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Every once in a while I get inspired by a thought even though I had n plans to write anything. The last few days I’ve had these nagging thoughts about the “Kingdom of Heaven”. I felt inspired to write something. So if you’ve been waiting for a blurb on this subject, congratulations!
If you are Christian, you have heard the story of the Garden of Eden, Paradise, and the Fall of Man. In Christianity, this represents the event which caused us to lose Paradise - to be expelled from the “Kingdom” to fend for ourselves. We apparently offended God and were sentenced to suffer the consequences.
Jesus talked a lot about the “Kingdom of Heaven”. In the “Kingdom of Heaven” whatever we wanted we received without thinking about it. There was no such thing as doubt as our only experience was knowing that we would always receive whatever we want or need. Having such faith and trust in the outcome guaranteed the outcome – believing produced the thing we believed we would obtain.
When that changed - for whatever reason - we experienced doubt. This doubt meant that we didn’t trust. Consequently we caused a lack of receiving because trust and belief are prerequisites to receiving. The receiving has never changed. But the lack of trust and belief necessary to effect whatever we want has interfered with the ability to experience this Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom is achievable, now, anytime, collectively and individually by trusting, believing and knowing.
Jesus talks of this when he says that you need to be childlike in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, or the Reign of Heaven. Childlike means unquestionably trusting and believing. Go back to your childhood and think of Santa Claus or falling asleep when your Dad or Mom was driving through a dark rainy night. Your experience had not yet caused you to doubt so you had no reason to fear. Jesus also illustrates this figuratively when He says that it is difficult for a rich man to enter the Kingdom. The more we have the more we fear losing and the harder to achieve the ability to trust and believe.
Detaching yourself from your “possessions” necessarily detaches you from the fear of losing them, the doubt of a bad decision, etc. Same thing when your experiences consist of a large number of negative events. You fear, stop trusting and stop believing. This is all a paradox, because giving away the fear of losing everything, giving away the feeling that another negative event can/will occur causes you to trust and believe, and ultimately receive everything.
A condition of achieving this state of mind and of being is to clear your mind of any negative energy, any negative thoughts and emotions. (And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.) This prepares you for a feeling of love. It actually fills you and surrounds you with love so that you are literally IN love and love is IN you. This creates the environment necessary for receiving anything and everything in a trusting believing way from the Creator of everything.
Jesus also said that many people will achieve the Kingdom of Heaven without experiencing death. This tells us that our present condition is not unchangeable nor is a state of peace, love and happiness unattainable. To the contrary. Everything we could want is RECEIVABLE in a state of love, trust, belief and acceptance.
So if you’re looking for a way. If you’re trying to find peace, happiness, love and positive change, now you know where to look… inside.