Being and then doing
Bringing the kingdom of heaven to earth
Making God visible
by Del Anderson
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Teilhard de Chardin
I believe it means for me, “The kingdom of God is within me,” and I need an inner life to learn and experience living from within out. To be aware and consciously choose and act from an inner realization that the secret place of upon high is “Be still and know I am God,” requires a daily quiet time of contemplation, meditation and listening prayer. “Christ in you the hope of glory” (a realization of the God consciousness of freedom and empowerment) is experienced and realized through practicing the Presence of God, living from within to allow Spirit, God to express and manifest through us.
All life is birthed from within, human mother, bird egg, animal, etc. All healing is a process unfolding from within.
Jesus said, “God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.” He also said, “Ye must be born again” – of Spirit – and “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all else will be added.” Paul said, “I live, yet not I, Christ liveth my life” (from within).
What a holy, sacred privilege to experience this awakened, new, personal, experiential, knowing relationship with our Creator and Sustainer. Yet, we are presently aware that unless we participate with God’s divine grace and let God express and manifest in and through us, we have not brought forth a sturdy bridge between our inner and outer lives. The expression of our inner spirituality needs to be accompanied by and woven into a seamless God activity, inner and outer.
In the past all too often we have equated spiritual health with acting and feeling good, failing to perceive that our daily unfolding process is to change, grow and trust God’s process. Dag Hammerskjold (former secretary general of the United Nations) said, “In our era the road to holiness must pass through the world of action.”
Jesus said, “If ye would know the truth, ye must do it.” Our modern guides of this road of being and doing were exemplified by Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Albert Schweitzer (medical missionary to Africa),etc., expressing God by being and doing, spirituality and service.
