Spiritual Solutions

Today, Wednesday, April 20, is the thirty-seventh day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 37
 
Sometimes we feel so alone. There may be many people around us but none to whom we can turn and feel release and companionship. It may take much of a lifetime to find such a one. We live with many we love and honor without finding this precious relationship.
 
Strange as it may be the only completely satisfying companionship in the outer comes only when we have made an inner adjustment in regard to the person. Outer companionships do not “wear well” and lead to loss or maladjustment unless we have made our own inner agreement.
 
First we must be able to commune with an inner wisdom, knowledge and understanding. This has been called “native intelligence.” Biblically it is called “the inner voice,” truthfully it is God. All activity in and through us must be common to our thinking mind, our feeling nature and extend to every cell of the physical body. These three must be connected and must participate in every moment of life if we are to be a whole being. We cannot function fully as a partial God.
 
We usually omit one or the other. If we have accepted mind and feeling, we believe the body unfit for spiritual experiences. If we have accepted mind and spirit we exclude the body. In true communion the man and God interchange, mingle and move into true expression. It has been difficult for man to understand God as part of his physical self.
 
The Truth of God’s presence in man as life and intelligence has been something that man could not “bear to hear.” He did not understand it as a “common” condition or relationship. The very ideas of our mind flow from the fountainhead of God. We are to appropriate, accept, and integrate this Truth into our whole being. We must eat and drink, let our whole being absorb all Truth.
 
The relationship of man and God is common to all. To be aware and let it become alive in us is Communion. The consciousness of God’s Presence with you becomes the bread of heaven. Activity and use becomes the wine of life. Man’s relationship to life and to others is the crux of his fulfillment.
 
Man’s greatest and deepest relationship is his kinship with himself. To have true relationship with yourself is to companion with God! Bread is the Truth of your Oneness, wine is the acting, living, and being. Eat and Drink!
 
 
(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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WISDOM

8th Day, Thursday. Read Matthew 7:1-12.

Wisdom is of Spirit. One can get flashes of understanding at any time, but the clear light of the Supreme shines steadily on us as we become obedient and receptive to the Supreme’s monitions. Jesus always listened for the “inner voice,” and was obedient to it in His meek and lowly work among the humblest class of men.

Spiritual discernment always places wisdom above the other faculties of mind. It is pure knowing, and comes by kindling the inner light. “The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable.”

This means that as I call the righteous judge into action I may find my standards of right and wrong undergoing rapid changes, but if I hold steadily to the Lord as my supreme guide, I shall be led into all righteousness.

As I dwell upon this all-knowing faculty within, I become conscious of the Christ radiance lighting my mind, and my whole being is illumined. My thoughts are quickened through their conscious relationship to Spirit. I am flooded with new life, which raises my organism above the disintegrating thought currents of the earth; and thus I am not only redeeming my mind, but am also saving the flesh from corruption.

Spiritual understanding reveals that the resurrection of the body from death is not to be confined to Jesus, but is for all men who comprehend Truth and apply it as Jesus applied it.

Realizing that I am awakening to the reality of my higher self, I affirm: “Christ within me is my glory. The brightness of His presence wipes out all darkness, and I am filled with life and light.”

Questions:

1. Where does wisdom originate?

2. What is the difference between wisdom and understanding?

3. How do we become conscious of the Christ radiance?

4. What does spiritual understanding reveal?

The Christ light, the light of Truth, is shining at the heart of my being. My thoughts are illumined by the light of Spirit and my powers and capabilities are increased.

Remember, God is Blessing You, Right Now!

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