Sun, 28 October 2012
God sees us “without the masks” of seeming personality flaws, physical defects, past mistakes |
Tue, 23 October 2012
I am an idea in the Mind of God. I let God’s idea express in me and as me. I am what I think. I am daily changed into a likeness truer to God’s image of me. God’s world is the real world. In God’s world I am loved as I really am. In God, I live, and move, and have my being. In me, God lives, moves, and has expression as my real Self. |
Sun, 14 October 2012
God is with you now and has always been with you. Alone in the wilderness, the patriarch, Jacob, declared this realization: “Truly, the LORD is in this spot, although I did not know it!” (Genesis 28:16). God is nearer than the breath you are breathing. Rahab, woman of Jericho, also realized the omnipresence of God, declaring the God of the Children of Israel to be “in heaven above and on earth below” (Joshua 2:11). Later, in Psalm 139, King David sang: “Where can I hide from your spirit? From your presence, where can I flee? If I ascend to the heavens, you are there . . . . If I fly with the wings of dawn and alight beyond the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand hold me fast,” and rejoiced, “You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb . . . . My very self you knew . . . . when I was being made in secret” (Psalm 139:13-15). Wherever you are, God is, softly whispering in your soul: “I am here with you, I will never leave you. I have always been with you, all along.” |
Sun, 7 October 2012
Jesus taught that it is natural for a good shepherd to leave the ninety-nine sheep in his fold in order to rescue one little lost lamb. Well versed in the Torah, surely Jesus knew the story of the brave little donkey who wisely turned from the angel in her path, though it was invisible to the prophet Balaam. By grace, we learn intuitive wisdom through animals. We all know the story of Daniel in the lions’ den. By grace, we learn gentleness through animals. When Jesus entered Jerusalem, He fulfilled the prophecy by riding on the unbroken colt of a donkey. By grace, we learn receptivity through animals. Even the prophet Jonah, who thought he could hide from God’s mission for him, prayed from the belly of the “big fish” and was delivered safely to the shore. By grace, we learn that God works through animals. This Sunday, we will spiritually “swim with the dolphins!” |