UV 220 the universe within

Uni-verse 222/10,000 For better through verse Psalm 103 v 1
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.


Our inner self or our soul is a reflection of the diversity of the universe itself. "All that is within me" includes our goals, dreams, desires, hopes, abilities, fears, weaknesses, thoughts, emotions, decisions, plans, motives, words, actions, beliefs, habits, attitudes and memories. We need to acknowledge, bless and praise God who invested such a diversity in us in and with all these aspects of our lives. What goes up as praise and thanksgiving returns as blessing.

We, generally, take the working of our internal organs for granted. We wait till any of these suffer a breakdown before we remember the Creator. We need to praise God for the "big five" and the amazing way these work round the clock and keep us healthy and alive: the heart, lungs, brain, kidneys and liver. In fact, my meditation on how wonderfully the heart works all the time untiringly and unceasingly, led me to think of the concept of thinking God's thoughts all the time imitating the working of the heart. I said to myself," How do I create a system of thinking that will keep my mind working consistently on a fixed pattern or rhythm like the heart?" This thought gave birth to the idea of equilibrium thinking.

The Psalmist says, " Praise God with understanding." We need to understand how finely configured the universe is and how " fearfully and wonderfully" we have been made. The description " fearfully and wonderfully made" means that we are an assembly of several fragile and intricate balances. When we constantly praise God for all that is within us in the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual dimensions, these balances and the balances in our relationships and work get blessed or strengthened to fulfill the purpose that God has ordained for us.


Prateep V Philip