Dear Father, please be with me now as I open myself to you. I ask that your Light shine in my life that I may know that which is for the Highest Good. I bring myself into alignment with you and ask that all else fall away. I let go, returning all things to You as they are Yours. As I am Yours.
Father, I ask that Your will be done in my life. I ask that Your will be done through me in the world. Help me to remember when I forget and to give each day to You.
-David Whitaker
This article is adapted from āThe Path to Mastership,ā by John-Roger, DSS
Devotion
As your will and the Fatherās will become one, you enter into that quality of devotion that gives the credit to Spirit. You know that of yourself, you can do nothing. You say,
āFather, here I am. This is your child. Whatever you have for me to do, I will do gladly, because I know Iām going to inherit all things. If I have to inherit the manure pile before I inherit the ļ¬ower garden, so be it. Or if I inherit the ļ¬ower garden and then the manure pile, thatās okay, too. However you see it, Father, Iāll abide by Thy will.ā
Be very thankful you can grow regardless of any physical, mental, emotional or ļ¬nancial situation. Your devotion to God can transcend all situations and become the constant factor of your life. Then you follow one Light, the Light which is God. Itās been called many names and worshipped in many ways, but everyone is reaching to this one consciousness. There is one mind, the mind of God. There is one consciousness, God consciousness. All else are tributaries of the One. If you can get on a tributary leading back to God, you can follow it back into the mainstream of Godās energy. The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness is in the mainstream. It has been demonstrated over and over again. The Light has been demonstrated beyond a mental or emotional process. When you stop mentalizing and ask from your heart for Spiritās āLightā to be with you, things around you change. Then you know those things which seemed so locked in and crystallized can be released and altered. Itās a great day when you recognize that the things in your life which seemed inalterable can be lifted.
When your life is not going too well, you may enter into the area of devotion, saying, āFather, help me. God, save me. Deliver me from my enemies.ā You enter into extreme devotion based upon great emotional concern, which would be all right if that devotion were focused toward locating the truth within yourself and sacriļ¬cing the truths which donāt work for you. Be devoted to faith-fully ļ¬nding new truths and to creating and building on those areas of truth. Then look through your intelligence at what you have learned to see how you stand. By these processes, you make your will useful to you and grow to be very devoted to the freedom of your own expression.
Devotion may express itself as,
āLord, here I am to help, to be helped, to share and to be one with all. I donāt have to be all things to all people. Iām not even going to try. Iām just going to be me.ā
Just to be you can be a great challenge. Iāve said so often and to so many people, āThank God youāre you.ā And they look at me and think, āThank God Iām me? But Iām so angry and hurt inside.ā Thatās not the part I see. Thatās the illusionary part which is always changing. Youāll sacriļ¬ce it later when you realize truth isnāt going to reach into those areas. Youāll sacriļ¬ce it when you get the vision of a greater reality.
Your devotion keeps you moving forward. All you have to do, believe it or not, is keep yourself centered toward the Light consciousness. Itās easy. Every day in every way, turn toward the Light. Ask for the Light in the morning when you get up, when you get to the car, when you get to the gas station, before you get on the freeway, when you park your car, and on the way into work. Youāll enhance your realization of Living In Godās Holy Thoughts. Thatās the Lightāall the time. The more you attune to it, the more your inner Light grows until one day you say, āI am the Light,ā and itās not a lie. You say it because it is so. Yet something inside of you will be so humble that you may keep this fact to yourself. But when someone asks, you must truthfully acknowledge that you are the Light. Yet as you hear it, you say, āYes, that is the truth, but you are also the Light. Everyone is.ā The Light holds you to the truth, and that becomes a great joy.
– John-Roger
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