Dear One,

God — the Greater One — lives in you!  Ugly religion!  People denied closeness to Christ — results in empty, hollow, ugly religion.  Hard to imagine?  Yet still happening in the church — Sunday school class — the pulpit — at home.  Ugly religion floods when more time is spent going over the church ministries new building plans addition than it does the Answer of the suffering.  Ugly religion barks when people are known more for their stand on a world, religious issue than their knowledge, dependence on God — His love.

Ugly religion rears its head as people think Jesus has more important matters than to be bothered by confused, insignificant, hurting people.  Christ’s heart never thought, or talked religiously. Jesus’ heart went to the blind — He stopped to touch their eyes! At once they could see.  At that moment, of all the people — the blind were who really could “see” Jesus.

“For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith” (1 John 5:4).  Yes, God born, overcoming faith says — “I may be in the world, but I am not of the world.  I am of God.  My citizenship is in Heaven.  And while I am in this world, I have the Greater One living in me. Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4).  Great God lives in you! Who is in the world?  The devil — he is called the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4).

What is in the world?  Sin. Ugly religion!  Who is the Greater One living in you, greater than any sin?  The Greater One — Jesus — conquered all sin forever.  What else is in the world?  Sickness — never of God!  Beloved, sickness is never in God or in heaven.  Sickness is in this world.  Trouble — violent impossibilities.  But the Greater One Jesus in you — is Healing.

When faced with world natural thinking — just remember Who is alive, living inside you.  Remember what the Bible says.  I never have to pray about it.  I just look that circumstance right in the face, laughing saying — ”Circumstance — you are under my feet — I have already made it over you, around you — through you — far away from you — because Jesus — the Greater One is alive, living in me!  “Almighty God made me His strong mountain” (Psalms).

As I laugh, rejoicing in God alive in me, that circumstance runs back into the pit of hell, hiding!  Like Job — “My eye has seen the LORD” (Job 42)!  The blind do “see”!