Where we live, we have many little spurts of power outage. That means while working at my desk computer I used to experience multiple cases of “you’ve got to be kidding” as the computer shut off in the middle of writing something.
Finally, after the outage where I reacted with an almost equal reaction, we got a backup power source designed to keep the computer on long enough to shut it down correctly, or survive those short bursts.
It was very cool. I was excited, no more power failures in the middle of my work for me! I plugged in my computer, the power went out, and my computer went off. At first, I blamed the equipment. However, when I checked I found that I had plugged the computer into the wrong outlet.
You’d think that was it, I had figured it out, but it happened two more times before I finally got the plug into the outlet that was designed to be a battery, and not the outlet that was designed to run equipment as a regular power source. Three times!
The source was there all along, the plug was clearly marked, but I kept plugging it into the wrong one. In addition, I was tempted each time to think that the equipment we bought was faulty, blaming the source and not seeing the error of my ways.
Do you see where I am going with this?
Let’s personalize God for a moment and call It a force. That force always exists and we always have access to it, but mostly we go it on our own. Then something happens that gives us impetus to plug into that force.
Maybe is a lack of some kind, or ill health or a relationship that is causing pain that pushes us into finally going to God instead of hoping it would never happen again, like no more power surges.
We do the first step, we get the backup of God in the form of studying spirituality more, or doing more prayer work, or meditation, and yet we still experience the problem. We may think a version of, “Geez, what’s up with that, I thought God was all-power, omnipotent Love, and yet It is failing me.”
Perhaps we try again, and again, with little or no results.
Joel Goldsmith, in his book, Invisible Supply: Finding the Gifts of the Spirit Within
God does not know power surges, let alone lack or ill health or sadness. God is omnipotent Love. There is nothing in omnipotent Love that could know what is not good because God is effectively All Good.
We can waste lots of time defending ourselves. Perhaps the battery should have had clearer writing on it, why aren’t all its plugs backup sources, for example. But, at the least, this is an absolute waste of time and energy and at the most, it destroys our daily lives.
Blaming others, blaming ourselves, blaming situations has no point to it and keeps us away from the source by distracting us and focusing on what is not working. Instead, let’s get busy and recognize when we make mistakes and simply correct them. No attachment to the personality that wants attention of all kinds, but a pure strong desire to understand God.
That’s the battery and the correct plug that we want to plug into. Actually, we have always been plugged into the force called God. Once we begin to let go of our illusions, and beliefs, and personal “I wants,” we will begin to experience more and more the constant, consistent, loving power source that supplies all of our being, all of the time.
The result, of course, will be a dissolving of all that isn’t true and a revealing of what is, and then there will be no more power surges, just the awareness and experience of a steady, loving, supply of good in every moment.
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