As our faith in God grows, so does the purity of our heart. An increase in faith means a decrease in the doubt that leads to selfishness. Faith brings God into our lives and our hearts. When we are pure of heart we no longer attract the negativity that leads to spells of darkness. We are open to the reality of God's light. The best way to free ourselves from suffering and trouble is to bring God into our lives. It is our negativity and selfishness that attracts conflict and personal turmoil. Having God in our lives, brings us the surety that delivers the results of our needs. He is the provider. When He is home, we will be provided for. God provides us with everything we need, it is fear and doubt that keep us in a place of suffering and insufficiency. I think God is a reality that instantly fulfills our being. It is the degree to which we are distant from Him that is the problem, not His lack of caring. He is always reaching out infinitely. When we dwell in the narrowness of selfishness and ego identity, we are focusing on a reality that is inherently limited and confused. When we turn to the reality of God, we turn to organization, evenness, and dependability. We turn to infinite abundance, which is the nature of His spirit. I think when it comes down to it, it is our innermost attitude, the attitude of our soul, that determines our wellbeing, and not our external environment. It plays a part, yet it ultimately comes down to how we view the world and ourselves, who we are in our heart. When we turn to God, we turned to the truth, which is that we are not an isolated separate being, but one who is One with the Creator. The tale of our sorrows and setbacks, of our greatness and ambition, of our mediocrity, these stories we tell ourselves are ultimately just stories. They are our temporary reflections on the life we have lived so far. We are not a soul especially flawed, or especially great, or especially mundane. We are a soul that possesses the infinite potential to unite with it's creator. We have flaws, we have ambition, we have setbacks, we may be mediocre, yet we are not the separate individual we believe ourselves to be. We are not these stories that we tell ourselves. We are not bound by anything, good or bad. Good and bad is relative, the stories we tell ourselves that pertain to each are equally untrue. We are children of God, whose true identity is is that of the infinite mind of God. We are infinite being. We may have limitations, but they only go so deep. What may make us great in the eyes of ourselves and others does not belong to us, and both high and low are the same in the eyes of God. As long as we live in these fantasies, we we be isolated from Him who is Supreme. Any belief we have that says this is who I am as an individual, keeps us from God, because in saying and believing it, we keep it to ourselves, we clutch at it, and we turn from our Creator, who never stops showering us with infinite uplifting energy. We must give away who we are as an individual to fully reap the harvest that is God's infinite eternal blessing. We must forge our identity in the transcendent Him that is not discolored by possessiveness. This is why this is the path of the Angel, the selfless, the servant. What holds us down is anything we keep for our self. The truth is we do not need anything. When we do things for ourself, we cling to what we have. When we do things for God and for others, we learn to let go of what we have, including the hold we have on our own identity. I do not think we belong to our self. I think we belong to each other. When we cling to ourselves, we bring down everybody else. When we let go of ourself, we uplift everyone else. We do have the power to do this. God gives it to us in every moment. When we become a servant to God we learn to skillfully use this energy to uplift the world, if we refuse this, we end up shitting on it. I feel like so many of us are ready to do so much more, we just haven't realized this yet. We are so much more capable than we imagine ourselves to be. We don't realize what a gift He is and what He has given us. Unfortunately we turn to evil without realizing it, it seems like there hasn't been enough wisdom throughout society to prevent this from happening. However evil society is or becomes, this is nothing compared to the infinite benediction of God. This does nothing to tarnish His will and truly is merely and extension of Him. All aspects of Creation come from God and are apart of His mind. The evil in the universe is merely a part, that regardless of how it appears of what we believe about it is under the authority and design of God. All parts are seamlessly interwoven in the eternal play of life, all conducted by the same conductore, the transcendent Spirit that is God.
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