Magnify God’s presence.

October 10, 1981

God is with you individually and corporately, and we see God’s light around you brightly and with great warmth. We, too, bathe in that light. 

God’s light is a beam of energy which controls all matter, not just human life. It governs the heavens which are visible, and matter which is far beyond any human understanding. Science, in its search for truth, draws back the cloud of mystery which surrounds life. It seeks to reveal what lies just beyond your reach, but it is not clairvoyant. There is indeed a limit to what science can achieve. It is a finite goal. God determines what we can see and what you may know. The expansive reality of all that is is so far beyond what humans can even dream of, let alone achieve in understanding. 

There is a belief that the universe expands. It is true that the bodies which are visible through scientific means are expanding in distance away from your point of vision, but what lies beyond has no end and, therefore, cannot expand. It is infinite. It is present, tangible. There is matter which has mass, there is energy, and there is life. It is not a life resembling human life, but it is a form of life which is a creation of God. God rules all; all is a part of God. The universe therefore is a single entity. It is all one. Each of you is a part of that one. 

Each of you, as we have stated before, is related to one another, but you are not more closely related to each other than you are to all that is. All that God creates is equal. There is nothing more important in creation—all is equally important. The stone, the speck of dust, the human, the galaxies are all the same to God, but each of you experiencing an earthly life has a uniqueness which separates you in character from the rest of creativity. That uniqueness is the potential for an awareness of God as the creator of all that is. It means that you have a special relationship to God. It does not mean that you are more special to God than all else. 

For many years scientists firmly believed the heavens to rotate around the earth as its center. This you know to be untrue, but many believe that human life is a kind of center which dominates God’s presence. That, too, is untrue. What is beyond the comprehension of humanity is that God is involved with every aspect of existence equally as much as God is with human life. 

You know that life in human form is blessed by the presence of a soul. It is the soul which is so unique to human life. A stone does not contain a soul. A galaxy or a speck of dust is not in itself a soul—only human life. The divinity which is a part of each of you is that soul and each of you understands this. But we see humanity in a tremendous turmoil when it senses that events take place beyond the control of God. Nothing occurs beyond the view of God, but likewise not all that transpires is the action of God. Much which happens is the result of the human condition. 

God wishes for us to transmit to you a keen sense of stability within your lives, stability which is maintained despite all that revolves around life. If you accept that all that is is from God, and if you accept the reality of a universe which truly is infinite in its reach but totally within the view of God, then you cannot accept the belief that in some way God is not in control. It is therefore an illogical assumption. Stability in your lives must center on the recognition that whatever happens, God is present. Whether the crises are personal, global or cosmic, it is all within the view, within the light and embrace of God. 

Stability, therefore, in each of your lives can only fully be achieved by a complete acceptance of God’s presence and the recognition that if it is God’s desire, God can always intervene. God can always alter the direction of events. You must therefore accept all that happens as being somehow within the framework of God’s ultimate control. We do not mean that you should be fatalistic and make no attempt to intervene yourselves when such opportunities are presented, for in God’s great presence and master plan, if such a term is helpful to you, it is God’s desire that each of you become involved. Your involvement is affected by your knowledge of God. It is directed by God. As you grow in your awareness of God’s presence, you will find direction to your actions. You will find indicators which guide your involvement. 

It is not by accident that you are growing so strongly in your awareness of God. It is God’s design. God has brought you to a condition where you could choose to be aware of God. The next move is yours, but the growth which you experience, the messages which are received, are only because God has chosen to place you in a position from which you can receive if you choose to. That is what God controls—the placement of your lives within this light. 

Your soul responds to God in varying ways. Souls which are strongly developed feel God’s light most intensely and guide their human forms. Those more distant have greater difficulty in guiding human life. But God knows the strengths of each person’s soul, and therefore the potential each has for responding to God. 

Stability is such a response. It is the means by which you become empowered to reflect God to others. You become a leader, as it were, encouraging others to find God, opening eyes so that others may see more clearly. This stability, this recognition of God’s omnipresence, has within it the potential of directing your life in such a way that you can effect changes on a vast scale in the world. Therefore, when you observe chaos, when you see tragedy, when you recognize suffering and fear, be committed to the fact that in you God has given all that is needed for you to radiate stability and magnify God’s presence in the world. You are not powerless. You are not specks of dust blown by the wind.

The events of life, whether personal or of a larger scope, do not ultimately control you, for God has given you the means of response. Your response must always be centered on love and never a show of strength as perceived by so many. Love is far stronger than words or any other power. Love is the generation of action. Love is the guiding light which directs your response to life around you. 

It is love that defines the power of God in the universe. It is love that we see as light. Your faith is an expression of love. When we describe our vision of you as various colors of light, that faith which is seen through the light is a manifestation of your ability to love. Therefore, to achieve your sense of stability in life, your ability to face all that happens, you must center your thoughts on God as love. 

Since each of you is divine, each of you has that capacity for love. It is your love that dictates your response. It is love which allows you to pursue a steady course in a rough sea. It is love which empowers each of you to build another, to help another, to strengthen another’s spiritual growth. 

Our concept of God may at times seem more scientific, and at the same time we emphasize the limits of science, but you must remember that in our attempts to bring you closer to God, we must use concepts which hold within them specific meanings in your lives. Be committed more to the vastness of God’s love than to a specific understanding of the nature of the scientific universe, for the vastness of God is the outreach of love. You are all a part of that outreach. Each of you is a part of God’s arms that embrace creation, but you are at the same time a very part of that creation. 

God is with each of you. God responds to all that you pray, for your prayers are an act of faith. Your prayers are generated by love for God. That is the response of your souls. Rejoice that you have such knowledge of God, and seek ways of building upon that knowledge through its application. Accept that which happens as being within the view of God and recognize the responsibilities each of you assumes for the betterment of life around you. Do not feel tossed when the seas are rough. Be aware of a steady rudder and be assured of a safe journey, for that is the will of God. 

God blesses each of you with this vision and God’s presence and blinding light which obliterates all darkness. 

Amen.