Accept that God knows better
Priya Sharma
"The ideal image of the flower in minutest detail is within the
seed and must expand, multiply, unfold, and be wrought into the perfect flower by
hourly preparation. When this inner image is complete in minutest detail, the flower
comes forth beautiful. Just so God holds the ideal image of every child in mind, the
perfect image through which He wishes to express.
We can get more out of this
ideal way of expression than the flower does if we will but let God express through
us in the ideal way He has conceived for us. It is only when we take things into our
own hands that the problems and difficulties begin. This is not for one, or a few,
this is for all. It has been shown us that we are not different from you. It is a
difference in understanding, that is all.
"All the different isms, cults, and
creeds, all the different angles of all beliefs, are all good for they will eventually
lead their followers to the realization that underneath all there is a deep factor of
actuality that has been missed, a deep something that has not been contacted or they
have failed to contact that which rightly belongs to them, which they can and should
rightfully possess.
We see it is this very thing that will eventually drive man
to possess all. The very fact that man knows there is something to possess, which can
be possessed and which he has not, will goad him on until he has it. It is in this way
every step in advance is made in all things.
The idea is first pressed out from
God’s into man’s consciousness and he sees there is something ahead if he will but go
on. Here man usually blunders and fails to recognize the source from which the idea
came; but thinks that it came wholly from within himself.
He gets away from God
and, instead of letting God express through him the perfection God sees for him, he
goes on and expresses in his own way and brings forth imperfectly the thing which
should be perfectly wrought or manifest.
If he should but realize that every
idea is a direct, perfect expression from God and, as soon as this idea comes to him,
he would immediately make it his ideal to be expressed from God, then take his mortal
hands off and let God express through him the perfect way, this ideal would come forth
perfect.
Here we must realize that God is above the mortal and the mortal cannot
help in any way. In this way man would learn in a short time to express perfection.
The one great thing man must learn is to get forever through and out of the psychic or
mind forces and express directly from God, for all psychic forces are created wholly
by man and they are likely to mislead."
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far
East Volume 1 page 89-90 by
Baird T. Spalding
I have used willpower (could it be psychic powers and
mind powers?) to give love to the world when I walk around my apartment. But I have
experienced that there has been psychic resistance to it. I have not felt good about it.
But when I have contacted God's idea of love and allowed God to express it through me,
I have succeeded in loving the world without mental resistance. I do not claim that I
have succeeded in loving the world through God's thoughts of love all the time.
How do you recognize God's ideas of love? They come as a revelation. Like when inventors
get an idea. You ask how do you get God's ideas in everyday life and not just through
prayer at the weekly prayer meeting and the Sunday church meeting?
I surrender
my life into God's hands and allow myself to be a channel for God's ideas and thoughts.
Instead of asking God for ideas and thoughts, I usually desire to express God's ideas
and thoughts by doing God's will.
Jesus, who always did God's will, told how it
happened:
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask him? (Luke 11:13)
Believest thou not that I am in the Father,
and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the
Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father,
and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I
say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and
greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
(John 14:10-12)
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the
Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (1 Corinthians 3:16)
And when he was
demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and
said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo
here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
(Luke 17:20-21)
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a
new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(2 Corinthians 5:17)
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye
put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
(Ephesians 4:23-24)
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God. (Romans 12:2)
~ Hermes Atar Trismegistus, a love grain.
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