We celebrate the resurrection of the Christ this week. This
triumphant story has a profound connection to our own walk with God. Death is an important part of our spiritual life. In order to know God, we must die to what we think we know so that we are available to God's revelation. The creative power of God (right hand) raises us up
and out of the confusion of the world. If we
open our hearts and minds, Spirit can show us the straight and narrow
path (open to me the gates of righteousness), the way to our
inner Christ. Only when we surrender our lives to God can we enter into
our spiritual domain.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Psalm 118 Death
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Psalm 126 Awakening from the Dream
Have you noticed that we tend to label things we do not want or do
not like, evil? It is interesting how we take our own expectations and
standards and make them the benchmark for ‘right’ in the world. Much of
the suffering
in this world is merely a dream (or perhaps nightmare) of our own
creation. This is not to say that we should completely discount the
presence of evil in the world, but it does help us take a step back and
look more closely. More often than not our experience of suffering is
caused by our own inability to let go of what we think should be and
instead accepting what is.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Psalm 32 Acknowledging Our Sins
Do your sins
define who you are? Are they opportunities for you to learn and grow?
Or do you hide your sins from yourself and others to maintain a facade?
To sin is merely “to miss the mark” and we are all constantly doing
that. How we process our missteps is just as important as the actual
sin.
It is important to remember that we must acknowledge our sins before we can be healed of them. What does that mean? It does not mean that we wallow in them, feel guilty about them, give them power over us, or punish ourselves over them. It merely means that we must delve deep enough within our consciousness to know they are there. We cannot heal a trait that we do not recognize. As the psalmist says, we try to hide our iniquities from God. In reality, God is omniscient and so we have really only tried to hide our sins from ourselves.
It is important to remember that we must acknowledge our sins before we can be healed of them. What does that mean? It does not mean that we wallow in them, feel guilty about them, give them power over us, or punish ourselves over them. It merely means that we must delve deep enough within our consciousness to know they are there. We cannot heal a trait that we do not recognize. As the psalmist says, we try to hide our iniquities from God. In reality, God is omniscient and so we have really only tried to hide our sins from ourselves.
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