Be Alive to the Truth of You

Jesus said, “Be watchful so you don’t lose heart over life’s troubles and let the day catch you unaware.”

Luke 21:34

Notes for Contemplation as You Use this Devotional:

• In this passage by the Gospel Writer called Luke, in the section sometimes titled, “Be Watchful,” Jesus encourages his followers to notice what’s occurring both around them and within them.While this wisdom is also quoted as a reminder to avoid overindulgence, it more specifically urges you to be spiritually alive, awakened with a vast life perspective.
• Jesus is a mystic, master teacher, healer, and wayshower for multitudes because he fully embodies and radiates his absolute divinity. He knows his divine heritage and embraces his role as the Christ, the greatest expression of his perfect soul self. He aligns himself with God (Higher Power, Supreme Being, etc.), so he maintains a broad, God’s eye, world view.
• Clarity—your God’s eye view—is a spiritual tool you can use anytime, anywhere, because it illumines your life. Like a flashlight, it shines spiritual light onto people, places, and circumstances to eliminate ambiguity, confusion, or doubt.
• With clarity, you have greater awareness and wider, sharper vision. You can be grounded in present time, not ruminating about the past or worrying about the future because you’re alive to who you are and what’s before you.
• Additionally, clarity can reveal which things are beyond your control, so you invest your valuable energy on what ensures wellbeing for you and those in your care. Furthermore, clarity helps you release difficult emotions so you can be faithful as well as compassionate. However, it doesn’t mean you’ll like all you see; nothing in sacred scripture says you’ll like everything or everyone.
• Metaphysician and Unity Co-Founder Myrtle Fillmore teaches that once you have clarity, you can “perfect anything and everything that . . . does not measure up to the best that your new light shows you.” So, “the moment you discover anything undesirable in your mind or life,” she recommends making “the changes necessary to bring about” what you desire.
• Demonstration is your evidence of how well your life works. You’re spiritually alive when you recognize yourself as a spiritual being. You see yourself as a divine child of God with a radiant soul, living in a sacred body temple, having human experiences.  You embrace your divinity, just as Jesus did, and allow your soul unfoldment to occur for your benefit, and the world’s, too.

Contemplation Questions:

As you reflect on your life and circumstances, ask yourself:

• What is occurring within me now?
  • List, word map, or illustrate whatever applies.

• What is occurring around me now?
  • List, word map, or illustrate whatever applies.

• When I reflect on my responses, what clarity do I have?
  • List, word map, or illustrate all you can.

• What are at least three (3) ways this clarity can help me transform myself and/or circumstances?
  • List, word map, or illustrate as much as you imagine.

Use this devotional anytime you want clarity and your own God’s eye view.  Give yourself space to step back from whatever is swirling around or within you.  Suspend judgment.  Affirm clarity for yourself so you can see what you need to see.  Then let your illumination be revealed.  Have faith in yourself, and follow your intuition as you are guided.

© 2024 – Rev. Jennifer L. Sacks – All rights reserved.

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