DIVINE OBSTACLES ALIAS GUARDIAN ANGELS

SHE WAS a Truth student, - and a good one, too. She was on her way to the airport to catch a plane for the West Coast, to the fulfillment of a cherished dream. Life was as rosy as dawn, - a song was in her heart. Visions of a contract, signed, sealed and delivered, clustered about her like a flock of cherubs around a Murillo Madonna. Things were practically perfect until that sickening noise of a punctured tire made her heart sink. The car stopped, the driver got out and looked at the deflated tire. "Sorry, lady, but I have no spare, and the nearest station is a mile away."

From under the car a flock of inky imps rushed out shrieking with laughter, pulling at her. "Why did this happen to me?" "And why did it happen today?" "Why, - after all of my praying?" "Of what avail is the Truth if such things can take place?" and a thousand and one other thoughts flooded her mind like a dark, swift current of water in a subterranean passage. It all spelled defeat.

Back to the hotel and utter desolation, - and to bed with seven devils of torment. Finally morning, - and with it the daily paper carrying dead-black headlines telling of the crash of the very plane she was to have taken.

Nothing had happened to her, - but suddenly she was thrilling with joy and thanksgiving for the very thing she had cursed the night before.

"God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform". Sometimes when we are too dense to understand the inner voice, we are saved from our own undoing by the presence of what appears to be an obstacle, - an apparent defeat of plans, - a sudden stoppage of the way.

Yoked with the illusory fate is your Divine Destiny, - like two horses pulling side by side. One (fate) is so vicious and unpredictable it is apt to throw you without warning into some ugly and unexpected condition for apparently no purpose whatsoever, - which you are supposed to bear with fortitude and courage as part of your lesson, or charge off to a karmic debt of which you know nothing.

You continue riding this night-mare (fate) until you discover the perfect Destiny running so beautifully beside you, - and make a change. Whenever this Divine Destiny is acknowledged, the hateful pictures of human thought are neutralized. You are impressed with a desire, which is evidence of an already established thing, - but from the standpoint of fate, would have to be "worked out."

In the Divine Destiny are the things that "eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things that are prepared for those who love the Lord."

Jesus came to the earth to set aside fate, which is the heritage of the Adam man. Until man sees and accepts the fact that he is not born of the Adam father, but born of God, he will experience the hateful fate of "few days and filled with trouble." So apparently new is this absolute and radical reliance on the Truth of Jesus Christ that many times we fail to hear-see the VOICE of guidance given us, - and so the Love of God saves us with His Divine obstacle, - a Guardian Angel.

The more we believe and rely on this Inner Light, the more we will see and experience the VOICE or warning that comes before every evil fate-picture.

This interpretation does not mean that we are to accept every evil pattern that comes to us as a warning from God. Many times we rise in "righteous indignation" and put to flight the thought-congested pictures. But it does bring to us the truth that there is no "insistence" in God, and the memory of "not my way, but Thine: be done." Having your way is not conducive to bringing about the will of God. "My ways are not your ways ... "

We are told to "resist not evil" and it will flee from us, - and in this sense we do not resist it because we have come to the recognition that it has no reality, - and hence has nothing within itself to be resisted. The evil may be the ugly pattern of disease which appears very real. Resisting it will only intensify it if we are making something out of it other than human thought. At the same time we are told to "RESIST EVIL". There is nothing contradictory in these commands, - they are both the same thing. Resist the evil temptation to believe in the reality of evil, and see it flee from you.

When we resist a thing in the generally accepted sense of the word, we create something to resist, - or at least give the picture confronting us the ugly power it seems to present. When the ways of God become our ways, we stop resisting the apparent condition which seems to block the intense desire.

Relax that conscious thinking for a moment and see through the mirage of beliefs. In that very obstacle is the blessing you have been seeking. Why do you insist on having YOUR way? It is written, "Your ways are not My ways".

It is also written, "In all thy ways, acknowledge HIM and He shall bring it to pass": not maybe nor perhaps. If the acknowledgment Is made, He will bring it to pass without question and "by a way ye know not of".

"Wait patiently on HIM", - and "Stand and see". Give thanks for the only way there is. If it be through the crowded streets of confusion, or through the solid wall of fear, or through the scorching fires of evil, and it is HIS way, all the evils of these appearances will be destroyed. "If ye drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt you."

"Peace be unto you!" Stop kicking against the pricks. Why will you "persecute ME"?

"This is the Lord's doings, and it is wonderful to our eyes" pronounced over the greatest disappointment or failure will cause it to yield its blessing, as the prickly chestnut burr placed on a hot stove opens and yields its Sift.

Matthew Arnold said: "To understand that the language of the Bible is fluid, passing and literary, not rigid, fixed and scientific, - is a first step toward the right understanding of the Bible".

A glimpse of this causes us to know how it is that there are no contradictions in the Bible. It is fluidic, - covering a thousand and one interpretations, - - one of which will answer the WHY in your life. The Ten Commandments were graven in stone and are hard and fixed, - until the fluid quality of them is understood, - and then they become as warm oil on a frozen body.

Enter this fluidic stream of consciousness and you will experience untold Light and Illumination. A single word or phrase will burst open in a flood of pure golden revelation.

Yes, it is recorded, "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God", - not John Smith. The more you rely on this Inner Light, the more you will hear-see the WORD so essential to your on-going.

Water runs down hill naturally, eternally seeking the sea. And so the Soul of you feels that urge of returning unto ME, - seeking that place where it is lost in God. If you lose your narrow human concept of life, you shall find it, - -but if you save it, you shall lose it, - it is isolated from the Great Source.

If the water, on its eternal trek to the sea, be stopped by a dam, the Sun can and will pick it up and cast it onto the bosom of the Father Waters. In like manner, there is no obstruction or obstacle in your human fate over which God cannot bear you up. There is always a way when there is God's way.

No WORD of Truth that you have actually freed in the spirit of recognition, but what must and will come into manifestation.

In the quiet of a cool oasis you have spoken many lovely words, - have freed them. Then do not faint with fear at the first ugly mirage that might show itself when you again mount your camel and go into the desert. The Words and Understanding that have gone before you have already devitalized it, - and you pass through.

You cannot miss anything that belongs to you and your kingdom. "Nothing happens but My LOVE allows." It says NOTHING. Do you believe?

That the Bible is "not scientific", as Mr. Arnold states, is proven in a thousand ways by Jesus. A Hindu fakir may be able to make a quick passage over burning coals, - but this is only a "stunt" and is not the manner in which Jesus did things. The human mind is ingenious and can simulate the Divine in an amazing degree, so that "even the elect are deceived". You see the necessity, then, of watching and entering the fluidic state of mind.

"None of these things move me", said Jesus. He knew what was behind every obstacle, even the crucifixion. "Nevertheless, - not my will be done." According to the revelation of our Precious One, we are not here to experience a series of trials as something insurmountable, - but as a proof of the ONE Power. He went through the entire category of human evils so that we would not have to do the same. We are only now faintly beginning to understand this as something other than mere words.

And so the Prophet and his servant (your soul and you) are traveling along, - and the servant is afrighted by what he sees. "Look, - the way is blocked by a thousand warriors and chariots, - we are lost". What could he do against such a picture of destruction? But the Prophet, that Soul of you which is always with you, has something to say. "Look again", - and then the mountains are filled with Angels and the Power of the Lord.

"Those that are for us are more than they that be against us". It is always that way. The recognition of the Presence always brings proof in a tangible and real form. You have only to "call upon ME", and "I will save you". But of course you have to believe before you can "call".

Faith induced by fear is not very reliable, - but is better than none. Faith that is the result of the acceptance of God in your heart as real is a sure fool-proof way of being saved from the evils.

On the surface of the clear pool, Narcissus saw his own beautiful face and fell in love with it, thinking perhaps it was a beautiful water-nymph. But he died awaiting her materialization. All he would have had to do to have discovered the truth would have been to adjust his position.

You can look through fate and see your Divine destiny, if you make the adjustment. Where does the reflected picture go, - and what was it in the first place?

And so the obstacle or the ugly picture of disease that seems so real needs only a slight adjustment to cause it to vanish. The leprous flesh becomes clean and white. You need not go anywhere to make the adjustment, - nor do you need outside help.

"Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble", - and he functions through one evil picture of fate after another until he makes the discovery, "Call no man your Father, - for ONE, God, is your Father". This recognition disintegrates the "fate" and "karma" pictures inherited from the "Adam" father, - and frees you into the "Divine Destiny" inheritance of "God, the Father".

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