Love is a deep affinity with everything; we identify our self, our essence, in others. Hence, we cease to cause harm to anyone and anything apart from us. People who have awakened souls see their soul in others; they are reconnected.
If we realized we were connected, we would have treated others and nature with self-love and respect. Because of our sense of disconnect, we saw the world as just a backdrop while we tried to “get to heaven.”
The Bible ends with a promise of “a new heaven and a new earth” (Revelation 21:1). The whole Earth and all of creation is participating in God’s loving redemption, liberation, and salvation. We are part of a movement of Christ that is coming to be in “one great big act of giving birth” (Romans 8: 22-23). In Christ, “everything is reconciled, in heaven and on Earth” (Colossians 1:17). The eternal Christ saves us all by including us all. Moreover, we are all saved, largely in spite of ourselves, by grace and mercy!
When we realize our connection to the whole process, we can easily live out of a worldview of infinite and divine abundance. Rather than from an insufficient model that only creates fearful, fighting, and stingy people, outdoing one another to get to the front of the line because we are afraid there is not enough of God to fill and free everything.
Romans 8:22-23 “For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us.”
