Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Unity and the Son of God

Who am I and Why am I Here?                                                                                                                                                    
We began  Sunday's forum with these two questions and moved on to Unity's take on Jesus Christ, among other topics.  If we keep in mind the statement that "I am a spiritual being having a human experience", then we know that the answer to the question "Who am I?" is not our earthly name at all nor is the correct answer to "Why am I here?" a description of the 9 to 5 job which pays the bills.

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ."  Ro.8:15-17

We, as the children of God, were created in the image of God with the potential to be like God.  That is the promise of the creation story in Genesis.  Yet, over the ages, it became clear that the Chosen, the Children of Israel, didn't get it.  And as time passed, the Law and the Prophets  became a barrier to the direct experience of God.  Early on in Matthew, Jesus said:

Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.

Jesus was the first born of God in that He was the first to fulfill the promise:  He was Man and Christ in one being.  And this is what we are called to do--to know God and to express more of God in all that we do.  Jesus is our teacher by Word and by example.  He came to teach our true relationship to God as Father, in our midst, wholly present in His creation.  He did not come to create another church to set up barriers between God and man.
If we would be more like Jesus, then we must follow His example, as Charles Fillmore wrote in Talks on Truth:

The way to do this is the way Jesus did it. He acknowledged Himself to be the Son of God.  The attainment of the Christ consciousness calls for nothing less on our part than a definite recognition of ourselves as sons of God right here and now, regardless of appearances to the contrary.
Rev. Claudia Naylor

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