Our Riches in Glory

"Those who would see the witnesses to Truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. Without your special function [forgiveness] has this world no meaning for you. Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven ItSelf." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 26, Section I, 5:1-3

"But I have all, and abound; I am full... my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in Glory." -- The Bible; Philippians 4:18-19

Like everything else in this upside down and backwards world, the notion of wealth and riches has been co opted by the ego, the imagined autonomous self. Wealth and riches have become a symbol of greed and separate, special interests. We have to work, fight, struggle, and grab to get what is ours. And sharing with another separate ego means there is less for us. Do you see how this aberrant idea is mirrored in every aspect of the ego's story? Separate interests, separate lives, separate assets... it's mirrored everywhere.

Nothing could be further from the Truth of God's Kingdom. The Kingdom of Heaven is "an awareness of Perfect Oneness, and the knowledge that there is nothing else; nothing outside this Oneness, and nothing else within." (ACIM; Chapter 18, Section VI, 1:6) But as long as we are caught in the ego story of separate interests, there is never enough. We can't know the Wealth of Our Being, when who we think we're being is a fragment, a little sliver of our True Self.

In the Allness of God our true wealth lies. In the Allness of God there is nothing missing, nothing absent... that's the meaning of Omnipresence. Since we are One with God, the Omnipresent, Omniscient Awareness of Being is IN us in a very real sense... not in an illusory separate body, or in our imagined sense perceptions... but in the Spirit of God that is Our True Self. Being Omnipresent and Omniscient, this Awareness sees everyone and everything as they are, a part of the One Self, and not what they appear to be in the dream of sense perception. In other words, the Awareness of Self sees FROM Being Oneness, AS Oneness.

All-encompassing Love and Goodness without measure is Our True Wealth. As we forgive each separate dream, our awareness returns to Christ, the Oneness that has always been. The living Wealth of God has never left us. Our Riches in Glory are eternal and free.

"Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest... God would make known what is the Riches of the Glory of this mystery... Christ in you, the hope of Glory." -- The Bible; Colossians 1:26-28

"In God's Own Justice does He recognize all you deserve. It is His special function to hold out to you the gifts the innocent deserve. And every one that you accept brings joy to Him as well as you. He knows that Heaven is richer made by each one you accept. And God rejoices as His Son receives what loving justice knows to be his due. For Love and Justice are not different. Because they are the same does Mercy stand at God's right Hand, and gives the Son of God the Power to forgive himself of sin." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 25, Section VIII, 9:5-11