The key to living a spiritual life and experiencing all of the benefits that Jesus shared with us in the New Testament, requires a three-step process, in my opinion. The first step on the spiritual path of life requires an honest understanding that the Kingdom of heaven is really and absolutely within you. What you see is what you get. This includes a clear understanding that your thoughts and beliefs are creative energies that become actual events, forms, and situations in your life. You were created originally as a pure, loving, stable human being that was given the gift of creation through your thoughts, words, and actions, to allow you to live successfully in this world.
The second step is to realize and accept that this pure and wonderful creative ability that we are, has been corrupted by the subconscious programming that we have been exposed to by the ego self. This has altered our thinking and belief structures of love, peace, abundance and harmony through fear and its progeny of anger, malice, victimization, greed, and other false beliefs. The issue and difficulty with this second step is the total lack of memory of our divine, loving true Self. It appears that our problems and challenges and even loving and supportive things, are always coming at us from outside sources. Our life’s job then becomes creating strategies to block and fight off the problems and then acquire skills and strategies to enhance the good things that we want to show up in our lives. This second step is where we wake up and realize that we have created all this craziness through our own programmed thinking and remember that we are a child of God. Jesus said in Luke 17:21 “The Kingdom of God is within you.” We believe that this means that the Kingdom of everything we are seeking is already within us, we just have to figure out how to access it. This second step is the step of surrender.
The third step in this process is returning to that state of consciousness that was originally who we were created to be. This involves returning to that Garden of Eden consciousness. This journey is the metaphorical story that Jesus shares with us in Luke 15: 11-31 where Jesus tells of the son of a rich father that asked for his inheritance and then wasted it in frivolous living. He woke up broke and hesitated to return to the household of his father asking for forgiveness. He boosted up his courage and started his journey back to the father only to find that the father ran to great him, embraced him, forgave him and invited him back into the family. The key to this story is that the prodigal son made the decision to return and trusted in the outcome whatever it was.
This story is our story. It requires us to wake up and remember who we really are. (Step One) Then we are asked to realize that we are the creator of the life we are experiencing in the fear riddled crazy existence run by the ego self. We are asked to give up blame and realize we are forgiven for all the miscreation’s that we manifested in our existing world. (Step Two)
This third step is the journey that takes us back to our True Self, our Natural Self, our Christed Being. The path back is already within you. Heaven and everything we are truly looking for is already within you. This path, the map, the guidance to your divine being was spelled out for us in the teachings of Jesus. He was talking about us, not himself when he said that God gave us “his only begotten Son.” This Son is the Christ Self that you and all of us are. Our job now is to follow the path back to the Father’s House: The Kingdom of Heaven within. This is the beginning of the story that is spelled out within you. This is the path of love, harmony and peace. Let’s do it together!
I love you,
Rev. Robert