Oneness
By Linda
and Richard Eyre
Note:
Each week this column provides a short essay on one particular aspect
or facet of the Lord’s personality and character.
It is intended that the reader focus on this facet while partaking
of the sacrament this Sunday. (Click here
to read full introductory column.)
In
our terminology, total loyalty, is about as far as devotion
can go. If X is totally loyal to Y, then:
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X always does and says what Y would want him to do and say;
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X always gives Y the credit;
- X
always devotes himself to Y’s cause.
Somehow
(we try to reach it with our minds) Christ’s devotion to God was
and is more than loyalty — it is oneness.
Perhaps
the concept of oneness is not so hard to grasp as it first seems.
If a mortal lifetime of loyalty could cause a person to think and
act, let’s say, 90 percent similar to his Lord, then could not an
eternity of loyalty bring about a 100 percent similarity? an absence of difference? a oneness?
Christ
said, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). He said, “If ye had
known me, ye should have known my Father” (John 14:7). The perfection
of his life testifies to the perfection of that oneness.
He
offered us maximum hope by telling us through his prayer to the
Father on our behalf (see John 17:20-21) that we can join that oneness.
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That
is a lot to think about this week during the sacrament … and there
are so many ways we should try to apply oneness in our own lives.
Next week, we will begin a series of articles centered on the very
core of Christ … on His love.
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