Many believe that God brings sickness, trouble, accidents even death as punishment or to teach a lesson. The Christ teaching exposes the false nature of this belief. When we name something we define its nature, so what is the nature of God? Consider the following teaching from the Bible: The same fountain cannot send forth both sweet and bitter water. Would we not have to be schizophrenic to ask for help, direction, healing and intuitive thinking from a power greater than ourselves that professes love, but could turn on a dime and bring us pain, suffering, even death? Emmet Fox states “The word hallowed has the same root as holy, whole, wholesome, and heal, or healed; so we see that nature of God is complete and perfect-altogether good.”
When we hold to the idea that God punishes, for any reason, we build in our consciousness a back door for self centered fear to sneak in and strangle our faith. Pain in living is not optional, neither is death. Everything and everyone, from stars in the night sky to the may fly will experience the change we identify as death. The death of a loved one, especially a child is heart breaking, but God was not responsible for in truth our loved ones, and us are not this flesh, for it will fail and return to the earth from which it came. Our “soul”, the spark of the Divine within each of us, is eternal, was never born and will never die, has always been and will always be, just as God. The Lord’s Prayer names God as “Our Father”, and is not the child always connected to, a product of, the parent? Do not allow the fear and pain of the moment to convince you that God is punishing you, for nothing could be further from the truth of being.
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