Peace: The State of Innocence

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding“
Proverbs 3:5

It can be easy for the mind to get distracted, by being attracted to the voice of the adversary’s thoughts arising within awareness. When you notice any lack of peace, from small annoyances, upsets, a perception of problems or any variant of fear, this is an indication that one is giving validity to the voice of the adversary and misidentifying with its unloving thoughts.

It is as if the vast sky were to believe it was solely the substanceless clouds arising within it, instead of the vastness behind it. Keeping this metaphor in mind, it all comes down to this metaphorical identity.

When the mind thinks it knows anything at all about something in the world, it will defend this point of view at all costs. How many arguments and debates do you seem to get into over wanting to be right about how something happened in the world? All of the underpinnings of lack of peace are a decision to seemingly overlook the Self in Christ and the Peace of God, and then choose to shrink this vast, eternal Being to a temporal cloud passing through. The mind thinks it has to defend this false, substanceless identity as the cloud.

In doing so, the mind meets the conditions for conflict, which is at the cost of God’s Peace and Happiness. Any slight unease is always an alert to see that one is giving reality to the voice of the adversary and desiring to be right about how the enemy has set up this world.

When this alert is noticed, one can instead pause and question where one is giving devotion towards. Do you want to continue to be right, which comes at the cost of peace, or do you want to be happy instead? In each moment you have a choice, until it is just an acceptance, about what you desire to experience. Do you desire peace or conflict? Do you desire to represent Christ or the voice of the adversary?

Depending on how you feel, you can use this one right use of judgement to know whether or not you are choosing to be right or happy, choosing the adversary or the Holy Spirit.

The first step in the decision for the Peace of God is seeing that, if being right is giving reality to a false sense of self then being happy must be the undoing of this. This entails a raising to doubt of the validity of the voice of the adversary, along with all of its thoughts of temptation and sin in mind. Essentially, this can be restated as the desire to be wrong, a re-opening of the mind to wonder where it claims not to know anything.

The second step for peace is to see that the mind is not at peace because the mind has chosen another goal. You have chosen conflict instead of peace, or give reality to the great deceiver rather than the Peace of God. The mind has decided that to be right about something of the world is more important than knowing your Self in Christ and sharing the Fruits of the Spirit. Here, you open up to seeing that the meaning or judgements about the situation were wrong because they did not bring you peace.

This is a stepping back, seeing that you are never upset for the reason you think because you have given everything all the meaning it has for you. The mind was giving reality to the great deceiver, which was then assigning all the false meanings and wanting to be right about them. Perception is only an effect, which is why taking 100 per cent responsibility for your state of mind is important. It is a humbling experience.

When the mind is misaligned with a false sense of self, there can be a tendency to take responsibility for actions. Even project this responsibility onto others, which only creates guilt. Because what is done comes from what is thought, the responsibility is actually for your state of mind. It is only on the mind level—the level of thought—where the mind can choose again for peace and can choose again for correction.

A child who looks around a dark room may think they see a monster, yet once the light comes on it is seen as just a jacket hanging on the wall. This is an example of how the mind assigns its own meaning onto something that is not there, and can want to be right about it. This can be applied to all upsets. The voice of the adversary will project its own meaning first, in an attempt to either provide evidence against or distract one away from the Peace of God, to maintain its substanceless existence which needs your faith in it to even “exist”.

When you pull back these investments by turning on the Light of Christic Discernment through the Holy Spirit, it is seen for what it really is, having no power before the Power of God. When the jacket is seen as a jacket or false thoughts seen as false thoughts, they fade into the nothingness from which they came from. The Peace of God is then left shining As It Is.

How joyous is the fact that seeing you were wrong is the same as seeing that you didn’t actually know. Experiencing the fact that you know you do not know anything at all, is what allows the mind to withdraw from all the fearful meanings that were assigned to everything. This is what allows you to say, “Huh, right now I am seeing a monster, but I must be misperceiving. I am now open to seeing again.” This is what turns on the light.

In the Light of the Holy Spirit, the conditions of peace are met and it comes flooding into awareness. Holding no opinions or judgements that are apart from the Holy Spirit, one steps out of the driver’s seat.

Remember to laugh, Loved One!

You are so loved!

❤ ❤ ❤