By Gonny 
“You may believe you are afraid of losing yourself in God. But the truth is: you are afraid of finding out that you never left.”
There is an ancient fear rooted deep in the human psyche, woven into sermons, scripture, and Sunday school stories for over 2000 years: the fear of God.
Not the true God, who is the essence of Love, Wholeness, and Grace, but the idea of a judging, punishing, patriarchal god. A god made in man’s own image, with thunder in his eyes and a scorebook in his hands.
A Course in Miracles explaines this in chapter 23 : the laws of chaos. And this one is the third law. The belief that we are so sinful, so guilty, that God Himself must be our enemy. That His Light would consume us. That Love would annihilate the false self we built to survive a world of separation.
And you know what?
It would.
But not in the way we fear. Love does undo the illusion of separation. It does gently melt the walls of ego that kept us isolated. It does whisper to us: “There is nothing to fear.”
The fear of God is, in truth, the fear of remembering our own innocence.
It is the fear that all our effort, our struggle, our suffering, our guilt, our hiding… was unnecessary. That we could have laid down our arms at any moment and heard the Voice that never stopped calling us home.
This message….although radical….is not new. It is the pearl hidden in the field, the treasure buried in every true spiritual path. It is what Jesus came to remind us of, and what A Course in Miracles repeats in every lesson:
God is only Love, and therefore so are you.
The church, in its sincere but mistaken devotion, often chose fear as a motivator. But fear never leads to God. Only Love does. And it is time,
now, to lay this ancient fear to rest ! To walk into the light and hear not a voice of condemnation, but a song of welcome.
Let this be preached not from the mountaintop of dogma, but from the quiet hill of inner knowing:
You were never abandoned.
You were never condemned.
You were never guilty.
Only asleep. And even in that dream, God never left your side.
With love and light,
G.