Is The Outcome Of Your Life In Doubt? A Spiritual Answer By Richard Blackstone At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Isn't it wonderful to be alive? To be experiencing life in the manner that you choose for yourself? If it's not so wonderful maybe you should stop doing those things that aren't grand and fulfilling and choose something else. It is totally up to you how you choose to experience your life.

One of the concepts that is a big influence on what you choose to experience in life is something that you will not know about until after this life journey is over. It is this idea that after your physical life journey is over you are going to experience this concept called your physical death.

Here is where one of the great questions of life comes into play. If you know and believe that you are eternal and one with your source then you know that you will return to source upon your physical death and continue to create whatever you desire but in another form.

If you believe in the premise that we are separate from God and dependent upon him, then another illusion about life comes into play and seems to make total sense. It is the illusion that the outcome of our life is in doubt. From what we know of this God of separation, we are on our own and we start off in the hole because we are born in sin.

We have to play by rules that seem very arbitrary at times. We have to follow his commandments. Now, of course, according to some religious leaders who claim to be God's intermediaries, we can circumvent some of the bad things that we do by declaring ourselves to be on his side and agree to follow the teachings of his son who had his teachings written down by different devotees.

Many of these scribes came along hundreds of years after his son, but they were still able to interpret and chronicle the son's teachings well enough that they got into the official book and their words became gospel.

Some religions would have us confess our sins to a religious leader who claims to have the power to make you pay for them by having you say some prayers that convey to God that you really are sorry. Saying the required prayers should wipe the slate clean so you look better when it comes to the final judgment.

But the outcome of your life is still in doubt. Why? Because until you die and go to the pearly gates and face St. Peter, you don't know for sure if you are going to heaven or to hell. You can't know for sure.

Can you see how this might create some anxiety for you? Especially because paradigm of separation says that you only really get the one opportunity here on earth, but after your death it is eternity in either heaven or hell. You better get it right the first time.

The sad fact about the concept of separation is that it makes you feel you can't trust God. You have been told all your life he is a loving God, but would a loving God let little babies die? You have been told that he is a just God, but you see liars and cheats get rich while honest labor brings you nothing but an early grave.

You have beseeched him with prayer but have come away empty-handed. You have been told that he is an all-powerful God, but you see the work of the devil and wonder why this all-powerful God loses to Satan so often.

Worst of all, you feel like you cannot trust God's judgment on accepting you into heaven. This God cannot be trusted. When the trust is not there, doubt creeps in. We don't trust this God, and therefore in your very belief that you are separate from God you realize the outcome of life is definitely in doubt. If you doubt the outcome of life, you must doubt God.

When you live this second illusion, that the outcome of your life is in doubt, you live a life of fear and guilt. From the time you begin to realize you doubt the outcome of your life, you start to fear that outcome.

The events and experiences of your life are tempered with the fear that if you don't make the right choices, you could go to hell. When circumstances in your life lead you to believe that you have done wrong, your inner guidance system (your ego) uses guilt to balance what you did against what you should have done. Depending on the circumstance you may have to carry around that guilt for a long time. Don't worry though, because there's more guilt where that came from.

Think about this. What if you did not doubt God? What if you could trust God? Would that not eliminate the element of fear of God? If you did not fear God, there would be no reason to live with guilt.

What if the second great illusion is wrong and the outcome of life is not in doubt? When you subscribe to the idea that you are one with your source and one with everything in existence, you begin to understand that you, my friend, are an eternal being and the outcome of your life is NEVER in doubt, because you NEVER really die. You just change form and go on creating your life without your heavy body and the constraints of time and space.

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