FINDING FAITH - 6

Jesus said, “The kingdom is at hand.” His disciples assumed he meant he would return as king soon. They thought of a physical king. But a king is ruler - and you are the ruler of y our life. No matter what happens to you outwardly, you are the one who controls your inner state. The kingdom of God means bringing the consciousness of God into your awareness, so that It rules your life so that It determines your inner state.

And what inner state would that be? What does this Universal Intelligence, this Supreme Mind, have to offer you?

First, the experience of oneness. No longer do you need to feel alone, or unsupported, or ‘out of the loop’. When you have a sense of oneness, you know that you are a part of everything.

Then there is the experience of pure harmony. Within oneness, nothing can be at war
with Itself. “A house divided against itself cannot stand”, as the saying goes. Oneness leads to harmony. You can experience that harmony in your job, in your family, in your community. You can BE it!

There is the experience of abundance. Oneness means that you can tap into the flow of wealth, the flow of success, the flow of opportunity that goes on all around you. You can capture opportunities because you know that they are there for you.

What is the difference between a supremely successful person and one who struggles? It isn’t brains - there are smart poor people everywhere, while folks like Ozzy Osbourne, who are talented but not exactly brilliant, are rolling in money. It isn’t birth - there are a million stories of people who inherited wealth and yet live like paupers. It isn’t luck - we know that about 70% of lottery jackpot winners are poor again within 5 years.

It is thinking! It is belief! It is attitude. It is believing that you are entitled to abundance, that you deserve it, that you attract it to you, and that you are squarely in the flow of it.

There is the experience of pure joy. Joy is the experience of lightness of heart. It is the result of en-theos - God within - from which we get the word “Enthusiasm”. People fly when they take themselves lightly!

That is Heaven on earth. And it is yours, here and now. Yes, the kingdom is at hand. It all begins with faith.