How Many Gods Do You Need?

Okay, how did you answer this title question? I’m guessing you said, “One – just one!” That is the “correct” answer – correct for a monotheist, a keeper of the commandments, or a good Unity truth student who is steeped in the tenet that, “there is only one Presence and Power in my life.” So okay, you and I can pass the “correctness” test on this question, but can we be brutally honest for a moment and really see if our singular God affirmation holds up under scrutiny in our moment to moment thoughts and actions.

If we truly believe that God is the supreme Power in our life; the singular source of all that we could ever need, the very fountain of Love that never runs dry, the enduring peace that we seek, and the source of all joy and happiness then why, oh why, do we:

Worry (about anything)?

Fear – anything?

Look to others for love?

Get angry, upset, depressed, frustrated, etc., etc.?

Pray for …healing, prosperity, weather changes, anything?

If I/we truly believed that God is the alpha and omega of our fulfillment, we would want for nothing, other than an intimate relationship with the Divine. And that, of course, is just what Master Teacher, Jesus taught, repeatedly:

Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven…and all these things shall be added unto you

When you pray, pray believing you have received and it will be yours.

When we entreat for specific outcomes that we want to happen in our lives, we are in effect, worshiping false idols, lesser gods, merely wish fulfillers.  When these demands upon the universe are the preeminent conditions for my well-being,  I, in effect, dethrone the only true and enduring Power, the Eternal Source of All good and in so doing I become so much flotsam on the shifting sea of caprice and circumstance.

When Jesus told the rich man, who wanted to find eternity, that he needed to first sell all that he owned, he was symbolically laying out the conditions for our oneness with God. Simply (but not easily) we must look at all those things, persons, conditions, beliefs, thoughts which we believe are either taking the place of or keeping us from our good, and give them up!  NO that doesn't mean we have to literally give them up, it means they must be demoted from god status because they promise falsely and will  wear out, or change thus guaranteeing that we'll be left wanting once more.

“A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need to correct.” A.C.I.M.

The kind of prayer that that our souls yearn for brings us into union with the Divine. It is pure communion. It asks for nothing because it has everything already. The purpose is to know ourselves as inseparable from Love, to claim and realize the inheritance bestowed upon us as progeny of Spirit. When I touch into this knowing place, then I find all my needs fulfilled, and need no other gods to separate me from the One that is All. The fruits of this kind of prayer are a complete change of mind and heart that will transform our world, from inside out.

Of course you know that this message was just for you? No it was for me of course. Unless it applies to you in which case I'm glad we could share a moment of remembrance once more!

Namaste,

Rev. Larry