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soul by the constant spiritual renewing of your mind, and so are you endowed with the power of the certain and joyous performance of the gracious, acceptable, and perfect will of God. Forget not--it is your personal faith in the exceedingly great and precious promises of God that ensures your becoming partakers of the divine nature. Thus by your faith and the spirit's transformation, you become in reality the temples of God, and his spirit actually dwells within you. If, then, the spirit dwells within you, you are no longer bond-slaves of the flesh but free and liberated sons of the spirit. The new law of the spirit endows you with the liberty of self-mastery in place of the old law of the fear of self-bondage and the slavery of self-denial."
Spiritual values, then, are not conceptual illusions but are real. They depend dominantly upon personal relationships and consist in actuals and potentials. When actuals and potentials associate they bring about spiritual growth.
The supreme value in human life consists in progress in meanings and realization of the cosmic interrelatedness of meaningful experiences having spiritual value.
But love is the key. Love, meaning selfless regard for the spiritual welfare in eternity of all others, plus our personal service to all with whom we experience personal relationships, this is the love that gives meaning and purpose to both finite and eternal life.
Thus does this revealed meaning for love function to change life's traditional goal from one lived as a sacrificial offering in penance for sin to one offered back to God in conformity to God's will and purposes, and lived in eternal joy, worship, and gratitude. For that we give our everlasting humble and heartfelt thanks.
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