"ONEness is a state of Being."

Ever since I was in the sixth grade I have loved to watch the waves come off the ocean and on to the shore. The waves that do this are called "breakers" as opposed to waves that are " a wind driven ridge or swell of water at sea." A breaker is a wave that is "a moving mass of liquid on the surface of a larger mass." Breakers make their way toward shore from a very long way out at sea. I have painted and drawn these waves several times over the years, and have only recently come to understand why:

A wave is one with the ocean, and even though it is a wave unto itself, it is still one with its Source. Its Selfhood is the ocean; and every other wave is a wave expressed individually, but they are all part of the whole. The wave is an expression of the ocean: The ocean is the wave expressed. Whatever the ocean is the wave is. The life of the wave is the life of ocean and they are not two but one; one ocean expressing and manifesting itself as waves. So are you one in Christ in God. You are that point where God has stepped down out of the invisible and become visible, as Christ Jesus was the Word made flesh.

I have had in me a desire to paint the perfect wave and have tried to do so with little success. The reason is: the ocean is God and the perfect wave is Christ; so, now instead of all the waves trying to be the perfect wave they can rest in knowing the perfect wave has made the way for them to follow. We don't have to be the perfect man, Christ Jesus is that, we just have to follow in the Way to life that He said He was. Our perfection is in Christ, but we must wake up to this truth.

We are one with God like the wave is one with the ocean. This is why Jesus taught us to take no thought (Lk. 12) about our natural lives; but rather, just do what we see the Father doing. It is our Father's good pleasure to give us the kingdom. The wave doesn't have to take thought about its path, it just flows in union with the ocean it is absorbed in. This is truly living by Grace. Thy grace is my sufficiency.

If we are going to live, and I mean really live, out of the Reality of who we be, then we must have faith and confidence in what is true of us. Now I am not talking about blind faith, faith in faith, or faith in what we don't know; I'm talking about a faith in who God IS in us, who Christ IS in us, who we ARE in Him. A speaking of the Truth in love, knowing that "He performeth the thing that is appointed for me" -Job 23:14. Do you believe that He goes before you to make the crooked places straight? Do you? Do you believe? You believe the sun will come up tomorrow don't you? Do you have to make yourself believe this? Or, do you just have faith that the sun will rise as scheduled...without taking thought about it? I think so.

Do you believe that "The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me" -Ps. 138:8. You should! Because it is true, but you will not experience it until you do not doubt. The other kind of a wave is a wind-blown wave. It is driven this way and that way by all the seeming forces. A storm of trouble comes our way and we are driven to the brink of disaster because we don't have faith. "O you of little faith." The natural man is of little faith, but, the Inner Man is of great faith, for he knows how to speak to the storm. He calls the storm what it is...a lie. "Peace, be still," and the lie of human problems calms down to a peaceful experience.

Oh, dear brethren, if we could only see the Truth of our existence, the Reality of our Being, we would not be afraid. "Be not afraid, it is I. " We must hear this from deep within our being. There the still small Voice is speaking to us. There we must go within and enter into the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, the realm of Reality; and from that place we can live and move and have our being. We will follow the Lamb wherever He goes, and another voice we will not hear. We will not listen to the voice of the stranger, the outer man with his lusts of the flesh, the wolf of our carnal thinking. Rather, we will hear the Lamb, and the wolf will lay down with the Lamb. There, crucifixion of the self will be seen and only the New Creation will come forth. We will be living out of the reality of our being and all will be well. It is well. It is well. Can you hear?

"But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine." Isaiah 43:1, KJV. Thou art Mine, what a powerful statement. If I am His, what do I have to fear? To fear would be to sin, to miss the mark of faith. Fear is the opposite of faith. It is a belief in another power other than God. It is having other god's before Him. Thou shall have no other God before Me: Thou shall believe in no other powers other than Me. God is the One and only Power and He is in you.

Do we not know that we are complete in Him who is the Head of all powers in heaven, on the earth, and under the earth. If we will know the truth the truth we know will make us free from the law of sin and death. The way up is down, and the higher we ascend into the Truth of our being the deeper we go within.

"For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority." Colossians 2:9,10, NRSV. You have come to FULLNESS in Him. Do You hear? Your fullness and your completeness is in Christ in God, and where is He to be found...within you. Seek Him where He may be found.

"Fear not, I have overcome the world." There is a Power within us that is greater than all temporal powers, greater than all human beliefs of good and evil, greater than all devils and doctrines of demons; and this Power is Christ in you, the Reality of your Being. Relationship with that I, with that Christ, who IS our life, is the key.

"For in Him we live and move and exist, as also some of the poets among you have said, For we are also His offspring." Acts 17:28, GLT.

RHM 2001