Being Free Now

“Keep turning your back on every sin, and make ‘peace’ your life motto. Practice being at peace with everyone.” (Psalms 34: 14, The Passion Translation)

What a short and powerfully sweet motto! To focus on and practice peace is surely a wonderful life purpose. This daily intention can do so much for our own sense of well-being, for those around us, and for our greater world.

If we can center our thought on the idea of peace in any situation, we can find our connection with God, where true power resides. If we can make it a point to bring thought around to both feeling and promoting peace, we can achieve natural productivity, health, and harmony.

Every time we are tempted to get riled up—whether toward another, toward a circumstance, or in our own thinking—we can reject that suggestion as non-constructive, unhealthy, and useless. Peace doesn’t mean inaction. It means we let God’s Truth be revealed in right and loving ways that settle us, save us, and preserve our own integrity and that rightful goodness that the world deserves to experience as well.

We can turn to God, the Source of peace, in times of turmoil. We can ask God to show us what would settle and calm this moment and then be willing to receive it. And then we can share this potent gift of peace with others, getting better, with practice, each day.

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“God told them, ‘I’ve never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love!’” (Jeremiah 31: 3, the Message)

Yes! This is God’s perpetual promise. There has never been a moment where God has not loved us. He created us because of His Love, and to be both the expression and object of that Love. This is our inherent, unchanging purpose.

We may feel that we have strayed from God’s Love, from His approval, or that He has left us high and dry. We may feel unworthy, neglected, or abandoned. But all these perceptions are not reality. They are based on a material, limited view—on the ego and its own sense of separation and fear. We find ourselves evaluating God’s Love based on what we think it should look like and feel like.

But divine Love is so much greater than that. It is a spiritual constant. It is infinitely present and infinitely ours to receive. When we yield the ego’s mistaken sense of who we are and who God is, we begin to experience the Love that has always been there—nurturing, comforting, saving, bringing us laughter, peace, progress.

We begin to feel God’s Love by being awake to it. This divine affection is always here and always has been—active within us as well as around us. And there is always more where that came from. So, we can truly expect love, love, and more love!

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“Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me.” (Psalms 138: 7, Amplified Bible)

There will surely be challenging days. It’s a part of living. We will be confronted with issues that seem difficult to manage or that require something of us that we are not sure we have. These times can seem depleting. We may feel overwhelmed and like we are stuck, helpless, and maybe ready to give up.

But we are not alone and without resources. These humbling situations are occasions to give up—but not in the way of surrendering to the problems. Instead, we give up and give over our worries and our own personal sense of responsibility to the divine hand. We can hand it all over to the right hand of righteousness.

For God’s right hand is there to slay the enemies to our well-being—fear, anger, doubt, sickness, insecurity, lack, and the attacks of those who seem against us. God’s right hand, symbolizes power, authority, as well as honor and blessing. It is God’s Truth and Love doing what it does—protecting us, reviving us, uplifting us, comforting us, leading us by our humble hands into a place of peace, progress, and renewal.

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“My words are always true and always here with you. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.” (Matthew 24: 35, The Voice)

God’s Truth—those promises uttered by Jesus and forever alive through that eternal Christ—never fades away or loses power. The inspiring reality of our oneness with God and of His infinite goodness and Love exists forever, and is always available for us to perceive, claim, live.

We can count on God’s Word. The Truth of Life as Love and of God’s spiritual creation is incontrovertible. There is never a time or a circumstance where God’s Truth will not be actively, fully, true. No changes in us or in our world will make the Truth any less true, any less applicable, any less potent.

What Jesus preached and demonstrated didn’t leave us when he ascended. Everything he taught and proved was based on God’s Word. God’s infinite Love has always been here, ours, constituting all that is real and right. Material conditions may seem to change, but we will never be without God’s law of Love; we will never be without God’s presence with us; we will always be one with God, and we will always have the ability, right, and privilege to know this. No matter what. No matter where. No matter when.

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“Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God.” (Psalms 42:11, Holman Christian Standard Bible)

We may ask ourselves these questions as well. There may be days where we feel down, perhaps due to circumstances or maybe without any outward reason. We may find ourselves feeling stirred up, anxious, our thoughts running wild, unable to see clearly or find solutions.

But questioning the mortal mind, seeking to know why we are feeling this way or that way, doesn’t give us true answers or peace. It only keeps us more engaged with that very limited thought that is uncomfortable and uncertain, that seems caught up in what isn’t helpful but seems to want our attention.

Let’s stop asking for wisdom where it can’t be found. Let’s stop looking for explanations from the ego when it is lost in the waves of its worry. Instead, let’s put our hope in God! Let’s refuse to look for causes or counsel in self and release ourselves to our wise and all-knowing God.

We can take a powerful pause to honor God Who is always with us with Love and Truth, ready to lift us out of despair and confusion and into a higher view of things, one that can truly show us our way home.

God’s kindness and light are always here for us. We can relinquish personal self and its sighing and allow God to lead us out of ourselves and our worries and into true peace and resolution.

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“Acquaint now yourself with Him [agree with God and show yourself to be conformed to His will] and be at peace; by that [you shall prosper and great] good shall come to you.” (Job 22: 21, Amplified Bible, Classic Edition)

Peace and prosperity. These are surely desires we all have. Whether we are seeking success in our work or to be able to live our lives comfortably, at the heart of these aspirations is a wish for contentment, of satisfaction without fear.

We can find and feel this true sense of harmony and prosperousness by acquainting ourselves with the right things. If we keep our focus on the material possessions we might want to accumulate or the accolades or validation we want from others, we are likely missing out on the awareness that truly settles and saves us.

To feel more at peace, we must turn our focus to God, to good, to His qualities of Love and to His control over us and all. We must let go of human will and our own vision of what is right, what will work, what is best, and get better acquainted with God’s purpose.

For only as we agree with God—come into harmony with Him—do we discover the path for good in our lives. Agreeing with God means consenting to live as He caused us to live, realizing our true affluence through His treasures. It is finding our natural satisfaction by letting go of the limited self and sense and allowing God to lead us on His perfect way–one which blesses not only us, but all.

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“Those who trust in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not faint.” (Isaiah 40: 31, Holman Christian Standard Bible)

Trust is renewal. Trust is release. Trust is an escape. Trust is freedom.

When we feel battered or weakened by life and circumstances; when we find ourselves feeling low, lost, our spirits beaten down, we can take one decisive action. We can choose to trust God.

This decision is simple, yet profound. It is agreeing to let God be in control. It is turning from the analysis of our lives through what the senses want to tell us or what time seems to report. Trusting God is settling into being who God made us to be—His children, the object and expression of His Love.

This aligns us with the harmony and progress that is God’s law. It puts the wind under us, lifting us up, giving us inspiration, new insights, hope, followed by expectation, even exultation.

We can turn away from the picture of distress and despair, the burden of personal control, and let God do what He does—strengthen us, guide us, lift us up until we are soaring like eagles, free and alive to the Life that is Love.

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“Jesus spoke to the people again and said, “I am the light of the world. The man who follows me will never walk in the dark but will live his life in the light.” (John 8: 12, JB Phillips New Testament)

Don’t we want to live our life in the light? Don’t we want to feel inspired and awake to what is good, to feel and express radiance? Wouldn’t it be lovely to stop groping around in the dark for answers, or perhaps to feel our lives must be hidden or small?

Jesus is inviting us all to come out into the sunshine and so to feel alive, awake, and purposeful as well. We have our guide. Jesus shared and demonstrated the Truth of God as Love, as Life itself, as the Source of good, and as the Father and Mother of us all.

This light, this Christ-message, is our lamp today. It is ever with us and can’t be lost, because it isn’t merely a nice thought, a pretty idea; it is the very heart and soul of who we are. God is light and in Him is no darkness, as we read in I John. And He made us like Himself, out of His own substance—light, love—so we must naturally shine.

This light is ours to discover and accept in ourselves. It’s God’s own light, so it never fades, nor is it localized—in one and not in another.

Let’s do our best to turn away from the sense that we are limited, burdened, small. Let’s instead accept the light in us, and live in this light of God with gratitude and joy.

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“It is worth nothing for a person to have the whole world, if he loses his soul.” (Mark 8: 36, International Children’s Bible)

It may seem normal and natural to want to acquire things—money, property, status, respect, human success. Seeking a betterment of our circumstances and gaining more knowledge can certainly lead us to good things. It’s right to want to improve life, to learn and grow.

But if our aspirations mean giving up our values, breaking away from God’s purpose of Love and light, we are on the losing end. If we end up gaining accolades, attention, and wealth at the expense of our honest and good hearts, our integrity, our innermost sense of what is right, we have lost our soul.

Having the whole world is not ultimately going to be satisfying, nor will that perfect life we have willfully crafted likely really endure or continue to feel so perfect. Holding onto our soul—truly cherishing and protecting that genuine goodness within us, that love God gave us to feel and use—saves us from this disappointing end.

And let’s remember, it’s never too late. We have a choice in each moment. Our soul belongs to God, and as we humbly turn to Him, we can always get back on track, find ourselves again, come home to the heaven of our worthy wonderfulness in God, the Life that suits us and satisfies our sweet souls.

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“The Lord will give you understanding in all things.” (II Timothy 2:7, New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition)

What a relief! We don’t have to give in to confusion, fear, a sense of ignorance concerning ourselves and life.

The Lord, our One Mind, will reveal to us, in the right time and in the right way, everything that we need to know. We can expect an understanding not only of some things, but of all things.

And this broader, deeper comprehension is not about gaining more human intelligence, gathering information, opinions, ideas from the material world and its presentations and prognostications. This true awareness is from Spirit, from God, so the revelations, the unfolding of the higher and truer thought, progressively, goes beyond those limits.

God is always showing us more of reality. This reality is Love. It is everlasting Life. It is the presence and power of good. It is the inspiration that infuses us with well-being, confidence, joy, and a desire to give of this abundant goodness.

We can enjoy each moment, grateful that God is giving us just enough understanding for this day. We can gather our information from the most reliable Source and trust God to tell us what is right and true, not just in some things, but in all things.

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