It's Simple But It's Not Easy!!
I believe that many of us have the idea that the Laws of the Universe (Divine Law) are almost impossible to understand by the average person and that they are best left to theologians and professors of philosophy.
We may have gotten this deep seated belief from being told that "God Works In Mysterious Ways" by a priest, minister or rabbi. They use this bromide as a way of answering the 3 toughest questions that any clergyman faces in his or her daily work.
These are: Why does God allow such suffering in the world, if He loves us unconditionally? Why did God kill thousands of little children in the Tsunami ? (earthquake, hurricane, war - you fill in the blank) or Why did God take my little child? And the big one: Does God hear my prayers and how do I know if He will grant my request?
Did you notice as you read these questions that they are all asking the same thing? "Why doesn't God protect us from all the bad things that can happen in this life? Isn't He here to be our Parent and wouldn't any good parent take care of his children?" Your clergyman may know the true answer to these questions but may not share it for fear of destroying your faith in the Parent God of your childhood teaching. Your minister, priest or rabbi knows all too well that it is faith that does the work. Faith is the greatest power in the Universe, it empowers us to do that which might well be impossible "in the natural", logical world.
The day that you put the Parent God away in the same way you put away the toys of childhood, that is the day that you will finally understand how God operates the Universe and how Divine Law works. On that day, you will move from a little God of spite, anger, caprice, reward and punishment to the Most High God who is the Mind behind all Creation. The real God is so much more, so vast as to beggar human understanding.
Our minds understand boundaries, limits and things that begin and end. Understanding that the true nature of God is an Intelligence without a beginning, without an end and that is everywhere present all at the same time takes a lot of spiritual maturity. There is nothing wrong with God, the fault lies in your "little concept of God". God is so much bigger than you can imagine!
God is mysterious to us only because God and his Law are so magnificent that we have a very hard time comprehending a Mind totally unlimited by time or space. God's Mind moves with a thought; it creates with a Word and it loves in such a pure, unconditional manner that there is no human equivalent. God was never born and will never die - God just is! God is the eternal life force that existed before the beginning of time and before all that is - and will exist beyond forever. You and I and everything in this Universe are to God as the cells of your body are to you. We are part and parcel of God, one and the same - different only in scale but not in substance or nature.
God, before the beginning of time, instituted with a thought a series of Laws, both physical and spiritual that are immutable (unchangeable), predictable, constant, and can be depended upon. The operation of these laws can be observed and predicted with absolute certainty. This is the essence of science, thus our philosophy is called Science of Mind or Religious Science.
There is no chance or randomness, no parent God to please, no reward or punishment. God is not in the reward, punishment or protection business. You might ask, why have a God at all? God is in the Law and Creation business. He provides the plans and the materials but it is our job to build the house! If the house falls down due to shoddy construction (lack of trust or faith), that is not the architect's fault or the building material supplier's fault - it is the contractor's responsibility and that contractor is us.
God has given us the intelligence, the mind which is His Mind in microcosm, in order that we may build the life that we desire and that we expect. It is not God's business to question our choice; that is the whole purpose of Free Will, that we may choose no matter how wise or how foolish the choice. We are not punished for our choices but we must live with the consequences for good or ill. The Law of Cause and Effect is the mother of all Universal Laws. It is totally predictable, never fails and can be absolutely depended upon. This Law demands our obedience and will return just what we put out.
So if we understand that God is anything but mysterious we can begin to see how we might transform our lives by using the great power we have been given as our birthright. We can imagine things that never existed. We can conceive of things that have never before been made. We can travel by thought long before we finally buy the ticket and send our body on the trip. We can love before we meet the beloved. We can dream of a world that never was and create it with our thoughts, our beliefs and our expectations of Good or Evil (remember we are always at choice).
We are the inheritors of a Great Promise and that promise is that God will never change the rules, never play games with us and will always give us what we truly believe in our heart of hearts. We will never get what we wish for until that wish hardens into a belief and an expectation.
What will you imagine? Will you imagine danger, disaster and poverty? You will receive it right on schedule. You can make book on it! Will you imagine adventure, abundance, joy, love beyond measure, health, strength and lifelong happiness? That too will be delivered right on schedule. The stronger your belief, the firmer your faith, the faster your expectation will appear in your life.
If you blow hot and cold, if your faith is a sometimes thing, if you have constant doubt and often succumb to fear - you will create what I call a "roller coaster" life. So many of us experience this - up one day, all is well and in the dumps the next. A two minded person is incapable of creating anything permanent except chaos. Fear is the mind killer. Trust will set you free!
More next week, until then be well happy and keep your thoughts on what you truly want!
AND SO IT IS!
We may have gotten this deep seated belief from being told that "God Works In Mysterious Ways" by a priest, minister or rabbi. They use this bromide as a way of answering the 3 toughest questions that any clergyman faces in his or her daily work.
These are: Why does God allow such suffering in the world, if He loves us unconditionally? Why did God kill thousands of little children in the Tsunami ? (earthquake, hurricane, war - you fill in the blank) or Why did God take my little child? And the big one: Does God hear my prayers and how do I know if He will grant my request?
Did you notice as you read these questions that they are all asking the same thing? "Why doesn't God protect us from all the bad things that can happen in this life? Isn't He here to be our Parent and wouldn't any good parent take care of his children?" Your clergyman may know the true answer to these questions but may not share it for fear of destroying your faith in the Parent God of your childhood teaching. Your minister, priest or rabbi knows all too well that it is faith that does the work. Faith is the greatest power in the Universe, it empowers us to do that which might well be impossible "in the natural", logical world.
The day that you put the Parent God away in the same way you put away the toys of childhood, that is the day that you will finally understand how God operates the Universe and how Divine Law works. On that day, you will move from a little God of spite, anger, caprice, reward and punishment to the Most High God who is the Mind behind all Creation. The real God is so much more, so vast as to beggar human understanding.
Our minds understand boundaries, limits and things that begin and end. Understanding that the true nature of God is an Intelligence without a beginning, without an end and that is everywhere present all at the same time takes a lot of spiritual maturity. There is nothing wrong with God, the fault lies in your "little concept of God". God is so much bigger than you can imagine!
God is mysterious to us only because God and his Law are so magnificent that we have a very hard time comprehending a Mind totally unlimited by time or space. God's Mind moves with a thought; it creates with a Word and it loves in such a pure, unconditional manner that there is no human equivalent. God was never born and will never die - God just is! God is the eternal life force that existed before the beginning of time and before all that is - and will exist beyond forever. You and I and everything in this Universe are to God as the cells of your body are to you. We are part and parcel of God, one and the same - different only in scale but not in substance or nature.
God, before the beginning of time, instituted with a thought a series of Laws, both physical and spiritual that are immutable (unchangeable), predictable, constant, and can be depended upon. The operation of these laws can be observed and predicted with absolute certainty. This is the essence of science, thus our philosophy is called Science of Mind or Religious Science.
There is no chance or randomness, no parent God to please, no reward or punishment. God is not in the reward, punishment or protection business. You might ask, why have a God at all? God is in the Law and Creation business. He provides the plans and the materials but it is our job to build the house! If the house falls down due to shoddy construction (lack of trust or faith), that is not the architect's fault or the building material supplier's fault - it is the contractor's responsibility and that contractor is us.
God has given us the intelligence, the mind which is His Mind in microcosm, in order that we may build the life that we desire and that we expect. It is not God's business to question our choice; that is the whole purpose of Free Will, that we may choose no matter how wise or how foolish the choice. We are not punished for our choices but we must live with the consequences for good or ill. The Law of Cause and Effect is the mother of all Universal Laws. It is totally predictable, never fails and can be absolutely depended upon. This Law demands our obedience and will return just what we put out.
So if we understand that God is anything but mysterious we can begin to see how we might transform our lives by using the great power we have been given as our birthright. We can imagine things that never existed. We can conceive of things that have never before been made. We can travel by thought long before we finally buy the ticket and send our body on the trip. We can love before we meet the beloved. We can dream of a world that never was and create it with our thoughts, our beliefs and our expectations of Good or Evil (remember we are always at choice).
We are the inheritors of a Great Promise and that promise is that God will never change the rules, never play games with us and will always give us what we truly believe in our heart of hearts. We will never get what we wish for until that wish hardens into a belief and an expectation.
What will you imagine? Will you imagine danger, disaster and poverty? You will receive it right on schedule. You can make book on it! Will you imagine adventure, abundance, joy, love beyond measure, health, strength and lifelong happiness? That too will be delivered right on schedule. The stronger your belief, the firmer your faith, the faster your expectation will appear in your life.
If you blow hot and cold, if your faith is a sometimes thing, if you have constant doubt and often succumb to fear - you will create what I call a "roller coaster" life. So many of us experience this - up one day, all is well and in the dumps the next. A two minded person is incapable of creating anything permanent except chaos. Fear is the mind killer. Trust will set you free!
More next week, until then be well happy and keep your thoughts on what you truly want!
AND SO IT IS!
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