Our personal selfishness, sometimes labeled sin, has a natural negative spiritual and physical consequence in this our earthly experience. God doesn’t have to club us over the head in this world or the next, we create our own hellish inferno on earth by choosing the “me first path” instead of the “we path”. We experience these selfish consequences because there is an invisible God seam or fissure running through all things. Our world has a God code.
If we go the
“me first” route, the resulting self-imposed judgement will happen, the
negativity will succeed. You or I may be
able to avoid some or most of the negativity in our lifetime but our future
generations will not. They will shoulder
some of our negative consequences in addition to their own, talk about not
fair. No way you say!
Allow me to
inject one illustration. Counterpoint, please
explain the hateful insanity toward the Jewish people duplicated again and
again over thousands of years. Why does our world want to exact retribution
against the Jewish people? Could it be
that the taking of the promised land became not a gift from God but rather a
conquest with the sword? The devil is in our world not the next and the devil
is in the details.
One
additional cruelty is dumped upon we earthly humanoids. Has anybody got a map? If spirituality were just a simple matter of
making the correct choices, there must be a map. Please, show me the map, the book or the blog
that charts a course to spiritual authenticity.
There are numerous pretenders out there with a biblical marketing plan. They will take your money but the awful truth
is that there is no map or the truth may just be that we are all spiritually
blind. We couldn’t read a map (Bible) successfully
even if we had one.
The only remedy
for our spiritual blindness is a personal spiritual intervention. It is time to
stop our wandering and wondering, we can look up and then we can listen for the
voice of God. What are you hearing?
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
