Jesus Is Good Enough, and I’m with Jesus

I have a theory I’m formulating about our existence that explains why bad things happen in mortality and why Jesus taught us to love our enemies.

We once lived in heaven with God in a perfect universe of perfect love. We were all loved and accepted just as we were, and there was no concern about good enough or perfect enough. We were all one and we were all God’s children.

Together with God, we mapped out a mortal experience that would be formulated to help us achieve maximum soul potential, and eventually maximum joy as we in time became a fully developed soul.

Just as a hero in a novel doesn’t achieve greatness without some opposition and a big ordeal to face, we couldn’t develop our character without opposition. We came here to experience the opposite of our heavenly existence. We came to experience “the other.” Where there was once only belonging and oneness, on earth we face rejection, abandonment, and loneliness.

In our heavenly home, we experienced only joy and bliss. In this realm we have the opportunity to experience pain, sorrow, depression, etc.
There we had no physical body. Here we have a mortal body to experience both pleasure and pain.

In heaven it was easy to be good and always live in harmony with the laws that govern happiness. Here we have the opportunity to experience the opposite — to make choices that lead to sorrow, guilt, remorse and also repentance, grace and forgiveness.

With God, we crafted a set of experiences that we wished to have here to grow into our greatest soul development.

So, when we encounter people who bring these challenges into our lives — when they reject us, belittle us, cause us physical or emotional pain, they are our mentors, our teachers, our friends giving us the greatest gift — opposition. They are helping us experience the opposite of heaven so we can grow and reach our greatest soul development. Thus, as Jesus said, “blessed are you when men persecute you… love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” (Matthew 5:44)

Jesus Christ loves each of us so much that he died and paid the penalty for the demands of Justice that needed to be served in all these trillions of interactions where we have caused pain, harm, etc. to each other.

Jesus loves us so much, holding the vision of our potential at our fullest soul development, that He was willing to invest His blood, sweat, tears, excruciating pain and his very life so you and I have the opportunity to experience “the other” that could only be experienced outside heavenly realms. It was the only way we could fully step into our greatest soul expression.

All we have to do now is accept His sacrifice, follow Him, and love Him. As we strive to love as He loved and live as He lived, we activate His transformative grace (aka enabling power) which changes us from the inside out and makes our greatest soul development possible.

He doesn’t ask us to follow in His footsteps for His benefit. It’s for US! He has attained a fullness of joy that can only be found in the fullest expression of one’s soul. He wants that for us so badly that He died to give us the opportunity to mess up, sin, hurt others, and be “the other” so we could truly comprehend and activate His grace that makes us like Him… a joyful, fully developed soul.

He loves us where we are… perfectly in process. And He holds the vision for us of what’s possible. We don’t need to lament about not being perfect enough or good enough. That will come as He transforms us over time. The truth is Jesus is Good enough for us all. My new mantra is “Jesus is good enough and I’m with Jesus!”