Why Wait For Problems To Happen?

Plug into the power now.

Where we live, there are often little spurts of power outages, causing my desktop computer to turn off, and I would lose whatever I was working on.

Finally, we stopped hoping they would stop and got a backup power source to keep the computer on long enough to shut it down correctly or survive those short bursts.

It was very cool. I was excited—there would be no more power failures in the middle of my work!

I plugged in my computer. The power went out. My computer turned off.

I blamed the equipment.

However, when I checked, I found that I had plugged the computer into the wrong outlet.

You'd think that was it, but it took me two more tries before I finally got the plug into the outlet designed to be a battery, not the outlet intended to run the equipment as a regular power source.

The source was there all along; the plug was clearly marked, but I kept plugging it into the wrong one.

In addition, I was tempted each time to think that the equipment we bought was faulty, blaming the source and not seeing the error of my ways.

Do you see where I am going with this?

Let's personalize God for a moment and call It a Force. (Yes, “Use the Force, Luke!”)

That Force always exists, and we always have access to it.

However, we often ignore it until something gives us the impetus to plug into it.

Perhaps a lack of some kind, ill health, or a painful relationship pushes us to finally go to the Force instead of hoping it would never happen again—like no more power surges.

We take the first step and plug in by studying spirituality, praying, or meditating more.

But it doesn’t work.

We may think, "Geez, what's up with that? I thought God was all-power, omnipotent Love, yet it is failing me."

Perhaps we try again and again, with little or no results.

In his book Invisible Supply, Joel Goldsmith makes a statement that relates to this. He talks about how he could do great work for others, but his family struggled financially.

One day, he realized it was because he didn't understand God.

He said, "There could be no fault with God or Truth; therefore, the fault must lie with me."

God does not know power surges, let alone lack, ill health, or sadness. God is omnipotent Love. Nothing in omnipotent Love could know what is not good because God is effectively All Good.

We can waste time defending ourselves. Perhaps the battery should have had more straightforward writing on it. Why aren't all its plugs backup sources, for example?

But at the least, this is an absolute waste of time and energy; at the most, it destroys our daily lives.

Blaming others, ourselves, or situations is useless and distracts us from the source, causing us to focus on what is not working.

Instead, let's get busy, recognize when we make mistakes, and simply correct them.

Stop attaching to the personality that wants attention of all kinds, and instead have a pure, strong desire to understand that Force.

That's the battery and the correct plug that we want to plug into. Here’s the good news. Unlike the backup battery we bought, we are constantly plugged into the Force called God.

But we must recognize that fact and base our actions on that truth.

Once we begin to let go of our illusions, beliefs, and personal "I want," we will start to experience the constant, consistent, loving power source that supplies all of our being—all of the time.

This awareness will dissolve all that isn't true, revealing what is.

And then, there will be no more power surges for us, just the experience of a steady, loving supply of good in every moment straight from the Force we call God.

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