41.
God’s law is not punishment
NOTE:
This is an excerpt from the book The
Least You Should Know About Life.
If human beings are Gods in the making, how come they can descend into
a state of consciousness in which they express qualities that are far
from God-like? The reason is that the Creator did not create you as
a robot who is forced to follow his will and obey his laws. You have
free will, and your free will would not be complete if you did not have
the option to disobey God’s laws.
However, having free will does not mean that you have to go against
God’s laws or that you are only truly free when you do so. To
illustrate this, compare your options in life to the road net. Roads
are built to help you quickly go from place to place, and traffic laws
are designed to help you travel safely. You can go just about anywhere
on the roads, and if you decided to drive outside the roads, you would
damage the environment and possibly get yourself stuck in a mud hole.
Deciding to disregard traffic rules would potentially get you in an
accident and hurt yourself and others. Thus, it does not make sense
to say that roads and traffic rules limit your ability to travel. Likewise,
it does not make sense to say that God’s laws limit your free
will and your ability to express your creative faculties.
God’s laws are not a straightjacket. Following God’s laws
does not mean that you have only one way to act or that you lose your
free will. Unfortunately, some religions have presented God as an angry
and judgmental being in the sky who will condemn you to hell for violating
his laws. And this has made some people prone to rebel against God’s
law or at least against religion. In reality, there are infinite possibilities
for expressing your creativity within God’s laws. The laws are
actually set up to help you express your creativity in such a way that
you do not destroy yourself, other people or the planet upon which you
live.
Consider the situation from the Creator’s perspective. By giving
co-creators free will, God takes a calculated risk. It becomes possible
that one co-creator can self-destruct or that co-creators can assemble
into factions that seek to destroy each other. Thus, humankind could
potentially self-destruct or destroy planet Earth. Obviously, this would
defeat the purpose of co-creators growing in self-awareness, so God
has to find ways to minimize the risk.
One way is to define a set of laws that guide how co-creators can use
their creative powers. Another is to make sure co-creators start their
journey under loving supervision, so they can easily learn from their
experiments.
One of the basic spiritual laws states that everything is made from
one substance, namely the Ma-ter Light. In order to create anything
in the material world, you must have a quantity of Ma-ter Light that
vibrates within the spectrum of the material realm. The natural way
to get this light is to receive it directly from your I AM Presence.
When you first descended into the material realm, you were given a certain
amount of light as your starting capital. If you used it wisely, you
would be given more, which would increase your creative powers. Thus,
the stream of light from your I AM Presence would be increased and your
life would become an upward spiral, leading to greater and greater self-awareness
and material abundance.
As mentioned before, Jesus illustrated this law in his parable about
the three servants who were given a number of talents by their master
(Matthew 25:14). The master then went away for a time, but when he came
back, he took stock of how the servants had used their talents. Two
of the servants had multiplied their talents and they were both rewarded.
However, one servant had buried the talents in the ground, and he lost
what he was given. Although this sounds harsh, it actually illustrates
an impersonal law.
The goal of life is growth, meaning that everything is multiplied. So
if you multiply the light and your creative powers, you are lifting
up yourself and all life. If you do not multiply what you were given,
meaning that you act selfishly, you will degrade yourself and all life.
Thus, the stream of light from your I AM Presence will be decreased,
and your life will become a downward spiral. Your ability to create
material abundance will be reduced and your self-awareness will become
self-centered awareness, leading you to feel that life is suffering
and that you are a victim who is being unfairly punished by an angry
God.
In reality, God never punishes anyone. God has simply set up certain
impersonal laws that affect all human beings. If you jump out of an
airplane without a parachute, the impersonal law of gravity will drag
you to the ground and kill you. Yet this is not God’s punishment
but a mechanical consequence of your own – ignorant – choice.
42.
The law of balance
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