To not resist is to give up self-determined objectives through God consciousness. - Fr Richard Rohr
As I too often say, resist not evil is my favorite phrase in the Sermon. It took some serious arm-wrestling with my Father and my ego to become willing to even consider that for truth. I got there fairly early in my spiritual growth...or I would not have sought still more spiritual growth, I suspect.
I wonder if that phrase, resist not evil, wasn't taught purely because it invites resistance...it defies common sense, or even higher intelligence if we're going to stay on the material plane.
Fr Richard's quote above is the quiet word. We must go to God to not resist...but there's the point to life itself: We must go to God...period.
We must get over our belief that agreeing with what we're learning raises our consciousness. It does not, but it heads us in the right direction. Staying in the right direction is to meet with a boatload of detours, U-bies, changes in latitude, changes in attitude (R.I.P., Jimmy Buffett, and thank you).
Here's the paradox, the good news/bad news: We read a deep spiritual truth, we get it, we quote it, we teach it...and are no closer to the truth of it than we were before we heard of it.
The good news is that we get it; the bad news is that we get it...and we stop. To get it is akin to our first taste of alcohol...we get it, we love it, we want more. However, alcohol has many different life uses from pleasure to practical to medicinal...our personal needs dictate its use, and learning which takes time, effort and want-to.
The same goes for spiritual truth...for that matter, same goes for God. Our personal needs dictate our life's walk...and there is no wrong way to walk with God. Following his lead is all we need do which is what makes it so difficult whether we are going for the gold or are stayed in the material mind.
Following his lead, we will go down that wrong road again and again, getting closer all the while...not following his lead, we will do the same only getting no closer each time. Stayed in self, we stay in self.
We go to God for God, and that is all.
Thank you.
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