The Newly Faithful Believers enter the kingdom now by elevating their life and developing several essentials to faith-entrance into the kingdom . . .
1. To cultivate faith sincerity. To come as a little child. To receive the bestowal of sonship and daughtership as a gift.
2. To submit to the doing of the Father’s will without questioning and in the full confidence and genuine trustfulness of the Father’s wisdom and infinite goodness.
3. To come into the kingdom free from prejudice and preconception.
4. To be open-minded and teachable like an unspoiled child. To have Truth hunger and the righteousness urge for worship and wisdom gathering.
5. To have a thirst for righteousness in growing personality character towards the finer perfection.
6. To be willing to experience a change and a renewal of mind.
7. To acquire the motive to be like God and to find God.
A religion is genuine to just the extent that the value which is held to be supreme is truly a cosmic reality of genuine spiritual worth.
The marks of human response to the religious impulse embrace the qualities of nobility and grandeur. The sincere religionist is conscious of universe citizenship and is aware of making contact with sources of superhuman power. He is thrilled and energized with the assurance of belonging to a superior and ennobled fellowship of the sons of God.
The consciousness of self-worth has become augmented by the stimulus of the quest for the highest universe objectives—supreme goals.
The self has surrendered to the intriguing drive of an all-encompassing motivation which imposes heightened self-discipline, lessens emotional conflict, and makes mortal life truly worth living. The morbid recognition of human limitations is changed to the natural consciousness of mortal shortcomings, associated with moral determination and spiritual aspiration to attain the highest universe and superuniverse goals. And this intense striving for the attainment of supermortal ideals is always characterized by increasing patience, forbearance, fortitude, and tolerance.
But true religion is a living love, a life of service. The religionist’s detachment from much that is purely temporal and trivial never leads to social isolation, and it should not destroy the sense of humor. Genuine religion takes nothing away from human existence, but it does add new meanings to all of life; it generates new types of enthusiasm, zeal, and courage. It may even engender the spirit of the crusader, which is more than dangerous if not controlled by spiritual insight and loyal devotion to the commonplace social obligations of human loyalties.
Michael Of Nebadon
City of God
