By Banji Ayoola
Throwing ourselves into despair or distress, lamenting, complaining, or grumbling against what is brought across our path or laid on our table as a ‘delicacy’ which we must ‘enjoy’, against whatever unpalatable fate that befalls us is a rebellion against this experience, a rejection of the fate.
This is protesting against what comes our way in the perfect, accurate, and unbending outworking of the Laws. It is grumbling and sulking against the Laws that we do not deserve what comes our way. it is querying: Why should this undesirable fate befall me? Why me?
It is accusing the Laws of making a mistake, of being inaccurate, of being unjust.
Whereas whatever fate befalls man, whatever he is made to experience is a consequence of his earlier wrong or goodness. It is of his own making. He brings it about. He is the cause.
And whatever undesirable, painful, or sorrowful that he is forced to experience is lovingly brought across his path to make amends, redeem his former errors, atone, cleanse himself of the guilt arising therefrom, and free himself to continue on his path free of this particular burden.
It is the only means to his freedom and ascent. It is like a rope thrown at a sinking man in the abyss which he should heartily grasp and with which he should laboriously climb himself upwards to safety.
To benefit from such a moment requires humility.\
Rather than despair, distress, lament, complain, grumble, or protest against the undesirable fate that befalls us; against what lawfully is brought our path;
Which we had given birth to; which we had caused; as the ripened fruit of the seed we had once sown in our volition, thought, word, or deed;
We should humble ourselves before the fate lovingly brought our way to experience; change our volition for the good; now live in an all-embracing good volition; and face this unpalatable experience; this bitter ‘delicacy’ as the fruit of our sowing with humility.
We should humble ourselves before the experience, before this particular fate, and thank the Lord that after all we are being mercifully permitted an opportunity to discard some old guilt.
To live off some old burden and free ourselves from some entanglement for the onward journey towards the end of all our atonement, the only condition that can enable our total deliverance, freedom, or redemption from our guilt and ascent.
Calmly and in humility accepting the undesirable fate that befalls us, asking for help, for the strength to surmount and overcome this experience and be victorious will attract luminous rays and helpers to approach us and gradually surround us.
If continuously we prayerfully exert our good volition, increasingly seek and strive honestly to accord ourselves to the Laws of the Almighty Father in all we do, we will be helped.
And an end will soon come to the undesirable fate. And we will be permitted to experience desirable and good fortune. And our fate will change for the good.
Despairing, lamenting, and complaining are against the Laws. And we have been cautioned against these habits which further complicate problems, which cause further harm, which further weigh down, keep down, and drag the victim further downwards into the depths from which he may not return.
