Reflections | ILLUSION VS TRUTH

Listen as Monsignor Don Fischer reflects on how we must evolve our consciousness to get the most out of God’s work.

Good morning. I want to talk to you about our image of God. Interesting thing about God as you see him revealing himself through the Old Testament, through the New Testament, through whatever else is going on in your relationship with him. You've got the Old Testament story. You got the New Testament story. You've got your personal relationship with him.

And all of that is designed for intimacy. You're supposed to have an intimate relationship with God where you are radically honest with him, and He is radically honest with you. But it begins always with a very simple image of who God is, a God who demands goodness and rejects evil, accepts those that are good and rewards them, and rejects those that are evil and punishes them. And that's what I would call I don't know, God 101.

 It's like a child-like response to an issue that is very complex. I mean, that's what you would tell a child. You can't go in the street. You can never go in the street. There's this wrong, every time. And the child doesn't understand why it's told that way. But then it makes sense because it's protecting you, and you don't have the ability to protect yourself. So maybe that black and white, right and wrong God is important. I'm sure it is for some, but that's not what he wants in our relationship. You want something more than that? And I always say what he wants is not for you to be wrestling with what's right and wrong, but what's illusion and what's truth.

That's a whole new world. And what it takes is a conscious human being evolved and transforming from a self-centered little child to somebody who has a sense of their own dignity and value and their responsibility to make the right decisions. And somehow, even a higher calling to me to be someone in something to other people that is a value.

When you're in that level and that relationship with God, helping you see between illusion and truth is the most exciting possible journey you can have. Because what you do is slowly, and he will do this with you, ask yourself these questions over and over again. What do I believe? What do I feel about something? What do I know about this?

And that kind of reflective life is absolutely essential if you're going to end up seeing things as they are. That's the work that God wants to do. Open your eyes so that you can see what a beautiful image. If you're willing to see, if you ask God to show you, you'll see what's illusion and you'll see what's truth.

And that journey, so much more complex, so much more exciting, so much more mysterious in a theory, but oh how effective. And the result is peace and a well being that no one can take from you. That's living in the truth.

Have a great day.

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