Decision time!

"Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven."
Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme.

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

Are you God's likeness or not?

Are you a spiritual idea of God or not?

Are you a sucker for the hypnotic dream of "life in matter"? or are you willing to risk everything and understand Life as Spirit? Life as completely spiritually whole, healthy, holy right now? completely revealed by spiritual sense? completely contradicting the material sense of things?

Is there a God or not?

Do you trust Him or not?

Are you willing to go through the fire and be refined in His likeness or not?

You can just keep taking the lazy half-way approach, but God will burn off all of "you" that is unlike Him....

"...by suffering or by Science."

Which will it be?

Father, who do you want me to love today?

"Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven."
Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme.

So Father, who do You want me to love today? Who needs that hug from You that I can pass along? Who needs that kind word, that smile, that invitation to the dance?

Who needs Your love today? Let me see it, be it, deliver it, and then step out of Your way.

Hallowed be Thy Love, Adorable One!
Let Thy loving will be mine!

And let it be done!

Let God deliver you today

"And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil."
And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.

God delivers you from all evil, from anything that makes you hurt, be unhappy, uneasy, distraught, anxious, nervous, fearful. God delivers you, not only from evil, but from anything that even makes you anticipate evil, and from all the feelings that that negative anticipation brings.

Instead God leads you into confidence in His will for you, His loving plan for you. So when fear comes calling, let yourself lean on God. Lean on His ability to help you and heal you, to guide you to do the work you need to do, to love the people you need to love, and - maybe the hardest thing of all- to let yourself really love you.

God reflects in you every good thought and quality that you need to meet your day today. He stirs you to hear His intuitions, His guidance. Listen for it. He has already given you the perfect qualities you need to meet the challenges you face today, to help and heal and perform the work that is set before you today.

So relax. Rest in God's love - and in His guidance. And be alert! Watch for what He is doing. Look for it. Witness what God, Divine Love, has prepared for you and for those around you. Yes, really look for it! And you will see it! And it is always always always better than you could have ever imagined.

"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

"The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it."

The government of God - in you!

"Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven."
Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme.

The government of God is the Light of God in action - exposing what needs to be exposed, informing what needs to be informed, revealing what needs to be revealed, strengthening what needs to be strengthend, humbling what needs to be humbled.

God's government is all-powerful. Nothing can work against it, interfere with it, hinder it, or stop it, because God is the only real power there is. And God's power is Life. God's power is Truth. God's power is Love. And God's power has a purpose, and that purpose is Good and its effect is Life, Truth, and Love made manifest in a way that everyone can comprehend and experience.

All authentic sensation is spiritual - a revelation of Spirit-in-action. Jesus said of our true nature: "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." To be "born of the Spirit" is to be "born again" - or actually, to awake to who you really already are as the image and likeness of God, Spirit.

Without this awakening, we think the material senses are the only source of information about the status of our existence. Accept this suggestion, and the hypnosis begins. Act on this suggestion, or react to it, and you put yourself to sleep about God and your already spiritually perfect likeness to Him. You think that all you are is a body with a mind inside, living a life which might be pleasant at times, but too often ends up suckered by sin, subjected to disease, and all too inevitably heading downhill towards death.

But "sweet are the uses of adversity" because that suffering we all encounter pushes us to start "...craving for something better, higher, holier, than is afforded by a material belief in a physical God and man." This longing is God stirring us, His everpresence moving in us, reminding us that there is so much more to who we are, so much more to being His likeness, so much more to life than meets the eye. Or the ear, nose, tongue, touch.

And that "so much more" is the universe of Spirit, the Kingdom of God!

And His Kingdom is your native land. This is where God's will is being done in you, just as it is in heaven - because the Kingdom of God is always already within you, is already within the grasp of your understanding. You already know this intuitively.

And this is how God knows you: as His perfection-in-action, as His Life-made-manifest, as His Light shining with the warmth of impartial universal Love. And "there shall be no night there" - no sleepy laziness, no dreaming away the hours, no hypnotic UN-consciousness neglecting God's perfect purpose for you.

God makes this Truth true. Your job is simply to accept it, reflect it, and act on it! Rest in that. Because God's will will be done in earth (and in you) just as it is in heaven. And with God, there is always a way for you to move forward.

Amen.