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The 2006 unfoldment of what is
considered a belief system that
seems reasonable in its
application to human life unifies
Jesus' two definitions of God -
God the Father and God as
Spirit.
Jesus over and over emphasizes
God as Father to assure humanity
that God is Love, that God cares
for us and provides for us.
When He goes further to tell
us about God, He says that God is
Spirit. He likens Spirit to the
wind, which is formless and
invisible . Spirit is not thought
of as material, physical, but, on
the other hand, it is what makes
the material, physical possible.
Today we do not think of human as
material, physical only. We think
we human beings are essentially
and eternally spiritual and that
our material , physical
manifestation is the expression
of our grasp of what it is to be
spiritual, completely one with
God, Spirit.
Spirit, like Mind, is defined
as having no physical form nor
location. By universal, when we
are referring to Spirit or
spiritual, we mean the creative,
causative Source of all
expression and manifestation.
Spirit is the deathless reality
of all manifestation. There is no
annihilation of matter,
manifestation, only a change from
form to formlessnes, and the
creative process continues!
Human beings are individual
expressions of God. Each of us is
individually contributing to
God's creativeness. Each of us is
also Love in essence and in
expression to the extent of our
development of the consciousness,
realization, that we are Spirit
and Love in the process of
greater and greater expression
and manifestation.
Jesus' "Our Father" prayer, in
one sense, universalizes God. God
as Father is personal to and in
each individual in the universe.
God is person in and as Jesus
Christ, and person in and as each
human being. This is the Truth
that is. easy to lose sight of
because it isn't easy or natural
for someone like you and me to
say, with Jesus, "the Father and
I are one", "he that has seen me
has seen the Father."
It may not be easy nor
natural, but we must learn to do
it. This is the way God gets into
fuller and fuller expression in
and as the universe. Referring to
Paul's words in Phil. 2:5, you
and I are privileged to affirm as
absolute Truth;
I DO HAVE THE SAME
MIND, THE SAME UNIVERSAL GOD,
SPIRIT, THE SAME WONDERFUL
CREATIVENESS, THE SAME
COMPLETE AND PERFECT
GOD-WHOLENESS THAT JESUS
REVEALED TO US ALL.
If there is anything humanity
is in need of perhaps more than
anything else, it might be the
realization that God is
universal, that indeed there is
one God or that God is one and
that all of us come forth from
the one God! This would lead us
out of the morass of religions
professing one God, but
practicing a different "one" for
each religion.
Jesus' great commandment
(Matt. 22:37-40) may be expressed
concisely as
LOVE GOD AND LOVE
YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
We are beginning to realize
that everyone in the world is our
neighbor, our brother or sister.
There cannot be any reservations
nor distinctions concerning race,
country, religion, gender in this
enlightened view. When Mother
Teresa answered the question,
What do you see as you walk the
streets of Calcutta? with the
words, "I see Jesus Christ on the
face of every person I meet," she
was beyond thinking of Jesus
Christ in exclusive terms. She
meant that she beheld the
universal God in every face.
There was nothing about any
person that eliminated him or her
from her love!
Each of us - you and I - is a
committee of one commissioned to
proclaim and to live this
glorious Truth!
Don
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