “repentance” belongs to the Greek “metanoia”, from meta meaning after or beyond and nous meaning mind.

It implies a turning point from which we have been, to take a new direction in our lives, a real substantial change.

Only with the process of repentance we can go through the narrow door and have access to the kingdom of God.

But the will to go through the narrow door implies faith. And faith is the will to experience what we so far don’t know.

And what where and when is this “kingdom of God”?.

To simplify the understanding I would say it is the divine realm.

As there is a human realm, there is a divine realm.

Usually, the vast majority of the Earth population lives in the human realm, and very few are capable and want to deal with the divine realm. Partly because they don’t know about it, they have wrong information about it or a deformed one. To a certain extent, it is not their fault.

But Jesus said: “But seek first the kingdom of God” (Matthew 6:33).

In other words, seek first to go through the "narrow door" and enter in the divine realm. This divine realm is the environment of the Holy Spirit, (in Greek, Hagios Pneumatos) the one Jesus has, the one He shares with all those who seek it.

In the same way we as bodies need air to breathe to be living, the one who has crossed the narrow door and started dealing with the realm of the divine needs and will have this "new air", which is holy because it belongs to the divine realm, the realm of God, Jesus, the Angels, Mary, the Apostles, the Martyrs.

As humans, we can get sick, feel pain, suffer from different reasons (think about the same Jesus on a day like today) but having the Holy Spirit we can go through all of that in a different way than others.

It is with this Holy Spirit that we can have a new kind of life. It is with this Holy Spirit that miracles (the sudden alteration of the usual way things evolve) could happen, it is with this Holy Spirit in you, that you will be able to perform miracles. Not because of you, but because of the Holy Spirit that is in you. And they happen!

Therefore the kingdom of God is in you. When? Well, every moment of your life.

Sometimes your human nature could tend to constrain the Holy Spirit, (we are imperfect, we can fall to sin) but once you have entered the divine realm I can assure you that God never abandons you. That big is the love of God.

If you have read this message until here, I hope that you will seek to go through the narrow door and enter in the Divine Realm, and then you will receive the blessings of God.

Milton W. Hourcade

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