{"id":110258,"date":"2020-12-02T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=110258"},"modified":"2020-12-02T18:06:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T02:06:58","slug":"choosing-in-gods-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/110258-choosing-in-gods-will","title":{"rendered":"Choosing in God\u2019s Will"},"content":{"rendered":"

“If it is in your heart as a living truth, it is what you can become. Maybe that takes your mastership to make it manifest, or perhaps it is God\u2019s will being done.” <\/em>– John Morton <\/p>\n

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This article comes from a Path to Mastership workshop John Morton led in September 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I look at intelligence, it is also wisdom. It is the ability to see the best choice with all the circumstances and to make that best choice. There\u2019s the intelligence. In the teachings of MSIA it\u2019s simple: Do what is right. Does that mean somebody is wrong? That\u2019s not the kind of right I\u2019m talking about. It\u2019s the best choice.<\/p>\n

Maybe it is a dilemma. Like, \u201cI don\u2019t see any best choices. They are all bad.\u201d What\u2019s the least bad? You can consider that is the best choice. Sometimes that\u2019s no choice. But be careful with \u201cno choice\u201d because life is going to make choices for us, called \u201cdefault\u201d. If you don\u2019t want to make a choice, one will be made for you. My experience is anything would have been better than doing nothing. As long as our attitude is, \u201cI\u2019m going to do what is best and I want to make it better,\u201d that\u2019s intelligence.<\/p>\n

In our choices is will. There is a personal will. Let\u2019s call that choice. I like to reserve God\u2019s will for God. But what do you do with your ability, your power? We could call that our personal will to make a difference. What do you want to create? What do you want to have as results?<\/p>\n

This is where will can come in as devotion. What is your commitment? What is it going to be? It\u2019s one thing to say what our commitment is and another to do it and demonstrate our life is on the line. Do we have the will to keep going, focusing on what we want to create? If it doesn\u2019t go our way, do we have the will to keep going? Let me offer this to you. You can act in God\u2019s will. That\u2019s powerful. There is a saying, \u201cIf God be for you, who can be against you?\u201d My God is with me.<\/p>\n

When we look at armies fighting, it\u2019s not unusual for both sides to claim that God is on their side. Let\u2019s consider that is true. God loves everyone, so God is on both sides. Who will triumph? Let\u2019s consider that is in God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n

In the Muslim tradition or faith, they have a word Insh\u2019Allah<\/em>. Allah<\/em>, the word for God is in there, the God of the Soul. Insh\u2019Allah<\/em> means the will of God is going to prevail. If I say, \u201cLet\u2019s have lunch tomorrow at noon, Insh\u2019Allah<\/em>,\u201d that means if God wills it. I look at God\u2019s will as having a lot of range in it but with freedom for our choice. We all have an abundance of choice. Even if that doesn\u2019t appear abundant outwardly, inwardly we are free to decide how we think or feel about something. That\u2019s our choice.<\/p>\n

I look at discipline as another word for following. There is a way to go, a way to mastership. That includes whatever we are doing inwardly and how we focus. What is your attitude? If you are thinking, consider energy is following your thoughts. Creativity has energy in it, so be careful what you think, especially the kind of thoughts you hold as true. You could call that your beliefs, faith and trust. Check those out because the energy is going to follow. Where we look, energy goes into that focus.<\/p>\n

The first look is in the inner mind. Do you see yourself being successful? Do you see yourself being kind and loving? Do you see your life that way with others and with whatever circumstances are involved? We all came packaged with imagination. Our mind has the ability to present an image. In English, \u201cimagine\u201d comes from image or picture. The way we see it. There is freedom in that we can imagine whatever we want. Do we?<\/p>\n

Be careful what you imagine. John-Roger said, \u201cAlways win in your fantasies.\u201d We are going to make up our fantasies. It\u2019s our choice. Let\u2019s make it up so we win. What if it doesn\u2019t turn out winning the way we imagined? Insh\u2019Allah. God\u2019s will. Trust that whatever happens, it is in God\u2019s will. That is how powerful God\u2019s will is. If it\u2019s allowed, it is in God\u2019s will. That\u2019s who God is.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s consider that if it is not in God\u2019s will, it\u2019s not going to happen. That\u2019s powerful. But I am again saying our freedom of choice has lots of range. On the path of mastership, we are always learning from whatever takes place. That is good. Some great questions are: What am I learning from this? What is this circumstance teaching me? Who is this person as my teacher? What lessons are they bringing to me that I need to learn?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s consider this thing we call karma, the law that is in God\u2019s will. What you sow, you reap. What you put out comes back to you. What goes around comes around. It means you are being a responsible creator. Have the discipline to go with what creates what you want to create. If your life is not working for you, consider you are being disciplined and taught. You are having the experiences you need for your learning and growth.<\/p>\n

You are a living master-in-training, meaning you have a thing or two to learn. That\u2019s my life. I\u2019m still a student. That is primary. Are you a teacher? My life is a teaching and life is a message. I am not the first to say that. Let\u2019s consider everyone has that teaching in his or her life.<\/p>\n

What we do speaks loudly. What we choose comes back to us. Choose wisely. Choose with that discipline asking, \u201cIs this what I want to create?\u201d John-Roger said, \u201cIf you want to be happy, do happy things. If you want to be joyful, do joyful things. To be peaceful, do peaceful things.\u201d Could it be that simple? Yes.<\/p>\n

Then, there is the law. We are going to learn according to what we are responsible to as creators. We can go to the \u201cmaster class\u201d and play at the highest levels, but that takes great willingness. I like the word \u201cwillingness\u201d versus personal will. Are you willing? Are you going to give your best effort? You don\u2019t profess one thing and do another. You are true to your word.<\/p>\n

If you are not true to your word, change your word. It could be, \u201cWhen I said that, I meant it but then I learned a thing or two. It wasn\u2019t true then and it isn\u2019t true now. I need to learn and that is what I\u2019m going to do.\u201d That becomes a discipline and you find out if you can do it. You find out if it is in your heart as a living truth. Let\u2019s call that a dream, a vision, and an image of what you can become.<\/p>\n

If it is in your heart as a living truth, it is what you can become. Maybe that takes your mastership to make it manifest, or perhaps it is God\u2019s will being done. You are going to become what that is regardless of what you do. It\u2019s your destiny and life purpose. With God, our life purpose is divine. That\u2019s what I see. It is complete and total. We are all living masters. If we haven\u2019t found that out yet, we are in our process of becoming.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

Blessing of Turning to the Lord<\/p>\n

Dear Lord, for those of us who are willing,
\nwe find ourselves gathered with You again
\nin that place in the Spirit where all souls gather,
\nand that\u2019s of all Your creation.
\nIt all comes into the Soul until we find the great Light.
\nWe feel, sense and consciously realize the great love, the great truth.<\/p>\n

We take a moment in this place
\nwhere we are in this world, in our body, to let go
\nand do this eternal exercise where we let go
\nand give it up and surrender to You.
\nYou are the one we can trust completely,
\nand yet You don\u2019t demand it.
\nYou give us the choice.
\nSo, when we\u2019re ready to let go in our trust
\nand to move across whatever faith is necessary,
\nwhich we realize is in our own darkness where we have turned away.<\/p>\n

We ask through the Traveler and the Christ and all the gifts in Spirit,
\nthat You reach into our consciousness loosening what is attached,
\nbringing the Light into what has been the dark,
\nwhere we have turned away in shame or fear.
\nWe take this moment again to extend throughout our existence
\nthat we are those who are walking in-step with the Traveler,
\nclaiming our liberation.
\nWe know we have been brought to this world for that purpose.
\nWe give thanks that we have chosen back,
\nand in Your presence, we are reminded it is done.<\/p>\n

We rejoice that we are in this place
\nwhere we must do each and every choice that remains.
\nWe ask for Your assistance to hold.
\nWe give thanks that we are shown the way again and again.
\nYou teach us it does not matter what has happened.<\/p>\n

We let go, release, and trust.
\nWe embrace this new freedom.
\nYou remind us that the little things that are our concerns
\nare indeed little because in the Spirit they have no real consequence.
\nThey are simply circumstantial,
\nand we are to love each and every circumstance.<\/p>\n

With our whole being,
\nwe receive Your strength, Your wisdom,
\nand all the gifts that You bring to us.
\nWe rejoice again in the simplicity of our child-like nature,
\na pure nature that You brought us into this world to become.
\nWe forgive ourself for what we have forgotten,
\nand we accept Your forgiveness all along the way
\nthat continually restores us and embraces us, so we are healed.
\nWe are realigned. We are renewed.<\/p>\n

We thank the Traveler,
\nin particular our friend, John-Roger, and our friend, Jesus,
\nand all those in this line who prepared the way
\nand are still holding it open
\nforever waiting so whenever we come, we are welcome.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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