Sunday, August 18, 2024

Emulating the Divine Qualities

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 18, 2024

The minute I ask myself, if God is everything and I am therefore God, why don’t I act like it? I see that I answer that question through a filter.

If I value power, then I’ll see God as all-powerful and I’ll want to be all-powerful too. That’ll be my filter.

If I see God as all-bountiful, then I may pursue wealth.

But if I see God as the epitome of the divine qualities, then I’ll consider the question through that filter.

I may not escape seeing God through a filter, but I can choose the filter.

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I choose to see God through the filter of the divine qualities – humility, modesty, honesty, compassion, etc.

What is “godlike” like for me? Like the divine qualities.

What then stops me from acting like the God that I am and you are and we all are?

Nothing. I have no resistance to emulating the divine qualities. I might have resistance to other things, but I know the value of them from experience. So no resistance there.

Having walked myself through this process and arriving at this conclusion, I feel no further inner conflict over why I don’t act like the God that I am. I’ve cast my vote.

As long as I’m emulating the divine qualities, I am acting like the God that we all are. And I know the value I get from emulating them.

They – peace, love, bliss, etc. – are reward unto themselves so that emulating the divine qualities carries its own reward while carrying us further along on our path overall (some say speeding us along).

Now it’s just a matter of practice.

Steve Beckow