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February 3rd 2003
Received by H.R.
Cuenca, Ecuador.
Do you know the difference between you and me?
No, no! I am referring to something basic; don't think of superficialities,
it is something very essential.
I will tell you. It is about trust in God. Mine
is absolute, yours is still quite faulty.
I already know what you want to reply: That it is not so easy to
trust blindly when one lives on earth and has to observe the atrocities
that are happening. However, I tell you that these things happen
precisely because of the widespread lack of trust in God.
All that materialism, all those concerns that at times are even
ridiculous, have their roots in the fact that people believe that
they have to worry about everything, that they have to take care
even of the most trivial particulars in their lives. Of course,
such an attitude can only lead to frustrations and fear.
Once I told you that fear is the emptiness of the soul; it is lack
of faith in God. This also implies lack of trust.
“You must let little children come to me, and you must never
stop them. The kingdom of Heaven belongs to little children like
these!” So said Jesus, and he had good reasons to say so.
To the children, their parents are people of absolute trust. Their
parents, so they believe, do not know evil, their wisdom is absolute,
and they know how to do everything. In their small and young minds,
children consider adults, especially their parents, almost like
gods. And they have absolute trust in them — in the beginning.
Then, unfortunately, they realize the fallibility of their parents,
and their faith in them, which at first seemed unbreakable, falls
to pieces. Those are perhaps the most difficult and traumatic moments
in the life of a young human being. Much depends on how this difficult
phase is overcome, and it is exactly then when also the infantile
faith in the Good and Almighty God receives a hard blow.
This emotional turmoil leads them to forget the fact that God is
not a fickle or inconstant being: He is the fixed center of the
whole universe, He is the Source from where everything proceeds,
and He is the measure of everything.
You say that life is difficult. But perhaps you should think that
people – through their very attitude – make their (and
other’s) lives difficult. After all, God has projected a happy
end for all people; He has even provided a straight and direct road
to this happiness. Therefore, try to walk along this well-marked
road. If you stray and find yourself in problems, don't put the
blame on Him.
The Master's teachings are like a road map. Read it, study it,
and follows the clearly marked roads. They lead, there is no doubt
about it, to a gradual approach to the Source of All Existence.
Anything you do that does not contribute to this purpose, will be
vain and, at the most, of a temporary satisfaction.
This source, God, has no name. Ha-Shem we called Him, The Name,
but He has no name, He simply is. Jesus called Him Father, and He
is the only true Father that exists. When you discover His true
attributes, you will not suffer the childhood trauma, but you will
rather find the absolute that manifests itself in the form of Love.
It is then when you will no longer find it difficult to trust in
Him, but when it will be impossible for you to lose that trust.
It is then when you will be exactly on the right and good road
to that destination the Father has prepared for you. It is then
when you will feel how His Hands guide you, and you will notice
that the road is flat and easy to walk, because He has removed all
obstacles.
Is their really any reason to despair, whatever
your situation might be?
Do what you can do, just contribute by your example, and the world
will change with you.
"Very slowly," you say? This is true: to an external
observer, it will seem like a very slow change. But to you, everything
will change in a flash. After all, what is the world to you? It
is what enters through your eyes and ears and what receives your
interpretation. That is the world where you live in. Changes really
depend on you, don't you think?
To trust God means to live in Heaven, even in
the most difficult of situations.
Why have I written so much? Everything has already been summed
up in these words:
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The LORD is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
for Thou art with me;
Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.
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God bless you,
Your brother in Christ,
Judas
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