The first main aspect of God is Life. God is not just living, nor does God give life, but God is Life. Where God is, there Life is.
When you are sick you are only partly alive. When you are tired or depressed or discouraged, you are only partly alive. Few people express God in an adequate way because they lack the sense of life.
Joy is one of the highest expressions of God as Life. Actually it is a mixture of Life and Love, and the Bible says “the sons of God shout for joy.” When we realize our divine sonship, we must experience joy. Joy always has an expansive effect, just as fear has a contracting effect. When a person says, “I can”, you notice an expansive and forward movement, but when he says, “ I can’t”, there is a retraction. You could not imagine a person saying, “Yes, I can,” with a shrinking gesture, or “No, I can’t,” in an optimistic or forthright way. The body always expresses the thoughts; the thought of Life heals and inspires, whereas thoughts of fear and death contract and destroy.
Realizing divine Life heals the sick. Animals usually respond quickly, because they do not have that strong sense of personal egotism that most human beings do. They never make up their minds that they cannot get well or that “sickness is sent for a good purpose.’ Neither do they give way to discouragement because they have not been healed faster.
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom and knowledge, and joy…(Ecclesiastes 2:26).
God would that we have life and have it abundantly. How much of life are we missing, putting off or deciding is out of our reach. God’s will is clear, abundant life is already here for us if we but listen to God. God has told us all we need to know to find it, yet we doubt and dither about rather than follow God’s will and way.
When we believe God, accept God’s will and live God’s way, we will find it. If we dither, doubt and run about, we will miss it. Believe God, sieze life and live it to the fullest today and every day. It is God’s will.
Carpe Diem,
Z gardener
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