Continuing in the study of Michael Bernard Beckwith’s book, “Spiritual Liberation”, he states: Jesus said: “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few”. He also said, “Knock, and it shall be opened to you.” What this is saying to me is that the Kingdom is right here and now, but we must DO something in order to experience it. It is time to invest the spiritual coin of our commitment to being a skilled laborer in the field of ever-evolving consciousness!
Jesus the man became Jesus the Christ by utilizing his spiritual practices of meditation, prayer, contemplation, introspection and solitary retreats. By performing these practices, he was able to see perfect health in the physically afflicted when he told the lame to walk, commanded withered limbs to be made whole, and the blind to see. When others saw a lack of food, he saw an abundance of loaves and fishes.
When we have a spiritual orientation towards life, we will see the beauty that surrounds us, the perfect man, woman, and child that shines the light of the Christ-self. Being spiritually awake is the most practical way to live. It is then that we may live as Jesus did by not worrying “about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap not gather into barns yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more value than they?” We are to “seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.”
Say with me: “I am open, receptive, pliable, and teachable. I move into my Christ state of consciousness with ease, trust and faith. I am ever so grateful.”
— Rev. Gay Beauregard, Alpine Church of Spiritual Living
