When "God Is All" Stops Being a Platitude and Starts Being Power
I used to think "God is All" was one of those nice spiritual sayings you put on coffee mugs. Pretty, harmless, maybe a little comforting when life gets messy.
Then I started actually considering what it might mean.
If God really is All — not just "really important" or "the biggest thing" but literally the only actual reality — then what does that make everything that seems to contradict divine goodness? What about sickness, limitation, that crushing sense that you're stuck?
This week's Bible lesson doesn't dance around this question. It dives straight in with stories that sound impossible until you realize they're demonstrations of a completely different understanding of what's real.
Take Elisha and the poisoned stew. A bunch of prophets are about to eat something that could kill them. Elisha throws some flour in the pot and declares it harmless. The obvious question isn't "How did flour neutralize poison?" It's "What did Elisha understand about the nature of Life itself that made this possible?"
Or Jesus healing the paralytic. The religious authorities are scandalized that he claims to forgive sins — something only God can do. So Jesus heals the man to prove a point: the same spiritual authority that recognizes sin as unreal recognizes sickness as unreal too.
This isn't about positive thinking or wishful hoping. It's about getting so clear on what God actually is that you stop being fooled by what God isn't.
When the lesson says "God is infinite, the only Life, substance, Spirit, or Soul," it's not making a theological statement. It's pointing to the most practical thing in the world: if this is true, then what you think is limiting you isn't actually real.
I know how this sounds. Trust me, the rational part of my mind has plenty to say about it. But here's what I've learned: you don't have to believe it all at once. You just have to be willing to consider that maybe — just maybe — the thing that seems so solid and unchangeable about your situation isn't as permanent as it appears.
The Psalmist knew something about this: "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." Not a floodlight illuminating the whole journey, just enough light for the next step. And sometimes the next step is simply recognizing that the God who is All includes you, right here, right now, exactly as you are.
That's not a platitude. That's a revolution.
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Elisha faced the poison in the pot today Death seemed real until he heard Truth say "I am Life eternal, nothing can destroy What I have created for eternal joy"
You are the great I AM, the only One What looks impossible is just what's not real Standing on the foundation that will never fail You are the great I AM, and I am whole
What beliefs are binding you in chains of fear? What illusions whisper that God's not here? Time to know the truth of who you really are Child of infinite Love, you've come so far
You are the great I AM, the only One What seemed impossible was never real at all Standing on Love's foundation that will never fail You are the great I AM, and I am whole I am whole, I am whole
