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Denial of the claims of matter

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Announcements › Forums › God – January 7th, 2018 › Denial of the claims of matter

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  • January 5, 2018 at 10:21 am #5708
    Susanne
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    This morning when I heard the lesson being read these words leapt out at me: “Denial of the claims of matter is a great step towards the joys of Spirit…” followed by “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (S&H 13., 14.)

    It occurred to me that the claims of matter are clamoring for us to worship them as a god! When we have a problem, we can tend to focus on it, instead of focusing on God, in a way that we don’t even realize that we end up worshiping the problem!

    If to worship is to respect, to honor, we may be giving a problem respect, and honoring it with a lot of attention, instead of realizing it’s nothingness! And kicking it out! And going to God and asking, what do YOU see here? Let me see things with YOUR vision, Lord!

    January 5, 2018 at 11:35 am #5710
    Colleen Mostika
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    Thank you, Susanne! This is awesome! I know that I do this and it brings it right to my attention so I can stop focusing on the physical “clamoring” that seems to be there. I appreciate your sharing of this revelation with us.

    January 6, 2018 at 11:59 am #5717
    Michael
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    A friend once told me about an important lesson they learned from their teacher, Paul Stark Seeley (whose article was recently published in the “Love is the Liberator” November 2017 publication) in regards to this topic, specifically having to do with harboring hatred for someone. What he told her was that if you hate someone, you are just as consumed with that hatred as if you worshiped the ground they walk on….hence making them your false God.

    This topic was also covered in an article I once read where the question was posed: Who do you love? God? Or some faulty view of some person? The point was that the writer of the article realized they were in fact breaking the first commandment. The writer recognized they had to redirect their affections towards God and away from some person, and this led to their healing.

    This question can be asked of any problem we seem to face. Are we consumed with the problem? Is is occupying most, if not all, of our thought? Are we worshiping a problem we face? Then it’s time to revisit the first commandment and do our best to obey it.

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