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A CONSCIOUSNESS FOR EFFECTIVE CHANGE
(A Process Science of Mind Perspective)
By Rev. Dr. Arthur W. Chang
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (Isaiah 43:19)
Creation is eternally going on within that which is Uncreated. All are activities of the One Mind and Spirit of God. All people come to a point of individuality within that which is Universal. (The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes p. 373)
Whether we chose to or not, we will change. Life is a process of becoming for all.
However, we are endowed with a miraculous potential for clear thinking, the freedom to choose our right purpose and the power to guide change for bringing our desire into being. As such is the consciousness for effective change in a supportive universe.
Consciousness is awareness. It makes us aware of the unavoidable given that “Everything changes and ends.” Rather than being a sign of tragedy, change signals creativity, originates from God and is a power endowed in humans for their own constant becoming. Jesus words, “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” make it clear that we bring our vision from thought deeply felt, as novelty to our objective world.
The Book of Genesis gives us the image of God creating by converting the unformed chaos into the world of becoming or change, which means creation is forever occurring. Similarly, this consciousness of our creative power is for creating our world, our experience, regardless of how chaotic our circumstance may presently appear. God’s fundamental aim is for goodness. Therefore, our right consciousness for effective change must be guided by goodness.
Paul, living during the time of chaotic Roman upheaval for the Jews, never lost sight of the consciousness that creates the good we desire. He said, “For God is not the author of confusion but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33). Ages before Paul, the Ancients said similarly, “As thou seest, that thou beest.” Although universal changes are inevitable, this does not prevent desirable personal changes from occurring. In fact, it facilitates them. God is delighted at our successes as a parent is to see a child’s progress.
Our consciousness of change includes process, growth and creativity. Paul expressed this as, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” From dependent child-consciousness, we grow into independent self-responsibility, interdependent self-maturity and spiritual maturity. Life’s objective for goodness is not merely to survive, but to thrive and flourish.
Isaiah’s consciousness is spiritually aware. He says, "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." (43:19). Isaiah is aware of his creative action as we should be of ours. The “I am” of his statement is both God’s name and our personal identity of God’s image we share in consciousness. “Making a way in the wilderness,” is creating order from the chaos of his life. Isaiah also makes “streams in the wasteland,” which is an image of water sustaining the desert of previous lack and limitation. Isaiah understands the world is evolving through a creative process. It uses unchanging universal laws in the constant process of change. Similarly, must we use these laws to fulfill our need to create our desires. The consciousness for such effective change includes thought, power and action.
Isaiah’s call for our attention to see that he is “doing a new thing” is a shared feeling of enthusiasm and encouragement for us all. One person’s good example will inspire hope and faith in others. Furthermore, this consciousness sustains the desirable conditions of “the new thing” despite the unrelenting action of change itself.
A consciousness for effective change then is our gift from God. Our responsibility is to grow it into spiritual maturity. We do so by being aware that God is forever placing good options before us for us to choose freely. Our best becoming at every phase of our growth will come from this. As Ernest Holmes said, “All people come to a point of individuality within that which is Universal.”
You have the consciousness for making effective changes in your life if you will use it.
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