by Robin Volker

We stand away from God, yearning to be close and re-united.   It has been that way since the beginning of time.   Today, we are learning that God is here – right here – with us, in us, being us in every way, every day.

This Sunday, we begin a metaphysical look at the Ten Commandments.  These ancient laws give us the gist of the whole Bible.   They teach us the laws of life.   If we can understand them and apply them in our every day existence, we can become masters of our lives.   To see and feel and experience beauty and depth of the Bible, we must go beyond the fundamental, literal interpretation.   There is no problem that cannot be solved, not any aspiration that cannot be fulfilled once the underlying meaning is absorbed and made a part of our thinking. 

The deliverer of the Ten Commandments was Moses.   Moses was one of the great leaders of the human race.  He was one of those people who really made history. Everything about his life is significant.   Before we begin our study of the Ten Commandments, we need to know a little bit about Moses. 

Metaphysically, the name Moses means "drawing out."* Moses' birth represents a new development in the thinking of humankind.  Out of the negative conditions of Egypt, great possibility came.  This is significant to us as Truth seekers because we sometimes go to Egypt, "the place of worry, restraint, misery, tribulation, and distress."* It is in these times of weakness and uncertainty that we can become teachable and ready for a higher understanding.   These paralyzing thoughts of inferiority or trouble or sickness or disease are trying to keep our Christ light under a bushel, or even snuff it out.  But when we take our infant thoughts of Truth, hold them, cuddle them, and protect them, they grow and mature and become capable of doing great things. 

Moses' life symbolizes this same pattern of spiritual growth time and time again.   He grew and learned in the royal Egyptian court.  He went to the temple (the university) and studied the priesthood.  He had failings and shortcomings and ran away to the Horeb, which means place of solitude, where he tended the sheep and became more deeply aware of the inner God, the Divine I AM. 

In our time in the silence, we find this same sweet communion with Spirit.   And the power that is released within us can move us to release our daily thoughts from the bondage of self.  We can release our inability to follow-through on God's bidding and our fears of our own inadequacies.   

With each phase of Moses' life, he was drawn forward in consciousness.  He was a manifestation of new ideas continually coming forth into expression.  He brought those ideas out of bondage in Egypt, through the trials and tribulations of the wilderness, and to the edge of the Promised Land.  He represents discipline and commitment to the experience of finding one's true relationship with God. 

This week, I encourage you to think of Moses.  How are you like him?  What can you learn from his efforts and his story?  Where are you in your journey of consciousness?   When God speaks to you through the light of your own intuition (the burning bush), are you assured it is the flame of wisdom that is the voice?  And when God says, "Go!" will you hear, as Moses did, God say, "I will be with you"?  Think on these things for the God that spoke to Moses is just as alive in you today, and God is able to do mighty things in, through, and as you.