Living In The Image Of God In Our Daily Lives

Living In The Image Of God In Our Daily Lives

By Bart Sharp

For many the image of god is related to the image of their own limitations.  The mirror that you reflect out to the world is often the same image that you have of your relationship with god.  If you feel underneath god you may see yourself less than others or a punitive god may influence you to create a core of fear in your outlook.

If we look at god is beyond us we miss a connection of god being a part of us.  Or that god is within us.  Or god is an active part within us.  We are an active expression of god.

I like this concept because it holds me to a responsibility to be the best vessel of consciousness to be in communion with the spirit of god.  To honor god requires of me to be the most evolved person I can be here on earth.  That is where the body I am made of originates.  My spirit may come from elsewhere but the body is of earth.

To honor the consciousness of god within me requires that I resolve the common challenges I have on earth before I can go on to greater things.  The issues we all face, anger, shame, fear, guilt, sadness, obsession, depression, narcissism, forgiveness, grace, love and many more.  It is the things that living with limitations has in store for us.

What this perspective creates for me is a grounded ness.  I do not seek god beyond me I listen within.  I do not try to define who god is; I work at communing with the spirit of god.  God is not so much an intellectual exercise with such things as reading but a visceral experience where I feel what it is like to have god in my life and what does god’s spirit feel like?  This perspective does not give me time to worry if others or doing their relationship with god right but hard on the path to discovering my own being in the light of god within me.