by John-Roger I think all of us have said at one time, “Oh, I trust God,” but inside there may have been a niggling little thing that said, “Not really.” We might trust God if we could see God, but He usually won’t show Himself the way we want. Then we can get the quandary of our clever minds and may do vocabulary terms: “If God can’t do this one thing, like stop people being persecuted, then maybe He can’t do this other thing that I really, really do want.” I may also say that “God will take care of me,” but if we identify “me” as my clothing, my food, my car, my house, my furniture, that’s what I have to take care of. It’s my area of responsibility in this physical world. So which part does God take care of? The part that lives. That’s the part that transcends the physical environment, that leaves the body and continues on. God does sustain that. We don’t know how. No one in this room knows how to sustain life. Now, how will God take care of you if you don’t work, you don’t feed yourself, and you don’t do all the things necessary for sustenance here? He laid it out in Genesis when he said to the effect that by the sweat of your brow you earn your living (Genesis 3:19). Then along came St. Francis. In the movie, he said, “See how the lilies grow and how even the birds of the air are taken care of by God.” St. Francis wasn’t talking about human beings; he was talking about nature. Nature takes care of nature. We’re not of nature. We’re of super-nature, or supernatural. We have to look at our life through another framework of existence. We can say we’re all God’s creatures in a great big generic gestalting of the whole universe, but there’s no way I can say that I’m a wolf, a coyote, a dog, a cat, or a horse with any degree of certainty. I am, at this point, being a human in this existence, and every human being dies. That has been risk-free and fool-proof. So I know I’m going to accomplish that. There’s a great deal of serenity in knowing that will take place. There’s also a little chaotic feeling about when we will die. You might ask, “Do I dare not work for the next year and God will take care me?” Well, if you have a hundred thousand dollars saved up in the bank, you can probably do it. But in this case, your God isn’t taking care of you; the hundred thousand dollars are. Some people want to make a leap of faith, yet they are faithless. It’s like, “God, cure me of my disbelief.” But if God did that, why would there be anything called belief? There would only be knowledge, the gnosis of it all, the numinous effect of God, the Light, the energy, and we’d just be involved in that particular area all the time. But that’s not what He set us up here to do. If He did, we’d all have it. Instead, He set us up to live, to breathe, and to die, and we all do that. And He says that what you do in between is yours. You can’t really get a hold of God, but you can do something with the God inside of you. We call it spiritual exercises, where we try to take you back in. Some people want to go so fast that they go right in and then out the other side. They don’t know that the Kingdom of Heaven is a vibration rate, not a location. If you go too fast, you zip right through it and don’t know you were there. Have you ever seen these Macintosh computers and their icons? You are in one Macintosh screen, and there are also little icons there. If you click on one icon, another screen opens, and what had been on the computer screen disappears; the second thing opens up and takes all the screen. Then in that second screen something else will be available, maybe some information; if you click on the information, everything else disappears. That information can also open up into something bigger. But it started out with one little point. The Kingdom of Heaven is much like that. You go through until you hit the point. Once you click on it, everything else disappears and you’re into a whole new framework. You can click into those different computer screens again and again and again until your finger hurts from clicking. Theoretically, you can never get to the end of it; you would probably die before you did. Going inside to find the Kingdom of Heaven is much the same. You go to a point and it opens. And in there you now have a whole new “screen” inside you. You go, “Wow, this is all new. What do I do now?” Look around to find the point that opens the next thing. In mythology, it’s called “abracadabra” or “open sesame”—or is it “open says me”? (I like “open says me.”) At this time, we come along and say, “Let’s just chant God’s name until the vibration opens the door for you, and then you’ll be able to go through.” You can’t go through if you’re facing away from it, so you have to at least make some effort to go into it. That’s something you can trust in. You can trust in going inward and finding. This is a procedure, not a thought. The procedure is that you sit down (or stand up) and close your eyes. If you’re good at it, you can revolve like a turret and turn your intention inward. Then all this world will “white out.” It just goes white, like you’re blind. Then you’re back inside, and you come to the place where there is a frequency. As you come into that frequency, it goes zoooom, and you’re riding to the Garden of Eden, and you start traveling from that point. This does happen, and it can take a lot longer than I just said it or a lot faster, but rarely does it happen exactly like I said it. I’ve never been able to put into words anything like what it is, but when people get there, they say, “What you said was close enough. I got the idea.” I’m trying to get you close enough. You might wonder why I’d do that. It’s because once we find that area and we realize that the gold of God’s consciousness is our wealth, our support, our lifeline, and the supply of all things and that we’re in it, we feel so fantastically wonderful that we want everyone to have it. And there is plenty. There’s abundance from God, but not necessarily in this world. You can’t have it all in this world, but in the inner worlds you are it all. And that’s what you can trust. Baruch Bashan. |
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