A Lesson on Will. (1)

A Thought Adjuster Speaks - Lesson # 9
January 9, 2004.

Today we will discus the meaning of the subject of will. Many entertain pre-conceived notions as to what will really is. Is it to want something, to will something and make this happen, to bend others to their will? The most important one; to learn to do the Will of God, is often the most puzzling and confusing, and yet the simplest of all. The true spiritual meaning of will is ‘an allowing to let some things happen’ -- an allowing for an inner Voice to lead you -- rather than for your own baser animal instincts to lead you.

In the beginning you start out on the spiritual path of seeking that indefinable ‘something.’ You have the urge to make sense out of life, and the start of this can happen at any age in the mortal lifetime. Ideally this happens when a child reaches the age of ‘discernment,’ makes a conscious correct choice, rather than a wrong choice, and at this point the Inner Pilot comes to indwell that child. From then on, the child often makes unconscious choices to be led by this Indweller, and true soul-hunger develops.

During the formative years it depends a great deal on the outer circumstances how the willingness to be led develops. At times, this is very gradual, but sometimes they forget, and mortals have to be ‘brought to their knees’ so to speak and be made to realize that there is more to life than just ‘wine, women and song.’ It is very much a matter of where the conscious or unconscious attention is placed, as to the plane on which the person lives.

So if it lives on the surface of life, then everything is superficial and mundane. When one begins to think a bit more independently, and begins to question the true purpose of life; starts seeking for the deeper meanings and values and develops a hunger to ‘look behind the veil’ into eternity, then the true soul begins to grow, and seeks to be fed and nurtured. It then feels a need to belong somewhere.

This urge and search to belong does not stop until it finds the eternal God. Until it realizes that in all actuality it has always belonged to God, because it simply cannot exist without God, for everything is inclusive in God.

God has given mortals the Gift of free will. It is up to each mortal to choose to do the Will of God and live in that consciousness of mind to conclude what all this means, and then start acting on the leadings and the prompts of the God-Fragment within them.

Ponder what ‘doing the Will of God’ means to you.