Today's Journal

THE ULTIMATE SPIRITUAL GIFT

Jesus is the Ultimate and foremost spiritual Gift. From the foundation of the world, a plan has been in progress to offer the nature and beauty of heaven to us who live on the earth.
The plan was released in sending the Spiritual Gift to earth as a human counterpart to live, exhibit, participate, and triumph in the human condition. It can reasonably be concluded that beyond the Trinitarian creation of all things on earth, there was also a complete decision that the Holy Spirit would be ‘left behind’ (pun intended) and would give gifts to make this
earth like Their heaven. Though angel, prophet and theophany were spokespersons for centuries with God giftedness, it was not until the Father sent the Ultimate Spiritual Gift that we humans finally had an indisputable picture of the kingdom and the heaven that produced it. From this Pattern Son came the source and nature of all subsequent gifts. Any gift of love, peace, joy, healing, prayer, helps, kindness, giving, etc., are just samples of the Original Gift. The Holy Spirit gives pieces of Jesus in the form of spiritual gifts and the pieces make up the whole. All the pieces are His body. Sin was a primary motivation for the timing and sending of the Ultimate Spiritual Gift to earth. During the ordeals of the cross and sacrifice of the Ultimate Gift there was the supreme example of a gift freely given by the Giver of gifts. The Gift displayed the ways of a spiritual gift by giving until the last when He said, ‘Father forgive them they do not know what they are doing’ and then turned and said, ‘Today you will be with me in paradise’ and the love, mercy, forgiveness and victory are seen from the beginning scene to the final scene as He forgives us thieves.
(From ‘Journal Notes 2004’ Ben Fike)

“When the Counselor comes, the one I will send to you from the Father —the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.” Jesus