Positive Daily Inspiration – August 21, 2023 – ARE YOU PASTEURIZED?

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ARE YOU PASTEURIZED?

“Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with just judgment.”
John 7:24

Sometimes, ordinary things can teach us extraordinary truths about God and about ourselves. For example, if you were to look inside your refrigerator, you would probably find a carton of milk.

First of all, what you see is not the milk; what you are actually seeing is the vessel that contains the milk. When you see the carton you know and trust that the milk is inside. You associate the carton with the milk. It’s the same with you. When I look upon you, I see a body, a vessel for something much greater.

“Do you not know that you are God’s Temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? For God’s temple is holy, and that temple you are.” I Corinthians 3:16, 17

On the carton of milk it may say, “It’s real.” That, too, could be said of you. You have a possibility of being your true self if you choose to be, of being genuine, not artificial.

Often, we look at ourselves only as a carton, but we are more. We are real, not temporal, but eternal. No matter what shape our carton is in, the inner contents (the soul) has the potential of a state of perpetual perfectness.

On the carton it says, “Grade A.” In the school of life, I believe that God loves you so much that God would desire to give you an A. You might think of some test where you didn’t score well, but you are here today, better for the experience. Each person handles life to the best of his or her ability to do so, and the more we rely on God’s ever-present help, the more A grades we will acquire in this classroom that we all reside in called life.

The milk is pasteurized. We, too, are pasteurized if we live the Jesus Christ way of life. It is a past-your-eyes — a looking-beyond the appearance type of life, looking beyond something that is in your life right now. Instead of allowing a challenge to defeat you and bring you down, you know that you can go past it. You know that you can move mountains with God’s help, because that which is within you is greater than the world.

Do you know what the most negative statement ever made is? It is, “I’ve got to see it before I can believe it.” Let’s change that around to, “I’ve got to believe it before I can see it.”

Pasteurizing involves heating milk to a temperature of between 131 and 58 degrees Fahrenheit to destroy all harmful bacteria. Christianity says that that can happen inside of you, too. There is an allegory of the cleansing fire, the purification that happens to us. It can happen in an instant inside your life. The heat of a God-centered life transmutes the negativity inside of us, and we go through a purification process toward a total, complete cleansing.

Are you pasteurized? You become “pastor-ized” when you turn to God with your total being. That is what it’s like to be a minister — a pastor. It is that point in our development where we get out of the way and do good things for other people. We let God’s love shine through us to humankind. All milk is homogenized. Homogenized is something we too must strive for. It means blending together or atonement (at-one-ment): wholeness, at one with God, at one with each other. Love is the homogenizing process. Love is a creative energy that comes from God and flows through us to bond us together for the good of humankind. We are praying at Positive Christianity that the whole world becomes homogenized in God’s pure love.

Our milk carton state that vitamins A and D are added. We too must add vitamins A and D to our daily life. What are vitamins A and D? Vitamin A in your life is the (A)ffirmative prayer vitamins. The vocal prayer vitamin of positive affirmation affirms the truth of God even when our eyes cannot yet see it.

Example: I may have a sickness in my body, but looking past my eyes I affirm in prayer that, with God’s help, I can again be in absolute health and wholeness. I am immersed in a God of perfection that is not sick, that created me, re-creates me, and gives me life and health, continually.

As I affirm that truth of God, the idea feeds my body and it spreads throughout my mind in my belief system. This type of prayer is pure faith in God and it produces perfection in my living, changing carton of life.

Then, I add to my life vitamin D the vocal prayer vitamin of denial. I deny and say no to old fear-based, doubting belief. Jesus says let everything you say, say Yay Yay (Yes Yes), or Nay Nay (No No). We have the power to say no to lack-of-faith thoughts. We have the power to say no to worry. Old thoughts occupy valuable space in our life. Our minds must have a mental housecleaning to bring in the fresh new ideas of God’s truth. We can say yes to the ideas that we desire and no to old limiting thoughts. We deny that old beliefs have any power over us because God is with us. With God’s power, we deny worry and fear the power to destroy our lives. Let’s clean out our “thought house” so we can better receive the Divine ideas of God.

I hope we all become dairy farmers, but with a spelling like this: D A R E – Y – to dare to go beyond the norm in our lives. To dare to go beyond what we thought to be true about ourselves, yesterday. To dare to be great to produce a life that is real, pasteurized, and homogenized “Grade A,” with vitamins A and D added.

As you begin to envision life “past-your-eyes,” life will churn out good for you! __________________________________________

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, I was blind but now I see. My vision is
not with my physical eyes but with my faith.
I am very thankful that I no longer am blinded by appearances.

Thank You God!

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION:

I know, see, hear, and speak only God’s truth to myself and others.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE:

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
Lewis Carroll

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