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John 6:39 · World English Bible

John 6:39 Meaning This Is the Will of My Father

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

What does John 6:39 mean?

The Father is your own awareness of being, and its will is that nothing given to imagination is ever lost. Every state you have truly accepted as your own is held safe and raised in its own time.

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The Father is your own awareness of being, and its will is that nothing given to imagination is ever lost. Every state you have truly accepted as your own is held safe and raised in its own time. What feeling has taken in, the creative power keeps and brings up into fact, so none of it falls away.

The last day is not a date on a calendar but the appointed moment when an assumed state finishes ripening and stands up in your world. Fulfillment comes in its own certain time, not when reason expects it. Whatever you have made your own within is being carried toward that rising and cannot be dropped along the way. The state a person accepts is kept until it is raised, and then it becomes the life he lives from.

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Live John 6:39 today

  1. Write down the one thing you have quietly accepted as yours, then put it somewhere you will find it in a month. Today, stop checking the ground for a sprout.
  2. When a friend asks whether anything has come of it yet, say honestly that it is still in the ground and that you are not worried. Saying it out loud to one person steadies you more than defending it would.
  3. On a day when nothing is moving and the inbox says you were wrong, treat the delay as timing instead of verdict. Carry on as the person for whom it has already worked.

What have I called lost that is only not yet risen?

The same truth in other traditions

Confucianism · Mencius

He tells of the farmer who pulled on his sprouts to help them grow and killed the whole crop. What is really planted is not lost by waiting for its season.

Bhagavad Gita 6

Krishna assures Arjuna that no sincere effort of the inner life is ever wasted or destroyed. It is kept, and it bears fruit later even if the person cannot see where it went.

Sufism · Rumi

He writes that the seed must stay buried and look dead a while before it rises. The dark months are not loss, they are the keeping.

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