Finding that “sweet spot” on the tennis racket when hitting a ball, is very important.
In like manner, finding that sweet spot that lies somewhere between I am NOT GOD and I AM GOD is one of the most difficult journeys of life. Once upon a time I saw God as the task master, this school teacher, and this highly disciplinarian Father. He (naturally God was a man) was OUT THERE and I was down here on planet earth. We were separate beings.
If I prayed hard enough and obeyed church rules, God would favor me.
Then I discovered that God was Spirit and that having been created in the IMAGE of God I was also spirit. I was a wave of the ocean, a ray of the sun, and the I AM before the foundation of the earth (Exodus 3:14 and John 8:58). And then before even realizing it, I became so ONE with God that I couldn’t SEE that what had happened was that I was “acting” as though I was more God than I knew.
‘Whatever the mind of man can conceive, and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill.
At the well with the Samarian woman Jesus says something that can easily be overlooked. Jesus is reported to have said, “God is SPIRIT” (John 4:24) If reported accurately (always something to consider), it says God IS SPIRIT and not that God is “a” spirit. For you see, WE ARE “a” SPIRIT.
Let me make sure you get what I’m saying here.
God is UNDERIVED Spirit and we are DERIVED spirit. God is underived consciousness, knowledge, love, etc. We get everything that WE ARE from God: we dervive our very being from God-Creator. Thus it should be a reminder to us that while we are powerful, while we should be positive, and while we should think GOOD and OPTIMISTIC thoughts, our primary goal as Thomas Troward put it, “Should always be to enter into the spirit of what the Father is aiming at.”
Jesus put it this way. “It is my desire to do the will of the Father” (John 4:34).
In other words, we can’t just decide what WE WNAT TO DO, name it and claim it, profess and possess, go there and be there, without first having some communion with “the SPIRIT”, lest we act on our own and be our own god, which is really not a good thing.
I AM, but WHAT AM I?
Very interesting thoughts!