What does this mean. Does it mean that I won't get any assistance from God unless I do something first? Perhaps it means that the only way God chooses to manifest God's power is through our actions. What then is the role of prayer, if nothing happens until we do something. Is prayer that something. Or do we have to be proactive before we can request something from God?
It is all very confusing.
Is God a God of loving and caring, or one who counts the times we take action to do something to get ourselves out of whatever trouble we are experiencing?
So far, this is what I have come up with to help explain it to myself. As readers, you are just along for the ride. This is really a conversation with myself.
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When things start happening, and change comes; I can look back on those events that precipitated it and most of the time I see God's hand in it. It seems that, indeed, nothing happens until something moves. Thus Einstein said of the universe in his theory of relativity.
God and I are co-creators of my life. I decide in which direction to go, what to do, what to be, and God is with me step by step, with encouragement, energy, conviction, and power. But, the important point is that I choose what to do, when and where. I choose what to think, to focus on, to become.
It is all about free choice. It would violate my free choice if God intervened and said, "No! You cannot be a Computer Technician. I want you as a missionary in Uganda!" Not that God has said anything of the kind to me, but you get the point. Even in the Bible is says that whatever you bind on earth it is bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth it is loosed in heaven. I find this to mean that whatever thoughts, words and deeds we choose to do here are done simultaneously in the world of the unseen. In other words, I choose what to do here, and it has effects in the world of the visible, of matter and that of the invisible, of Spirit.
Let's say that I choose to focus all my thoughts on forgiving someone who has wronged me, hurt me, or betrayed me. In the instant that I forgive them, my world, both matter and spirit, is changed. I have created a world in which I am no longer chained my the feelings of betrayal and anger toward another. God and myself have co-created a world where I am a person who can forgive. Conversely, in that world, I can also be forgiven. For I cannot forgive another unless I learn how to accept forgiveness from another.
"Forgive our sins as we forgive those who sin against us!" Really this means that to the degree I have learned to forgive others, is the degree to which I can accept forgiveness from others, including God.
Back to the whole co-creation thing though.
Changes in my life have occurred because I was open to seeing the world in a new way. It is all a matter of perspective. God is the co-creator of these new perspectives because God is in everything and everyone. When I choose to see the world differently, the world changes to fit that perspective. Thus, I change the way I look at something, and that something changes as I look at it. This is co-creation.
Many times I have met people that others have said were bitchy, angry, cantankerous, weird, strange, shy, overpowering, arrogant, etc. Yet, many times I meet them and start to understand them a little better and my perspective changes. Before I know it, they are not the people who were described to me, but rather different altogether. Again, when I choose to see people as basically good, yearning for the same things that I am; love, acceptance, trust, peace, I find that they possess these qualities. Again, God and I have co-authored a world where this has become fact. Yet, another might see people as cheating and hostile, greedy and untrustworthy, and their world becomes just that. The people they see and encounter fulfill their expectations.
I guess what I am saying with so many words is that we get to choose what kind of person we wish to be, and what kind of world in which we wish to live. In this process, God is empowering us to create that world. For good or evil, for peace or turmoil. With our free choice, we choose and that is reflected both here and in heaven, both with the world of matter and with that of spirit.
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