Figurin' It All Out

How many times a day do you sit down with the sole purpose of tackling the hard questions of life? Like: Why can’t we have everything good?

I could go on and on but let’s leave it with that one question. If you’ve asked it, and I’m quite sure you have, what’s your answer? Want to hear mine? (If not, then you can skip this blog. I’d understand.)

In a few words I’ll say we don't see good everywhere because we haven’t let the right light shine yet. Even God knew that spiritual light is necessary and before He'd created the stars, the sun and moon to give light He called upon that spiritual light. He let it be in spite of the "darkness upon the face of the deep." The light that shows us everything is good needs a switch to turn it on and that switch is the little three-lettered word “Let.”

We aren’t letting our spiritual light be when we settle for darkness or semi-darkness. Semi-darkness is what we have settled for and so we’re stuck with the consequences. The darkness, the evil, the lies, all the negations of good, need only the light of spiritual understanding to show them up as mere negations, mere denials of truth. In other words, they are bald-faced lies.

Sunbeams, star light, moon light, X-rays, radio waves, etc. do give us light and their light is useful, but  we also need spiritual light in order to see, understand, that every claim of error or evil is simply a denial of some truth, and nothing more. It’s the same as saying, “Sin, sickness and death are real, of course, because they appear every day in some form. How can I deny evil? It's right here in my face!” Now that’s like saying  “Mathematics can’t be scientific because look at the blackboard. There are mistakes all over it!" So, what are we to believe, the blackboard or the science of mathematics?  

I’m getting to the point of claiming that the only reason we mortals don’t see everything as good is that we haven’t let our beam of spiritual light be. We’re too much in awe of what seems to be and not sufficiently aware of what really is. We see the difference between good and evil but we are not willing to let go of the belief that they are both real. 

There’s an old joke about three friends who died and found themselves in hell. One was a Catholic, another a Jew and the third one a Christian Scientist. They were trying to figure out what went wrong. “Why did you end up here?” the Jew asked. The Catholic said that before the Church had removed the rule prohibiting the consumption of meat on Fridays he had broken that rule many times. The Jew then said, “Oh, of course, I’m no doubt here because I ate pork with my Gentile friends.” Then they turned to the Christian Scientist who stood to one side with a benign upward look on his face. “Well," they asked him, "why are you here?” Without diverting his gaze, and with a smile of contentment, he answered simply, “I’m not!”

I’ll go with the Christian Scientist. He may look crazy to his friends who rely only on appearances, but if he sticks to his premise he may just have found the narrow pathway out of hell and into heaven. 

But then, I don't claim to have figured it all out yet. If I had, I wouldn't be here!