Unity of LO Lesson
A More Wonderful You
By Unity School of Christianity
Our Divine Inheritance
Not long ago a woman with whom I was talking complained to me that although a counselor had been working for her for two months there had not been the slightest improvement in her condition. "I have had this trouble since I was six years old," she said, and then added, shrugging her shoulders hopelessly, "Well, my father had it, and his brothers and sisters, his father's brothers and sisters. All their lives they suffered from this disease."
Throughout the world men and women are looking to their ancestors for their defects and talents, as most of the members of the human family have done through the ages. Heavy-laden with inherited ills are some; puffed up over inherited gifts are others. Slaves to the belief of human parentage, they wail and boast, while down through the centuries rings this command of Jesus:
"Call no man your father on the earth: for one is your father, even he who is in heaven."
Nothing involved or difficult to understand about that, is there? How very clear Jesus made it. Our Father, the only Father we have, is God, Spirit. We are not material but spiritual, the sons and daughters of God, of Spirit. "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ."
When the revelation that God is his true Father, the source of all good, is brought to man, the belief in good inherited from a human parent is given up and man sees that he inherited his good from his divine parent; that he has never inherited anything but good, and that from God. Awakening to the fact that "every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights," man frees himself from the belief of limited good and claims the unlimited good that his Father is forever pouring out for him. He begins to see the things that "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard." Undreamed of talents are revealed.
To most people, giving up the belief in human parentage means something heartless and cruel; a ruthless cutting off of all that is precious, of all that is lovely in one's life. But it means nothing of the sort. The gentlest, the most loving and most compassionate of men, the man whose love was so great that it embraced even those who hated him, was He who said, "Call no man your father." His was not a binding love; rather it was a freeing love. And it is this freeing love, this true love, that man expresses for those who have served him in the human capacity of parents when he gives up the belief in human parentage. Releasing this false belief, he gains a right view of his earthly parents; he recognizes and honors their individuality. Like Jesus, he loves greatly, completely.
Jesus claimed God as His Father and proved His claim by His works. So must we. Jesus laid hold of life and substance that were His divine heritage. We must lay hold of the life and substance that are our divine heritage.
God is our Father. To recognize this is to declare it in our every thought, word, and action. We are His heirs.
FOR MEDITATION
As a child of God I am a free spiritual being I choose to express my Father's perfection.
Majory H. Stageman
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