Does God Punish?

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 Carpenter's 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. It would 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" from The Lord's Prayer 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 their 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, though is eternal, was never born and will never die, has always been and will always be. 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, for God wants each of us to be, happy, joyous and free.

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The Journey

The Journey

The concept of Heaven, as taught in the Lord‘s Prayer, manifests as we raise our consciousness through prayer, meditation and selfless service to others; it unfolds around us. In truth, all spiritual action is predicated on our relationship with and to God, for God is Perfect Cause and expresses Himself by means of man, for He is the Father and we are the children, divine by birth.

Before your heart began to beat, where were you? With God. As your heart began to beat, where was God? With you. When your heart ceases to beat, where will you be? With God. The purpose is the journey, the lessons immaculate, our relationship fixed. God is the Father of all, the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, our understanding of the relationship altered by the raising of our consciousness through prayer, meditation and selfless service. By finally embracing our true nature and heritage the reality of Heaven On Earth becomes manifest.

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The Ultimate Truth Of Our Connection

The Ultimate Truth Of Our Connection

As we embrace the true significance of “Our Father” it becomes clear that when we pray, our prayers are never solely for us alone but for all mankind, for in truth everything and everyone is connected. All that we desire to have in our lives we must also desire with all our heart to come to our brothers and sisters in equal measure. To hold anyone in contempt or worse beyond the pale is too say we know better than God, so we must leave retribution and resentment outside the door of our heart if we wish to be happy, joyous and free and embrace “Our Father” not only for our own sake, but for all humanity for today we know the truth of our true connection with the Miraculous. 

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