Matthew 19

I really feel like this chapter really needs to be in total context to get to the meat of the matter.  It’s too long to share here but won’t take but a moment to read, here is a link to it.  Pause for moment and go read it.  I’ll wait. 

As I read this, I just kept thinking that there has to be some deeper meaning, that this isn’t just a surface level message here.  So much of the Bible is metaphor so why wouldn’t this reading also be metaphorical? 

I sat in mediation with it, I read it and talked to my husband about it, I slept on it, I reread it, I prayed about it, and I meditated some more.  Now, I’m free writing it.  I just need to throw out my thoughts as they run through my mind. 

I’m thinking about the male and female but not as two people, more of a yin and yang kind of thing.  We all have male and female in us. I’m not speaking of physically, I’m thinking more in terms of mentally, spiritually… What if God created us this way on purpose.  What if we are supposed to experience and express both of these two sides of our psyche.  

Unfortunately, many of us, refuse to let both sides of our ourselves out.  Is this where the eunuch part comes in play?  Sometimes, we cut ourselves off from one or the other, maybe it’s society, or our family who cuts it off, refusing to allow little boys to cry, or to play with dolls or wear pink or let little girls wear their hair short, or climb trees, or play ball, or get dirty.  

Or maybe we do it to ourselves to try to fit in or not stand out.  We cut ourselves off from one of the two sides that God created us to be. Often that makes us less than we could be. Too much masculine and we’re angry and violent.  Too much feminine energy and we might become over nurturing, or overwhelmed.  But what if when we are balanced in our energy we are able to become more than we ever knew we could be.  What if when we allow ourselves to be fully yin, and fully yang, fully male, and fully female we become one within ourselves.  What if we were never meant to be solely one or the other.  What if this is what God “yoked together” in one body?

When the young man comes to Jesus looking for eternal life, Jesus says, “If you want to enter into life” … “If you wish to be perfect,”  Love. 

What if Jesus is telling this young man, that the way to eternal life is to fully live?  To live fully as we were created to be and to LOVE.

He didn’t just say love your neighbor though, he said love your neighbor as yourself.  Could this be part of the yoking together?  God yokes us not only to be fully ourselves but also to one another.  In order to fully live, to reach eternal life, we need only to love each other and our whole selves.  We live fully and eternally in LOVE.

May we find our way to fully loving as Jesus taught us and God created us.

Until next time…♥️