Let It Be Known I AM Not A Religion
When we hear the word God some of us may feel a sense of love, joy, peace, connection to The Divine emerge and for others it may conjure up fear, anger, resentment, aversion, religious trauma, heaviness and even I dare say hatred.
I’ve walked on both sides of the fence around the word God. For me personally the word God used to conjure up a patriarchial bullying sky lord who thought women were an abomination to Him and I wanted nothing to do with “that God.”
However, the more I lean into our Creator, heal, release and hand over the religious dogma and trauma that’s gone on in God’s name the more I come to see God is NOT a religion, a church, a patriarchal sky lord, a hateful and avenging being that believes all His creations are sinners who are going to hell. I personally believe it’s man who has created this bullying image of God based on his/her small narcissistic ego and was created by power-hungry men and institutions to control the masses through fear and oppression.
We’ve created God in the image and likeness of our own small human egos when God is beyond ego, images, labels, pronouns, mental constructs and religious ideologies.
As God taught me recently God is simply the great I AM.
God doesn’t say I AM this religion or that religion. I AM this man or this woman. I AM this church or that church. I AM this belief system or that belief system. God simply says I AM.
I AM that I AM. (Exodus 3:14)
To begin knowing God we have to hand over and release everything we thought, knew or were conditioned about who and what God is and to go beyond the material and into the things that are unseen, unknown to the human logical mind.
Because God is so infinite, indescribable, unlimited and beyond this world I personally believe man created many religions, rites, rules and rituals to make sense of a Creator that cannot be made sense of.
Another name for God to put simply is LOVE. And yet many of us because of religious trauma, dogma, wounding may find it hard to believe our Creator is love when people have done incredibly horrific things in the name of God that were anything but love or loving.
But we have to hand over any baggage we may be carrying about God over to God and ask ourselves to be restored in God’s love, truth, joy, beauty, purpose and provision in Him.
Holy Spirit of God, please break off, dissolve, make obsolete any religious trauma, dogma, abuse, church hurt that I’ve carried in your name, God. Break it all off me God and restore me back into your identity of me God, a child of you who is loved, adored, supported, and taken care of simply because I exist. Please restore me in your love, truth, beauty, purpose and provision for me God. Thank you and so it is. In Christ, Amen.
You have your own connection to The One who created you that doesn’t require a religion, rule book, rites or rituals. Simply sitting down each day in your heart and asking -
God, my divine creator of All That Is, the great I AM. What would you have me know this day?
And listen to what your Creator desires for you to know.
Simple.
Trust
Remember
All is well
Yours in Christ (a.k.a The Highest Love of God)
Ellen xoxo
My sweet child, do not concern yourself with the world and what the world has said about Me or projected about Me to date for much has been created in ego, ignorance and unconsciousness and in this people have forgotten I AM NOT a religion, a church, a sect, a dogma, rite, rule or ritual, I AM the great I AM. I AM the Alpha, the Omega, the beginning and end point of ALL CREATION. I AM Creation in creative flow. I AM all there is and all there ever will BE and all there is, is My eternal, abiding unconditional LOVE. LOVE IS ALL THERE IS. For love created all that you see and do not see. And love is the great I AM. When you abide in Me you abide in LOVE My sweet child. When you abide in love you abide in the great I AM. Anything less than love, is not of Me. - God -
