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We have heard it proclaimed that one must give up the ways of the world or false appetites or some negative human characteristic or way of thinking in order to receive "Christ" or the Spirit of God.  In searching the Bible there is no mention of Mary Magdelene 'giving up' her profession. Rather, the profession changed all by itself once she was touched by the Christ within Jesus. She merely accepted the words of Jesus as being the Truth. When that happens one is made 'white as snow'.

Jesus knew that accepting the Truth that was within his message would free people to their enslavement of mortal law. In realizing his words were the Truth of man and of God, those within the multitudes who received the message as true were, indeed, freed. Freedom from the law of sin and death; this is what people want. This liberty brings peace of mind, peace in households, peace across nations.

Society today insists that one give up his or her 'sin' or be laden with guilt and condemnation. It is not within the power of mankind to give up or to surrender anything. It is the Omnipotence of God that is responsible for all activity that leads one to greater spiritual awareness. It is just God 'being' - leading the human race to upward spiritual awareness of one's own identity. If there is anything at all for a person to 'give up' it would be his human will, but even that is beyond one's own capability. We like to think we're in control but, in actuality, we are not.

Abraham offered his beloved son, Isaac, to God.  How much is one, today, willing to sacrifice his or her child on an alter? How many would take the life of their own child to get closer to God? None. It is only in the willingness to part with the most valuable thing conceived by man that humbles one into realizing they don't have to sacrifice anything. God is pure love. So, our willingness to give up everything only reveals we have to give up nothing, as Abraham discovered.

God is everything there is and everything there is not. The understanding of this statement is accepted by those who are ready to receive grace and for those who are not, their time will be later. But in reality, one never has to sacrifice going hungry or doing without because someone else said that was the way to please God. That is simply not true.  The belief of it being true, however, will continue to enslave mankind to work by the sweat of their brow and to put themselves into poverty, debt, and unhappiness.

Man is a great intimidator and man is a wonderful target for those who practice this method of human control. How often have you heard that by giving your money to God, you will be rewarded in heaven? God does not want nor need money. People need money. It is the way of exchanging goods in a material world. Everything that God is, we have and are. God is fulfillment. God is perfection. God is complete. In the realization that God is within you, and that all of God's fulfillment, perfection, and completeness is within you, then God begins to work in one's life. Until then we are simply blind. "Those who have ears will hear, those who have eyes will see".

People have asked me about tithing and so I have to say that one might tell others to tithe 10% of their income to God. If one wants to give to a church because the church is feeding them spiritual food, then one exchange meets the other and this exchange of monetary substance is necessary to fulfill the mission of the church's work. This is wonderful. But the spiritual interpretation of 'tithing' is to spend 10% of one's time communing with God. That would mean 2.4 hours per day in active meditation or prayer (listening to God) would then enable one to 'walk' with God and 'be one' with God, consciously.

The man called Jesus only wanted people to realize the Truth of their relationship with God, which made him a son of God, and ourselves also. Not a god who was far away and unreachable, but the one God that is 'closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet' as it has been told before. Jesus wanted people to awaken to the Truth that Grace is the natural way of life; that storehouses are already full, that the harvest is already come, that the disease does not exist, that the dark sins of life are really snow white, that what appear to be miracles to the unenlightened person is the natural way of God.

There is nothing to give up to realize this Truth. There is nothing to sacrifice and there is no tithing required.

All is well.