Absolutely Yours

I thought our readers would be more excited about last month’s post on detoxing – the spiritual approach. Not so. Many confessed that they could do it for one or two days, but not more. A week or month was out of the question. Yet, here I am again, pushing the spiritual detox.

The spiritual detox snatched hope away, and that’s what upset our readers. “Hope, Allen, is natural. If you’re in pain, what’s wrong with hoping for relief? If you were diagnosed with an incurable disease, wouldn’t you hope for a healing? Take my money, take my car, take my wife, but don’t take away my hope.”

For human beings, hope is natural. They couldn’t live without it. But, reader, you are not a human being. Halloween has come and gone. Stop the sham!

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, it’s because you know that God is the only Presence and Power. If you don’t know it, you at least feel the rightness of this Truth. In God’s Allness, only spiritual beings exist, and that’s what you are.

You and God is one. Yes, I took the liberty of using the singular verb is. However, the sentence would be more accurate if I took out the word “and.” Just like the wave of the ocean is the ocean, your Identity is God Identified.

Christ Jesus knew this and proclaimed, “I and my Father are one.” On the heels of that he, declared, “All that the Father has is mine.” Take a minute to ponder those two statements.

In the realization that “All that the Father has is mine,” would Christ hope for health, supply, love, wisdom, or anything? In the realization of Oneness there is no need for hope. What could you hope for when all is already yours (You)?

This is why I’m pushing the spiritual detox. Hope is a denial of your Oneness. Hope is a denial of your spiritual Identity. Hope is a denial of your Godhood. Hope is a lie rooted in separation. It’s based on an assumption that you are separated from God and your good.

Remember, a spiritual detox facilitates God realization, and God realization inevitably reveals Oneness. Is God in pain? Is God in lack? Is God in trouble? You know the answers to these questions, but here is the most important question: As you and God is one Presence, can you be in pain, lack, or trouble?

Can you see that the practical value of a detox is the freeing Truth of Oneness? The realization of Oneness frees you from all that God is not. A popular minister once roused the masses with these three words – “Keep hope alive.” Wonderful words for hopeless humans, but utter twaddle for anyone who professes God is All.

I wrote this post to encourage you to reconsider the Spiritual Detox. Try it for a weekend. Next, try it for an entire week. Once you try it for 30 days, you’ll never hope again.