I was given a special name by the “queen bee” of a religious cult I joined years ago. What an ego trip!!! And with that name I began immediately to see myself as a special person. I began to act special. I had power in the cult community. What I said had import, significance, or so I thought, as I channeled and prattled along. People gave me deference. I became self-inflated, self-important and above the rest. What a delusion! But when a person associates in a community of people who are like-minded in believing one person is more special than another, it becomes reinforcing and I must say addicting to the so-called special one who has a special name. The delusion is that both the community and you set yourself off from the rest. What a seduction! I know all about this dynamic, because I experienced it. I am fortunate have this experience under my belt. I recognize it in others. I am not saying I recognize this in you. I am telling you I recognize the lure, the bait that this kind of thinking reinforces, especially so when other people are patting you on the back. I am powerless to stop anyone from going out into the weeds over it. I went out into the weeds and no one could stop me. Anyway, I thought I’d share this about my experience. I had to find these things out for myself.
The truth is that God is no respecter of persons.
3:1:12 The fluctuations of the Father’s presence are not due to the changeableness of God. The Father does not retire in seclusion because he has been slighted; his affections are not alienated because of the creature’s wrongdoing. Rather, having been endowed with the power of choice (concerning Himself), his children, in the exercise of that choice, directly determine the degree and limitations of the Father’s divine influence in their own hearts and souls. The Father has freely bestowed himself upon us without limit and without favor. He is
no respecter of
persons, planets, systems, or universes. In the sectors of time he confers differential honor only on the Paradise personalities of God the Sevenfold, the co-ordinate creators of the finite universes.
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117:6:22 The Father is
no respecter of
persons; he treats each of his ascending sons as cosmic individuals. The Supreme likewise is
no respecter of
persons; he treats his experiential children as a single cosmic total.
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133:0:3 One day while resting at lunch, about halfway to Tarentum, Ganid asked Jesus a direct question as to what he thought of India’s caste system. Said Jesus: “Though human beings differ in many ways, the one from another, before God and in the spiritual world all mortals stand on an equal footing. There are only two groups of mortals in the eyes of God: those who desire to do his will and those who do not. As the universe looks upon an inhabited world, it likewise discerns two great classes: those who know God and those who do not. Those who cannot know God are reckoned among the animals of any given realm. Mankind can appropriately be divided into many classes in accordance with differing qualifications, as they may be viewed physically, mentally, socially, vocationally, or morally, but as these different classes of mortals appear before the judgment bar of God, they stand on an equal footing; God is truly
no respecter of
persons. Although you cannot escape the recognition of differential human abilities and endowments in matters intellectual, social, and moral, you should make
no such distinctions in the spiritual brotherhood of men when assembled for worship in the presence of God.”
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166:4:11 “The Father’s human children have equal capacity for the reception of material blessings; therefore does he bestow things physical upon the children of men without discrimination. When it comes to the bestowal of spiritual gifts, the Father is limited by man’s capacity for receiving these divine endowments. Although the Father is
no respecter of
persons, in the bestowal of spiritual gifts he is limited by man’s faith and by his willingness always to abide by the Father’s will.”
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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, would it not?
