There are people in need who are not being helped. People are dying of starvation every day. Most likely, there is a human being crying out in pain every moment of every day. … No wonder people turn from God. They don't understand how a just God can allow the hurt to continue.
 
Some of you reading this are in a crisis, and as of this moment, you cannot confirm that God has helped you. Others continue to give themselves to a spiritual life, but seldom do they experience God's help. They keep hoping for divine assistance, but thus far the help has not come.

The Search
I have a feeling it is not as simple as “God is the answer.” … I have no desire to complicate things; however, just like you, I am searching for understanding. Could it be that God is not the answer? As I typed the last sentence, a word came to me. It may have come to you as well—blasphemy—and from a Unity minister. Yes, but I am willing to consider the absurd as part of my search for Truth.
 
How else can I venture into those regions of the kingdom of God that are currently unknown to me? And so, into the darkness I go, assuming (for a moment) that God is not the answer, but remembering that many people, including myself, have been helped through the activity of Spirit.
 
The Shelter of the Most High
A verse of scripture comes to me: “You who live in the shelter of the Most High … will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.' For he will deliver you …. A thousand may fall at your side … but it will not come near you” (Psalm 91:1-3, 7).

Here is the answer. No problem is too great or circumstance too challenging that we cannot be delivered; however, first we must live in the shelter of the Most High.

The simple truth is that a consciousness of God is the answer. An awareness of the Presence is our help in every need.

The Divine Plan
This is why our cries for help go unheeded. We want the pain to cease; we want God to do what we have been unable to do ourselves. We want God to serve us, but we have not desired the closer walk with God. Fortunately, our Creator devised a universe that calls us to oneness with Itself. This divine plan not only delivers us from the human drama; it calls us to a life of conscious union with Spirit.

May this understanding change our approach to living. … Let us give our attention to God, not so God can help us, but so we can experience our innate oneness with the One. From this … healings come, decisions are easily made, relationships are restored, and God is more than the one who fixes our earthly life.
 
 

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This excerpted article appeared in  Unity Magazine®.

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