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.

Living "Thy will be done"

"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.

Last Sunday evening I was getting ready for bed, and dreading Monday morning, having to go back to a stressful job whose demands too often seem way beyond my capabilities.

And that evening, as I prayed the Lord's Prayer before turning off the light, I came to this verse: "Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven" - and Mrs. Eddy's spiritual sense of it: "Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme."

And I stopped.

And this is what came to me:

So you're dreading going to work tomorrow? Turn it around! See what Love is preparing for you. See the blessing of working God's work, of being His reflection. Don't indulge in dread or unease or dis-ease about work! Rejoice to simply be His image and likeness.

Bring that rejoicing to work with you. Dissatisfaction, unease, dread, fear, laziness, willfulness, egotism are not qualities that God gives you. So don't exercise them! Be alert to this! Rejoice that you are reflection! Rejoice that you work as God works! Get ego out of the way and see what He is doing - what He is expressing through you, as you! And for heaven's sakes, be grateful!!

"Thy will be done in earth - right where I am - as it is in Heaven." God enables us to know that, as in Heaven, so on earth, He really is omnipotent, supreme. He gives you willingness, ease, joyful expectancy, energy, selflessness, gratitude. Work these! Apply these! Yield to these! That is your job.

God is relaxed, even easy-going! while being omnipotent. He does not run around wildly in a panic to get things done. He moves with majesty! With sure steps and thorough focus. He speaks and it is done. All His work is luminous and precise. All His work is effortless and relaxed - even as "light emits light without effort" - dazzilylingly effective.

And God smoothes out what needs to be smoothed. He roughs up what needs to be roughed. He stops what needs to be stopped. He starts what needs to be started. He completes what needs to be completed. He works what needs to be worked.

Why? Because His already all-harmonious will is done in earth - right where you are - exactly as it is in already all-harmonious Heaven. And He enables you to know it! and to see it! and to be it! to be His will being done, His supremecy being made manifest.

Here. Now. Ever.

The weight of personal responsibility disappears in this effortless light of reflection, in this understanding of your true place and relationship to God.

Thank You Father-Mother God for this Truth. Thank You for Your Goodness, for being the Adorable One. Thank You for enabling us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, we don't have to be omnipotent, supreme - that's Your job! But thank You for awakening us to our role as reflection - of being what You are, of seeing what You, Divine Love, have prepared for us, and in rejoicing in Your complete and effortless creation.

And thank You most of all for being here, being ever-present with us, for guiding us as we fulfill our purpose as Your children: to see what You, divine Love, have prepared.

You enable us to know that your loving work is done; that it is perfectly complete and perfectly good. And that You are omnipotent, supreme. And our job today is to simply witness Your Love, Your power, and live it, and rejoice.

Thank You Father.

"After this manner therefore pray ye..."

"Our Master taught his disciples one brief prayer, which we name after him the Lord's Prayer. Our Master said, "After this manner therefore pray ye," and then he gave that prayer which
covers all human needs."

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:"

Express your desires this way. Offer them up - sacrifice them - give them up! And for what?

"Not my will, but Thine, be done!"

Not my will - my desire - but Thy will, Thy desire be done. Where? in consciousness first, in soul, in thought awakening to a new and higher purer sense of desire, a desire that is:

• awakened from all egotism by the fire of "Hallowed be Thy name"
• healed of all loneliness by the fire of "Thy kingdom come"
• purged of all obstinance by the fire of "Thy will be done"
• cured of all lack by the fire of "Give us this day our daily bread"
• lifted out of all selfishness by the fire of "Forgive us our debts"
• led out of all temptation by the fire of "Deliver us from evil"

So that all that all that remains in us is our love of God, our Father-Mother, the all-harmonious Adorable One - who is everpresent with us here and now, all-power to awaken us to our true being as Life's reflection, to our embodiment of Truth, our being as Love-made-manifest.

What more could you possibly ask for?

So thank You for Your Life that You give us, Your Truth that awakens in us, Your Love that You shine in us. This is Your light. We will not let it hide under a bushel! This light is Your embodiment. There is nothing about us that is or can be unlike that Light. Your light shines in us, as us, everpresent Love reflected in love. And Love always leads us to exactly where we need to be and to what we love to do.

Thank you Father-Mother God.