Spiritual Honesty
The truest measure of religion is not obedience... It is behavior.
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Fear is a child of vision. It is generated by our view and our perception. It is a choice, it is not a circumstance. Opposites exist in everything. There are positivisms and negativisms to each exclusive experience and occurrence in this life and must be for agency and choice to exist, and agency and choice must be, and are, participants in everything. Fear is the extreme opposite of faith. Fear is temporal viewing, faith is spiritual viewing. Faith is the power behind and in all action. Any action. Faith is the frame to any thought, any motive, any movement. Its power is inherent in our true identity and is in all things. Faith is the tool for uncovering true self. It is the instrument of courage to move without seeing, to act without understanding. It chooses good over bad and correct over incorrect instinctively, when allowed to be the chooser. Its force is unleashed by simple use. Faith is continual hope and its basic foundation is positiveness and trust and movement and works. It is the substructure to stewardship.
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The great peril of any religious life is the naturally produced conflict between rules and relationships. That conflict occurs when our focus becomes primarily the living of religion, attending mostly to the outwardness of faith, to the fulfilling of commandments. It is then that religion can becomes its own religion, it can become what we worship, believing that the satisfying of the processes and requirements of our faith are what will justify us. The rules of any faith are the means to an end, not the sole qualifications. Religion, and the practice of religion, is a vehicle, a catalyst, a foundation designed to facilitate a very authentic change in us, in our nature, in our very behavior. The underpinning of that change is when relationships become the reason for obedience and action, not the blessings and consequences of the rules.
About the Author
Paul Price was raised in Southeastern Idaho and has lived and worked in Northern California for the past thirty years. He is a Registered Investment Advisor for Woodbury Financial Services, Co-Owner of FlyLines, a flyfishing accessories company and Author of three books, "Last Chance", "Childhood Dying" and "Spiritual Honesty". He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and a Master's Degree in Education, both from California State University. He has been married to Christine Pinegar for thirty seven years and are the proud parents of seven children and five grandchildren.