We idolize 'self-awareness', and then travel the world to 'lose ourselves'. In Greek mythology the river of forgetfulness ('Lethe') bordered heaven ('Elysium'). Or we might 'read', heaven is an impossible state without forgetting our lives here on earth.
More recently, GK Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote that 'everything we call bliss or ecstasy or spirit¼ only means that for one awful instant we remember [or become aware of] that we forgot.' A state of forgetting what? Everything that life was never meant to be, and resulted in man killing man, and man killing God. (Genesis chapter 4, Mark 15) We were made to be fully aware of God, and aware of anything else in different measures and moments as an overflow. This mirrors what Jesus said was the 'greatest commandment', i.e. 'To love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.' (Matthew 22:36-40; Deuteronomy 6:4-5). And what overflowed from that, or what was leftover, Jesus called us to direct toward each other. (Leviticus 19:18) We are called to be 'God-aware', and aware of our neighbor. Let God be 'you-aware', and tell you what that really means and 'is', on that final day. (Revelation 2:17; 1 Corinthians 13:9,12; 1 John 3:2)
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