The Truth About God’s Will
God is the ultimate enabler, giving us exactly what we’re already working toward. Want to be a slacker with no direction? God will avoid giving you any sort of guidance or assistance. Want to be a world-famous sumo wrestler? God will supplement the actions you’re taking toward your goal by putting just the right people, opportunities, and ideas in your path. As a being with the essence of God (the Holy Spirit) within our souls, in a very real way, we define the will of God every morning when we get up. This is the truth of free will. By listening to our inner christ/buddha nature, we discover the will of God already within us. Surrendering to it is not surrendering to the will of an outside entity; it’s giving in to the secret dreams that we’ve always yearned for and have never been brave enough to actually reach for.
When we take an art class, we are doing God’s will. When we write a novel in a month, we are doing God’s will. When we sketch really childish cartoons on index cards, we’re doing God’s will. When we write articles about football, we are doing God’s will. If sin is anything contrary to the will of God, then we sin the most when we tell ourselves that there’s no way we can follow our dreams, that we have to sit in our crappy jobs and be miserable, that we could never own our own business, that we could never manifest our dreams in our daily life.
When we shut off the still small voice of a creative God in our souls in favor of the dry monotone of the reasonable, the safe, the responsible, and the mundane, we still create something, but we create something that expresses none of that inner beauty that expresses who we are, who we were, and who we’ve always dreamt of being.
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