There is a
well-known story concerning the Apostle Peter, who was fleeing from Rome after the
crucifixion. He is said to have been met
by the risen Christ on the Appian Way and asked him, “Quo vadis?”
He was told by the Christ that he was going
back to Calvary to be crucified a second time.
Peter then realised that he was running away from his responsibilities
and his destiny. He couldn’t let another take on his responsibilities.
He returned to Rome and preached the good
news, which is now known as the Gospel.
He was crucified upside down, as he said that he wasn’t worthy to die in
the same manner that the Christ had died.
Whether you believe this story or not
doesn’t really matter, but what does matter is whether you stand firm knowing
what you are destined to achieve. Or do
you turn away from the directions of your Creator?
When faced with earthly pain and suffering
many people turn away. They feel that
they are not strong enough to shoulder their promises made to the Spirit before
they come down to live this earthly life.
There are souls here on this earth plane
that are so narrow in their outlook that they confuse this physical world with
the spiritual one. They have been
encouraged in this belief by manmade religions, who only teach about what they
can control in others.
It has been truly said that the Spiritual
truth is simple. It is man that makes it
complicated. We are all made in the
image of God. God is the Spirit. We are spiritual beings; whose home is in
Spirit.
We come down as spirit into a physical body,
biologically made by our parents, to live an earthly life and to play our part
in giving to others and working for the Greater Good. We come with a destiny to fulfil and
achievements to honour.
If we turn away from God, because we fear
that we cannot fulfil our promises and His directions for us, then we will be
guided automatically on to another course and brought back to face our fears.
We need to ask God, the Higher
Intelligence, not to take away what we fear, but to show us how to overcome our
fear of it. However much we may give up on
our Creator, we are never abandoned. The Spirit is always there for us.
When we make wrong choices and pursue a
path of our own desires, we will find that our purpose in this life is still
there to be achieved. It will not be
taken away, but we will be redirected to fulfil it and given additional
strength to do so.
As in our story about the Apostle Peter, he
realised that he was unable to let another take his place and that was why he
turned back to Rome to fulfil his destiny, which lay there and not in any other
part of the world.
We can take courage from these stories of
other souls and how they overcame their own fears. Made in unconditional love, we were created
to fulfil a lifetime of service to others and not just a short time on this
earth plane.
We were made of stronger stuff than this
physical body that we use on a temporary basis to achieve our stay here. Within we all have the spiritual body that is
indestructible and which we continue to have after we have passed on from this
world.
The world that we came from and return to
is one of unconditional love in abundance and cannot be compared to conditions
here. Our actions here direct us to this
Spiritual dimension, if we have earned the right to return directedly there.
Sadly, there are those who take advantage
of others and fail to fulfil their destinies.
They, according to Spiritual Law, will reap what they have sown and
where they lack the goodness of the Spirit they will receive what they gave
out.
Until they have made amends and learned
their lessons for their bad behaviour and the pain they have inflicted on
others, they will dwell outside the light of the Higher Intelligence and learn
how to become worthy of getting there over time.
We are all responsible for our
actions. Nobody can stand in our place
and we must realise that everything that we do is down to us and nobody
else. We all reap what we sow for good
or for ill and I say Amen to that.
