DAY FIFTEEN – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2009

The spiritual powers – sometimes known as “divine ideas” – that we are exploring are all aspects of God present within us. The more we know of their presence and the possibilities that presence creates, the more clearly we can align ourselves with the creative power of God expressing through us. It might seem that this process of deeper understanding will cause us to turn our backs on the more ordinary aspects of life. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Evelyn Underhill, one of my favorite mystical writers, addresses this rich paradox in one of her writings from the early years of the twentieth century: “The spiritual life does not begin in an arrogant attempt at some peculiar kind of other-worldliness, a rejection of ordinary experience. It begins in the humble recognition that human things can be very holy, full of God; whereas high-minded speculations about His nature need not be holy at all.”

The holy presence of God in even the most mundane of our human experiences reflects the fact that all of life unfolds according to spiritual law. This idea of God as Spiritual Law may once have seemed an unpleasant, uncomfortable, limiting concept to many of us, full of “thou shalts” and “thou shalt nots.” In fact, however, God as Law is our greatest resource. It assures us that God is immutable and unchangeable, a solid and reliable source for our greatest good.

“Whatever a man sows,” we’re reminded in the Epistle to the Galatians, “that he will also reap (Galatians 6: 7).” And this is literally all we need to know about spiritual law. If we sow thoughts of lack, fear, anger or disease, that will be the crop we experience. It is not the punishment of an angry God; it is simply the outworking of spiritual law in our lives. But if we work with this law instead of ignoring it, the result will be infinite good. If we plant seeds of love, appreciation and compassion, we will reap the benefits richly – not just as we sow (for God does not deal in even exchanges) but heaped up, pressed down and running over.

Today I affirm I am one with the infinite law of God – one with the principle of never-ceasing growth and development toward the fulfillment of God’s perfect idea that is firmly infixed in all creation. Thank you, God!