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A Book about Master Jesus/Chapter 3. The Calling

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Chapter 3.
The Calling

Inviting God into your life, accepting an invitation from God to live with Him, in His Life, to live that way always is a special step. It is a choice of the soul that one follows from then on and forever, no matter how difficult it may be at times!

It is not prayers, not rituals, it is not even the practice of spiritual immersions into some states, after which one can return to the usual existence in the world, like all people, and sometimes think of oneself as a highly moral and spiritual person — this is something else entirely… This is life with God! It is possible! This is how a person can live, devoting his entire life to God! To do this, one does not have to leave people to go live in a desert, one does not have to have an incarnate Divine Teacher, a Great Master of reforming and readjusting souls, nearby! God Himself helps to perform this work of transfiguration of the consciousnesses-souls entrusted to Him with the help of many types of contacts; this is a living interaction of man and God!

But we were blessed with more than that: we became companions of Jesus. We began to live in the constant presence of the Divine Master, who came into this world in the flesh!

We did not always feel the Divine State of the Great Master Jesus. Very often we began to perceive Him in a mundane way, we could argue, insist on our own way, be offended, annoyed…

He did not make us like Himself by His Power in one moment… Always One with the Will of the Heavenly Father, He gradually taught everyone how to grow to these states, how to stay in them, how to act, being in union with the Holy Spirit.

We lived in the immediate presence of the Divine Messenger, but sometimes we lost the sense of His divinity… In our minds we always remembered that He was the Messiah, the Teacher, but in reality we lost this awareness quite often.

… However, at the first encounter, Jesus allowed each of us to feel His Love and Greatness very strongly, even though the states that we experienced were a little different for each of us.

So vivid was this first encounter for me that it left an indelible mark in the soul, awakened a great love and trust in Him, gave faith and hope, gave strength to follow the chosen path in many difficult situations…

… I don't know if it was the fulfillment of the laws of destiny or if it was because the call of Jesus was so clear. Was it my decision to choose my life path, or could it not have been otherwise? Maybe it was predestined to happen, but it was also the choice of a soul endowed from above with free will by God.

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… Jesus.

…When I first met Him there on the Jordan, it seemed as if I had always known Him before.

…Jesus came out of the waters of the river … And I felt that if I didn't go with Him right then, everything that had come before would be meaningless.

He looked at me as if he were peering into the unknown depths of me as a soul. It was as if He was checking me out, looking right through me… Or maybe He could see my probable future, which depended on the choices I had to make at that moment.

He came very close to me and said: “You can follow Me from now on!"

And I followed Him…

I only met John's gaze for a few moments.

John saw what was happening to me…

He also saw me wondering if I was betraying Him, John, my Master, in my unrestrained pursuit of the Supreme Master… And my earnest desire to follow Jesus from now on.

John saw it all. He came up and blessed me, “Follow Him, this is what I've been teaching you for all this time!"

I guess he knew that we wouldn't see each other again while our bodies were alive.

I was rushing towards Jesus with all myself-soul… It wasn’t until later, when the news of the death of His body arrived, that I felt sorry that I had not expressed at that moment all the words of my love and gratitude… But the Great Masters always know what is unspoken…

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This is how Jesus called me…

We walked in silence for a long time. But the silence was not intense. I felt no embarrassment or fear of Him. It was as if I was floating in the River of Light. A serene bliss, peace, and happiness overtook me, swallowed me whole, and the sense of time disappeared…

In the heat of the day, we took a short rest in the olive grove. Sitting next to me was Jesus the Messiah, whose coming everyone had been waiting for! The play of light and shadows through the foliage created a special illumination and it seemed to me that everything that was happening was a bit unreal for human life: “Is this possible? Is this really happening to me?"

Then Jesus asked:

“Is that what you want, to live with Me to the very end? It won't be easy. There is another way to be devoted to God, while still living an ordinary life as a righteous person.

“You will have no other home than that of your heavenly Father, you will have no other rest than that of his Abode, you will have no other joy than that of merging with him, you will have no other love than that of his Love for everyone and for everything. Your work will be but a service, you will not receive the same wages or the same gratitude that people receive for their work, because all the fruits of your work belong only to your Heavenly Father, and people will thank Him, not you.”

“Yes, Jesus, yes! You know that's all my heart longs for! Let me be close to You and learn and help!”

“Well, this is the beginning of your Path, Andrew. And it's forever!”

He touched my chest in the area of my heart with His palm — and for a while His Love became the Infinity of the Life of God in me! It happened only for a short time, but I touched the Inclusiveness and Eternity of the Divine Being. Words cannot describe the experience of living this Love of God that comes alive within you. This experience in the memory of the soul is indelible… It cannot be expressed in words… It is the knowledge that God is Alive, God is Real! The One Universal God is manifest in your heart and His Power is in you! And it can always be so with you! After this experience, there remains only the memory of the miraculous penetration of God into the soul and the soul’s movement into God's Universal Love, it cannot be retained at once…

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We approached the shore of Lake Tiberias, then often called the Sea of Galilee.

I asked Jesus:

“May I call my brother Simon, for he too has been waiting for your coming?”

“All right. Let's go and call him and others with him. Just know that each one finds his own CALL in his own hour. It is not up to you to influence it.”

When I saw Simon's boat ahead by the shore and himself hanging up his nets to dry, I rushed to my brother and said to him, “There — that's the Messiah!"

Jesus approached and said: “From now on you will not catch fish, I will make you fishers for men."

We were surprised, but we didn't ask any questions.

And after that, the brothers James and John, the sons of Zebedee, were called…

And then gradually others were added to our little group, and we became twelve…

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Many people strive to find their purpose, to find meaning in their lives. This is what they call a calling. Many consider music, painting, sculpting, building, or farming as their vocation. And this is true at a certain stage of life and development of the soul. But, the bottom line for all lives is the soul's highest calling — to know their Creator-Father-God! To know and to reunite with Him into One! This is what Jesus taught us. This knowledge we later brought to people as His priceless Teachings! And the only way to approach God is to live in a state of love of the heart, because God is Love!

…Yes, this TRUTH has been repeated and is repeated many times by many Masters! But without this most tender, comprehensive, forgiving, and understanding love — Mergence with God is impossible! And only love for the Creator Himself allows us to overcome the barrier of separateness from God, to dissolve it without a trace, to become One with Him!