Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD–that you alone
are the Most High over all the earth (Psalm 83:18 NIV).

The New Age Movement is very attractive to the natural man who
has become disillusioned with organized religion and Western
rationalism. He desires spiritual reality but doesn’t want to
give up materialism, deal with his moral problems, or come under
authority.

I’ve discovered six unifying factors in New Age thinking. We will
consider three of them today and three tomorrow.

The first is monism–the belief that all is one and one is all.
It says we all swim in one great cosmic ocean. History is not the
story of humanity’s fall into sin and its restoration by God’s
saving grace. Rather, it is humanity’s fall into ignorance and
the gradual ascent into enlightenment.

Monism is a counterfeit to the unity Jesus prayed for in John
17:21. That unity is possible only when we are united together in
Christian fellowship.

Second, all is God. If all is one, including God, then one must
conclude that all is God–trees, snails, books and people are all
of one divine essence. A personal God is abandoned in favor of an
impersonal energy force or consciousness, and if God is no longer
personal, He doesn’t have to be served.

New Agers say, “When I was a little child, I believed in God.
When I began to mature, I stopped believing in God. Then I grew
up and realized that I was God.”

A third unifying factor refers to a change in consciousness. If
we are God, we need to know we are God. We must become cosmically
conscious, also called “at-one-ment” (a counterfeit of
atonement), self-realization, god-realization, enlightenment, or
attunement. Their faith has no object, neither does their
meditation, so it becomes an inward journey. To us, the essential
issue is not whether we believe or mediate, but who we believe in
and what we meditate upon. We believe God and meditate upon His
law day and night.

Lord, I affirm that I am nothing, can do nothing, and will amount
to nothing apart from You. You are the object of my faith and
life today.

This daily devotional is published and distributed by
http://www.GOSHEN.net/ . It is written by Neil Anderson at
http://www.freedominchrist.com/ .