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God wants to free us all from mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical suffering; therefore, God designed a series of universal laws as a feedback system to help guide us. This divine system is not meant to punish us but rather to bring us back to a state of harmony and perfected love. But many people find they do not want to live by someone else’s laws. They do not want to give up their personal truth. They do not understand that the real meaning of personal truth is actually what God sees as the truth about you. Divine Truth is what God sees as the ultimate truth of the universe. Divine Truth will never accommodate itself to the beliefs of men. Men have to accommodate their beliefs to Divine Truth.

Deprogramming your set of belief systems may be difficult at first, especially if you have followed a very specific religious or spiritual practice or do not believe that God exists at all or have unresolved childhood issues around authority. You may dig in and say, “My beliefs are my beliefs, and there is no changing them.” Your parents may have been very stern or you went to a school that had strict rules so you may say, “No one is going to tell me what to do.” If you could only remember that sometimes laws, especially God’s divine laws, have been created to benefit and protect you rather than restrict, punish, or repress you, then this might not be so difficult to accept.

If you are resistant to change, then remember that nothing in life is permanent. How many times have you been adamant about your opinion and then a few years later done a 180-degree turn when you believed something completely different? How many times has a scientist proven a certain law of physics and then had to refine his work when new information came to light? The world is always changing, just like the change of seasons in nature; the only permanent thing is impermanence itself and the truth about God’s universal laws. If you hold on too tight to your beliefs and cling to something that is not in harmony with God’s Truth because it seems too painful to accept that you might be wrong, you will continue to feel only pain and stress in your life. Often our personal truth is based on fear and is in error from God’s perspective.

When you realize that what you have been taught and believed all your life is not the whole of God’s Truth, it can bring up a lot of grief about your life. What if you have lived many years following belief systems that ultimately turn out not to be true or to have been misinterpreted? The fear of feeling grief about how you have been lied to or how different your life would have been if you had known the whole truth may be so intense that you resort to anger and refuse to allow any new knowledge to enter. But God’s knowledge and wisdom is infinite— an absolute truth—the Divine Truth that has no finality. New information is coming to light all the time. You should not allow yourself to stay locked in the darkness of a stubborn, fearful mind. Every day God is trying to awaken us to something new about the universe and ourselves.

That is why I hope you can stay open to the new information in this chapter. If you can allow Divine Truth to enter and be open to investigate the possibility of a false belief, then perhaps your life will change for the better. As you continue to read this chapter, allow yourself to investigate how your current belief may need expanding. Permit yourself to identify, experience, and release your fears and also feel, experience, and release the underlying causal emotion that is blocking you from Divine Truth. Truth is often felt to be “painful,” but in reality, only error is painful. If you feel pain when you read the following truths of God, then it is not because you are hearing truth but because you are releasing errors that you have been carrying for all your life. If you can let your knowledge be eternally progressive and can align your personal truth with God’s Divine Truth, your life will be filled with greater peace, clarity, and understanding. As the saying goes, “The truth will set you free.”