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Michigan, US of A, May 16, 2009.
Teacher Ophelius.
Received by Chris.
Ophelius: “Today’s message is about having one’s
cake and eating it. What does it mean to have one’s cake and eat
it? This is a euphemism used to describe the solving of a paradox about
choosing something which is desired at the forgone expense of losing
something else, but in this case, the choice is eliminated and both
desires are concomitantly attained. This idea of having one’s cake
and eating it can be applied to the spiritual application of doing the
Father’s will. In the minds of many of you humans, you have this
fear or dread that to do the will of God means you must give up your
earthy pleasures and desires to take up your cross as it were. Much
of this fear and dread has to do with the entrenched ideas of the rules
and regulations of ecclesiastical authority through religious institutional
penance.
“This idea of self denial is, in the beginning, true for the purging
of detrimental, self destructive habits, and lustful desires that pull
one away from the path of light, but this idea of having your cake and
eating it has to do with the faith sons and daughters who have made
the choice for eternal life and have entered the Kingdom of the Father’s
family. It is these children who will find joy in living, loving, and
serving the Father; joy in helping and loving your brothers and sisters;
and joy in your pursuit for spiritual rewards through truth seeking
and faith building.
“Once you arrive at this place of joy for truth, beauty, goodness,
and the doing of the Father’s will, you will look down at your
plate -- the plate that held the forbidden cake, and find the crumbs
of satisfaction there as the evidence of things you feared to lose through
self denial have in fact been replaced by higher ideals and spiritual
desires.
“Let go of your fear of self denial and look forward to that place
of peace -- that peace that surpasses all understanding -- the joy of
knowing you are in the Father’s family and that you have been written
into the book of life to be partakers in His eternal inheritance.
“He who is master of himself is greater than he who takes a city.”
Be master of yourself, and enjoy your cake!
“Good day,
“The Circle of Seven “
© 11:11 Progress Group.
“The giving of self, the illumination
of truth, and the relief of suffering
are the noblest paths to higher consciousness.” – Teacher
Ophelius, 2009.
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