Many still believe and some even teach that God brings sickness,
trouble, accidents even
death as punishment or to teach a lesson, ignoring the basic truths and
beauty of the New Testament. The Christ teaching replaces the old
fearful theology with a new spiritual reality. Consider: When we name
something we define its
nature, so what is the nature of God?
The same fountain cannot send forth both sweet and bitter water.
Would we not have to be a bit 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 explains "hallowed be thy name" thusly: “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.”
Does trouble, sickness and suffering exist? Of course. So why does our
all loving, all knowing Father allow it? Our gift of free will. Of all
known creation we
alone have the ability to create, for both good and ill, and all reap
the
crop they have sown. The innocents who suffer and die by the actions or
calculated inaction of the
cruel and evil reap their reward beyond the flesh, just as the
persecutors who fail to change. No one dwells in eternity with the ledger of their actions
unbalanced, but God does not keep the ledger, we do. Everything we have
ever done, said, seen or felt, experienced in any way, is written on our
eternal heart, in our hand. God does not keep score, we do.
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 creep
in strangling faith. Pain in living is not optional, neither is the passing of the flesh. 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 today to convince you that God is punishing you, for nothing
could be further from the truth of being.
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit All Rights Reserved
The Secret,
Wayne Dyer, ACIM, Serenity, Enlightenment, Zen, Emmet Fox, How To Be Happy,
Golden Key, Addicts Today, Chopra, Jesus, Healing Path Recovery, Einstein,
Marianne Williamson, Sayeh Beheshti, AKUA
