BEING TRUE TO OUR OWN DIVINE COMPASS

One of life’s greatest lessons is learning to be true to ourselves. This can be especially difficult when there are so many loud voices out there that tell us we should do this or that, we should believe this or that, ... behave this way or that way. Yet, if we listen only to those loud voices coming from outside, we fail to miss that quiet voice inside of us which is our divine compass ... our True North. The more we honor that voice, the stronger and surer it becomes. As we grow and mature in our understanding of who we really are and why we are here, we are less likely to be thrown off course by louder voices than our own.

This is not to say we disrespect those whose beliefs and opinions differ from our own. The world works simply because we are all different … different but equally valuable in the equation that is life on this planet. “True North” - our own  divine compass - is the still, small voice … the one that keeps us awake at night … questioning, wondering, trying to figure things out.

Struggle is not necessarily a bad thing. It means we are alive and paying attention. Sometimes we are like Jonah in the belly of the whale fighting our higher selves and refusing to do what we feel divinely guided to do, that one thing or those many things that we were put on earth to give and to accomplish. To do those things we have to leave the safety of our comfort zones.

Being divinely guided doesn’t ensure instant success and approval from others. If we are expecting that to be the case, we are indeed fooling ourselves. That is ego talking, and the fears of our egos keep us small, keep us complacent, keep us from breaking away from the pack, breaking free from routines that no longer serve us. We are caught in them because they have become comfortable.

Yet, “comfortable” does not necessarily translate to “meaningful” to our spirits. God wants us to be great, so sometimes we are prodded by our discomfort to "get out of the boat"and go and do and say and create what is ours to create. When Jonah finally got “spit out” from that whale he ended up on the shores of Nineveh where his divine compass (God) wanted him to go in the first place.

As it is stated in Luke 12:32: “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.” Metaphysically interpreted, the “kingdom" referred to is the center of divine ideas within us, the recognition of our own Christ consciousness, those ideas that create beauty and harmony. It is that part of us that knows and understands God. How else are we able to create anything of meaning if we do not first know our own greatness as children of the Divine, made in the likeness of the Divine?

So, let us be wise beyond our fears, brave beyond our limitations, unsatisfied by the status quo. Let us strive for the kingdom of greatness and divine ideas which are within us waiting for expression in the world. Then we will have been wiser than was Jonah.

NOTE: The Metaphysical interpretation of KINGDOM was excerpted from “TRUTH UNITY”.