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God Does Not Have a Lost and FoundLooking up to God or out from God we see what Mary Baker Eddy calls individual man. Looking up or out implies separation. Being God's reflection we see God understanding himself with no separation. As God's reflection, God Being is the only possible view. All-God beholds all-Self as I Am, or stated more accurately, "I", just "I." This is the Word that was God and is God. "I is God." "I" is identity knowing itself. Now, look around you. Do you see God or something else? According to God, there is no something else. Therefore, if you do not see perfection, there must be something wrong with your vision, perception, or orientation because God has no problem seeing, perceiving, or understanding himself. If you believe that there is a reason for your blindness or misperception, you are wrong, since reason outside of infinite Mind is impossible. The only acceptable consciousness is being infinite Mind. There is no finding your way back. God cannot lose you and find you again. Life cannot be lost and found. Truth cannot lie, repent, and recover. The circumference of Love has no gate to go out or in. Terms like error, sickness, recovery, sin, repentance, lost, found, almost, maybe, separate, inconclusive, and a thousand others have no definition. Even the term "human," the personality embracing both mortal mind and Christ, must lose its state of double-mindedness and be transfigured into conscious awareness as God's provision of Himself ? ever-present, all-supplied, omni-blessed being, a figure without a material element. Mortal mind cannot be found. Christ declares to mortal thoughts, "I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity" (Luke 13:27). One day, as I was contemplating what single-mindedness must feel like, I read God's question to Job, "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding," I realized that this was a universal question -- a question not only for Job but for me and all mankind (Job 38:4). I also realized that the same humble receptivity that Job attained would have to be present in me in order to hear God's answer. When I was ready, I accepted God's question for myself: "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?" I let the question sink into consciousness without any idea of an answer, and then I let it go, confident that my need would be satisfied. Three days later, I felt a presence all around me, and I heard a distinct voice, saying, 'I was with you, wasn't I?' I cannot describe the joy, the oneness, and the comfort that I felt that day; the wisdom of Job and Christ's present-day confirmation became alive with the inspired Word! The new earth has no dust with which to build, and the new heaven no vicious sea and no time to measure. All substance is Spirit. The one image or reflection called man, Son, or Christ is always the full manifestation or subjective state of divine Mind. It cannot wander off. Therefore, I am neither lost nor found. I, with thee, Am He -- God. |
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