Proverbs 3:1-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own insight..."

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”  (Proverbs 3:1-6)

Comment:

Metaphysically, we understand “the Lord” to be “the Christ”—the indwelling Presence of God that is our true identity, the “Lord of our Being.” So this clear and powerful statement is reminding us that we are to make our life choices from that Christ perspective. There are always two voices available within as we stand before any new choice or challenge.  One is the logical voice of the individual and collective consciousness containing a mixed bag of positive and negative ideas and emotions, assembled from past experience and sensory input from the world around us. That voice is usually louder and more strident than the other, which is the uncompromised voice of the Christ—pure love, clear guidance. The promise of this passage is that if we stay firm in our commitment to that Christ voice, our human process will be infinitely easier than if we allow the logical voice to send us wandering through dualistic confusion.

We are not in Christ consciousness when we expend time and energy comparing ourselves to others, or judging others as unworthy of the good they seem to have in their lives. “Judge not” was Jesus’ most constantly repeated teaching; if we find ourselves judging, we are blocking ourselves from the flow of energy and infinite possibility that are the essence of the Divine. If we begin, always, with a true sense of gratitude for the good already expressing in our lives, we can be certain that the divine energy that is expressing as that good will joyfully bring more as we open our hearts and minds to receive it.

Blessings!

Rev. Ed