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“Practice the Presence” Series: “All Things New” January 3, 2010
Rev. David Alexander
Rev. David paraphrased what Ernest Holmes said 50 years ago:
We are expanding as a spiritual movement and when a church is dedicated, we teach and practice our principles. Individual alignment with the divine leads us to an energy of serving others.
The cross on the top of this new building will stay there because when it is rightly understood, it has great meaning. The seat of consciousness is at the intersection of the vertical Divine and the outreaching, horizontal human. The focus is on the heart space and to remember who we are and who we serve.
In our teaching practicing ministry, we remember One divine presence that is personal to each of us.
We remember that there is a power for good that is greater than all and can be used by us for good.
We are trained in the law of good and it will multiply it’s effect through our united consciousness.
We are joined with the universe and we understand that there are many paths to God and that there is no private good.
Ernest Holmes, in 1918, talked about the fact that we are not controlled by anything outside ourselves. When we are aligned with the truth, we therefore prosper. Each of us is destined to be an emancipated soul.
This church is a natural out-picturing of practicing the presence. Our awareness that is steeped in God and the laws of the universe recognizes that it is the nature of the sum total of our thoughts, attitudes and beliefs to bring our good into manifestation. What we see had no choice but to be out-pictured. And this church is a means to an end—inclusivity, love, wholeness and nourishment. We’re all welcome here because we are each a God being and we had to have a place to express that being.
The energy of God is the energy that says, “Behold, I make all things new.” I have the power now. I make all things new today. We step into it and align with it daily. The verse, “Behold, I make all things new,” could more accurately be described as “Behold, I AM (the Christ within us, the presence of the Father within) makes all things new.: It is our job to release what doesn’t serve us any more and remember that the energy of the Christ makes all things new in our life.
Questions to contemplate:
1. Are you willing to steep yourself in the awareness that the I AM presence can make all things new in your life?
2. What would you like to be new in your life?
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