As I was about to voice an incensed personal put-down as payback for a friend’s recent unfriendliness, something different—and sweeter—came to me to say.
Christ awakens us to a new kind of life, the life we’ve always had as God’s child, and selfishness and sinful behavior give way to the lasting spiritual joy, dignity, and authority that comprise our real, sinless nature.
Consider what might happen, individually and collectively, if we were to become conscious of God’s infinite love and the spiritual fact that nothing except Love and its effects are real.
Following in Jesus’ footsteps, as he said we could and would, we have the same spiritual capacity, and the inherent right, to reject the evil that would say that we are subject to sickness, disability, or anything else that isn’t of God.
Whatever we seem to lack, or fear we might lack in the future, is a “right idea” that is forever found in God and that we always include and reflect as God’s image.
Faith provides that mental space where we lose the caterpillar views of ourselves as we behold the butterfly we’ve always been—as we behold the radiant truth of our unchanging spiritual identity.
The magnitude of what Jesus accomplished through his Gethsemane experience can be immensely helpful in the less world-changing but still significant events in our lives.
