By Gonny The fourth obstacle to peace: the fear of God C.19.IV.D
Let’s take a breath, we’ve made it to the final one ! (I will place the four obstacles all together on nullity.nl…our free webside…under ‘articles’. )
Not just another obstacle, but the deepest one. The one that hides beneath all others like the still eye in a storm.
The fear of God.
It sounds absurd… until it doesn’t.
Because this isn’t about fearing a wrathful bearded man in the sky. This isn’t religion’s version of punishment.
This is something far more subtle, and far more universal.
It’s the hidden fear that if you truly let go of the ego, of control, of being right, of being you….that what you’ll meet in the silence… will undo you.
Not hurt you. Not condemn you.
But undo you.
Why? Because Love, real, all-encompassing Love, dissolves the “you”
you’ve spent lifetimes defending.
And the ego calls that death.
The Course says:
“You will not realize that the fear of God is really the fear of loss of self.”
And that’s it.
This final obstacle is not about a distant God on a throne.
It’s about our resistance to remembering who we truly are.
Because if God is Light, and you walk into that Light, what happens to your shadows? …….They disappear.
They disappear along with all your self-made stories, along with every role, mask, identity, grievance, self-concept, and personal badge of “me.”
And yet… isn’t that exactly what we’re asking for?
Peace.
Freedom.
Home.
Remembering.
This final obstacle stands only as long as we believe we are something separate. The ego doesn’t fear punishment….it fears irrelevance. It fears disappearing into the Light of what’s real.
But you, dear friend, are not the ego.
You are the Light.
That’s why, as the Course says, “every obstacle that peace must flow across is surmounted just the same way: the fear is gone.”
Not fought. Not wrestled.
Gone.
Because in the presence of true Love, fear cannot survive.
And when you approach God not as judge but as Source, not as master but as Father, not as other but as Self…..there is nothing left to fear.
The veil lifts.
The homecoming begins.
So if you feel resistance to going deeper, if you feel the tremble of something ancient that says “Don’t go there…”
Smile gently.
That voice isn’t you.
It’s just the ego standing in front of the gates of Heaven saying,
“If you enter… I’m done.”
And you, in the quiet of your heart, finally answer:
“Then I guess you’re done.”
With love and light,
G.