Matthew 22:32 Meaning I Am the God of Abraham

The Source is named as belonging to those long gone, and the point is that they are not gone at all. Life in God is not a memory of what once was but a present fact, for what love creates cannot die, only seem to sleep. A mind that believes death is real has merely fallen asleep to its own changeless being.

So the God of the living is the truth that nothing real has ever been lost. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are movements of one changeless mind, and to name their Source the God of the living says that mind is never touched by death.

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: successive stages of the one mind, each held living and unbroken in its Source. God of the living: the truth that what love creates cannot die but only appear to sleep.

It is said I am, not I was. The divine is never found in the past, among names and memories and things that have gone. It is the living presence of this moment, the aliveness you can feel right now moving in your body and looking out through your eyes.

God is not the God of the dead but of the living, and you can verify this directly. The sacred is not a figure remembered from long ago or a concept the mind holds. It is Life itself, the Being that is present only ever now. When you turn your attention to the aliveness of this present moment, you meet the very reality all those names were reaching toward.

The one power at the root of a person moves through 3 ascending stages of the same awakening life, the faith that begins it, the joy that follows, and the striving that carries it up the ladder. These are not 3 dead ancestors but 3 living conditions active in anyone now, each a rung the inner life stands on.

That power belongs only to what is awake and moving, never to the inert. The buried, unconscious states in a person are outside its reach; it lives only where consciousness is alive and rising through its stages.

Abraham: the opening stage of the awakening life, the faith that begins the inner ascent Isaac: the middle stage, the laughter and joy that rises once faith takes hold Jacob: the highest stage, the striving self that wrestles its way up toward the higher