There is nothing comparable to coming through a deep struggle alone with God. We may believe we would prefer to face a problem with our hand in another's. This may seem easier and more hopeful. But each one of us may sometime find that human help is inadequate to meet the depth of our need. We will then have the opportunity to learn that God alone is our help.
During these times when we reach out to divine Love as never before, we begin to understand Jesus' struggle in Gethsemane. We learn to surrender unconditionally to the infinite Love that can sustain us under any circumstance as it sustained him.
These moments are seldom easy. The heartfelt admission that divine Love is all-powerful and hatred nothing to us; that Spirit is All and matter nowhere; that our identity is eternal, perfect, and tangible in Soul—these admissions, made alone with God, can be challenging. But the sense of permanent security we gain from them and from the recognition that God alone is our help, we would not want to miss! To surrender wholly to Spirit when there is clearly no other help (and also when we think there is) is a momentous and precious step in our spiritual growth, a time not to be dreaded but to be understood.
