“Your ears shall hear a word behind
you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand
Or whenever you turn to the left.” (Isaiah 30:21; New King James Bible
Version (NKJV). “And He has made from one blood every
nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their
preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might
grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for
in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have
said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ ” (Acts 17:26-28; NKJV). Many years ago, I learned that reality isn’t what it seems to be. Oh, I knew that we lived in a material
universe, of course; but, from my early childhood, I had been puzzled by the
spiritual things that also happened to me, quite frequently, which defied even material laws and which I hid from other
people, for fear they might think I was making up things. So, as I became a teenager, I kept
trying to make sense of why some of the
accepted laws of matter often did me no harm; for, whatever was wrong in my
life quickly disappeared when my tiniest prayer was uttered. In fact, from my earliest childhood, I grew to
trust these prayers because the result was that I never had any childhood
diseases, nor lacked any money, or whatever else I needed. And although I came from a relatively poor
family, from the age of eleven I was offered after-school jobs, all the way
through college, where I was allowed to work my way through the University of
Illinois. So, I never had to borrow
money, or owe anyone for my college education (which took me through two more degrees)
still with no debt. Now, I don’t mean to suggest that I
haven’t been through many challenges that came my way in this human life
experience; rather, these challenges almost always disappeared from my experience
quickly and harmony was restored. In so many,
various ways, the ‘bad’ almost always disappeared, turning my human experience back
into harmony in a very short time. Now, the only thing that might explain
my many blessings (that made ‘bad’ scenarios turn around so quickly) may have
been due to a Bible School teacher who taught me something helpful when I was
five years old. She told our bible class
that whatever ‘bad’ thing seemed to be in our daily life, quickly say to ourselves:
“But God is here, too…and that makes all
the difference in the world!” Now, as a small child, I believed what
she said without question; and, I quickly found out that she was right. (I wish I could find that early teacher and
thank her, but I’m seventy-three years old, now, so I don’t believe she’s here
anymore.) Still, she blessed my whole life experience,
with that one, simple, spiritual truth.
Somehow, I never forgot it. Over
the years, it lived within my belief system, despite any negative thing that
might look like it could harm me. Now, the bad things that threaten us in
the material scene can seem very real, and unbeatable. But in any bad situation, to realize that, “God is here too, and that makes all the
difference in the world” takes the material belief of something-evil out of
our thinking, replacing it with the ever-present, spiritual fact of divine
Love. So, I’ve always been so grateful that that one
lesson from a bible class teacher has helped me all my adult life. Now, as time has rolled on, I’ve
learned that it’s wise to know that our own change of mind from negative
thoughts (and beliefs) into God-ward thinking always begins the spiritual-healing
process of anything, or anyone, that may threaten us. This is so because in our outer world of
finite, physical form, every type of evil person, place, or thing can find its
way into our consciousness; and once in our thoughts, our material images of
disease, disfigurement, lack of supply, and any other discordant scenario tries
to blot out our spiritual knowledge of God’s ever-presence and everlasting divine
Love for us. So, our own beliefs and thoughts,
(rather of good or evil conditions) can manifest
on the physical form (create materially) the image of our own worst fears. This occurs subliminally when we aren’t
remembering that God, divine Love, is the only power that rules over us. The first commandment says we should
have no other gods (powers) except the One, spiritual God of all creation. Whatever else we may be believing in as a ‘power’ over us is a false power and not to be
feared. God is still with us, despite
all physical appearances to the contrary; and God is omnipotent (the only Power
over all creation). Now, no matter what we’re believing to be an earthly power over
us can physically manifest (takes some type of physical form). It may be good or bad, depending upon our
thinking about it. The good news to remember, however, is that
God’s children are spiritual, not material creatures, despite all material illusions
to the contrary. So, beliefs of any kind of negative
powers, or situations, or scenarios should be cleared from your thoughts
in order to clear the path God-ward by first dismissing all fearful, negative
beliefs, however real and powerful they may claim to be. Just because we don’t perceive spiritual
truth through the finite, physical senses, does not mean that God’s kingdom
exists in another dimension from us. God, divine Spirit, is always
invisibly present to maintain the ever-lasting harmony and good things that
belong to Its own, spiritual children (you and me). That’s what omnipresence means. We are still and only have our true being,
our spiritual being, in the spiritual kingdom of God, wherever we seem to be materially.
Paul the Apostle did much writing on
the nature of God’s ever-present, invisible kingdom, that exists right here,
but hidden beneath our false sense of a finite, physical sense of
ourselves. As Paul said, “…they should seek the Lord, in
the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from
each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being,
as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ ” (See fuller quote at
top page of article). But, why you ask, am I telling you
this? I’m telling this because it came
to me, early this morning, to describe an early healing experience that showed
why everyone can experience the true
creation of God that lies dormant within us all.
This was my first, spiritual healing of someone other than
myself. It started way back when our
daughter was two years old. Here’s what
happened: I awoke, one morning, to find my little
two-year old covered with a really bad rash all over her body. I was shocked, because I’d never had any
physical thing like that, nor had the baby ever been sick. Now, my own mother was not like
me. She believed more like the general
population of this world that fought with disease as though it was a real power. She wasn’t too receptive of spiritual healing,
nor did she want to leave the world’s medical way, so I knew that this wasn’t
the time to debate with her. So, at the
worst time, she took that moment to knock on the door and walk in. When she saw how red and aggressive the
rash seemed to be on my daughter, she wanted me to call a doctor right away;
but I knew I had to get hold of myself and get rid of the fear, so the healing
would come. When my mother left, I calmed
myself down from her reaction and predictions of doom. Then I turned to God and said, “What is this?” The soft answer I heard in my mind was
something like, “It is nothing. Let go of the fear, first.” So, I calmed myself as best I could and
waited for more direction to come to my thoughts. The next thing I ‘heard’ in my thoughts
was a soft voice saying, “There is no
poison in the kingdom of God. Do not I
fill heaven and earth? The only thing
that is touching her is My love.” I knew this was the inner voice of the
Christ Consciousness that is the spiritual consciousness, deep within us
all. So, as I mentally ‘heard’ that
voice within, I felt a great weight lifting, and I knew that the message I was
receiving was that the whole, material illusion
of disease couldn’t touch any of God’s children. But in order to erase the illusion of
materiality, I had to erase all traces of fear, first. For the illusion of disease, or any abnormality,
is created in the false, material sense of being, (imagined) before it
manifests (appears) in the outer world of form. So, I knew that in spiritual Reality,
there is no disease. To explain further:
When fear is released, the truth of normalcy comes back into thought and the
healing occurs…yet, please ‘get this’: Nothing really changes from normalcy to
disease, and then back to normalcy again.
Rather, what really happens is that in the kingdom of God, (where we
live, and move, and have our being) disease never happens to us in the first
place. I repeat: in spiritual
reality, there is no disease. It is only
our belief
that we live, and move, and have our being trapped in a material form, which causes
us to think we are finite, physical creatures, instead of the ever-lasting, spiritual
children of God. Once we remember that we are God’s
own children, our belief in any danger, disease, or lack of harmony fades from
the physical appearance of the material form.
And that’s just what occurred. By
the time the day was over, my daughter’s skin had returned to normal and she
went outside to play. By evening, when
my mother returned to check on her, my daughter showed no sign of the
frightening rash. Now, this is not a new thing. I didn’t invent it. Many religious churches and movements now
know that there’s a spiritual component that goes with those who learn the spiritual
principles of healing. The principles of
spiritual healing appear in many religions today, such as the teachings of Mary
Baker Eddy in the Christian Science religion, and some Unity churches, and even
some Eastern religions. Personally, I didn’t learn of Christian
Science until I was twenty-eight or so; yet, I have been practicing the principles of spiritual healing since I was that small
child, without any particular religion to rely upon, except to know that ‘God is here, too, and that makes all the
difference in the world’. Over the years that I grew in my
understanding of spiritual healing, I’ve come to comprehend that this explains
why faith is so important to
healing. Faith is not for God’s sake, as
we’re often taught. Instead, ‘faith’
is the tool that works for our own sake. Faith is a mental stand and the first step in
reversing an illness, or injury, or any discord that acts out in the outer world
of finite form. With faith, we stop
believing in the power of disease,
evil, and death. Faith fulfills the
First Commandment, “Thou shalt have no other
gods (powers) before Me.” Faith is the mental trust that turns-the-tide
in every case of spiritual healing. Every spiritual healing begins with
faith. This trust is necessary to turn
the physical appearance of things back into normalcy; for, remember: we
manifest into material form, whatever we are believing. When we stop believing in disease, sin, and
death, these ‘evils’ disappear. Furthermore, Faith denies the negative
so that the positive can re-enter the human scenario. It keeps the human, material sense of things
at bay, so that the spiritual truth of man’s ever-lasting spiritual identity
does not imagine disease, and then
allow this image to manifest in or
on the physical form. Faith steadies the
human sense of material being to ‘stand down’, so to speak. It shuts out the fears of materiality, so the
harmony of spiritual being can heal the material illusion in the outer world of
finite form. Now, having said all this, please do
not give up any other method of healing you have faith in. Wherever your belief system feels safest, go
to that system. Don’t leave medical treatment
until you realize or comprehend how and why spiritual healing works. If new to spiritual healing methods,
practice on non-threatening things until your understanding and trust have
conquered any fear; for fear and trust
are two very different mental states.
Fear means you’re still believing in the injury or disease; and when
fear is still present in your thoughts, no healing is likely to occur. Fear is the absence of trust. So, first practice handling fear, and learn
to replace it with faith in the Divine, ever-present kingdom, (even
though invisible to the material senses) right here where we seem to be
physical beings, but are not. Learning the spiritual truth of being, (rather
than clinging to materiality as reality) is probably the basic purpose of our
earthly experience. It is an awakening
from the collective dream of finite being into our remembrance that we are, and
always have been, God’s own spiritual children, with our real life span that
has no end. Each awakens from the dream
of finite being in his and her own time.
I think that our putting on our own Christ identity (Spiritual identity)
begins the awakening process, despite which side of the grave we’re on. Physical death was never real in the first
place. We are Spirit Untouched. |
