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If we see the Christ or God
within other persons who seem to be a threat,
that consciousness provides us safety from and
with them. If we recognize that the divine
is in every situation we face, something within
us walks us through safely. It feels as
though we are taking risks, until we know deep
inside that something honors our authority, and
then nothing is risky - even when logic would
tell us it is. However, we must be able to
feel very deeply within ourselves that we are
guarded, guided, and empowered to do the thing we
desire to experience. This idea of feeling
very deeply that a risk will work out for the
best is a great tool, but if we fool ourselves
the risk will become a disappointment. One more thing must happen
with us. We must know that what we seek to
do will not harm anyone including
ourselves. Unless we feel this deeply, fear
is running our consciousness.
Fear is the result of not
knowing there is a power greater than what we can
see, a presence that lives deep within us and
that is always for us. Ordinary faith is
not always enough to banish insecurity, guilt,
and anxiety from our dispositions. Even to
have faith in God is not enough! We must
have the faith of God. The faith of God
occurs with us, as we believe that God is
everywhere, and that nothing can hurt us unless
we fail to share the faith God has about
us. Believing that God is never against us
and is always for us, coupled with confidence in
the perfect idea God has about us, is enough to
know the faith of God.
If one believes that the
world is a place of struggle between good and
evil, faith cannot sufficiently replace
fear. We must be convinced that the Supreme
Intelligence knows what He or She (or It) is
doing, having allowed us to learn how to live by
experiencing our many mistakes. We have
been given enough freedom to think for ourselves,
and so we experiment with our behavior. All
of the time, deep within us a voice is giving us
direction for happiness, safety, well-being, and
success. The big question is when are we
going to trust that It will see us through all of
our experiences, gradually developing wonderful
lives because we learn to trust. This trust
is not naive: it simply knows there is no place
in our lives from which God is absent.
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