John 5:43 Meaning I Have Come in My Father’s Name

Two voices are always asking to be received, and a mind shows which teacher it has chosen by whom it welcomes. What comes in the name of love arrives without a self to promote, offering only the remembrance that the mind was never separate. What comes in its own name is the ego, and it is received gladly, because it flatters the belief in a self standing alone and important.

This is the strange preference of a frightened mind. It turns away the gift that asks nothing and embraces the voice that confirms its separation. Yet a mind is always free to reverse the choice, to stop receiving the flatterer and let the quiet voice of love be heard instead.

Father: the loving Source whose name carries no self-interest, only the truth that the mind belongs to it and is innocent

To come in the Father's name is to come without ego, empty of the need to assert 'me' and 'mine.' Such a presence carries no self-importance, and so the mind that is itself made of self-importance cannot recognize it. It passes by unreceived.

But let someone come in his own name, promoting and announcing himself, and the ego in you leaps to welcome him, because it recognizes its own reflection. This is why the loudest and most self-serving are so easily followed. You receive whatever mirrors your own ego, and you overlook the very thing that would quietly free you from it.