When we say we worship God, what does that mean? I believe it would be beneficial to have that conversation with oneself. Honestly, examine all held beliefs. Sift out all the places where essential things have become all too mundane and commonplace, a mere cliché or catchphrase.
Jesus told the woman at the well that true worship of God is spiritual. It is not the conformance to cherished religious beliefs and dogma.
How can one worship God and be at variance with his creation? Is there a place in the life of one who worships God for hatred, malice, violence, war, and all other manner of atrocities perpetrated against humankind, other living things, and the environment that sustains us? Whatsoever we do to the least among us, we do unto God.
If we know someone who has grievances against us, try to make peace with such a one before coming to the altar to worship so our worship may be true.
Worship God today by honoring first ourselves in whom God lives and then all of creation, animate and inanimate, all of which bear the very essence of God, the creator we seek to worship.
Devotional
One Vision No Division
The perception of yourself gives light and life to the body. Therefore, seek to harmonize your fleshly and spiritual nature, i.e., mind and spirit, and your entire being will be illuminated by the source of light and life.
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Thine Will Be Done
Often, when things don’t work out exactly as we hoped, we may think that it must be fate or God’s will as if our Heavenly Father’s will for us is somehow lesser in degrees to our desires.
Isn’t He is the giver of all good gifts? Isn’t God love? Aren’t his plans not more fantastic, more marvelous than we can even imagine or hope for us.
So why do we secretly harbor thoughts that he is a God of evil intent, vengeance, and judgment in regards to us whom he loves. Is there one person God does not love or one who is more deserving of grace and mercy because of his good behavior?
Is it not our Eternal Father’s will that all should dwell as one with him as we come in the conscious knowledge of who he is? His sole intention is to prosper us and keep us in good health,
Therefore, all evil or negative outcome is of humanity’s creation due to man’s ill-will emanating from his egocentric heart and mind.
Therefore, when we pray, we can confidently declare “Thine Will Be Done,” knowing that his desire for us is love, mercies, health, and abundance. So may we be always conscious of the power of his indwelling presence as we shed our allegiance to our selfish and self-centered nature. Let us see him, the Universal Source for who he is. Pure Love and love everlasting.
Mindset
Tooth Fairy Religion
It is pointless to profess faith in Christ, and disregard his word, and dishonor his precepts.
He is the word, and his the word is him!
All things are possible
Love For Self
The two great commands are to love God with all your heart, mind, soul, strength and loving others as yourself.
It is self-evident that we do all things within the confines of the self. To love God is to love ourselves, and to love ourselves is to love God. We are a reflection of God, created in his image and likeness, we are.
Loving others is loving God. Your neighbor reflects God and is the bearer of his divine nature; love him as you would God, love him as you would yourself.
God the eternal chooses to make his abode in us. We are his temple, in which he is glorified. In him, we exist and have our being. We were in him before the creation, chosen and set apart for his purpose and glory.
Let love be the cords that bind us now and forevermore.
The Church Will Worship In His Temple
Inspired by: Matthew 16:15-20,1 Corinthians 6:19 and Psalm 133:1
- The Church is not an organization or a function we attend. It is a people; it is who we are.
- The Temple is not a place or a building. It is you, all of you; Mind body and soul.
- Worship is not mere words; it is a lifestyle.
How good and pleasant it is for brethren and sistren to live together in love and unity. The gates of hell shall not prevail against such fellowship. Therefore, live to the glory of your God seated on His thrown at the center of His Temple.
The Mystery of the Tongue
Humanly speaking, the tongue is used for tasting and enabling speech. Spiritually speaking, the tongue is God’s mouthpiece, capturing and extending the spiritual into the natural. Unfortunately, we fail to make use of it in the latter manner. When James talks about taming the tongue, we avoid hurling insults, avoid apt replies, avoid using censored words and then stop there. We then leave the tongue to serve its biological purposes, but not fully serving its spiritual purpose.
One does not have to flip the Bible for too long to see that speech is not devoid of spiritual implications. In fact, in the first pages, you will encounter a repetitive statement, ‘God said…And it was so’. Whatever God spoke, came into being. Few Chapters on in the Second Book, Moses trying to avoid God’s mission of speaking to Pharaoh to let the Israelites out of slavery says, ‘O Lord…
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