Christ Has Risen!

Christ has Risen!  Those are the words in the Daily Word on Easter Sunday.  For Christians Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.  It is the high point of the Lenten season, which began on Ash Wednesday.  For forty-six days we reflected on our lives and released what no longer served.  We let go of beliefs, thoughts, emotions, patterns, and, sometimes, people that were suppressing our spiritual growth. The clutter and trash has been removed.  It is time for our resurrection!

In Webster's Dictionary the definition of resurrection is "a rising from the dead, or coming back to life."  We are coming back to our original state, a "coming back to life."  Like the rebirth of the spring flowers after a long, dark winter, the Christ within us has risen.  The darkness that we had been experiencing has been replaced with the Light of God.  In Charles Fillmore's Keep a True Lent he states that the inner meaning of the resurrection is "the awakening and raising to spiritual consciousness of the I Am in man."

In Romans 6:4 it states "Just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life."  A resurrection takes place when "we rise to Jesus' realization of the perpetual indwelling life that is connecting us with God."  (The Revealing Word - Charles Fillmore)

This Easter acknowledge the rising of your own Christ nature and consciously connect with the presence of the indwelling God.  Affirm:  In unity with Christ I realize that I am resurrected into the life, light and power of God.

Happy Easter!

Our Own Pot of Gold

The other day I was in a card store picking up birthday cards and I noticed a section of green - St. Patrick's Day cards.  A vision of rainbows, leprechauns and pots of gold came into my mind.  It came to me that we don't  need  leprechauns for pots of gold, we have our own - the Christ within.

In Luke 17:21 it states "...the kingdom of God is within you" and 2 Corinthians 6:16 "...For we are the temple of the living God."  Theses two verses state that the Spirit of God lives in us.  Many are unaware of this truth. Their lives are filled with lack and limitation, fear and hate, envy and jealousy.  In reality God lives in us," which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."  (Colossians 1:27)

What does this mean to us? Eric Butterworth puts it beautifully in Discover the Power Within "Christ in you is your hope of glory, for it is that of you that is God and is God being projected into visibility as you.  Christ in you is your own spiritual unity with the Infinite, the key to your health and success."  God is life, love, power, strength, abundance, so His presence in us (as the Christ) is the source of these qualities or ideas that will manifest in our mind, body, and affairs.

God's unlimited abundance of health, happiness, joy, finances, peace and love lives within all of us.  In prayer and meditation we consciously connect to God.  As we listen to God, the "still small voice", we unlock the door and allow the qualities of God to flow through our being.  We incorporate God's qualities of life, love, power, intelligence into our lives.  God's unlimited abundance flows through us each day.

Which would you rather have: a leprechaun's single pot of gold or God's unlimited supply?
I chose God!!

Namaste