WHICH ART IN HEAVEN

 WHICH ART IN HEAVEN

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

February 5

 

Having clearly established the Fatherhood of God

and the brotherhood of man, Jesus next goes on

to describe the fundamental facts of existence.

It is the nature of God to be in heaven,

and of man to be on earth because God is Cause,

and man is manifestation.

Here heaven stands for God or Cause,

because in religious phraseology heaven is

the term for the Presence of God.

The word earth signifies manifestation,

and man's function

 is to manifest or express God as Cause.

In other words,

God is the Infinite and Perfect Cause of all things;

but Cause has to be expressed,

and God expresses Himself by means of man.

Man's destiny is to express God

 in all sorts of glorious ways.

To express means

 to press outward, or bring into sight.

Every feature of your life is really a manifestation

or expression of something in your soul.

Since it is misunderstandings about the relationship

of God and man that lead to all our difficulties,

it is worth any amount of trouble

to correctly understand that relationship.

Trying to have manifestation without Cause

is atheism and materialism,

and we know where they lead.

"Our Father which art in heaven."

 

“as God hath said, I will dwell in them,

and walk in them.”

2 Corinthians 6:16