The sixth main aspect of God is Spirit. We know that God is Spirit but what does that mean? Spirit is that which cannot be destroyed or damaged. It is the opposite of matter. Matter wears out, but Spirit does not because Spirit is substance. Herbert Spencer defines substance as that which is not subject to discord or decay. Webster says, “that which underlies all outward manifestation…real, unchanging essence or nature…that in which qualities inhere…that which constitutes anything that is.” All this can only apply to spiritual things.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth
(John 4:24).
You are Spirit. Spirit cannot die. Your true self will never die. You are eternal, divine, unchanging Spirit, in your true nature. The whole universe is a spiritual creation but we see it in a limited way. You have sometimes seen a window made of fluted glass, and you know that if you look at the street through this window everything will be distorted. Nevertheless, you know that the distortion arises from your seeing wrongly. Our false vision causes us to know ourselves only from a seeming birth to a seeming death; but this is illusion too. This distorted vision of Spirit is really what we know as“matter.” Eucken says, “Reality is an independent spiritual world, unconditioned by the apparent world of sense” – and this is substance.
The real you is not made of matter but of spirit. That is the nature of God in us. Our bodies are the housing in which human spirit abides and manifests itself in the material world.
So, when we limit ourselves to that material world we perceive with our senses, we are in essence, walking blind. Let us today open our hearts, minds and our spirits so God can demonstrate his divine will, universal consciousness and holy spirit through us.
When we we do, we will fully know that God is us and we are children of God. Then, watch in wonder as God’s power manifests itself through us in miracles great and small. At once, our eyes will be opened and our spirits lifted so we can recognize and live in the garden God created for his children.
In spirit,
Z gardener
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