It Is For Freedom, That We Have Been Set Free
June 7, 2009
The Law ‘of the Spirit of Life’,
sets me “free” from the Law ‘of sin and death’.
The above sentence is taken for St. Paul’s letter to the Romans.
I see scriptures as books of ‘principles’.
So what principle is being espoused here?
At first glance there appears to be two Laws; the law of the Spirit of Life and he law of sin and death.
What is a law? It is a rule that gives structure and order.
For example the law of gravity keeps everything hangin together. It keeps things grounded so that we have a ‘ground’ to stand on and to move around on right? It is a rule that says if you drop something it is predictable that the object dropped will make its way to the ground. Because things hang together in a predictable way we have a place to live and move and have our being .
The Law of the Spirit of Life is the law of ‘Growth’.
The Law of sin and death is the law of ‘decay and dissolution’.
We could see two laws here, but we can also see that there is a continuum.
If something is not growing it will soon decay won’t it?
So I venture to say that in this case there is only ‘one’ law.
What makes it the law of life or the law of death is perception.
In its simplest form we can say that there is only one law in that if you are not ‘growing’ you are moving in the opposite direction, you are making your way toward death.
In the Bible, in the book of Genesis, we read that God planted two trees in the middle of the garden. One was the tree of Life and the other, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
God is reported to have said; “if you eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall die.
In this way we see law and perception at play.
A law was placed in the perception of the creature. In short it was stated; if you break the law you will be ‘guilty’ and die.
A ‘belief’ was planted in the mind of man.
That belief conditioned his and her ‘perception’.
You now had the law of life and the law of death. You also had perception prepared so that ‘guilt’ could be created.
I see here the power of ‘beliefs’ being revealed.
As a man thinketh is well illustrated by this story. The law was broken, guilt set in and the belief of death was born and we have suffered the consequences since.
In the story as outlined by the bible we have now a riddle. How do we get out of guilt, sin and death?
Of course the answer to that is the advent of CHRIST. The meaning ot the symbol of christ is the taking away of guilt.
With guilt removed the belief system of humanity could begin to SHIFT.
That passage quoted at the beginning of this post by St. Paul has a very important line that I purposely omitted.
The passage reads: “There is therefore now no condemnation…for the law of the Spirit of Life sets us free from the law of sin and death.”
The key here is that the christ was the message to humanity that there really is no “condemnation” meaning no guilt.
So the perception of the law affects how we interpret the law. The law of the Spirit of life sets me free from the law of sin and death on the basis of my ‘belief’ that there is no guilt no ‘condemnation’ for those who are in Christ Jesus. And who is not in Christ if Christ died for all? As the story goes.
The point of these words is to illustrate how important our perception and our beliefs are. There is really ONE LAW and whether it the law of Life or the Law of Sin and Death depends on our interpretation, our perception.
Hence the importance of knowing how powerful our thoughts are. They have the power to change or make beliefs and these have massive repercussions in our lives. As a man thinketh is much more true that we yet realize.
I believe the journey of this life is to come to the point of realizing, each of us, how we are the co-creators of our reality.
I personally choose to believe and to thereby nurture and affirm the truth, that the law of the Spirit of Life, that is, the Law of Growth is actually applied as I learn to ‘perceive’ the truth and to set my beliefs accordingly.
Hence, the saying of Jesus comes true; “be it done unto you as you believe”.
I believe the law of the spirit of life does indeed set me free from the law of sin and death. I choose Life and I direct my life according to this law of the spirit of life. I believe this. I perceive the truth of it and I choose to side with the indestructible life in which I live and move and have my being .
In this way I contribute to the shift in human consciousness that is taking place as more and more people become aware of our power of thought and hence our power to co-create.
My thoughts for the day. What do you think?
Peace
Norm
Have You Ever Asked, What Is My Purpose?
June 4, 2009
My reading today led me to the most wonderful quote about purpose that I have ever run accross.
It is by an author named, Frederick Buechner. He describes vocation as; “the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
Why I find that quote so lovely is that it states that to find our purpose is not about drudgery and hardness. No.
To find our purpose is to name what makes us feel glad. It’s a nice way of saying we need to run with our “strengths’ rather than trying to perfect some other part of ourselves that is not so well developped.
“Where your deep gladness and the world’s hunger meet.” Yes the world is hungry for what makes you most happy, most glad. What you are best at and so much so, that you may not recognize it, is precisely what the world hungers for.
There is a need that only you can meet and meet it with joy. It is your purpose. It is not about suffering and struggle but it is about discovering what gives you joy and what motivates and makes your blood flow.
There is a need out there and what I am able to do with ease and joy is what the world is waiting for.
Your calling is “where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet”.
That is my insight for the day and I share it with you.
Peace.
Normand
To Learn How to Think Is To Learn How To Live!
June 1, 2009
The title of this post is a quote from Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science, in his book “The Science of Mind”.
Let’s ‘think’ about that for a moment. What is it to think?
Just because there is a constant stream of ‘thoughts’ going through my mind does not mean that I think, does it?
No. I ‘think’ when I grab one of those thoughts and I shape it and I give it direction.
If “I” don’t take that action of ‘naming’ my thoughts, as it were, and giving them ‘direction’, I am like a ball bouncing around in a pinball machine. I am scattered. The result is that I am infective.
On the other hand, if I catch one thought and I form it by understanding it, I now have to power to give direction to my thinking and hence to my life.
Yet, as Holmes would have it… he says… you do not think correctly simply by holding thoughts but by ‘knowing’ the truth.
In other words, there is a pattern for guiding our thoughts and that is called, “knowing the truth”.
Now we are in philosophical argumentation; what is truth?
For the purpose of this short post I am assuming that truth is the original form from which all visible things are patterned. For example we could say that we have love in the world, because LOVE IS and is the creative pattern that make us able to experience love.
So what Holmes is saying is that we don’t just learn to think by holding on to a thought but by lining up that thought with its original reality. When he says about thinking: “This is not done by holding thoughts, but by knowing the truth”, he means simply that our ‘thinking must be governed by the original idea.
For example a statement like God is Omnipotent (meaning all powerful) is a statement that Power is and hence when I think of Power I must not look at the perverted forms of power I see in the world around me but I must learn to align my thinking with the original idea of power.
I might see parents abusing their children and get jaded about power and then my thinking goes crazy. I need to refer back to the original truth in order to rectify my thinking. I look at the original intent of power and I see all the beautiful creation that is and all the loving relationships that are and the proper uses of power that are. In that way I am released from jaded or faulty thinking and I am now bringing new life and energy to my life because I am thinking right. I am aligned with the truth.
So when I learn how to think by aligning my thought with the Truth I free myself from the crazy ways of thinking I’ve picked up from being abused and watching abuse.
While I am focused on abuse and understand that to be power, for example, I am crazy thinking and my life energy is sapped from me. I could be depressed and down in the dumps because of it.
The way to breath life into my life is by turning my gaze to Source and affirming that the perfection of Beauty that I see there is my life now. I identify with source pattern and so I simply turn away from identification with that which is all around me and hence I change my thinking and I change my life.
By learning to ‘think’ I learn how to live because by learning to think and coming in control of my thinking I am learning to align with Life Itself in its Original patterns and Beauty.
I can become aware that I am in charge of my thinking and not just to let myself be blown here and there by every fleeting thought that sails across my sight line.
I am in charge of the direction of the ships that cross the sea of my mind. I can learn how to think and to thereby think Life, love and liberty and bring that into my actual existence.
Peace.
Normand
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