“And I am like an olive tree in the house of God,
and my trust in the loving kindness of God for ever and ever.”
(Psalms 52:10)
King David’s love, devotion
and praise to the Creator are emblematic, for there has not been someone like
him to exalt His works and wonders.
These qualities also
embrace those of an olive tree, deep rooted, strong and long lasting. There
seems to be a corresponding nature between the aforementioned qualities and the
trust derived from them, with the eternal loving kindness by which God sustains
His creation.
Let’s remember that
olives produce the oil to light up the darkness of the late and early hours of
the day. Every time we hear or speak about anointment, it is about our capacity
to enlighten ourselves with the multidimensional and transcendental meanings of
the Torah.
This is the same
anointment that leads us to our final redemption with the ultimate knowledge
and awareness of the Creator in our consciousness that takes place in “the
house of the Lord”.
Planting consciousness
in this house like olive trees means to live permanently in the awareness of
the truth that God’s loving kindness is from where we came, and to where we are
destined to live forever and ever.
“Who shall give from
Zion the redemption of Israel? The Lord
will turn the captivity of His people. Jacob will be glad, Israel will rejoice.”
(53:7)
The verse tells us
that God’s final redemption for Israel, and consequently for humankind, comes
from Zion as the connecting place between the Creator and the material world.
We must realize that Zion,
as the total awareness of our connection with God, is the time and space of our
complete freedom from anything different from God’s ways and attributes, which
we understand as pure goodness free from what is alien to it.
Our captivity encompasses
all that lacks goodness, which is living in the negative and destructive
predicament of the evil ways of an egocentric approach to life.
As long as we don’t
lose focus of goodness and acknowledge it as our essence and true identity, we recognize
ourselves as Jacob and Israel, the two aspects of a life committed to reveal
God’s will for the material world, which is to make goodness prevail.
Once we allow
goodness to manifest in all levels, aspects and expressions of human
consciousness, we begin to rejoice and be glad of living in true redemption,
free from the captivity of evil.
As we see it in the
following verse, living in this awareness is the culmination of the fulfilled
prophecies in the Hebrew Bible with their transcending and eternal quality.
“I will dwell in Your tent forever.
I will take refuge in the covert of Your wings, forever.”
(61:5)
In the Hebrew
tradition, tents are related to places of learning and study of the Torah in
regards to how God relates to His creation. God’s tent is as unfathomable and impenetrable as the Creator, for He is eternal.
This is the
transcendental time and space where our consciousness is promised to dwell as in
a refuge under eternal divine protection.
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