“So here it is, the final installment of a 5-part series of what I percieve to be some profound insights. If you enjoyed it, click here for more of similar reading material from the author of “God Is.” And come back tomorrow, for MY own 2 cents worth! (BTW…feel free to leave YOUR own 2 cents worth!)”
What is the cause, or source of all the effects we would see manifest as our life?
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. James 3:17,18 The wisdom whose effect is peace, has only one source, that pure and holy ground, the unfathomable I Am. From the perfect uncreated Isness (cause), flows peace, gentleness, mercy and goodness (effect). God Itself is the cause of all things. Stop giving credit to or blaming effects for other effects. Most of the futility of our existance can be traced to manipulat
ing effects, in order to achieve another effect. If the only real cause is God, and God cannot be manipulated, then we find pure wisdom when we stop manipulating and rest in the God that already is perfect. Then we can produce peace.
We ourselves are a peaceable effect when we live, move and have our being in holy Isness, (See Acts 17:24-29). We cannot represent pure holiness unless we are in a state of rest where our total effect is “God-appearing-as-us”. If we add or subtract anything from that purity by our input or control, error will enter into our expression, and the effect will be chaotic and not peaceful.
If we are to hold fast to our God as all-powerful and omnipresent, then the whole universe, seen and unseen, must be within God, and so then must you be in God. Anything perceived to be outside of God, can only be fantasy and vain imagination, illusion and shadow. Call it sin, call it the devil, call it what you want. It is simply erroneous thinking. When Jesus told the religious leaders of Israel that the devil was their father, He said that he was a liar from the beginning. A lie is believing something is, when the truth says, it is not. Believing we are apart from God is a lie. The truth says, God is one, how then can there be two? We fear that idea because our tradition tells us that we cannot be God. Have no fear that you will ever become God. God already is. Nothing can become God.
That’s another way of stating the same lie that something isn’t God but can become God. What God is, It always has been and ever will be. All I’m asking you to do is include yourself in God. There’s really nowhere else you can be. No other place exists. Include me in God too. You and I are one as God is one. We are also free to live and move and have our being in this infinite universe, provided we let go of every thought that has held us back. We are as unlimited as we want to be. Go ahead and flex your wings.