The Power of Life
Let your divine life shine!
Affirmation: I am filled with life, sweet life.
Life—The ability to energize and animate.
The disciple is Judas. He represents the cleansing of selfishness, allowing the life force to flow to every part of the body.
The corresponding color is red, and the location is the reproductive organs.
Claim God’s Gift of Life
By Winifred Wilkinson Hausmann
(excerpted from Your God-Given Potential)
Many people, in considering the 12 disciples and the powers they represent in life, would like to forget about Judas Iscariot, the man who betrayed Jesus Christ. But Judas had a necessary role in the Messiah story, and the quality he represents—life—plays an important part in our development of the perfect-person idea.
Even though Judas committed suicide after he betrayed Jesus, he wasn’t out of the picture completely. After the Resurrection, the other 11 disciples met and chose a successor to Judas to bring their number back to 12. So the faculty of life, operating on a higher plane, continues to work with the powers for the lifting up of the whole being …
In developing our God-given potential, we cannot ignore Judas. We must learn to recognize his weaknesses and limitations and cope with them by lifting the life idea to a higher plane of consciousness …
Awaken Your Own Radiant Energy
All people are expressing the life idea to a greater or lesser degree, but only those who are keeping this power under the direction of the Christ can enjoy the fullness of life that is their God-given potential. We are to experience life as an idea that not only enriches the soul, but also lifts up the physical body into a perfect expression of the pattern God implanted in it from the beginning …
Life works best when it is able to flow throughout the whole being as radiant energy, devoted to the Christ activity and governed by the Christ wisdom and order.
It takes much cleansing to refine the life idea in soul and body. The selfishness and acquisitiveness of Iscariot must be purified. Life must learn to draw its own sustenance from the universe freely and easily, without the covetousness and hostility that close it in and limit it.
Life works best when it is able to flow throughout the whole being as radiant energy, devoted to the Christ activity and governed by the Christ wisdom and order.
Never deny the life idea or think of any part of your body as unclean. Rather, awaken the life faculty at its center and then feel its animating action radiating through all the cells and atoms of your being as a greater expression of God. This is the way in which death of the physical body will finally be overcome.
A Meditation on the Power of Life
By Rev. Bronte Colbert
Today I celebrate life around me and as me. I am a unique, valued expression of the Divine as I walk in the world. I delight in the wonders of my daily experience: the intricacies of a dragonfly, the romping laughter of children, the crash of thunder.
I breathe in life, and I am energized by Spirit. I am vital, upbeat, and at one with the life force!
I accept the gifts life offers me. My mind and heart are receptive to the blessings of abiding peace, abundant prosperity, unconditional love, glowing health, and unlimited creativity.
Today I let my light shine brilliantly. I anticipate and welcome opportunities to give and to be a blessing. As I expect and look for the best in others, I become even more aware of the spark, the light of the Divine, reflecting from them.
Affirm: I choose to live my life as a loving, harmonious, delight-filled experience.