BE who you really are

A favorite LP record of mine from childhood is the soundtrack of the masterfully filmed 1973 movie, Jonathan Livingston Seagull.  Neil Diamond sublimely sings the song "Be," but it's misinformation:

Lost
On a painted sky
Where the clouds are hung
For the poet's eye
You may find him
If you may find him

There
On a distant shore
By the wings of dreams
Through an open door
You may know him
If you may

Be
As a page that aches for a word
Which speaks on a theme that is timeless
And the one God will make for your day

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The Good News for the Believer today is God is not out there, way off yonder, to be found and known in a dream. 

John 1:14 says, [14] And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

In II Corinthians 6, Paul relates, "As God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
[17] Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
[18] And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Jordan explains, "You see how He says 'I will be'? He didn't say, 'I'm going to be LIKE a Father,' or that you're going to be LIKE a son or daughter. He said, 'I'm going to BE.'

"This is the reality of the relationship and the way the Father relates to you and me today. We literally have this personal, intimate, real, genuine, authentic relationship with God the Father that allows us to relate to Him on exactly the same basis that Jesus Christ does. Now, that's a fascinating thing. You literally can know your heavenly Father.

"He doesn't relate to you in His godheadness; omniscient, omnipotent, the Holy Other, the Transcendent One. He comes and relates to you, not in all the essences He has, but in His person. He isn't just all those other things; He's also life and love; He's personal, relational.

"Every member of the godhead, the way they live together is each one of them lives for the benefit of the other. Nobody in the godhead lives for themselves. They spontaneously and forever live for the good and the benefit of the other members. They're always looking out for the others in the godhead. That's God's life and it's that kind of relationship that you and I in Christ now have and that's what the Holy Spirit's job is . . .

"One of my favorite verses in Ephesians is Ephesians 2:18: [18] For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

"It's the function and the work of the Holy Spirit to take you, and by that WORK of the Holy Spirit, lead you into that intimate, personal, authentic, genuine relationship with the Father that Jesus Christ has provided for you. That's a wonderful, fantastic kind of relationship."