Vol. 33 No. 38 - I AM the Witness - September 30, 1990
I AM the Witness
I would like to witness to the Word of God through Elizabeth Clare Prophet. All my life, as I was growing up, I tried to read the scriptures and was never able to really comprehend them. Not just read them but really understand them. I found the teachings in 1979 and one of my greatest joys was listening to Mother preach out of the Bible. The Word would come alive and have more meaning than I ever thought possible.
One day, after a Sunday Service in which she had preached out of the Bible, as I was leaving the chapel and walking across the parking lot to my car, a very strange thing happened. I was walking along thinking about what she had taught that day and was not paying much attention to anything else, when a sparrow flew by me right under my nose and missed me by inches. It startled me and I automatically threw up my head. What happened next is very hard to describe but I’ll try.
When I looked up I saw what souls have been trying to describe for centuries. I saw God. Not an anthropomorphic God who sits on a throne, but God in all things. I saw that the sky, the trees, the cars, the very ground itself was alive–it had life, vibration, being. Everything was changed, was vibrant, clear and was God. I realized that it was true: God is All and in all and “in Him is no darkness at all.” Everything that is physical is because He has made it so, for us, to help us to learn to outpicture Him and become all that we really are, His Sons and Daughters.
When this happened I stooped and picked up a stone, held it in my hand and just looked at it. If anyone saw me, I’m sure I looked very strange, standing there, looking at a rock. But I knew the truth that Jesus knew also and stated in Luke 19:40. When the Pharisees told Him to rebuke His disciples he said, “If these should hold their peace, the stones themselves would cry out.” It is true, for I have seen it. That stone I was holding had God, God as Holy Spirit, in it, and it could just as well bear witness of the Son of God as could all of Cosmos.
The Bible also says you should never blaspheme the Holy Spirit and I know why, for it is All, and in all. This is a precious gift that was given to me. It only lasted a few seconds in time, but it is still in my heart, and I am grateful to Mother, who by her love and the Word through her, has opened my eyes not to just the Word in verse, but to the understanding of the Word in me. “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” (John 1:1-3)
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