Living your understanding of God

July 17, 2023 | 22 comments

Everyone is living out their understanding of God.

The more one understands God to be infinite Love, the more love one feels and expresses.

The more one understands God to be an all-knowing, all-wise Mind, the more peace one feels from knowing God has a solution to whatever problems arise.

The more one understands God to be forgiving, the easier it is to forgive.

And so on… Everyone lives out their understanding of God.

Thus, we have an incentive to grow in our understanding of God. The more we know of God’s infinite goodness, the easier it is to feel and know that goodness.

Life with God is the best.

22 thoughts on “Living your understanding of God”

  2. Thank you Evan.

    We experience and so live what we believe, fulfilling our expectations.
    “Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, involves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, reality.” S&H p. 298:13–15)
    Jesus taught us what to believe, and proved this progression of spiritual sense: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” (John 14:12)
    He lived his understanding of God, and gave us the promise and expectation that we can too.
    Being at one with the Father is present reality, for the more we know of God the more we know of ourselves. .

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    1. Thanks Ken and Evan. It always impresses me when I read the scripture that you quoted Ken, from John 14 that says, “the works that I do he shall do also; and GREATER works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

      To say that we can do even greater works is quite a statement. I believe it means that as we continue to turn wholeheartedly to our Father-Mother God our understanding can continue to grow and deepen, and there is no limit to what we can come to understand and demonstrate. Very inspiring.

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  6. Truth! Just like our lesson this week. We do have an incentive to keep growing, keep pushing forward. we never want to coast or become content with where we are. There is infinitely more good with God! It’s our duty and privilege to push further to praise and honor God, with God, for the uplifting of our world which is so needed and desired by many.

    When we live out our increasing understanding of an all good God, we are naturally elevating the atmosphere around us.

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    1. I am reminded of the Bible verse in Jeremiah that states “ And they shall teach no more every man their neighbor, and every man their brother , saying know the Lord; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord:”
      What a promise and a prophecy! We shall all become conscious of God as our Father/ Mother and of man’s goodness as the offspring of Divine Love.

      And as MBE states in Science and Health, “ .. war will cease and the true brotherhood of man will be established. Having no other gods, turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide him, man is in the likeness of God pure and eternal, having that Mind which was also in Christ.”

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  7. What a lovely and refreshing start to the week! A beautiful
    message and uplifting thoughts. Thank you!

    I am reminded of Hymn # 269,
    “Our God is Love, unchanging Love,
    And can we ask for more?
    Our prayer for Love’s increase is vain;
    ‘Twas infinite before …
    Our God is Mind, the perfect Mind,
    Intelligence divine;
    Shall mortal man ask Him to change
    His infinite design? …
    Then may our deeds our pure desire
    For growth in grace express,
    That we may know
    How Love divine
    Forever waits to bless.”

    Divine Love Does meet every human need! Sometimes I feel
    like an infant in understanding, but am learning so much every
    day and from all of these wonderful spiritual views. My
    gratitude for Love’s dear love is beyond what words can express.

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  12. Thank you Evan and all. This is a life of freedom. The more we strive to understand God the lighter our burdens. Hymn 542 verse 3 is very clear about this.
    One in the freedom of the truth,
    One in the joys of paths untrod,
    One in the hearts perennial youth,
    One in the larger thought of God.

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  15. Thank you very much indeed, dear “J” for these 2 utmost helpful articles you sent here. They comforted me a lot! They also match very much with Evan’s today’s SpiritView!
    Thank you very very much dear Evan ; nothing can devide us from this wonderful eternal divine Love, as He created us to His perfect image and likeness – thank you dear Father-Mother God!!
    These articles sent us by “J” teach us a lot about our reflection of the one infinite God, who is all-good!! ♡♡♡

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  16. We are so blessed by these pertinent articles, along with Evan’s
    initial topic for the day. So loving and comforting in this
    sometimes seemingly crazy world with so many things needing
    our spiritual insight, to set our thoughts on the divine.
    From the articles, man simply reflects divine Love. How
    awesome is that!
    I love where the writer describes the lovely scene and declares
    how the reflection is in such perfection, whereas if the sky is
    blue above a beautiful calm lake, the reflection can not be of
    gray skies. These simple, but yet powerful “parables” are so
    instructive and often ideas that have not been thought about
    before. Thank you, dear J for taking the time to research and
    share such blessings with us.

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  17. Thanks Carol that you mention the parable with the reflection of the blue sky in a clear lake cannot reflect a gray sky but cannot else but must reflect the perfect blue of the sky.
    I read this parable the first time. That is a wonderfully clear explanation of perfect divine reflection!

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