ALL

ALL

            What part of all is so hard for you to understand? ALL: Nothing left out; the whole quality and quantity; complete; the greatest possible; true beyond question. If you can understand the meaning of ALL, just maybe you will get a better understanding of God. God is All and the Only One . God created All and all that God created is All Real and All Good. All was created Good and All Reality is still All Good. Everything that God creates lasts forever!

            All religion has a human conception. Someone finds a passage in the Bible that they believe is most important. Because they believe deeply they preach this truth, and soon others agree and a new religion is born. Some believe ‘no graven image’ to the point that they allow no photos and dolls have no face. Some know how important baptism is; to worship on the seventh day; not to accept blood from another person; a strong faith will allow you to drink poison and handle snakes without harm; your family will be grouped together in heaven so it is very necessary to keep a record of your family tree, and the list goes on and on and on. Most are taken from the Bible and are good in their own way. People believe and, if, it became necessary, would die to defend their religion, even though it is based on one person’s opinion. I like what one religion teaches:   “Life is like a wheel. The rim is life. The spokes are your life and your religion. God is the hub. It doesn’t matter which spoke we take if we reach the Hub.”  But, have we even come close to knowing the Hub: God?

            Who among us that don’t believe in evil? How can you deny what you see and hear every day? War, destruction, drugs, murder, sickness, child abuse, death, etc. You can’t ignore this evil. What is it? Is it Satan; the devil; the prince of darkness? A person, an idea, a thought, a power opposed to God?

            Where did it come from? From you and me and the race consciousness. Foolish beliefs passed down from ignorant people. When everyone else believes, it must be true and so we also believe without question. We are like little children around the camp fire listening to ghost stories, huddled together, afraid of what is in the darkness all around us. As adults we say we don’t believe in ghosts, but, how many of us would take a dare to walk alone, on a moonless night, in a graveyard without fear?  Where does this fear come from? When God is for us…who of what can be against us? Our fear of ghosts, lack, sickness, death or any human condition is nothing more than ignorance of All. All Good does not step aside for anything less than All Good.

            The desert doesn’t panic and fight to cure itself of a mirage. A mirage is not a part of the desert, it only exists in the imagination of the one who sees it. When you can accept that disease is not one of the good things that God created, you can cure sickness as easily as the mirage disappears from the desert. Neither one exists in God’s Reality.

            You would die for man’s half-truths of religion?  Wouldn’t it be wise to live in God’s Reality, where nothing exists that God didn’t create. All is God.

                                                God is ALL GOOD!!!

 

            580 words             Loretta Ellen Edwards