Your Life Must Be Motivated by Love

 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’  Matthew 7:21-23

   The dominant point that Jesus makes from verse 21 to verse 23 of the above text is that no one will emerge triumphant from the last judgment on the basis of right words or spectacular deeds of spiritual power. Only a life motivated by love and justice will prevail.

   This teaching of Jesus is a warning to, and wooing of, you. You have power within yourself to do mighty things. But if your motives are wrong, your power will be inverted—used as means and ends to deceive, manipulate, and otherwise lead people astray from the path of “aliveness” in order to achieve goals inimical to the ultimate wellbeing and evolution of humankind.

   In essence, saying good things to people in order to produce good things for yourself but bad things for them will produce bad things for you. Thus, to operate in duality—to refuse to be aligned in Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God—is to ensure that the personal, nonaligned power you wield will turn and destroy you.

   This is the ultimate teaching of Jesus regarding false prophets. You are a prophet by virtue of your having been created in the image and likeness of God. Whether you realize it or not, to prophesy is to tell forth or tell before it happens what will happen at a later time. Thus, every thought that you create and share with another related to what you intend to manifest in the future is a prophecy—your foretelling of a future event.

   The difference between a true and a false prophet is the difference between the former who is aligned in Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God and the latter who is not.

You ARE the Center!

 “I and the Father are one.” John 10:30

   You ARE the center of your own universe! There is no way that you can get around this fact of life and reality of Spirit. The source of energy in your universe comes from you. Even the power you attempt to delegate to your environment is a manifestation of your own thought.

   Once you dare to live into your Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God, you will begin to realize that the Eternal Life Principle that flows through you is yours to externalize in any way you choose, so long as your motives are pure. It is from this place of power that you can and must control your world.

   Lean on your own Being as united and in Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God. This is your place of power, of creativity, of love, joy, and peace.

   Never take your current circumstances so seriously that you forget who you are. You are not the passive, acted-upon one: you are the energizing actor who creates, forms, and controls all that spins rapidly around your powerful nucleus.

   Accept your quintessential spiritual nature and you will function not in weakness, but in strength. Your personal experience of strength will come when you understand that every act you perform, which is motivated by love, is supported by the All-Originating Spirit of God with Whom you are in Oneness.

   At that point, you will discover that your control over things is part of the necessary order of the universe.

   The disorder that you have experienced in the past was a direct result of your refusal to accept that you were personally responsible for your life and all that you allowed into it.

   You have an obligation to awaken from your dream-state and take charge of your life. No longer can you blame others for your failure to be adequate within yourself. No longer can you make excuses for failing to rule your own world by making excuses and lying to yourself and others.

   Now that you understand your place and space in your world as the essential and powerful agent—aligned in Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God—you can never again—nor will you ever again—cede control of your world to any other. You are positioned to think better thoughts, do better things, grow fuller faster, and evolve with intention to the fifth estate of humankind more swiftly.

The Essential and the Incidental

    A major stumbling block that affects most people is confusing that which is a constant with that which is a variable—that which is essential from that which is merely incidental.

   That which is essential is the center, source, and acting agent of your life, while that which is incidental is that which is created, formed or acted upon by the center. You are the center of your life and the acting agent within it. Therefore, you are absolutely essential. Without you, your world, and the “aliveness” within it becomes nonexistent.

   What you deal with or face in life is not essential: it is merely incidental. When you mentally conceive of what faces you—problems, puzzles, concerns, and worries—as essential, you relinquish your rightful role as the captain of your ship. Then you relegate yourself to become the oarsman who attempts to row the 1,000-ton vessel that is your life to shore all by yourself.

   In everything you do there will always be two factors that confront you, and two major choices that you must make. In every case, you must decide and fix upon that which is essential and that which is incidental—that which is the constant center and source of action, and that which is the variable circumstance that is acted upon.

   Whichever of the two you choose to be essential, the other will automatically become the incidental. The variable, the incidental, is always present. So, too, is the essential always present. Confusing the two, however, takes all the “aliveness” out of life—its joy, hope, and steady equilibrium.

   You must keep in your mind—the center of your thought-life—that in your microcosmic world, you and only you, are the essential, the center, the source and only acting agent. All else is the variable, circumstantial, and purely incidental.

   Think into your Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God until you begin to understand that, because of your Oneness, you are essential. When you begin to live into what you have practiced thinking into, then you will exercise the creative and ruling power that has been bequeathed to you. On that great and glorious day that you will experience in your life, you will no longer believe that you are essential: you will know it!

Spirit in Universal Macrocosm and Individual Microcosm

 “I and the Father are one.”  John 10:30

    There is an eternal connection between Spirit in the Universal Macrocosm and Spirit in the individual and particular microcosm.

   The source and inside of all things is Spirit. You are a reproduction in your individual self of the Intelligence and Love which rule the universe. Because of this reality, you can send out your thought to produce any effect you choose.

   By now you should have passed from the infantile conception of two opposing forces—good and evil—and have come to see that the duality you see around you is just the opposition (The Law of Polarity) of the inside and outside poles of a single unity. By virtue of this essential unity, your thought has limitless creative power. It is free to go where no one else has gone before without fear of reprisal.

  Your mind’s own independent creative power can find its way out of the imprisonment that its previous ignorance of the Highest Law has caused.

   Your recognition of the Unity of the Spirit will ultimately result in your freedom of thought. You will no longer be tethered to your present inverted outside-only thinking.  You will be free to see things from the inside out.

   Thought always determines the quality of action, and when thought is free, it can direct itself to the highest principles that reproduce themselves in external actions. When your thoughts and actions harmonize with the great eternal laws and become one in purpose, they are in Unity with the Universal Mind.

  At that point you will realize that you are no longer imprisoned by the consequences of your former thinking and behavior when you functioned in ignorance. You will begin to see yourself as the perfect expression of the Infinite Spirit in individual personality. This will lead you to see yourself as “a partaker of Divine nature” without ever losing your identity.