The Nature of God
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 the 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, all His children, to be happy, joyous and free.
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