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| ALL THY FEARS, by Gail Gupton |
| On a mountaintop, secluded away
from human uneasiness, unruliness, and oppression, Moses meditated. Inspiration found in
this silence caused him to write down a code of conduct to bring order to a barbaric
nation of people. At that time, it was the answer he was looking for - the answer
to the dilemma and direction of how to lead a group of people into safe haven. Almost twenty-five years ago, I, too meditated for an answer for direction. An audible inner voice proclaimed to me, "Put all thy fears behind thee". In that moment, a sense of well-being enveloped me and God was on the scene. Furthermore, I knew God always had been and always would be there. Henceforth, I have realized God within me is "I". Joel's whole message is that man has never been separated from God. God and man are one. If one word could be obliterated from the human language, it should be the word "fear". Thousands of generations have programmed the human mind into the false belief that there are two - God and man, instead of God as man. This separation has caused us to live "on our own", without really ever knowing if a decision to act on a certain idea is right or wrong. Today, television programming, Internet ads, magazine articles continue to bombard us with daily suggestions of the need to fear something - from a computer virus to the West Nile virus. From fear of flying to fear of dying. From fear of omissions to fear of commissions. Since that day, almost twenty-five years ago, my fears have dissolved one by one. You see, there is only right. There is only good because there is only God. Shaking off the confines of limited perception frees one to experience infinite wisdom, infinite supply, infinite love. Fear is only an ignorance of Truth, nothing more nor less. As with Moses, the answer to a human situation always appears. In the silence. In meditation. Away from the busyness of thought. Fear not. "Put all thy fears behind thee". What do we need to fear when God is always present? Why do we need to fear when God is omnipotent? However, it takes a conscious remembering of Truth to bring Truth to bear upon a situation. For years I only recognized printed words in inspirational books as someone else's Truth. Words, alone, do nothing . But the words, when they "speak" to you, reveal the Truth. When the words become personal they reveal Truth to you. So often, through correspondence from Beyond Prayer and Meditation, people speak of their fears. Someone is ill. Someone is dying. Someone fears supply will run out. Someone fears they'll offend another person. Someone fears taking a job or not taking a job. Someone fears getting into a relationship or getting out of one. Someone fears they'll be a victim or be the cause of victimizing someone else. Someone fears making a wrong decision or not a decision at all. Someone fears being lonely, being in the dark, being bitten by a spider, eating a certain food. It seems our whole lives revolve around the word "fear". The Bible often mentions "fear God". However, one dictionary defines the word as, "Extreme reverence or awe, as toward a supreme power". God does not punish, that we have to fear His reprimand. Yet religion and society has so programmed the human brain to believe fear is danger that we perpetuate the belief that everything is dangerous, one way or another. God is total Love. God is eternally Good. God is perfection. "I" am perfect. The ten commandments Moses wrote in stone have become an obsolete way of life by today's standard of living. Yet, they were written in stone, therefore they must be unbreakable. (A stone tablet was all he had to scratch his inspiration onto). Thou shalt not steal? Thou shalt not kill? Thou shalt not bear false witness? Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain? Thou shalt not commit adultery? Does not the human scene include all of the above? Fear of punishment from any of these so-called "laws" never has and never will prevent people from human activities. The laws "written in stone" needed by the children of Israel were for the illumination of Moses. How can one not behave in a moral way when one is spiritually minded? Goodness is the natural way of life. There is no fear of reprimand because God is being All and All is Good. Again, the voice speaks to me, but this time for you to hear through the written word, "Put all thy fears behind thee". There is nothing to fear. "I", within you, is wonderful. All is well. |
