Understanding
Understanding: Beyond Knowledge (video)
UNDERSTANDING: The ability to know, perceive, comprehend and apprehend. The disciple THOMAS represents the ability to see beyond appearances to reality. The month is JULY, the corresponding color is GOLD and the location is the front of the brain.
When we understand how to face our problems and when we understand how to respond to them positively, and refuse to give in to panic, bitterness, or self-pity, the adversities that come along to bury us usually have within them the potential to benefit and bless us! Spiritual understanding not only gives us freedom, spiritual understanding is what helps us find the opportunity in every challenge. Spiritual understanding is not an ntellectual power – it comes from our feeling nature. It is the power that assures us that there is a God – it is the power that recognizes our Christ nature, the power that knows that we are beloved children of God. Through spiritual understanding we realize that we are spiritual beings and that we have spiritual powers to develop.
As we grow, our Spiritual Understanding prompts us to grow more. It prompts us to know ourselves, to let go of self-defeating attitudes and beliefs, it
prompts us to strive ever upward. Our Spiritual Understanding prompts us to develop each of our other powers – it’s what helps us know that wisdom without love, or enthusiasm without wisdom, or power without love will not fulfill us.
So, how do we step up into the greater mind, Christ mind? How do we step up into the mind that is like the mind in Christ Jesus? We step up into that mind by quelling our anxious thoughts, by quelling our thoughts of anger and un-forgiveness. We step up to that greater mind by affirming our oneness with God, our oneness with God mind and then being still. We step up into that greater mind by following God’s guidance. We step up into that greater mind by praying with faith and belief.
You might say it is part of our genetic make-up. Every one of us has the ability to step up into the greater mind – and that is really important when we have life challenges. Our inner knowing and understanding tells us that we are beloved children of God. It is the realization that the only thing that separates us from God is us.
Whenever we get that sense or remember we are one with God, we feel at peace, we know that everything is going to be alright and we get a sense of joy. We experience the presence of God. We learn that God is our source – and then we understand that it is this very awareness which is so precious. Because God Is and God Always Is – it is our awareness that changes.