On The Nature of A Holy Servant
The means to peace must itself be peaceful.
The means to equity must itself be equitable.
While order may be established and kept by means
of the balancing forces of polarities,
every kind of enforced order is, from its inception,
an imposed order
A forced order is not an equitable order;
it is not peace.
Peace leaves no cause for envy.
It generates no temptation to jealousy.
It generates no new power tension,
for it is not made by the means of power,
but by the means of true service.
Therefore the transition that is now taking place in the world
from the kingdoms of the earth to the kingdom of heaven
is not taking place merely through the overturning of governments
or by revolution among authorities and powers.
The kingdom of heaven has come among us
and is growing as it wills
through the obedience of the messengers of peace,
both human messengers and heavenly messengers,
through their obedience to that king
who is the servant of every creature.
Those servants who nurture the energy of life in the soul,
not those warriors who try to harness and control it,
bring peace.
To receive peace and further it,
we must be agreeable to peace within ourselves.
Peace is not maintained by authorities whose own spirits
are shredded fibers, knotted together,
and whose eyes are not single.
Indeed, they are not themselves true authorities
who rule by expanding over others the terrible knots of power
that hold their own personal spirits together.
They have authority only through their position.
They are removed from their positions and have no authority.
Positions of power themselves
are changed by the movements of time;
and so positions of power are divided against themselves.
The rule of positions of power is not the rule of peace,
but is only the order of violence seeking
to contain the chaos of violence.
There is one now coming into the world
who will say, Peace! Peace!
when there is no peace.
No peace, only an enforced world order.
The spirit that speaks in this way
is the spirit of one who asks to be served by all
but is himself the servant of no one,
who lies with the twist of his tongue
while speaking peace and love with his mouth.
Such a one will come in his own name,
not in the name of the God of Israel,
in order to raise up in his own fist the honor of the creation
above the glory of the one who fashioned it and gave it birth.
His teeth will be red with bloody kisses,
in the name of global dreams of balance and prosperity,
and heavenly explorations and inventions,
for the generation of universal wealth.
Mothers will lift up their children to place them in his arms.
But the kingdom of heaven is like a beggar woman
who finds an orphaned infant by the highway,
and feeds it and raises it through prayers to God alone,
while all the while offering a helping hand to passers-by,
in the hope of obtaining good will toward her adopted child.
The king of the kingdom from above
is not come in his own name
but is come as an holy servant of Israel's God.
He is the messenger of the one who,
with the unimaginable service of love,
breathed into the universe the breath of life.
The sun is only the moon of the true day.
We ought not try to keep our sanity in our eyes.
For the one who is Truth
is at the moment concealed from the eyes.
All living breath comes from a word that is God-breathed.
Though we breathe, our breath does not belong to us
but to the one who first breathed it.
Do we belong to the breath of life?
If so, it will forever be ours for the taking.
Understanding falls like the rain,
beats upon the rock,
flows into the dirt of the ground.
The proud and self-satisfied
are like the high and barren rock,
while the humble, who are poor in spirit,
are like the dirt of the ground,
who receive understanding after it has been discarded
by those who raise themselves up to rule over the poor.
Understand then, the peace that God's king brings among the
poor:
When God first created,
the heavens were on his one hand,
and the earth was on his other:
there was a division between them.
And even when both the spirits in heaven
and the souls upon the earth had been created,
the waters above and the waters below remained separated.
Due to this separation there was room for envy,
and pride of place,
to come into God's universe.
Yet, even so, God rested.
In the beginning,
the beginning of the kingdom of heaven
and the kingdom of the earth,
heaven and earth were not yet one,
but on the first day their light was one,
and that light God hid,
and in that hidden light,
on the seventh day,
God rested.
For the light of the first day was hidden in a divine mystery,
the mystery of a promise,
when, after the division of the waters,
on the fourth day,
the sun, the moon and stars were created.
For a light was made to rule the day
and a light was made to rule the night,
and in this way the division
between the kingdom of heaven
and the kingdom of earth
was governed.
And so it was that the singular light,
the light of the first day,
was hidden in the division
between day and night,
concealed behind the divided lights
of the sun and moon and stars.
Indeed, the light of the first day
was hidden until the end of the world,
in order that the light of the sun and stars
might then itself appear like the shadow of night,
the shadow that fades into the dawn,
and the true day which has no night might appear,
in all its glory, bringing understanding.
And so The Sabbath Queen does even now appear on the horizon,
to all who have eyes of understanding
and can see the coming of the bride of God.
For there is one light of the Holy Spirit,
and one mediator between the kingdom of
heaven and the kingdom of earth, the Messiah of Israel
the peace of the poor.
Max Carl Kirk
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