Click for audio: Why Perspective Matters
In this series I have been conducting, we’ve been exploring the idea of God as life, love, power and intelligence and the soul as an individualized expression of God. Why is it important to understand this relationship of oneness with God? In dealing with the challenges of daily living, how we think of ourselves and God determines how we deal with life. If we think of ourselves from the perspective of the senses-based self-image, we’ll see life in one way. If we see ourselves as expression of God, complete in every way, we’ll see ourselves in another. It’s a difference similar to lighting a room with a single artificial lamp or opening a window to the full spectrum of sunlight.
Most of us labor beneath the belief that we are separated from God by the barriers of time and space. More time in meditation and study, for example, will draw us into a closer understanding and a deeper relationship with God. We may feel that God is “out there” someplace looking down upon us, that God holds the answers we seek and will give them to us at the right time. This paradigm of separation says that we are in one place and the answers we seek are in another.
Affirming our oneness with God and embracing the completeness of our soul is affirming the resolution to any challenge is always present. The man who lay by the pool for thirty-eight years believed there was a barrier of time and space between himself and his healing. Jesus demonstrated that he was already one with his healing, that he could take up his bed and walk now. Jesus did not invoke a healing power that was not present before. He simply served as the catalyst that helped change the man’s perspective.
Affirming your oneness with God and the completeness of your soul may not produce as dramatic a change as this man experienced. It may simply inspire you with the understanding that all is well, that this too shall pass and that you are free now to live your life as the unencumbered soul that you are. For most of us, this is no small thing.