The Only God

"Jesus Christ is the only god. And so am I. And so are you."

-- William Blake

Leave it to good old Billy Blake to really get the Christians in an uproar. You gotta love the guy. Mostly you've got to love him because he's right. Jesus has no more legitimate claim to Divinity than you or me. He's just got better PR.

The one Numero Uno Truth is that we are all One. If you want to name that Oneness "God," be my guest. We are all part and parcel of It. No one is more God more than anyone else. It's merely that some people, like Jesus, are more aware of their own divinity, than say the bum on the street corner is. It's a matter of consciousness, not divinity. Bum=unconscious God. Jesus=conscious God. You and me= somewhere-in-between, semi-conscious God.

The only God is each of us and all of us. We can't become more God. We can become more conscious. It's the difference between Spirit and soul. As the old song tells us, "We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord." Spirit is always One, always God. Soul is our individual becoming. It is the realm in which we consciously grow our awareness of our spiritual Unity. That's why some people are very soulful, and others have this weak, puny, anemic soul energy. The 98 pound soul weaklings just haven't developed their mojo, haven't grown the energy of consciousness that is within themselves.

Today is Soul Growth Sunday, the Sunday before Presidents Day each year. OK, I just made that up, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be. Lord knows we could all use some soul growth in the midst of a long, cold winter!

So, beginning today, open consciously to your own Divinity. Don't continue to "play small," as Marianne Williamson calls it. See Jesus not as the one and only God, but as a soul pioneer, as someone who has traveled the path ahead of you, and has sent back travel tips from the great soulful beyond. Know in your Spirit that you are always and already God. Experience in your soul the growing, personal embodiment of that awareness. Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, bum, you, me, everyone -- all one God.