In 1st John 4:16 in the King James Bible we find this all-important fact: "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." It is as simple as that. We don't need to do anything more to surround ourselves with goodness than to choose to live our lives in a state of love and peace. But such choosing must be active, not passive. We must consciously choose to start each morning with a prayer of acknowledgement. We must acknowledge the present reality of perfect Love all around us, even when to the material senses there may seem to be sorrow and pain. Just because our habituated human reasoning may try to tell us we are not held in Love's comforting arms, we don't have to listen. If we were told every minute of every day for decades that 2 + 2 = 7, would it ever be so? Even if every person we ever knew or trusted told us that 2 + 2 = 7, would that ever make it so?
Angel thoughts of perfect Love come to us to erase the error that seems to exist in our lives; to erase the false learning and believing that we have allowed to stay in our thoughts so long that we have begun to believe and accept them as our own. But Christ Jesus, over 2,000 years ago, taught us that, "Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free." Just as the truth that 2 + 2 = 4 removes the mistaken addition, so too does quietly knowing and watchfully remembering that we are always living in love remove the pain and the sorrow from our days. We must remember that this perfect Love in which we "...live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28) extends to every corner of creation - every man, woman, child, animal, plant, rock, and star. And we must hold this everlasting Truth close to our hearts throughout each day and night. We must be conscious of our thoughts and be vigilant to prevent the old lie of 2 + 2 = 7 from creeping back in.
No one wants to feel alone and cast out, and no one who dwells in love will ever have to. Living each moment to see and express pure love will lift our lives into the sense of peace we yearn for. Just as a smoker trying to quit may constantly crave another cigarette or the recovering alcoholic may continually be tempted to take another drink, so too our human thoughts, habituated by decades of hearing, seeing, and thinking that pain and suffering are our normal state, may strive to hold the tatters of error close, finding endless excuses to "prove" that love is not all. But thanks to the testimony of Christ Jesus, his apostles, the prophets, and all modern saints, we can refute this lie of the tempter and trust that divine Love will meet our needs.
And as we end each day, we should always remember to be grateful - even if our gratitude is for nothing more than surviving another day. But if we truly have held onto a sense of abiding Love during our day, then we can remember the goodness we felt in our hearts and look forward to more of that Love in the days ahead. Our attitude is important. In Hebrews 10:35-36 we read: "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." So remember the everlasting presence of Love each night as you close your eyes to sleep, and wake to declare: "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Ps. 118:24)
Live in perfect Love. Know the great joy of goodness and peace. Sleep well my brothers and sisters.
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