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There is another thread which could be
called abundant life, just as in the fifth day of creation where it says, "Let
the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life" (Gen
1:20). If in some way we have complied with those first four laws, we are now
coming forth from the Principle that is Life; we are not labouring any more to
get there, but are coming forth freely from the source. The limits are off! It
is as though instead of us sitting here saying, Please God, send me abundant
goodness, we find that we are dwelling right at the source of abundance rather
than just at the receiving end.
We come forth from Life itself. God is
Life. Mrs Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, had a student
who was suffering from a liver disease, and she is reported to have healed him
when she explained to him, 'God is Life, and you are the liver.' It sounds like
a play on words, but it is a spiritual truth. God is Life and Life is living
us; we are the livers of Life.
You see this clearly in the life of Jesus
in the New Testament His secret for the abundant life was that he was willing
to lay any sense of life as being his own possession. "I lay down my life that
I might take it again" (John 10:17). He gave up all sense of 'mine,' and took
up the unlimited sense of abundant life. It seems natural to us to think of my
life, my income, my hopes for the future, my home, my substance, my friends, my
abilities, but they are limited if we think of them as 'mine.' If I rule out
that word "my" then I have Life's life, Life's abilities, Life's abundance;
there is no limit. I have laid down my life that I might take it again.
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