Now He drew close enough to each of them that they could feel His breath. He breathed on them: Jesus: Welcome the Holy Spirit of the living God.

— John 20:22 The Voice (VOICE)

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God’s Standard

There are certain standards in life that, by common consent, we embrace and take for granted, e.g. Greenwich Mean Time; Weights and Measures. There is yet another standard anterior to these and all else in our daily pursuits; one that we as well take for granted, but all too often ignore; namely God’s Standard of Fullness.

God’s Purity of Soul, breathed into each one of us, is the very essence of His Goodness and His Love, setting a spiritually priceless Standard for all mankind.

God’s Light within, never to be extinguished, is the spiritual guide for all that we think and do. The further our thoughts take us from God’s divine inner Light, the more tenuous our life becomes. It is thus worth all we value in life to keep God’s Standard ever-present within. Only then may we avoid the human dross of life that forever threatens to beset us.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

“So don’t worry and don’t keep saying, ‘What shall we eat, what shall we drink or what shall we wear?’ That is what pagans are always looking for; your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all. Set your heart on the kingdom and his goodness, and all these things will come to you as a matter of course. ” 

— Matthew 6:31-33  J.B. Phillips (PHILLIPS)

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Goodness

I know that Goodness is: 

A spiritual suffusion 

Of Goodness and Love,

Her soul’s immortal Light revealed, 

Her precious being, Purity

And Divine Love, 

Child of God: a gift to all.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

You are like that illuminating light. Let your light shine everywhere you go, that you may illumine creation, so men and women everywhere may see your good actions, may see creation at its fullest, may see your devotion to Me, and may turn and praise your Father in Heaven because of it.

— Matthew 5:16  The Voice (VOICE)

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Lightness of Being

Not always conscious of the fact, we are made a little better each time we express gratitude for that which befalls us. Instantly, our bodily senses transform this act of positive thinking into one that transcends the mind, taking us into the unconscious realm of divine spirituality.

Thus ennobled in this intimate relationship with God, we know a lightness of Being and of love for our fellow-man. 

— Garry D. Kilbourn

For we ourselves have known what it is to be ignorant, disobedient and deceived, the slaves of various desires and pleasant feelings, while our lives were spent in malice and jealousy — we were hateful and we hated each other. But when the kindness of God our saviour and his love towards man appeared, he saved us — not by virtue of any moral achievements of ours, but by the cleansing power of a new birth and the moral renewal of the Holy Spirit, which he gave us so generously through Jesus Christ our Saviour. The result is that we are acquitted by his grace, and can look forward to inheriting life evermore. This is solid truth. Subjects like this are always good and useful but mind you steer clear of stupid arguments, genealogies, controversies and quarrels over the Law. They settle nothing and lead nowhere. If a man is still argumentative after the second warning you should reject him. You can be sure that he has a moral twist, and he knows it.

— Titus 3:5-11  J.B. Phillips

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Spiritual Rebirth … p 113

Spiritual rebirth is a resurrection of the soul. It is a transcendental healing which reacquaints us with our God-given Goodness that we may again become whole.  Doing unto others as we would have them do unto us becomes our abiding providential guidepost.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Real wisdom, God’s wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honour.

— James 3:17-18  The Message (MSG)

 

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Concern For Others … p 113

Fortune smiles more readily on those whose lives are in order: Those of sound moral character whose concern is for others, and whose Goodness abounds.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Elihu continued speaking: "Let me go on, and I will show you the truth. For I have not finished defending God! I will present profound arguments for the righteousness of my Creator.

— Job 36:1-3  New Living Translation (NLT)

 

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Truth … p 112

Truth dwells in the divinely pure soul, our spiritual self. It is an inviolate human characteristic; one akin to Goodness and to oneness with God. Truth is that which we both aspire to and revere.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us. Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth in even within the veil; 

— Hebrews 6:17-19  Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)

 

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At One With Nature … p 112

That we, like all else, are subject to the immutable laws of nature is but affirmation of our oneness with God: He who is life eternal.

— Garry D. Kilbourn