Our Fortress
Read Psalm 91.
Observe that the poem opens by announcing the irresistible power of prayer. Then in order to bring home the fact that this law applies to us, and that by no possibility could we be an exception, it now changes over to the first person and makes us say “I.” It compels us to voice the I AM.
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. The Lord means God. How can knowledge be a presence? Secular knowledge, which is intellectual, cannot; but the true knowledge of God is an actual experience – not a thing of the head, but of the heart – and this is indeed a Presence. As a general rule, people contact this Real Self only vaguely and occasionally. Then, if they pray regularly, the gleams of intuition gradually strengthen into a definite sense of the Presence of God.
In Him will I trust. However worried or depressed you may be, however full of doubts and misgivings, still the fact that you are praying means that you have at least enough faith for that. The faith to go on praying in the midst of doubts about results is the tiny grain of mustard seed that Jesus says is sufficient for practical purposes. Declaring in Him will I trust means that you have now determined to trust by ceasing to worry and fear. This is the legitimate and spiritual use of the will.
The “real self” of each human is God’s consciousness, manifesting itself through mortal existence here below. We are each but a small bud of God’s consciousness pushing into the physical world through human consciousness. Each child carries the spark of the divine presence within themselves. Each person can choose to accept the truth of their existence as a part of God’s consciousness.
Those who do, learn the true meaning of life and the true nature of our being. Those who accept this truth and seek God’s will, transform from the larval form in which we were born, into the butterfly which we were created to become. Those who do not accept this truth are destined to live and die in a cocoon as is the blind and bound larva that never made the metamorphosis God intended.
Like the larva in the cocoon, even though blind and bound, if we accept our true nature and believe in God, then we will be freed, given our sight and the ability to fly. We can then live in our gardens as beautiful creatures of God who by their flight and their tasting of the flowers, bring health, growth and joy to our Edens.
In God will I trust,
Z gardener
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