Fearless and Free
January 17th, 2012
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by admin · Filed Under: Faith · Guidance · Inspiration · Success · Visioning · divine order
There may be many times in our lives when we become discouraged and disheartened, but there is a way out of every limitation that never fails and an infallible method of achieving personal happiness and harmony.
Whatever you might want or need from life, you can find the solution in the midst of any conflict that is holding you back. You can be confident and secure as you participate in all that each day holds in store for you. You can be fearless in the face of seeming obstacles or challenges.
As a starting point, we might understand the universal availability of the answers that we seek. For ages on end human beings have let themselves be frightened or awed or confused by what has been called a mystery, the mystery being the universe. We have chosen to view the universe as a vast, unknown system.
This basic mystery has given rise to the belief that most of our questions are unanswerable, that the right answer in most instances is something that people are not supposed to be able to discover. From this idea has sprung the kind of thought that our destiny is in the hands of a mysterious, unknowable deity whose purpose and ways are naturally unfathomable.
Of course, there is a force, a universal creative energy. We generally call this force God, but it‘s up to you what you call it. I think of God as Spirit or Universal Mind, a vast, unending sea of awareness in which I live and move and have my being. God is my ever-present help, my source of strength and comfort in every situation.
There is no greater power than the power of God at work on my behalf; therefore, I need not be afraid of any person, circumstance, or condition. God’s law of order prevails, and I am confident that I will see it at work in my life and in the world.
The right answer to any problem does exist because this is an ordered and orderly universe, not a haphazard system governed by chance and whim. It is not a cold, disinterested universe. One of the finest, most encouraging truths you can know is that the answer you seek is seeking you. It is meant that we should find the right answer to our problems. God, the force that moves this orderly universe, wants us to find the right answer. Remember well these words of Jesus: “it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”
There are, I believe, four basic steps to finding the right answer to any problem: Willing, Allowing, Trust, and Surrender.
First, get still in mind and body and be willing to experience that state of being you desire. Just the willingness will bring the experience to you. Try it for a moment by being willing to experience a state of peace and serenity. Immediately the Divine Flow will bring that experience to you through your intention and your willingness.
Eric Butterworth called this step the invitation, making yourself open and receptive, believing the answer already exists for you.
Second, allow yourself to experience the outcome or state of being you desire. This cements your willingness in place, in consciousness. To use the analogy of a telephone call, willingness makes the call and allowing picks up and answers the phone.
This second step Eric Butterworth called inspiration, something that comes to you, often just a quiet reassuring kind of knowing in some indefinite form, a feeling that you are approaching a solution.
The third step, trust, contains within it several elements: your ability to open yourself to all possibilities, the earnestness to take the steps to bring about any needed change, courage to move beyond what you previously thought, certainty that everything is all right even if you do not have proof, and a sense of safety underlying everything.
Eric Butterworth called this third step ideation, an idea or series of ideas that flow into awareness from Divine Mind that are yours to work with to put into use or expression. You may have to choose and sort the ideas, to link them together in such a way as to work toward your right answer.
The fourth step, surrender, means letting go of imaginary boundaries and allowing greater flow, which creates greater clarity of who we really are. This step, Eric Butterworth identified as an incubation period which calls for patience, wisdom, and confidence in the right outcome.
If the solution does not develop in your affairs immediately, remember it is already done. What you need is ready for you. Its complete manifestation in your life and affairs may be delayed a bit for various reasons, but there is no need to despair or become despondent. Of course, you must not expect delay; very often a solution appears quickly. But if the answer does not come at once, then be wise enough to accept the incubation period, for such times often give rise to good in even greater measure than when ideas come full blown.
You can be confident that you will see God’s law of order at work in your life and in the world. With God’s power and strength supporting you, you will be successful in all your endeavors. Know right now that you are opening the door to greater good.
Remember, God is Blessing You, Right Now!
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
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