The longest eighteen inches in the world
lies between the head and the heart, the bridge from
intellect to faith, embracing grace. But speaking about God and spirituality,
practicing faith when the weather is calm is easy. Standing in faith when every
fiber of the carnal mind screams in opposition is the challenge. The back of
every American dollar bill reads “In God We Trust” but do we, really? The Great
Carpenter teaches that those who demonstrate faith in action build their
spiritual house/consciousness “upon a rock” while those who are nominally Living
on the Spiritual Basis build their “house” on sand “and great was the fall
of it.”
It is easy to build a structure on any ground when the
sun is shining, the wind nothing more than a breeze, but to do so in the belief
that conditions will never change is a fool’s errand at best, yet many do this
very thing with their spiritual house and then are devastated when the rains
come and the winds blow and their structure collapses, then compounding the
error by blaming God for the storm, forgetting storms are part of life, rain
falling on the just and unjust equally.
In truth we choose the materials our house is constructed of, the construction practices employed; how well we followed the blueprints, for it matters little the quality of the materials if they are poorly installed, the blueprint ignored or altered. The Good News is the Master Builder will step in at any point and set the project (our consciousness) right if we will only place our trust in the guidance of the Miraculous and Divine Love. By this simple, but not easy reliance on a Power Greater than Ourselves our structure is solidly built, able to not only withstand life's inevitable storms, but to stand as a beacon of hope and resolve to those who chose poorly. And remember, Living On The Spiritual Basis is not only about weathering storms, but learning how to dance, laugh and sing when the rains come.
In truth we choose the materials our house is constructed of, the construction practices employed; how well we followed the blueprints, for it matters little the quality of the materials if they are poorly installed, the blueprint ignored or altered. The Good News is the Master Builder will step in at any point and set the project (our consciousness) right if we will only place our trust in the guidance of the Miraculous and Divine Love. By this simple, but not easy reliance on a Power Greater than Ourselves our structure is solidly built, able to not only withstand life's inevitable storms, but to stand as a beacon of hope and resolve to those who chose poorly. And remember, Living On The Spiritual Basis is not only about weathering storms, but learning how to dance, laugh and sing when the rains come.
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit
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