You Shine

Jesus said to the doubters, “The works I do in My Father’s [God’s] name testify on my behalf.   . . . The Father [God] and I are one.”

John 10:25, 30

Notes for Contemplation as You Use this Devotional:

• This mystical passage by the Gospel Writer called John, from the story sometimes called “Jesus, The Good Shepherd,” describes how Jesus expresses his Christ nature, the greatest expression of his perfect soul self.Though some people doubt his divinity, he says they still can choose to believe in his works.
• Jesus is a mystic, master teacher, healer, and wayshower for multitudes because he fully embodies and radiates his absolute divinity. He fully embraces his divine heritage as a child of God and aligns himself with God (Divine Father/Mother/Parent) before he acts.
• Jesus knows he is filled with divine life energy and attunes himself to this energy. He knows he’s one with God, always and in all ways. But because the doubters and haters can’t feel their own divinity, they see themselves as separate from God and attempt to diminish Jesus’s authority.
• Knowing his own radiance, his Christ (God) essence, Jesus teaches his followers that they are “lights of the world” (Matthew 5:14). Research on human bioluminescence is now proving this true. Literally, human bodies glow.  As Scientists Daisuke Kikuchi and Masaki Kobayashi at Tohoku Institute of Technology in Japan discovered, humans shine through a process of metabolic reactions and cell respiration which causes light to be emitted from the body in direct, rhythmic ways.
• Unity Minister Rev. William Earle Cameron taught that everyone is a spiritual being and that the mark of your spiritual maturity is how much the Christ (God essence) shines through you. Everyone, he says, “is designed to express God. Our minds can formulate the infinite creative intelligence of God, our hearts can express the fullness of God’s highest attributes—love and goodness,” just as Jesus did.
• Demonstration is your evidence of how well your life works. Your image of God defines your self-image. Likewise, your recognition of who you are—and whose you are—determines your self-worth. If you believe that God is capricious and condemning, or that you were born in depravity as a miserable sinner who must be saved, then you likely face the world this way.  But if you believe that you were born with original blessing, created to shine by a loving, nurturing God, then you can live like that.

Contemplation Questions:

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

• In what ways do I feel separate from God?
  • List, word map, or illustrate the ways.

• What are at least three (3) ways I can feel my oneness with God?
  • List, word map, or illustrate all you imagine.

• What are at least three (3) ways I can shine my light more fully?
  • List, word map, or illustrate all you imagine.

As you use this devotional, remember that the light of God shines through you, as you.  Keep your eyes, ears, mind, and heart open so you can feel more of God’s presence in your life.  Affirm often: “I am a divine child of God, and I am a radiant, shining light in the world.”

© 2025 – Rev. Jennifer L. Sacks – All rights reserved.

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