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Today, Thursday, March 31, is the twentieth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience. 
 

Assignment 20
 
Your body is a precious gift of God. It is your most prized possession. Through your body you express the thoughts and ideas and ideals of your mind. We are to love and cherish our bodies, for not to be privileged to express in the outer is real hell. Many people live in a hell of frustration.
 
Frustration is to live in vain, and to be defeated in bringing about our purpose. We have been given our bodies and lives to fulfill a special pattern.
 
We have belittled our bodies, talked against them, been ashamed of them, condemned them and subjected them to the power of ignorant thought. We have believed our bodies were evil and that in order to have freedom, we must cleanse them, or change them. In this cleansing and changing of that which was created perfect and for a special purpose, we have shut off the free flow of life, and sickness and disease run riot.
 
We must set our body free in our minds, we must teach ourselves the beauty of the body temple, for it is the outer expression of the “temple not made with hands, for God made everything good and we are curiously wrought, fearfully and wonderfully made.” Healing is not seeing and treating a so-called illness. It is a natural function of the body, like breathing.
 
With worry, fear, anxieties, apprehension, and loneliness plus our beliefs in the body being possessed of the devil, we have interfered with the true action of life. It has caused pressures, stoppage, and partial paralysis of the natural functions and even caused people to go out of their minds.
 
“You body is the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in it.” (I Cor. 3) To know this is to ensure health and freedom. The body is wonderfully obedient to a happy, joyous, carefree mind. To “care” for the body is not just in exercise, eating, and sleeping. The greatest healing power is the letting go of the body mind.
 
Take up new ideas, new interest, new love, new effort, and “take no thought for your physical life.” Leave the pain and discomfort, and trust the wisdom of your body to renew and recreate. Forget your body in the joy of living!
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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THE BODY TEMPLE

20th Day, Thursday. Read Matthew 6:16-34.

God created the idea of the body as a self-perpetuating, self-renewing organism, which man reconstructs into his personal body. God created the body idea, and man, by his thinking manifests.

I realize that I shall have a perfect body and a perfect world when I understand and use the perfect word, the word that contains all the attributes of God. Therefore, I declare that my words are being charged with a full understanding of Divine Mind and its inhering ideas, and that I consciously apply this understanding in all of my feeling, thinking, speaking, and living and am therefore steadily putting on the Christ in mind and body.

Overcoming step by step the limitations of material thought, my body becomes more refined and increasingly radiant.

The law is that my body is transformed by the renewing of the mind. By affirmation the mind lays hold of living words of Truth and builds them into the body. As I enter into and abide in the Son of God consciousness I have eternal life and my body is transformed into pure flesh manifesting the perfection of Spirit.

To bless is to invoke good on that which is blessed. It is to confer God’s good on something or someone. Therefore I bless my body temple, and declare its purity and strength and beauty. I pour out upon my body temple the oil of love and clothe it in garments of praise.

Realizing that the body of Christ in me is the result of my spiritual thought that maintains its unity with Spirit even in manifestation, I affirm:

“The Word of God in me quickens my mind, and my body is transformed into the likeness of His glorious body.”

Questions:

1. How can we have a perfect body and a perfect world?

2. How does the mind lay hold of Truth?

3. What does it mean to bless someone or something?

4. What is the result of our spiritual thought?

I keep my attention on the ageless, perfect Spirit within me.

Remember, God is Blessing You, Right Now!

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THE GARDEN OF EDEN

5th Day, Monday. Read John 14:1-12.

Man’s body temple is the outer expression of the Garden of Eden, which God gave him to keep and to trim. Man’s primary work in the earthly consciousness (the Garden) is to use his creative power to preserve harmony and order in his world, and to conserve his powers for divine direction.

The Garden of Eden represents a region of being within, in which are provided all primal ideas for the production of the beautiful. It represents the elemental life and intelligence placed at the disposal of man, through which he is to evolve a spiritual mind and a spiritual body.

The Garden is the spiritual body in which man dwells when he brings forth thoughts after the pattern of the original divine ideas. The Garden is the substance of God.

God’s greatest gift to man is the power of thought, through which he can incorporate into his consciousness the Mind of God.

There are twelve gates which open into this wonderful Garden of Eden. These gates are the twelve faculties of mind: faith, strength, wisdom, love, power, imagination, understanding, will, law or order, zeal, renunciation, life. Each faculty, through the most accelerated mind action, as in prayer, has been purified and therefore opens into the very heart of the Holy City within.

 I affirm: “My body is the temple of God, cleansed, purified, undefiled, made perfect. Praise God!”

Questions:

1. What is man’s primary work in the earthly consciousness?

2. What is the Garden?

3. Explain the importance of the power of thought.

4. What do the twelve gates that open into the Garden of Eden represent?

Lent is a splendid time to build a strong consciousness of life. I affirm again and again that my body is the temple of the living God.

Remember, God is Blessing You, Right Now!

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