Beware of knock-offs
Is New Age still going strong, or did it peak 15 years ago? I’m not entirely sure. The thing about the strategies of the enemy, though, is that the basics tend to be recycled from one form to the next. In addition, they all have elements of the truth.
As Neil described monism – that all is one (are one?) and one is all, the thing I thought of was that in the garden of Eden, God took the dust of the earth and made Adam. From dust we came, and to dust we will return… In a Lion King circle of life type of way, we’re made of the same stuff. But that doesn’t mean there’s a common consciousness I can reach with the world around me – that’s not going to happen.
Speaking about the idea that all is God, I was thinking about the Holy Spirit who lives in us as believers. What an awesome truth – there’s no place I can go that God doesn’t go with me! All is God is a knockoff idea, because if we are all God, God isn’t holy or in charge or special in any way.
As for the moment of realization, instead of thinking that we are God, we come to a moment in which we recognize our need for God. The lie tells us we don’t need redemption; the truth is that forgiveness is within reach. When we lay down the need to be in charge, we gain freedom…
We’ll stay tuned for the next three things tomorrow.
Laying down our lives and receiving forgiveness just in time for Passion Week! Awesome.
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