YOU WILL FEAR THE LORD

“These are the commandments I give you this day, you will fear the Lord.”  In the fifth book of the Torah, the people are given this message.

What does it mean to ‘Fear the Lord”?  are we supposed to obey a deity – or anyone else – that we are afraid of?  How can we fear and love God at the same time?  That sort of relationship describes the Stockholm Syndrome.  This is not a healthy relationship.

“Loving God” means to accept the spiritual nature of our lives.  Once acknowledged, we should engage with the intrinsic ethereal aspect.  We have the opportunity and the ability to draw the heavenly into the earthly.  Forming and utilizing this bridge between the two worlds of existence completes life.  Furthermore, it heals by filling in what is missing in the material world.  Enhancing and becoming part of this experience creates powerfully positive emotion.  This is the love of God.

Dismissing this magnificent possibility is a shame.  Taking advantage of it clarifies the wonder and meaning of living life to the fullest.  It must be experienced.  It is not an intellectual construct.  It is not academic at all.  It is bringing together our physical lives with that which is beyond the material.  The result is reaching the mountain top.  Ignoring an opening to the greatest of life’s rewards is tragic.  The trepidation of having stumbled when leaping was available is “Fearing God.”

“Fearing God” means to be reluctant to incorporate our soul into our lives.  God commanded us to be different (holy) in the way God is different (being 100% spiritual).  The goal is not to become 100% spirit.  It is to meld those heavenly powers with our known earthly powers so they can complement and enhance each other. 

But there is purpose in having a physical existence such as we enjoy.  God wants us to use our physical existence for the goal of optimal living.  It requires a partnership with the soul to accomplish this goal.  We must enlist and activate the soul to achieve the best that life has to offer.

If we do not seek to become in contact with the soul, or if we bypass opportunities to invite the soul into our physical lives, then we will fall short of what life offers.  For our personal benefit and that of all humanity and the world, learn to love taking advantage of broadening the horizon of life.  That is “loving God.”  Resisting that is “fearing God.”

If we are too distracted and avoid focusing, then the benefit that the soul has to offer is wasted. 

We fear having spent our time doing things that give little or no spiritual aid to the journey of life.  We fear missing golden opportunities.  We fear not taking at least some advantage of that which God has put within our reach to realize the fullness of life.

We must live in the material universe to benefit from this great gift.  Only while inhabiting the earthly plane can we summon the spiritual to fulfill its potential.  The process entails awakening the soul and bringing it into contact with the physical world.  This is how we make the world a better place to live in.  With that accomplished, we are able to appreciate our lives with the greatest clarity.

Missing all that is certainly a reason to regret not pursuing the missed opportunities.  We “fear” squandering the chance to enrich our lives through contact with the soul.  We are not “afraid” of the Lord.  We are anxious from not touching that part of us that is like the Lord.  We can learn from this fear to make better use of our minds and energy.