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Spiritual Thoughts & Ideas
by LC
Where is God? Have you ever seen someone look up to the sky and pray to God (To
them: probably an old man on a throne up above somewhere...), looking for their answer
and deliverance from outside themselves? If so, consider the two verses together:
"...Christ in you, the hope of glory." Colossians 1:27
"I can do all things through Christ that empowers me." Philippians 4:13
Both passages together clearly show that our hope and power comes from within our
very being. "How?" One may ask. Through Christ: the knowledge of your oneness with
God. Spirit is the life-giving power within all. The idea of being separate from that spirit
by placing God somewhere outside of you is illusionary, and in effect makes you
perceive yourself as helpless and powerless. All may be achieved through your source
within you, by simply connecting with that source. If you are looking outside yourself for
answers, you are ignoring the truth of who you really are.
No Separation. I was thinking of this verse one day and had a revelation on it:
"Of a truth I perceive, that God is no respecter of persons." Acts 10:34
Peter stated the above quote after he had earlier heard the Spirit within himself speak,
"Call no man common or unclean." Usually, Acts 10:34 is interpreted as meaning all can
come to be saved, no matter what race, color or creed one may be. However, I am
hearing the spirit saying that God does not see any of us as separate from Him or each
other. He cannot respect "persons" or individuals, because that is separation. Spirit
sees us all as one in Spirit and with each other. This is the truth Peter perceived! I am
not sure we see ourselves as one, but as separate beings, yet. Isn't that what Jesus
prayed for in John 17:21-23, that we may all be one? Perhaps He spoke forth that all
would one day recognize oneness with spirit and with each other; as one Spirit.
Know Thyself.
"Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your
accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in
prison; truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the
last penny." Matthew 5:25-26
There was a time when I had not been able to stop thinking about the verse which states,
"whatever a man sows, he shall also reap." In the above parable attributed to Jesus, the
accuser, judge and guard are one's conscience. If I choose to darken my soul, I will pay
a price of suffering until my incorrect thinking is undone. That is paying the last penny,
and ultimately demands self-forgiveness. It is not God's judgment on man, but a simple
law of spirit. Having the power to create, and thus the potential to mis-create, if I choose
suffering, I will suffer. If I choose love and peace I will know love and peace. No one can
attack me, but myself. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." Guard your soul, and
escape a self-imposed inner prison of emotional darkness. As Socrates once said,
"Know thyself."
The Alpha and Omega
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End...Who is, and Who was, and
Who is to come..." Revelation 1:8
This verse is typically understood to be Jesus' claim as God to be worshipped because
he states his prior and therefore eternal existence. However, I think he was stating
something greater. Jesus is proclaiming that he is a picture of who we really are...our
true condition spiritually. Your true condition of who you really cannot be
changed by this physical realm. You are an eternal spirit. Separation from God (Spirit) in
our minds, like the first Adam in Genesis, has produced an illusion which we each
individually see and believe as mankind being powerless, imperfect and separate from
Divinity. But, Jesus has demonstrated for all that this common mis-perception will be
healed in all of us, and the true state known by all; hence all will be "resurrected" (within
our thinking) back to knowing our oneness with Spirit and each other. To the religious,
this seems impossible, but Jesus addressed this when he proclaimed, "The things that
are impossible with men are possible with God." Is anything impossible for God?
by LC
Where is God? Have you ever seen someone look up to the sky and pray to God (To
them: probably an old man on a throne up above somewhere...), looking for their answer
and deliverance from outside themselves? If so, consider the two verses together:
"...Christ in you, the hope of glory." Colossians 1:27
"I can do all things through Christ that empowers me." Philippians 4:13
Both passages together clearly show that our hope and power comes from within our
very being. "How?" One may ask. Through Christ: the knowledge of your oneness with
God. Spirit is the life-giving power within all. The idea of being separate from that spirit
by placing God somewhere outside of you is illusionary, and in effect makes you
perceive yourself as helpless and powerless. All may be achieved through your source
within you, by simply connecting with that source. If you are looking outside yourself for
answers, you are ignoring the truth of who you really are.
No Separation. I was thinking of this verse one day and had a revelation on it:
"Of a truth I perceive, that God is no respecter of persons." Acts 10:34
Peter stated the above quote after he had earlier heard the Spirit within himself speak,
"Call no man common or unclean." Usually, Acts 10:34 is interpreted as meaning all can
come to be saved, no matter what race, color or creed one may be. However, I am
hearing the spirit saying that God does not see any of us as separate from Him or each
other. He cannot respect "persons" or individuals, because that is separation. Spirit
sees us all as one in Spirit and with each other. This is the truth Peter perceived! I am
not sure we see ourselves as one, but as separate beings, yet. Isn't that what Jesus
prayed for in John 17:21-23, that we may all be one? Perhaps He spoke forth that all
would one day recognize oneness with spirit and with each other; as one Spirit.
Know Thyself.
"Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your
accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in
prison; truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the
last penny." Matthew 5:25-26
There was a time when I had not been able to stop thinking about the verse which states,
"whatever a man sows, he shall also reap." In the above parable attributed to Jesus, the
accuser, judge and guard are one's conscience. If I choose to darken my soul, I will pay
a price of suffering until my incorrect thinking is undone. That is paying the last penny,
and ultimately demands self-forgiveness. It is not God's judgment on man, but a simple
law of spirit. Having the power to create, and thus the potential to mis-create, if I choose
suffering, I will suffer. If I choose love and peace I will know love and peace. No one can
attack me, but myself. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." Guard your soul, and
escape a self-imposed inner prison of emotional darkness. As Socrates once said,
"Know thyself."
The Alpha and Omega
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End...Who is, and Who was, and
Who is to come..." Revelation 1:8
This verse is typically understood to be Jesus' claim as God to be worshipped because
he states his prior and therefore eternal existence. However, I think he was stating
something greater. Jesus is proclaiming that he is a picture of who we really are...our
true condition spiritually. Your true condition of who you really cannot be
changed by this physical realm. You are an eternal spirit. Separation from God (Spirit) in
our minds, like the first Adam in Genesis, has produced an illusion which we each
individually see and believe as mankind being powerless, imperfect and separate from
Divinity. But, Jesus has demonstrated for all that this common mis-perception will be
healed in all of us, and the true state known by all; hence all will be "resurrected" (within
our thinking) back to knowing our oneness with Spirit and each other. To the religious,
this seems impossible, but Jesus addressed this when he proclaimed, "The things that
are impossible with men are possible with God." Is anything impossible for God?
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