Divine Messengers

I was approached by a college student from a neighboring Christian University after our meditation.

Student: “I don’t like your meditations. You are not praying to God. You are not spreading the message of Jesus to the world as God commanded us to do. You just sit silent.”

Me:  “The message of Jesus has been spread to the world through the words of Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster, Dogen Zenji, and Israel’s prophets. Jesus came to re-establish, confirm, and remind, us of His former colleague’s words.”

Student: “I don’t believe in those false prophets. Jesus said, “No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Me: “I see you have come to a point of excellence in your thought for the words of Jesus ring true in this moment through you. When you quote the Christian scriptures I recognize Jesus through you. The same is true when I hear people quote scriptures from those I have previously mentioned. The Jesus that is in them is easily recognized through them. No one can experience lasting peace until they have experienced the Divine that some call Jesus that rest in each living being. As a Christian you believe that God is the Creator of all things. Please tell me which of these people whom I have mentioned that are not graced with the touch of the Divine?“

When the world is not suffering from human initiation then the vision provided through Israel’s prophets and the testimony of Jesus will have been fulfilled.