THERE IS NO SADNESS IN HEAVEN

Some people think that those who do God's will have to be sick, sad, poor and miserable in the world. The opposite is true.

It is a sin to remain ill.

It is a sin to be sad.

It is a sin to be poor.

It is a sin to be miserable.

It is a sin to be lonely.

Why? Because these are signs that you are in a state of spiritual darkness.

And God wants you to be close to Him in spiritual Light.

If you were in a state of spiritual Light, you would heal, you would be joyful, you would attract wealth and you would be loved.

 CHOOSE LIGHT

In the Bible, God says: "I create Light and darkness...." then He says: "Choose Light..."

To sin is to choose to remain in spiritual darkness.

The problem is that we have wandered so long in the dark that we think that is all there is.

It is like a man who was born and lived most of his life in a dark cave filled with spiders, cobwebs and mice. When he discovers the entrance to the cave and attempts to get out , he cannot bear the Light and inevitably returns to his miserable but comfortable surroundings.

God wants us to get out of our cave and bask in the sunshine and open spaces of Heaven.

We sin because we are in spiritual darkness and do not understand the Truth. But where is the Truth? The Truth is in consciousness. We must take our attention away from appearances and experience the Truth that is within us. 

For example, we are envious because we erroneously believe that we live in a competitive universe and certain rich persons have appropriated everything for themselves and left nothing for us. The Truth is that God's supply is infinite and God has never witheld anything from us. "Son, all that I have is yours." We must just understand how to ask, seek and find in consciousness.

We are slothful because we think we will be happy if we sit around and do nothing. This is a false belief. Real joy is only derived from being creative and useful.

We engage in lust because we erroneously believe it will make us happy. We think we will be happy if we have sex with some new and exciting person. This is a false belief. Yes, we will be happy for about 3 seconds and then we will be compelled to find a new candidate. Lust only causes us to fall into a vicious cycle of suffering.

We become greedy because we think money will give us power and make us happy. To love money for its own sake only causes us to retract into the darkness of our egotistical self. Money is just a symbol for spiritual goods. And all spiritual goods come from God and must be used to do God's will. If money is hoarded, wasted and misused, it only brings misery.  To love money for its own sake is a sin. But to desire money to do what is creative and useful is good.

We become angry because we do not trust in the Providence and infinite intelligence of the universe. We think we are smarter than God. We must forgive every one and leave revenge to God. "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord."

Eating brings us satisfaction. And so we think that, if we eat more, we will be even happier. We mistake our spiritual hunger for physical hunger. What we need more of is spiritual food. We need to understand something new every day. The Wisdom and Love of God is infinite; it is the food of the angels.

Now, man's original sin was pride or arrogance. He thought he could be happy by using his own intelligence and forgetting about God. He descended into the darkness of the ego. But the ego is a lie or negative entity that only brings misery. All Good and Truth comes from Heaven. Spiritual Light or Wisdom is a substance that is emanated from Heaven. And spiritual warmth or Divine Love is the only substance though which we can live and heal. Without Divine Love and Wisdom, our soul begins to die. This is why God implores us to choose Light or Life.

Our real self is united with God. When you ask human beings for their name, they usually answer: "I am John, I am Mary or I am Andrew.." They do not realize that "I AM" is the name of God. We must get in touch with this real "I AM" and do its will.