KNOWING...THEN DOING

Knowing and doing...two separate matters entirely wrapped within and without each other.

We must know before we can do, but too often we learn and stop there as if in the knowing we've got all we need. We may have all we want, but for sure we don't have all we need.

More and more I'm convinced that we learn in order to know and then we have to detach from that which we've learned. Check out the spiritual lessons..."Judge not lest ye be judged," for instance. We learn it but if we just know it to lecture it, not actually living it from our thoughts out, we wind up usually just judging others for their judging! Justifying ourselves as "discerning."

We must detach from the letter of the law in order to obey the law. The fact is, of course, that we cannot do it. We cannot forgive on our unaided want to; we cannot judge not, resist not, love our enemies all on our own. We must learn unto acceptance that that is our desired path. Then we go to a force beyond our self to walk us on that path... in order that we may obey those laws of God.

We all run to our God, screaming "Uncle," when our pants are on fire...self-lit every time.

Aren't we glad God does not judge, does forgive, doesn't resist us and the errors of our ways?

Thank you.