“Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;” (Isaiah 49:16; (KJV). In this human experience, and despite all material appearances to the
contrary, no one in the Kingdom of God ever goes without any good thing. All of the ‘lacks’ that seem to exist in this finite, earthly-seeming, reality (like lack
of good-health, lack of peace, lack of joy, lack of supply) are never the truth
of our real, ever-lasting being, which is our eternal Life in that divine
Spirit, we call God. All of our tribulations and human woes
we encounter in our entire time here, (in this material sense of reality) are
NOT our true realities. Our true reality
lies within our deeper memory, our
spiritual self-hood, which is invisibly present, even when we still erroneously
believe ourselves to be finite, creatures, born to self-destruct. Yet, God’s children do not destruct. We only believe
that we do, because we are still sleeping in the dream of finite, material
being. Even material death cannot kill
us because no one can destroy anyone, or anything, that God, divine Spirit, has
created. That’s why Christ Jesus came into this
human, collective dream of finite materiality.
He came into this human experience to show those of us who still sleep
in the dream of materiality that material death doesn’t kill anyone. Rather, like Jesus, we wake up on the ‘other
side’ of material death, because we never were physical, finite beings in
the first place. We always were, and
will always remain to be, the spiritual sons
and daughters of God. What we must realize is that in the
kingdom of God, all people, places, and things are spiritual in substance
and form, not material. Matter is
not true substance of any thing, or any one.
Because all substance is spiritual, it is not subject to damage or
decay. All spiritual substance is eternal. Therefore, we are never without the substance
of any good thing. Yet, in this
deceptive, material realm of thought, we don’t perceive the spiritual kingdom
of God, in which we actually exist. Now, after we pass away from this
physical sense of being in our earthly sense of things, we awaken to our
ever-lasting Self in the dimension of Infinite Spirit, God. That’s why Paul the Apostle said of God,
divine Spirit, “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as
certain also of your own poets have
said, For we are also his offspring.” (Acts 17:28; King James Bible Version
(KJV). ‘Living, moving and having our being’ in
God is quite different from living, moving and having our being in a finite,
physical form. Material existence is a
mental state of self-delusion. This
self-delusion was revealed when Christ Jesus returned from his material death
process, only to leave the whole realm of physics (materiality) in what was
called ‘the ascension.’ His three days in the tomb resulted in
his spiritual awakening. Upon this awakening, Christ Jesus briefly returned
in the fleshly form, in order to prove that life goes on after the
material body seems to disappear into the physical death process. He remained in the fleshly form, only
briefly, so that those who knew him could realize that he was demonstrating
their own endless being that dwelt within all of us. He was showing humanity that true being
belonged in the spiritual realm, where all life exists forever. This advanced individual, whom we know
as Christ Jesus, was our divine Brother, showing us our true, everlasting
Selves. His mission was a brave one, for
he had to go through the physical ‘death’ process in order to show us all that
death is unreal. Everyone who ‘dies’
materially quickly learns, when they awaken spiritually, that death was always
a liar. Nothing, and no one, can kill
what, or whom, God has created. Now, knowing all this, tells us why we should turn toward God whenever
things seem to be wrong in our daily lives and times. (And lots of things go wrong in this human
experience, where we seem to be caught in that dual system of good AND
evil, rather than realizing the spiritual fact that no evil actually exists in
God’s creation.) God is the only Creator of Its own creation.
God is the only Lawmaker over
all creation. That’s a spiritual
truth. But, we miss the mark when we
believe that there is another Creator or power which expresses itself through
the belief in so-called laws of matter.
With this belief in a material sense of being, (that is, when we believe
in the power of matter to be a law) we break the First Commandment given to
Moses on the Mount: “Thou shalt have no other gods (powers) before Me (God).” (Exodus 20:3; King James Bible
Version (KJV). (My emphasis.) The instant we mentally ‘give’ something
physical power in our thinking, we’ve written off God as the only power. The first Commandment is then broken. When we do that, we are ‘worshipping’ not
one, but two, conflicting dualing powers. Whatever we believe about these two conflicting powers will come into our human
experience, be it a good thing, or bad thing.
That’s why we have to watch what we’re believing, for we soon invite it
into expression in our daily, human experience. That’s why Jesus often asked those who
followed him if they believed in
God’s power to heal them. He knew that,
if they did believe in God’s sovereign power, the healing would take
place for them. If not, his healing
prayers for them wouldn’t work. On one
hand, they would be believing in God’s power; on the other hand, they would be believing
in a power opposed to God’s power. That’s
like trying to go east and west at the same time. It can’t be done. It’s
written that one time Jesus and his disciples were doing healing work in a
certain town of non-believers of God. The
attempts at healing wouldn’t work, there, because
of their unbelief in God. This
shows that our divine freedom-to-be can reject God’s help. That’s because spiritual healing is a gift,
not something to be forced upon anyone.
Thus, no one can be healed against their own will; it must be a
choice. In the ever-present kingdom of
God, we are each free to believe, or follow, what we believe. If we develop TRUST in the sovereign presence and power of God, however,
and cling to that trust alone, nothing can stop the healing of any good
thing. God’s creation is filled with
goodness, and goodness only, to bless every child or adult who asks for God’s blessing. Spiritual gifts are never-ending. The divine Intelligence of the entire,
spiritual universe does not withhold anything good from Its children. God’s kingdom does not run out of good things. The Almighty does not deny any good thing,
unless it might harm someone, in a way they don’t yet understand. God is not a withholder. Nor does divine Love give good things to some
of Its children and not to others. Our
divine Parent loves all its children equally.
I learned at an early age that God really loves all of us, even if we’ve
done wrong. If and when we try to fix a
wrong we’ve done, a way to fix our wrong behavior always comes to us in a swift
moment of thought. Despite the millions of people that
populate this planet, God’s ever-lasting flow of good is invisibly present to
fill the needs of each and every individual.
Despite how lacking in supply we may seem to be, God’s infinite supply
of all good is invisibly present to
fill all human needs, when, in faith, we individually turn to our divine Parent
for whatever is humanly needed. That’s
because in the (invisible) kingdom of God (of which we are each a resident)
there is no poverty or lack of any good thing, so whatever we humanly need
can be manifested anytime we turn to God’s loving, ever-presence and spiritual
control over all creation, even if it seems to be beyond our view at some time. When we learn to believe in the ever-present love of God, we need no other Source
for any good thing. Each child, or
off-spring of God, has his and her own
good, whatever it may be. It is only
the false sense of material lack that
tells us we are impoverished in some way, shape, or form. What seems to be lacking is really a false
sense of the spiritual kingdom of God, which is always present, but invisible
to the physical senses. So, we must believe in God’s invisible presence that
is with us all the time, even when we aren’t perceiving it yet in a material
form. We must learn to trust that
invisible presence of Infinite Spirit, or we won’t see it manifested (come
forward) in our daily lives. Divine Love
brings material things that we temporarily need into this material sense of being. But we must mentally perceive our presence of spiritual good first, and then it
will manifest (take physical form) in our daily lives second. Trust, even though you can’t see the good yet. For, like some wise poet once said: “Faith
is the song we sing, before the Dawn.” |
