Q & A

This of what you speak, …..  What if you don’t have “the Christ within you” ??  I don’t think I’m worthy to have “the Christ” within me !  I always wonder if going to Communion even  “counts” !

D.

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My friend,

How often have you sung the hymn, “Yahweh, I know You are near, standing always at my side…where can I run from your Love? If I climb to the heavens You are there. If I fly to the sunrise or sail beyond the sea, still I’d find You there”?

Those beautiful words come from the Psalms. The point of the psalmist was clear: there is nowhere you can go that God is not. If God is omnipresent (‘omni’ meaning everywhere or all-encompassing) then that includes inside you. The whole of God is present in every point of space and time simultaneously. You cannot have ‘part’ of God inside you. The Sacred Presence is there in every cell of your being, every beating of your heart, every movement of your body, every breath you take. It is the animating Presence of your Being, the very Life force within you. Were It not within you, you would cease to Be.

The voice you hear telling you that you’re ‘not worthy’ is the voice of the ‘satan’ – not some embodiment of evil as it has come to be known, but as Jesus used the word in its original sense: the ‘accuser’ – the accusing voice of your own ego-self telling you that you are not good enough or worthy enough and that you need to be more. That is the original sin (error in consciousness).

The fall of adam (man) and eve (woman) took place when they ate of the tree of the ‘knowledge of good and evil’. They began to think in terms of duality and separation. Up to that point, they were living in bliss in communion with the all-encompassing Presence in Paradise (their consciousness). So where did this ‘evil’ that they suddenly came to know exist? Only in their own minds when they began to judge as ‘evil’ God’s creation, all of which God had declared to be ‘good’ from the beginning. They declared that which came forth from the Divine Source to be unworthy just as you are doing now.

The Christ (anointed one) is the first-born of God. It is the Presence of God within and expressing Itself as each of us.

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”? If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set aside, can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated (made sacred, holy – whole) and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, “I am the Son of God?”

Like begets like. God begets god. The Upanishads say “This is perfect. That is perfect. Perfect comes from perfect. Take perfect from perfect, the remainder is perfect.” You come from God. You cannot get imperfection from that which is perfect.

You always exist in communion with the Divine. How you experience that communion is completely up to you. You can experience It as a judgmental, authoritarian ruler with Whom you feel you are unfit to interact or you can experience It as Love, your True and Higher Self. Your state of consciousness will determine that. “As you think in your heart, so are you,” it’s been said. Jesus said, “Let it be done unto you as you have believed.” It’s your choice and if your choice, why then choose a path that makes you feel worthless?

Thanks for writing.

breathe Peace ~

Rev. Rebecca