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| Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. ( Matt. 7:7,8) This is a great mystical truth. The Universe in which we live is strangely and wonderfully accommodating. Because we are all unique particularizations of Infinite, because we are all part of this accommodating Universe, asking is tantamount to receiving, seeking is actually finding, and knocking is the opening of the door. True prayer does not reach out to God " out there" in some distant place in the Universe. You simply get still and realize your unity with the whole. In the religion about Jesus, there has evolved the concept that it is a Christian duty to be poor and that poverty is a vertue. This has been a corollary of the concept that wealth and possessions are somehow the evidence of sin and corruption. This is not at all what Jesus taught.He deals not with the grace of lack or poverty, but with the grace of abundance. Study His teachings and you must conclude that He is not saying, "It is a sin to be rich." On the contrary, He strongly implies that it is a sin to be poor. He indicates that if you arew experiencing lack, you are not accepting yourself in the fullness of your own unique relationship with the Infinite. The sin is " not to know thine own divinity." JESUS Taught that God is our resource and that He has provided all things for His children. He insisted that there is always abundance to meet every need - and He demonstrated it. In doing so, He was not working magic or evidencing a special dispensation from God. He was proving the Divinity of Man, showing us what man can do when he realizes his unity with the whole. The Gospels of Jesus contain some amazing and almost unbelievable evidences of the miracle af abundance.There was the miraculous demonstration of food to feed five thousand hungry followers. There was a tremendous catch of fish that came after Jesus bade the disciples to drop their nets on the right side of the boat. There was even a gold coin found in the mouth of fish with which to pay the Roman taxes. It is easy to get lost in quibbling over the details . How did He feed five thousand people with one boy's lunch? How could the disciples draw such a great catch after they had fished all night and caught nothing? And whoever heard of getting money out the mouth of a fish? To use Jesus 'own metaphor, let's not " strain out the gnat and swallow the camel." (Matt. 23:24) |
| The feeding of the five thousand is usually considered one of the great "miracles" of the Bible. But what is a miracle? In this orderly Universe that is regulated by changeless law, it is inconceivable that natural law can be abrogated. We use the word " Supernatural," but what do we mean by this? The supernatural of today becomes the natural of tomorrow. Today, an eclipse of the sun is covered by all the news media. There is little reason for anyone who has eyes to see or ears to hear to remain in ignorance of the scientific explanation of an eclipse. Yet, until comparatively recent times, an eclipse was a supernatural phenomenon that struck fear into the hearts of ignorant people. There is no supernatural; there is only God's great natural. There is no miracle; there is only the ever-present possibility of laying hold of divine law on higher and higher levels. In a way, it is strange that we should find it difficult to think in terms of an invisible substance that is capable of manifesting itself in form and shape to fill a particular need. Consider a moment when the rain starts coming down. The air is filled with drops of water that in the city flood the yards and rage in torrents in the gutters. Where was all this water moment before the rains came? It was present all the time in form of unprecipitated moisture in the atmosphere. Before our very eyes the Invisible became visible. A miracle? No, a perfectly natural phenomenon with an explanation that most of us have come to accept without question. The Important lesson in the miracle stories of the Bible is that we live in a Universe that is opulent, limiteless, and accommodating. It will manifest for us exacly what we have the conciousness to encompass. There is a legitimate, royal abundance for every living soul. We live and move and have our being in it .Of course at this point, it may be nonmaterial, spiritual substance. It is an energy- potential that requires mental and material precipitation. However, the miracle of abundance is not the multiplication of loaves of bread, nor the specific filling of a cruse with oil , nor the drawing in of a mammoth cath of fish. The miracle is the all-sufficiency and ever-availability of infinite substance. This was Jesus' great Idea: That the Kingdom of Heaven is an opulent kingdom of substance, of creative ideas. And the supply to meet our demands is right where we are- and what we need. In the story of the miraculous feeding , Jesus told the people to sit down and then" He looked up to heaven and gave thanks." Right away we might find ourselves " straining out the gnat " for we return to the old concept that heaven is somewhere "out there" It would seem that Jesus was looking up into the skies and saying, "God, you have abundance up there. We need some of it down here ." But that isn't what He implied at all. He looked away from the appearance of lack and emptiness, from the human feeling that "you cannot possibly feed all these people with one boy's lunch." He closed His eyes to the lack and opened His spiritual eyes to abundance. There is no absence of God in the Universe, and there is no shortage In God. Let us not lose sight of the great idea that Jesus is unfolding - that man is an integral part of an opulent Universe. All we need to do"ask " in faith, Believing that we will receive, and we shall receive .Just bless whatever you have and God within His infinite power will Supply Your need . Glory to God Amen & Amen ! |
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