March 20
I Honor the Presence of God
If I honor myself, my honor is nothing; it is my Father that honoreth me…
John 8:54
If I honor myself alone; not realizing that I am one with the divine presence, then I shall quickly exhaust the small portion of good that I, as a human being, can at any moment contain. But if I honor the presence of God in me, of God around and through me, of God in and through everything, then I am indeed honoring the presence of God, for one Spirit is over all, in all and through all, and one presence is all. There can be no separation from this presence, no apartness, no division. It is one, complete and total, equally distributed and everywhere available. To feel this presence in things, in people and in human events, and to sense that it is all-inclusive, really is to honor God and to provide in one’s own self a place where that Divine can go forth anew into creation.
TODAY I am honoring the presence of God. I feel His beauty in the rose-tinted dawn and in the glow of the evening sunset. In the rose I find the loveliness of His beauty. In the mountains I see His strength. In the quiet of evening time feel his presence. And throughout the night I know that this presence overshadows me, therefore I sleep in peace and wake in joy and live in a consciousness of good. Seeing God in others, I enter into companionship with the divinity in all people. In the outstretched hand, in the smile of recognition, and the one life. And so I give thanks with a song in my heart and with a joy unspeakable I give thanks to this presence. May I evermore embrace and be embraced by the love, the beauty and the goodness of God.
Taken from 365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes & Raymond Charles Barker
