Down Gets You Up

The way up is "down." (Less you, more Him.)

During a severe drought, Isaac dug a well at Gadar and increased a hundred fold (Genesis 26:12). I did not know why that event came to mind. Then the English translation of the Hebrew name of an antediluvian patriarch came to mind: Down. Literally, the meaning of the name Jared means "to go downwards." In our spiritual drought we are to go downward, like the digging of a well. This going downward is, as the minister's teaching linked to above says, the buiding of a relationship with God, not the following of a formula. The "technique" we need is recognition and honor of God, submission to Him, humility, praise, worship, contrition, and patience; "For nothing is the way to God but our heart" (William Law). You want to go up? Go DOWN!! Humble yourself. Per the Beginning and the Cross, the way UP is DOWN.

We build this relationship inside ourselves. We are mind inside matter until we slough off these bodies. Then we continue restored to a body or without them. Do what the (sanctified) mind says, not what the body says. For we have not much time in them. It seems like a lot of time, but it is a lot of not-very-much-time time.