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Essays on Discover the Power Within You
"How Am I Like Jesus Christ"
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I am like Jesus who expresses the Christ awareness, in the only way
that I can be, in thought.
The link between personal man and spiritual principle is meaning. It
is what ties together thought as it manifests from abstract law outward
to physical experience.
Like Jesus, I see outward circumstances not as the validation of my
life, but as the reflection of my inner life, expressing through mind action.
I believe as Jesus does that all of life is meaningful, each situation,
every idle dream. I no longer ignore God by believing in luck, coin- cidence,
or random chance.
I have stopped seeking excuses to condemn myself, but instead I seek
to take those aspects of myself that are out of harmony, and reintegrate
them in my total self.
I do this through love and unconditional affirmation of my life, as
I experience it within, as well as through my relationships with others.
I understand that I manipulate meaning through symbolism, and that my
firm foundation is in understanding universal or spiritual law. It is through
this I declare my responsibility for my total Mind, and my willingness
to grow through expressing greater wisdom and truth.
I know as Jesus does that faith is nothing more nor less than the firm
understanding of spiritual cause and effect, and that this causation both
supports and determines physical causation and outward reality.
It is in seeking the spiritual cause of each outward expression that
I turn my attention to that within myself that is the source of the expression.
I worship God through my willingness to express our understanding as my
own.
Jesus is willing to take universal principle and express it as a personal
relationship. I also understand that to share this awareness with all the
aspects of my being, both inner and outer, requires me to include the quality
of personality in it.
I am willing to give up seeking the approval of men (who represent the
outer consciousness) for the awareness of the Father, who is the inner
consciousness.
I am willing to fast from rationalizing and intellectualizing, in order
to lay ahold of the law, and claim my relationship with the total self.
I have given up the need to have spiritual truth proven to me. My existence
and my ability to learn is proof to me of God's love for me. I will not
reject that love and birthright by seeking to give my authority or power
to choose to another.
Giving and receiving are the turning of the same wheel. Like Jesus I
set the wheel in motion myself, for each of us is complete and the creator
of our own joy by our willingness to express unconditional love.
I rest in my understanding of divine justice, knowing that as each of
us is a light, there is no need for darkness. I recognize that my aware-
ness of my need for growth is not indication of a lack, but rather of a
developing and unfolding perfection in my total self.
The true and honest picture of myself is to see myself as God sees me.
Looking outward, I see that God affirms the absolute value of each individual,
despite man's preferences and prejudices. Looking inward, I dare to accept
myself as I am, and express the Amen: Lord, I am willing to change.
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