You are a Divine creation of God. Today it is time to explore and value your own divinity.
You can never be separate from that which created you. If you can think of God as the ocean and yourself as a container, you may find it helpful in moments of doubt, or when you feel lost or alone, to remember that you are a container of God. When you dip your glass into the ocean, what you have is a glass of God. It’s not as big or as strong, but it’s still God. As long as you refuse to believe otherwise, you won’t feel separate from God.
Think of a drop of water from the ocean of abundance that’s separated from its source. Separated from its source, that droplet of water will ultimately evaporate and return to its source. The point is that while it’s in liquid form, disconnected from its source, it loses the power of its source. This is the essence of the secret of always treasuring your divinity.
While you’re separated in your mind from your Source, you lose your Divine power, the power of your Source. Just like the drop of water, you too will change form and ultimately return to your Source. As long as you feel disconnected from God, you lose the power of your Source, which is the unlimited power to create, to be miraculous, and to experience the joy of being alive. The drop of water, disconnected from its Divine Source, symbolizes your ego.
Your ego is nothing more than an idea that you carry around with you everywhere you go. This idea tells you that you are the sum total of what you have, what you do, and who you are. Ego insists that you are a separate being, that your personality and your body are your essence, and that you are in competition with every other ego to get your share of the pie, which is limited and finite. Therefore, ego asserts, you must be wary of others who also want all that they feel they’re entitled to. Consequently, ego leads you to believe that there are enemies to be wary of at all times. Since you’re separate from them, you must disdain cooperating with them for fear of being cheated. The result is that you have to distrust everyone!
Your ego also tells you that you’re separate from everything that’s missing in your life, and so you must spend a great deal of energy chasing after what’s missing. Moreover, because who you are according to ego is your body and your personality, you’re separate from God. God is outside of you, a force to fear just like all of those external forces attempting to control you. So you beg this external force to provide you with special powers to overcome all of those other egos who are trying so hard to snare what is rightfully yours.
Your ego keeps you in a constant state of fear, worry, anxiety, and stress. It implores you to be better than everyone around you. It beseeches you to push harder, and to get God on your side. In short, it maintains your separate status from God and allows you to be terrified of your own divinity.
There is no place that God is not. Remind yourself of this every day. It has been said that God sleeps in the minerals, rests in the vegetables, walks in the animals, and thinks in us. Think of God as a presence rather than a person—a presence that allows a seed to sprout, that moves the stars across the sky, and simultaneously moves a thought across your mind. A presence that grows the grass and grows your fingernails all at the same time. This presence is everywhere; therefore, it must also be in you! And if it’s everywhere, it must be in all that you perceive to be missing from your life. In some inexplicable way, you’re already connected to all that you’d like to attract into your life by the presence of this universal, all-powerful Spirit called God.
You may have read about some of the great saints in India. They seem to possess the magical powers of instant manifestation, their presence appears to heal the sick, and they communicate a sense of divine bliss and peace to all those they encounter. One saint was asked by a reporter from the West, “Are you God?” The saint responded without hesitation, “Yes, I am,” to which everyone in attendance seemed stunned. Then after a brief pause, he continued, “And so are you. The only difference between you and me,” he said, “is that I know it and you doubt it.”
You are a piece of God. You are a Divine creation—a being of light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. Your body will depart at precisely the right moment as well. But you’re not that body you behold, nor are you its personality or any of its possessions and accomplishments. You are the beloved. A miracle. A part of the eternal perfection. A piece of the Divine intelligence that supports everything and everyone on this planet. In a world in which this Divine intelligence creates everything, there can be no accidents. Every time you experience fear, self-rejection, anxiety, guilt, or hate, you’re denying your divinity and succumbing to the influences of that insidious ego mind that has convinced you of your disconnection to God.
Author U. S. Andersen wrote an inspiring book many years ago called Three Magic Words. Andersen writes about the ability to become a miracle worker and to live up to the ideal of the promise made by Jesus Christ: “Even the least among you can do all that I have done, and even greater things.” The author doesn’t reveal what the three magic words are until the end of the book, when the reader discovers that the words are “You are God.” Not God in the sense of “above all others and better than everyone else,” but in the sense of being eternally connected to your Source, the ever-present power of love that never abandons you and never runs dry. You can rely on this Source if you remind yourself that it includes you at all times.