THE IDENTITY CRISIS
We are, what we come from. Human beings are part of God. We are made in the Image of our Divine Creator. Where is God? God is everywhere. God is Omnipresent. This means that God is within you at this very moment. Can we feel God within us? Yes, we can, we do, and we fully could if we were allowed to do so, or would allow ourselves, to do so. But due to all the daily distractions and outside influences that clutter our thoughts, God may go unnoticed within us.
The world is suffering from an identity crisis. Why? Because instead of identifying ourselves as God’s Children, we have been taught to take on an identity outside Self. Perhaps a nationality, a race, a profession, a religion, a lifestyle, and even a condition or disease. When we do this, we create a mask that hides our True Divine Nature. Our True Divine Identity is also obscured due to the misconception down through the ages that God is far away in heaven somewhere and man is down here on tiny little Earth. Therefore the masses have been indoctrinated to believe that they are separate from God.
Down through millenniums enlightened teachers have appeared on the scene to help mankind recognize our True Identity as Children of God. Scripture even states that we are all gods and Children of the Most High God.
The Master Yeshua said we are the Light of the world and to NOT hide our True Identity as God's Children.
So... this means instead labeling each other with a color, a culture, or where we live, we just call each other who we REALLY are. WE ARE LIGHT!! PERIOD!! Light contains all the colors and all attributes. To only be judged, labeled, and socially categorized not only mocks our True Identity as God's Divine Children, it stifles our potential and keeps us ALL in bondage.
Imagine if you will, the difference it would make if when we looked into each others eyes, we could see God manifesting and expressing through each of us. Imagine if each of us became conscious of our True Divine Nature as a Child of God, no longer feeling suppressed or inadequate. Imagine becoming empowered by the Truth of our Divine Identity, how much potential we would have. Therefore, you are hereby invited to explore, discover, know, experience and feel God flowing within you.
Be assured that the revelation of your Real Divine Nature will be a Life changing event. Because the real Life changing events always happen within You in Spirit and Truth. This First Truth of Your Divine Identity will set you free.
THE ONLY LIVING BEING WE LIVE IN AND THE ONLY LIVING BEING THAT LIVES IN US.
Even though there is truth to be found in all religions throughout history, no religion can claim to have the whole Truth. God does not show favoritism. He seeks all anywhere, among all nations in Spirit and in Truth.
“But Peter opened his mouth and he said, “In truth, I understand that God is no respecter of persons.; But among all nations, whoever worships him and works righteousness is acceptable to him. Acts 10:34,35 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
When Peter said “God is no respecter of persons”, he meant God does not play favorites. He has informed and inspired all those of His choosing who have turned to Him in Faith in accord with His Will. Any person from any background, nation, religion or ethnicity who becomes conscious of his or her True Identity as a Child of God is acceptable to Him.
We are all students here. Students taught by Spirit and Truth who share with fellow students what we learn. No one is above another. We are students of Consciousness. Consciousness of what? Consciousness of our True Identity as Divine Children of God and the Reality of the First Truth we must know before we can discern the Truth in anything else.
“This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.” John 17:3
We are students of the Pattern of Perfection in Christ, which is the Way. Students of the Truth, Life and of Spirit. Students of the principles of Good, Love and Light. As students, we must recognize there is only one path to Consciousness, Truth and Life.
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.’” John 14:6
Religions, teachers, books, and online resources can be helpful in our search for Real Truth. However, the serious student would not want to identify self with any of these external forms of information. Just as a plant only utilizes certain properties from the soil in order to grow, we might utilize certain resources from religion or teachers. So just as the plant grows out of the soil, but is not the soil, we too grow out and away from teachers and religion. We grow towards the Light as Spiritual Children. We take on our True Identity of Light and do not identify ourselves with the soil of the world.
The search for Truth must begin within in Spirit and Truth. It cannot be found anywhere outside self in the material unconscious world. Becoming conscious of Real Truth within is the first step. But students must also work to prove the Truth for themselves by right thinking and by actions.
“Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.” 1 John 4:1 (New Living Translation)
The unconscious world is full of divisions and distractions with many claiming to have the truth. So we must verify everything with what we call the “First Truth”. Once we know the First Truth we will be able to recognize the Truth in anything else. Jesus said we must keep our Eye single. This means undivided thoughts in the Oneness of Spirit, Light, Truth, Life, Good, and Love.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light. Luke 11:22
“If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” Mark 3:25
Remember dear Student, as a follower of Christ, you are in the world, but you are not part of the world. You do not love the world, nor do you want to identify yourself with the world.
“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.” 1 John 2:15
We will remain undivided keeping our Eye single so the Love of our Father will live in us. We will take on the Identity of individual Temples in which God can dwell.
“Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
How empowering the above scripture is. We are Divine. We come from Light.
The first command in the creative process was “Let there be Light”. Jesus told us in the Sermon on the Mount that we are the Light of the world because we come from Light. So appropriately, we can identify ourselves as Light. Jesus also said we must not hide or block our True Identity of Light. To do so would be a lack of gratitude and disrespect for our Divine Oneness as Children.
See Matt. 5:14 also 1Th. 5:5
Once we become conscious of the Reality of the First Truth and our True Divine Identity, we will feel a new Joy and Freedom like none experienced before.
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32
Yes, dear Students, this is the Good News of the Kingdom that we proclaim with the up-most Joy. The freedom to know the Truth. The freedom to take back our True Divine Identity. The freedom to feel adequate and worthy. Freedom from guilt, sin, evil, sickness and death. All of this is possible Now and not in some distant future. The Kingdom is in our midst. It is at hand. We can enter into the Kingdom any time we want by making a choice. This is the choice to deny our old self, let go, and become conscious of our True Divine Identity. We are gods because we come from the God Family. We are Sons and Daughters of the Most High.
There is only One True Reality. The Only Reality. There is only One Life. There is Only One Mind. One Infinite Being. One indivisible Being of Good, Light, Love, Principle, and Truth. One Spirit and One Omnipresence. One Omnipotent, Omniscient, Being. We call this Supreme Being God. The Great I AM. YHWH
Jesus called the One True Reality, Spirit and Life “Father”, and rightly so because we all come from Him. We are all gods, because we are all God’s Divine Family. Jesus verified this when He quoted from Psalm 82:6
I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.”
The main purpose of Jesus’ sojourn here was to help us become conscious of our True Divine Identity. For without regaining consciousness, Eternal Life in not possible.
“This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.” John 17:3
To know God involves recognizing God’s Omnipresence. God is everywhere, in everything and in everyone all the time. Scripture states that God is even in us. We only need to be conscious of that.
“There is one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Eph. 4:6.
Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;" even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you. Psalm 139: 7-12
There is no life apart from God. For all Life emanates from God. Without God Life is not possible. There is no power separate from God, because all Power emanates fro God. There is no Love apart from God. For God is Love. No Good can exist separate from God. For only God is Good.
Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one—God. Luke 18:19
God is the only Power. Therefore all Power is Good. All Power is Love. It is impossible for fear or evil to exist within the One God. Because God exists everywhere at the same time, no evil, fear, sin, sickness, or death can exist at all. Only Life exists, for God is all there is.
If God is in us, then Good is in us. We just have to become conscious of it. To not be conscious of it is sin, sickness, evil and death. Consciousness, or to “know” is Life.
No sickness, sin, fear, evil or death can exist in us whatsoever as long as we remain fully conscious of the Spirit and Truth of God within us. This Consciousness or to “know”, is Eternal Life. To know the First Truth of Good, Love, Light, Life, Happiness, Peace, Kindness, Meekness and Self Mastery. For all of these things emanate from God and will set us free.
We mentioned earlier Jesus’ words:
“If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” Mark 3:25
If we begin to believed to two separate powers, one of good and one of evil, we become like a house divided. Then we cannot stand and fall into unconsciousness.
A true sign of gratefulness is to feel the Divine Flow of God in us. To know that we are all Children of God should empower us to once again take on our True Divine Identity as God’s Children. Undivided Temples where the Presence of God can resonate through us. Just as Christ drove the money changers and corruption out of the Temple in Jerusalem, so will the consciousness on Christ’s presence within us drive out the divisions within us. But we must be willing to believe and let go. We must be willing to deny our old beliefs and our old unconscious thoughts. Willing to deny the unconscious beliefs and your fake identity forced on you by the unconscious world. Only then will we begin to feel the Presence of the Father flowing through us. Are you willing to lose your old life? Your old ways? Jesus said:
"If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.” Matthew 16:24,25
So instead of looking outside ourselves for our True Identity, we must deny our fake identity birth and be born anew in the revelation of our True Divine Identity. Your own True Perfection. The time has arrived for your Spiritual birth to happen. The Master put it like this:
"Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God." John 3:3
This all happens within us in Spirit and Truth and not in some temple or place of worship outside ourself. The Master put it like this:
“...the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father… But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." John 4:21-24
God is waiting for His Children to wake up and become conscious once again. So Spirit and Truth can flow through us once more. For we are all Temple(s) just as Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 3:16:
“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”
There’s that word “know” again. That’s what we mean by “consciousness”.
WHAT TO DENY AND WHAT NOT TO DENY
We can deny our programming of inadequacy and our fake identity that we created by looking outside self, but we would never want to deny our Divine Identity.
What do we mean by “false meekness”? Even though someone may intentionally pretend to be humble in order to impress others, we are referring to a different kind of “false meekness”.
Meekness has been misconstrued as weakness or a wretched state.
A flawed unconscious belief and conviction that human beings are inherently imperfect, inadequate and fleshly sinners who are incapable of goodness.
Down through history mainstream Christianity has indoctrinated converts to believe that meekness and humility are conditions of helplessness. They have promoted the belief that man is born a sinful wretch unworthy of life. That unless they become a member of the church they will not be shown mercy and will perish. That only a select few can be saints or holy and everyone else needs to approach God through them. Therefore, the masses have been programmed to obey men thinking they are somehow obeying God. That only an elite few can claim Divinity.
