IF
Met Life is running an ad now about the word IF. IF is a powerful little word right smack in the middle of the word Life. What is powerful about the word IF?
Emma Curtis Hopkins hit the nail right on the head about IF when she said that "If God was not all, we could have problems."
If God was not infinite, human problems would be endless
If God was not infinite, we would suffer interminable anxiety about these problems
If God was not infinite, we would experience innumerable symptoms of this anxiety
If God was not infinite, we would spend a lot of our life energy trying to deny or to self-medicate this anxiety and its symptoms
If God was not infinite, we would experience further anxiety due to our preoccupation with this self-medicating activity
If God was not infinite, we would feel depressed about our failure to successfully self-medicate our anxiety and its symptoms, and thereby feel even more anxious
Because God is infinite, however, we have the daily opportunity to wake up to the fact of the Infinite Good-- when we decide that we have suffered enough.
IF is the biggest block of doubt that we have. We keep trying to guess which door hides the prize. We are only given three wishes or three doors, and we are only allowed three strikes and we are out. What if we guess wrong? What if we miss? What if we run out of time or out of chances? What if we pick the wrong door and miss the prize? We get paralyzed, procrastinate, and remain undecided.
But What If all doors lead to the prize? What If you can’t miss? What If you knew that at the heart of every finite thing is the infinite? At the center of the atom is unimaginable energy and power. What If you knew that you can’t miss? You can’t miss because the essence of the universe is in you. Wherever you are, God is, Infinity is.
How much anxiety and suffering have we experienced thinking that we have missed, that we have failed, that we are rejected or left out. If you don’t know, you miss; if you know, you can’t miss. Ignorance is the human problem. There is no evil except in our warped story, our screwed up thinking, our crooked perception.
What If your desires are God-given for a reason? What If your desires mean that you can realize them? What If all things are possible? What If the gap between our desires and their satisfaction puts us in an anxiety-bind that we can’t get rid of without awakening? What If anxiety is here to remind us that all things are possible? What If your idea of God is the determinative factor in all anxiety-resolution? What If anxiety is your constant reminder that you don’t know yourself and your connection to All-Power, All-Love, All-Intelligence, All-Wealth, All-Creativity. All-Truth, and All-Good?
Are you connected to God? How do you know that you aren’t? Who told you that you aren’t? Why should you believe them? What If you are connected to the All-Possible? Would you continue to have danger-anxiety If you were aware of the Infinite Good right now? Would you continue to have inferiority-anxiety If you were one with Infinite-Power right now? Would you continue to have loneliness-anxiety If you were aware of Infinite- Oneness right now? Would you continue to have inadequacy-anxiety If you were aware of your oneness with Infinite- Intelligence right now?
We have been asking why we only experience 5 to 10% of our ability, resources, powers, talents, and choices. Why is it we don’t realize our purpose in life and our hidden potential? Where is it hidden and how? Is it all due to ignorance? To unawareness? To tunnel vision?
I have been arguing that anxiety is unawareness of our Infinite Potential. Yes, anxiety is ignorance. Anxiety is ignorance of our unlimited nature, our divinity, our status as human gods. Anxiety is ignorance of our connection with Allness and Oneness. Our purpose in life is to know. Gnosis. Understanding. Awareness. Consciousness. What If this secret knowledge is available? Where is it hidden? How do you find it?
Those questions are worth your time and energy to ask and to pursue. And once you ask, you will begin to know. The entire universe will respond. Synchronicities will occur. Miracles will happen. Insights will come. Serendipities will appear. Epiphanies you hadn’t expected. You will realize that the world is your oyster, and that you are home. Angels will appear in your life. You will smell the coffee. Dreams will begin to replace nightmares. Flowers will spring up in mid-winter. You will realize that everything happens for a reason. You will begin to wonder why you are so blessed. Anxiety will no longer be your enemy, just a reminder of your connectedness to Allness.
So do your What If’s. What If I knew the truth? What If I was aware? What If all things are possible right now? What If I have been wrong all along? What If my fearful story is melarky? What If Jesus Christ is my best friend and not a competitive sibling? What If all power in heaven and earth has been given to me? What If I can heal the sick, cast out fear demons, raise the dead? What If the Mind of Christ is my real mind?
What If I can make a difference? What If I am a creator, an inventor, an unconditional lover, a genius, a free man? What If life is not a popularity contest, or any other kind of contest? What If we can all be winners? What If I have teammates and allies I have never recognized before? What If I have never been alone? What If I am connected to All-Power, All-Wisdom, and All-Wealth? What If I am rich and don’t know it? What If my Father owns the whole universe and I am in His Will as the executor?
Yes, the Met ad is right. IF is the hidden word in LIFE. What If is the key that can open every apparently closed door. What If is the door to your soul. A door has been opened that cannot be shut. What If means you can be an overcomer of ignorance.
Each of us has attached himself or herself to some finite and limiting idea of the good. We fear we will lose the good if we don’t cling tightly to its symbol. This clinging is the source of our anxiety. What If I lose the only symbol of the good that I know? My good is so small I could lose it in an instant. Any strong wind could blow it away. I could lose my family, my job, my bank account, my car, my health, my security by one wrong move. Anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety,
But What If I am wrong? I pray to God I am wrong. I would love to be wrong about this. What if my pessimism is wrong? It is. Your fears are mistaken. There is not a word of truth in your fears. Zilch. None. Our fearful story is all made-up. The tiny little good that we cling to so desperately is a mistaken idea. There is nothing that exists but the Infinite Good. And until you know that, your anxiety will remain. Case closed. Jesus said so. “Father, forgive them, they know not….”
Even Jeremiah knew that hundreds of years earlier. Listen to what he said: “They shall be my people and I will be their God. And I will give them one heart….and I will make an everlasting covenant with them…and I will put my anxiety in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. And I will rejoice over them, to do them good.” Jeremiah 32:38-41
Your potential, then, is lost in your ignorance. Hidden behind your story. Blocked out of your awareness. Your potentiality is the corner stone that the builders rejected. No one has seen the truth of you. No one but God. To find the truth of your potential requires an awakening. That’s all. Universities may help or they may not. Books may help or they may not. Education may help or it may not. Religion may help or it may not. Science may help or it may not. Jesus got his awareness in the desert. Awareness is within you.
Outside information may stimulate this awareness or not. Usually not. We have been mis-educated, mis-indoctrinated, mis-diagnosed, and mis-treated. We must be re-educated from the ground up. The first step in this re-education is that anxiety is your friend. The second step is that only the Infinite Good is real. If you learn those two lessons, your ignorance will disintegrate, and your potential will begin to unfold. Your faith will make you whole. Faith is awareness. Doubt is stupidity. We make ourselves stupid through FEAR, or False Evidence Appearing Real.
Emma Curtis Hopkins hit the nail right on the head about IF when she said that "If God was not all, we could have problems."
If God was not infinite, human problems would be endless
If God was not infinite, we would suffer interminable anxiety about these problems
If God was not infinite, we would experience innumerable symptoms of this anxiety
If God was not infinite, we would spend a lot of our life energy trying to deny or to self-medicate this anxiety and its symptoms
If God was not infinite, we would experience further anxiety due to our preoccupation with this self-medicating activity
If God was not infinite, we would feel depressed about our failure to successfully self-medicate our anxiety and its symptoms, and thereby feel even more anxious
Because God is infinite, however, we have the daily opportunity to wake up to the fact of the Infinite Good-- when we decide that we have suffered enough.
IF is the biggest block of doubt that we have. We keep trying to guess which door hides the prize. We are only given three wishes or three doors, and we are only allowed three strikes and we are out. What if we guess wrong? What if we miss? What if we run out of time or out of chances? What if we pick the wrong door and miss the prize? We get paralyzed, procrastinate, and remain undecided.
But What If all doors lead to the prize? What If you can’t miss? What If you knew that at the heart of every finite thing is the infinite? At the center of the atom is unimaginable energy and power. What If you knew that you can’t miss? You can’t miss because the essence of the universe is in you. Wherever you are, God is, Infinity is.
How much anxiety and suffering have we experienced thinking that we have missed, that we have failed, that we are rejected or left out. If you don’t know, you miss; if you know, you can’t miss. Ignorance is the human problem. There is no evil except in our warped story, our screwed up thinking, our crooked perception.
What If your desires are God-given for a reason? What If your desires mean that you can realize them? What If all things are possible? What If the gap between our desires and their satisfaction puts us in an anxiety-bind that we can’t get rid of without awakening? What If anxiety is here to remind us that all things are possible? What If your idea of God is the determinative factor in all anxiety-resolution? What If anxiety is your constant reminder that you don’t know yourself and your connection to All-Power, All-Love, All-Intelligence, All-Wealth, All-Creativity. All-Truth, and All-Good?
Are you connected to God? How do you know that you aren’t? Who told you that you aren’t? Why should you believe them? What If you are connected to the All-Possible? Would you continue to have danger-anxiety If you were aware of the Infinite Good right now? Would you continue to have inferiority-anxiety If you were one with Infinite-Power right now? Would you continue to have loneliness-anxiety If you were aware of Infinite- Oneness right now? Would you continue to have inadequacy-anxiety If you were aware of your oneness with Infinite- Intelligence right now?
We have been asking why we only experience 5 to 10% of our ability, resources, powers, talents, and choices. Why is it we don’t realize our purpose in life and our hidden potential? Where is it hidden and how? Is it all due to ignorance? To unawareness? To tunnel vision?
I have been arguing that anxiety is unawareness of our Infinite Potential. Yes, anxiety is ignorance. Anxiety is ignorance of our unlimited nature, our divinity, our status as human gods. Anxiety is ignorance of our connection with Allness and Oneness. Our purpose in life is to know. Gnosis. Understanding. Awareness. Consciousness. What If this secret knowledge is available? Where is it hidden? How do you find it?
Those questions are worth your time and energy to ask and to pursue. And once you ask, you will begin to know. The entire universe will respond. Synchronicities will occur. Miracles will happen. Insights will come. Serendipities will appear. Epiphanies you hadn’t expected. You will realize that the world is your oyster, and that you are home. Angels will appear in your life. You will smell the coffee. Dreams will begin to replace nightmares. Flowers will spring up in mid-winter. You will realize that everything happens for a reason. You will begin to wonder why you are so blessed. Anxiety will no longer be your enemy, just a reminder of your connectedness to Allness.
So do your What If’s. What If I knew the truth? What If I was aware? What If all things are possible right now? What If I have been wrong all along? What If my fearful story is melarky? What If Jesus Christ is my best friend and not a competitive sibling? What If all power in heaven and earth has been given to me? What If I can heal the sick, cast out fear demons, raise the dead? What If the Mind of Christ is my real mind?
What If I can make a difference? What If I am a creator, an inventor, an unconditional lover, a genius, a free man? What If life is not a popularity contest, or any other kind of contest? What If we can all be winners? What If I have teammates and allies I have never recognized before? What If I have never been alone? What If I am connected to All-Power, All-Wisdom, and All-Wealth? What If I am rich and don’t know it? What If my Father owns the whole universe and I am in His Will as the executor?
Yes, the Met ad is right. IF is the hidden word in LIFE. What If is the key that can open every apparently closed door. What If is the door to your soul. A door has been opened that cannot be shut. What If means you can be an overcomer of ignorance.
Each of us has attached himself or herself to some finite and limiting idea of the good. We fear we will lose the good if we don’t cling tightly to its symbol. This clinging is the source of our anxiety. What If I lose the only symbol of the good that I know? My good is so small I could lose it in an instant. Any strong wind could blow it away. I could lose my family, my job, my bank account, my car, my health, my security by one wrong move. Anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety,
But What If I am wrong? I pray to God I am wrong. I would love to be wrong about this. What if my pessimism is wrong? It is. Your fears are mistaken. There is not a word of truth in your fears. Zilch. None. Our fearful story is all made-up. The tiny little good that we cling to so desperately is a mistaken idea. There is nothing that exists but the Infinite Good. And until you know that, your anxiety will remain. Case closed. Jesus said so. “Father, forgive them, they know not….”
Even Jeremiah knew that hundreds of years earlier. Listen to what he said: “They shall be my people and I will be their God. And I will give them one heart….and I will make an everlasting covenant with them…and I will put my anxiety in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. And I will rejoice over them, to do them good.” Jeremiah 32:38-41
Your potential, then, is lost in your ignorance. Hidden behind your story. Blocked out of your awareness. Your potentiality is the corner stone that the builders rejected. No one has seen the truth of you. No one but God. To find the truth of your potential requires an awakening. That’s all. Universities may help or they may not. Books may help or they may not. Education may help or it may not. Religion may help or it may not. Science may help or it may not. Jesus got his awareness in the desert. Awareness is within you.
Outside information may stimulate this awareness or not. Usually not. We have been mis-educated, mis-indoctrinated, mis-diagnosed, and mis-treated. We must be re-educated from the ground up. The first step in this re-education is that anxiety is your friend. The second step is that only the Infinite Good is real. If you learn those two lessons, your ignorance will disintegrate, and your potential will begin to unfold. Your faith will make you whole. Faith is awareness. Doubt is stupidity. We make ourselves stupid through FEAR, or False Evidence Appearing Real.
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