Our True Independence

On this holiday weekend which is so important to Americans throughout the world, I am reminded about independence and freedom. As a nation, the United States shed its fetters from a tyrannical regime in Britain 233 years ago this weekend. While this weekend is so important for Americans, this can also be a time for everyone in the world to celebrate freedom - the innate freedom from sin, disease and death bestowed upon us by God.

It is written in the Declaration of Independence that we as Americans were endowed "with certain unalienable rights by our Creator - of these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." While we in the United States take great pride and humility from those words, those can certainly apply outside of our borders. Our "Creator" did grant all of us - in the entire world, His divine Kingdom - with eternal life, and liberty, which of course means freedom.

As we are children of God, expressions of God like a mirror image, God has freedom and dominion over all, because he is All. We are ALL expressions, perfect expressions made "in His image and likeness" (Gen. 1), thus we enjoy the same dominion and freedom. We were created free, and only mortal mind restricts our growth, development and progress spiritually.

I submit that this can be a time for all of us to spend time communing with God and presenting our own declaration of independence - declare ourselves innocent and free from tyrannical holds from mortal mind. We know that God is the source and creator of everything, and that everything is "very good" because God, good, created all and is All. He did not create man to be subservient; He declared man and woman to have dominion over all the earth - and all the earth means everything. We are free because we were created that way, and the limited and finite mortal mind keeps trying to limit us and confine us into our corporeal existences, which are temporary.

Like Life, God, we are eternal, and our freedom and liberty are eternal as well, governed, guided and guarded by divine Love. And if we declare our independence from mortal mind and declare God as our only god, we declare war on sin, disease and death which try to hold us down.

And one with God makes a majority. We will win this war, just like our forefathers did all those years ago. The put their mortal lives on the line fighting for a divine Principle. We, now, today, with the help of the Christ, shall and must declare our own independence and our own divine rights, endowed by our Creator.

Happy Independence Day to all!