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WE WILL NOT FEAR, BECAUSE GOD IS OUR REFUGE Pastor Gloria Taylor-Boyce
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- Religión y espiritualidad
In the Forty-sixth Psalm, there is an introduction to the nature of God. On further examination, it seems that this has been misunderstood and that could be one reason peace on earth and goodwill to men has not been experienced. However, it is up to us not to God, but to us. We will not fear, because God is our refuge. If we can gain an understanding of the nature of God and Christ, we shall find that earthly conditions dissolve and that harmony can be brought into our experience not only as individuals but as a united world.
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SPIRITUALITY MUST BE FELT
What is it that restores the lost years of the locusts? I. What is it that resurrects our body, businesses, home, strength, health, and vitality? I. There is only one Divine Presence and Power and It is all embodied in that which secretly, and secretly is called I. The master had great difficulty in imparting this idea to the Hebrews who had observed ceremonies, rituals, and holy days, but who had been given little or no spiritual enlightenment. All the instructions had been in the realm of the mind, and the observance of outward rites, and that is not sufficient. Spiritual teaching must enter the heart. It must be in the soul. It must be felt, rather than reasoned or thought.
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AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND THE MYSTERY
In an attempt to understand the mystery of God, to explain what can never be explained, and to comprehend what can never be comprehended, man has used words. But words can never explain God. There can never be a word that is God. Not even the word God is God, nor the words Mind, Soul, Spirit, or Truth, for all these are effects objective to the person voicing them. There are no synonyms for God in absolute truth. Those that we have used are only attributes descriptive of God. Soul is an attribute of the purity of God; Spirit describes God’s immateriality; love, mine, principle, and law are facets, of God’s being. But none of these is God. Regardless of what word we utter. Even the word God, there is an I that utters it and, an it to be altered.
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CONSCIOUSNESS IS EXPRESSED AS INDIVIDUAL FORM
The Kingdom of God is within our consciousness, and when we turn in meditation to this infinite Consciousness to let it flow, we will show forth. More of the Limitlessness, which we are and always have been, and next year a greater degree, and a year after, still a greater degree. In other words, we are expressing as much infinite Consciousness as we can at the moment comprehend. Let us begin with the realization that we are not form. We are consciousness. By our devotions to meditation, we bring forth a greater degree and deeper awareness of God's consciousness. Consciousness forever express Itself as an individual form of intelligence.
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WE ARE SHOWING FORTH THE DEGREE OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS
Everything visible first had to have an invisible something to send it into form, and that invisible Something is consciousness, which sends Itself into expression as a seed, and all that comes forth from the seed. Were it not for Consciousness, there would be nothing expressed as form. Regardless of how beautiful a thing may seem to be, how wonderful, or how abundant, we must look behind it and realize that it could not exist but for the Consciousness that formed it. There is something about us greater than what we appear to be. Eventually, we will discover that that something is our consciousness.
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THERE IS ONLY ONE LIFE
To sow to the Spirit, does not mean that we have to avoid physical pleasure. It does not mean giving up our work, our profession, our home, or our family. It has nothing to do with what we do externally; It has to do with what is going on in our consciousness while our mind and body are performing their functions on the outer plane. What is going on in our consciousness determines whether we are sowing to the flesh, or whether we are sowing to the spirit, and whether we are setting in motion the karmic law of good order, comic law of evil. We do not always reap what we sow immediately or quickly. The mills of the gods grind slowly, yet they are exceeding fine. Sometimes a person may indeed live for many years in a measure of spiritual realization before the overcoming overturning comes, and He comes who's right it is. Then there are also those persons who indulge in every manner of evil and seem to be able to do it for a long period of years before their karma begins to operate.
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WE MEDITATE TO RECEIVE THE COMFORT OF HIS PRESENCE
With each meditation, there must be this surrender of ourselves to the Spirit within, together with a realization that God’s grace is our sufficiency and that we are in meditation for the express purpose of receiving the comfort of His Presence. The person who is one with God is merely the transparency through which God is living His life. His body is the temple of God, and his mind is the instrument of God, the mind which was also in Christ Jesus. That mind can be attained only in silence, not with words or with thoughts, although words and thoughts may be used as a preliminary step which we know as meditation, which plays a vitally important part in the development of our spiritual life. It is the meditation that makes teaching come alive because meditation is the connecting link between our outer life and our inner self.
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