Sitting in a plane seat alongside two people yesterday, I could not not but overhear what they were saying. If you open your ears to how people are expressing their life's experience you find so many talk in a negative vein. They are so attached to their negation that if you question, they take exception. They insist on their reality, that this is the world. That’s contrary to what the Master shows. He said clearly (Luke 11:34) that we have the power to mould our reality. He said "If your eye is sound, then your whole body will be full of light." And the Psalmist some hundreds of years before him declared (8:6) "Thou hast given man the dominion over the works of Thy hands." The same thing as the power to mould our reality.
The question is: how do I exercise my dominion? Standing on my emotional mountain-top and shouting at the top of my voice, will not make anything happen. Intellectually commanding health to come into my body, happiness into my heart and prosperity into my affairs – and this is what I seek - will not do anything – won’t get me anywhere – will bring about no change. I must have rapport with God's presence; I must be "switched on". Is my whole consciousness, my whole mind and heart, are they right with God?
And does my God-consciousness include all His creations, like my neighbour whom I don’t particularly like? One hears so many destructive expressions, searing criticisms of others. Often these remarks are made by seemingly good and kind people who believe they are working with God. But their behaviour and what they say is the antithesis of what the Master teaches.
As I grew up I remember wondering if Jesus was just a moraliser and do-gooder? Or was there was really something tangible and demonstrable in his teachings? YES. He was saying in effect "If you are sick, God is your health. If you are unhappy, God is your love. If you are wanting of this world’s goods, God is your abundance." Health, happiness and prosperity are the manifestation, the reflections of spiritual realities. The Master goes further - he says that this spiritual reality already constitutes you and is inseparable from you: "The kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17: 21)
But then you look at the person with a so-called "terminal" condition. The intellect says that this contradicts the presence of God, and then you also think of the many millions who are starving and dying of malnutrition, you ask "Where is He?"
But in its own terminology, science is also teaching, as we have always taught, that there is no separation between us and the things that make up our existence. There is no "God and . . . " There is only God AS Intelligence, as Love, as Power. There is only one Presence in the whole universe, seen and unseen, and we are metaphorically swimming in It, in this Divine intelligence with Its myriad ideas. But because of our ignorance and early conditioning, we have built up a consciousness of separation. What’s more, we now accept this separation as the will of God. Not so?
Rather listen, and believe the Kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 17:21).
Love goes out to you, longing, longing, longing to restore you to the consciousness and expression of health and peace. But because of your conditioning you reject these promises. Are we so arrogant that we reject God’s promises? And they are there before us?
All day long, silently or aloud, we are speaking the word. We are exercising our "dominion over the works of Thy hands" (Psalms 8:6) and we are doing it for better or for worse. Every word, arising in our brains, sets up vibrations that go out into the universe. Every word we think, or speak or even hold unconsciously, already reaches to infinity. So speak and think the positive word. There is no separation, no division between "here" and "there". We are not flotsam and jetsam. We are the expressions of God – his children, if you like. We have dominion over all creation.
Therefore I must listen to myself. Out of the fullness of my heart, what am I declaring - peace for my mind, happiness for my heart, health for my body, security for my affairs? It behoves me to be careful because whatever I am declaring will faithfully be made manifest for me.
People do not grasp this message which the Master has been giving us for so long. He gives us a way of living, what’s more, a way of demonstrating. His teaching is not about moralising and do-gooding. He says "This is what you do, this is how you do it - and this will be the result." We are not weaklings - we are God's temples on this plane of consciousness. So, how are you glorifying this Presence? What are you radiating? What are you reflecting for the world to see? For all people will see precisely what you are and who you are, will see either your consciousness of God-ness on display, or your consciousness of separation.
Shakespeare, as so often, put it succinctly. Nothing is either good or bad but thinking (with feeling) makes it so. It all starts with consciousness: Do my ideas appear through the prism of my negative intellect and feelings? Or through Universal Mind and Soul? What fills my cup – livingness? Or nothingness? Paul tells us to "have that mind in you that was in Jesus-Christ", the mind that is not cognizant of appearances. The Christ-mind sees through appearances to the God-ness of the situation or the person. Everybody is in the presence of God, the presence of good. In reality you cannot separate God from His expression. The traditional view of God as a man-like being whom we should fear, and to whom we should confess what terrible, despicable people we are, and then beg for forgiveness which he may or may not give. NO! This is entirely wrong.
Our heavenly Father says of each and every one of us "Behold My beloved child; you are My reflection, in whom I am well pleased." He does not see error, "sin", or negation in you. He sees only Himself. Just as if you look into Light you cannot see darkness, if you look into Love you cannot see hatred, if you look into Beauty you cannot see ugliness, if you look into Purity you cannot see any pollution. Do you understand? What are you seeing as real? What are you thinking as truth? How do you feel about it? What are you declaring from the fullness of your heart? How do you react?
"But it is so hard." you say. God replies ”My strength is sufficient. My presence overcomes the world. The cause that is too hard you shall bring to Me and I will hear it." Deuteronomy/1-17. Turn these words over again and again in your mind and in your heart. There is always a way out of difficulty, always a door open to His kingdom. There is always the Power to take you the extra yard, to uphold you, to protect you, to bless you. You do not have to shout in the dark. Tennyson said: “He is nearer to you than hands and feet, closer to you than breathing”. But you must set Him free.
This hall is full of God-temples this morning, each one radiating Him with different nuance, a different degree of consciousness. Yet one spiritual Life constitutes all of us, is present through all of us, is not more in you and less in me. But we must be aware of It. We must accept It. We must release It.
So go out of here and say - make it your affirmation:
"l am the voice of God, the voice of Love, and Harmony, and Peace. I am one with the whole universal vibration of Love. Which frees all humanity, including me, from fear.”
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