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What’s the difference between God’s Will and My Will ??

Category: Creative Manifesting — Anisa @

Quick Manifesting Morsel with Anisa Aven

Q: Would you elaborate on what you meant when you said you find certainty more powerful than faith because you get caught up in the “God’s Will not My Will” problem? I have really struggled with the New Thought and Law of Attraction concepts because I do still believe in my Christian heritage. So, how do you reconcile God’s Will with our continued desire to be and create more through the law of attraction? How does that work?

A:

I’ve been pondering this question for a few weeks now….wondering if I have the courage to talk about something so controversial; wondering if my little mind could find a way to articulate my real feelings about God’s Will vs. My Will vs. Ego-Will in a succinct enough manner to do the question justice.

Then, as the Divine always does, when I handed my questions and doubts over, I was handed the most appropriate response.

My dear friend, Janis Foley, sent me a lovely book some time ago that I finally felt inspired to read – Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Here’s the excerpt that God wanted me to read and share with you:

“I explained to Iva my personal opinions about prayer. Namely, that I don’t feel comfortable petitioning for specific things from God, because that feels to me like a kind of weakness of faith. I don’t like asking, “Will you change this or that thing in my life that’s difficult for me?” Because – who knows?- God might want me to be facing that particular challenge for a reason. Instead, I feel more comfortable praying for the courage to face whatever occurs in my life with equanimity, no matter how things turn out.

Iva listened politely, then asked, “Where’d you get that stupid idea?”

“What do you mean?”

“Where did you get the idea you aren’t allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You’re a constituent – you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me — it will at least be taken into consideration.”

—-> Excerpt from Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (brilliant book – a must read!)

As conscious creators seeking to live the highest and best, intending to fulfill our life’s purpose – we are ALWAYS seeking to align with God’s Will – which in fact, is also OUR will (our highest Will that is.)

We are not separate from God’s Will. God’s Will is always the highest aligned experience of Love, Peace, Joy, Prosperity, Wellness, Wisdom, Beauty, and Wholeness. And, our Will is always the highest aligned experience of the same.

I do not want to suggest that we always get our highest desire, we do not. However, we do get what we are most vibrationally aligned with – without exception.

I can’t speak for you but I was taught that the Man upstairs ‘works in mysterious ways’ and that as a good Christian, I wasn’t to question His methods but to know that He has His reasons for inflicting suffering when He does. I was taught that God’s Will was separate from mine, just as we are separate from Him.

I know I’ve shared with you that my best friend was killed in a terrible car wreck when I was 13. The best intended comfort was not very comforting: “God’s Will is difficult to understand sometimes.”

All I could think was, “WHAT?! How the hell could anyone say that it was God’s Will to rip my beautiful friend away from me, and leave her family devastated?!?!”

Then of course I had to think of the other tragedies in my life and when I thought of some long-bearded man sitting on his throne randomly dishing out consequences I rebelled. Why would He choose to save the two men that shot my grandfather in cold blood while moments later allowing my friend to die young in a car crash?!? What I really wanted was for God to come right down here and chat with my fist a minute or two.

It was the crazy thought that God was somewhere else handing out random judgments about who would be ‘punished’ and who would be stricken with terminal illness and who would be widowed early etc. that worked me into frenzy. Where’s the congruency between, God is loving and just and random acts of wrath?

I felt angry and never reconciled the teachings of “God is Just” with “God also likes to play Craps with our lives for fun; but don’t be mad at God he really loves you.“

What?!?!

This still doesn’t make sense to me. Of course, I’ve been denounced for my questioning and sinful ways –”You are not to question God’s word; only to trust it.”

But, did I actually HAVE God’s word? Or, did I have the words as interpreted and translated hundreds if not thousands of times, by various leaders with vastly different motives, through the ages?

I decided to start looking secretly for more answers. I’m not suggesting that my path should be your path. However, if you intend to be a masterful conscious creator then overcoming the idea that God’s Will is separate from our Highest Will is required, one way or another.

“I am a free being, choosing to align my will with God’s will.” – Kabballah Affirmation

When we align with God’s Will (our highest will) there’s never strife, ego, selfishness, fear, doubt, guilt, shame, envy, poverty etc. The highest vibration of life contains all that is Good and thus the highest Will of all includes bliss, love, acceptance, peace, wholeness, and prosperity.

Unlike the idea that we humans are inherently bad and born sinners, it is actually our highest path to be aligned with the consciousness of Love and Peace; the consciousness of the Christ Mind within.

Ernest Holmes, founder of The Science of Mind, explains it this way:

“We Believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; one indestructible, absolute, and self-existent Cause. This One manifests Itself in and through all creation but is not absorbed by Its creation. The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite selfknowingness of God. We Believe in the incarnation of the Spirit in everyone and that all people are incarnations of the One Spirit. We Believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding. We Believe that heaven is within us and that we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of IT. We Believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete emancipation from all discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be attained by all. We Believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God. We Believe that God is personal to all who feel this indwelling Presence. We Believe in the direct revelation of Truth through the intuitive and spiritual nature of the individual, and that any person may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God. We Believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God; and that we are surrounded by the Creative Mind which receives the direct impress of our thought and acts upon it. We Believe in the healing of the sick through the Power of this Mind. We Believe in the control of conditions through the Power of this Mind. We Believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving-kindness, and the eternal Givingness of Life to all. We Believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own destiny; for we understand that the life of all is God.”

The old version of God’s Will as separate from us, simply isn’t congruent with the Conscious Creators intention of understanding and accepting our Unlimited Potential as Divine Children of an All-Providing father/mother/God.

“I am a channel of transmission, gathering and passing on all that comes to and through me for the good, to other living beings and to the next generation.” Kabbalah Affirmation

On the other hand, we also have this ego-will that rears its head – and this is NOT God’s Will/Our Highest Will.

The ego-will looks at our life and judges our circumstances as wrong or unfair and then says,
“I don’t accept this. I want more.” But, the ego-will says I want more from this bratty place of “I’m entitled because I believe I should have this and if I don’t get it then I’m going to throw a fit.”

The fit comes in many forms: working harder, judging others, bemoaning our life, and overall a general denial of SOURCE as our one and only supply.

There’s a difference between relying on my will (ego-will) – where I am determined to rely on only my strength and my own abilities, vs. when I rely on God’s Will (My Highest Will). When I rely on God’s Will, the entire Universe dances with delight on my playground and my True Self of unlimited potential shows up to lead the fun!

OH – stop! Let’s not forget to address the benefit of Faith in God’s Will! I have to take a moment to celebrate the Power of Faith and the Brilliant gift of real, Faith.

If we choose to accept that there’s always a Divine Order and thus we accept that God’s Will is at hand and therefore part of the Divine Plan that is Just, and Good, and Reliable, then we learn to leverage that all critical law of allowing (law of detachment) principle called FAITH!

This is WHY prayer and handing it over to God, is so incredibly powerful! Most of us have these limiting beliefs about ourselves. We still believe that we are not worthy of all that we desire; that we are not good enough and not talented, smart, lovable enough etc.

When we criticize our own worth, we disconnect from our Highest-Will (God’s Will). Thus, we experience that disconnection in the form of self-doubt and all the limited resources that this doubt manifests in our lives.

For many, it’s FAR easier to have FAITH in a separate but Good, Loving, Omnipotent God than to reconcile our own self-esteem.

In this situation, DO NOT worry about whether or NOT you believe that the spiritual power is within you – continue to work the system that works for you! If it’s easier to say God is Great and therefore I trust in His/Her Power – run with it!

And, if you desire to be a conscious creator with greater flexibility to employ the principles of attraction, then start to build that bridge between your self-love and your love of the Divine.

Now, for my progressive Christian friends who think I’m walking an uncomfortably fine-line here – this is NOT so different than what Jesus says throughout his teachings:

Jesus said to him, “‘If you are able?’ Everything is possible for the person who believes!” – Mark 9:23

And He said to them, “Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.” Matthew 17:20

Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” – John 11:40

Now you’re really going to think I’ve crossed the line because I’m going to follow bible verses with a Clint Eastwood quote -à “A good man knows his limitations.”

What?! How does ‘limitations’ work when we are supposed to be unlimited beings capable of attracting and creating anything our heart desires?

Because, we, in our ego-will, are separate from God and are therefore limited. However, when we combine our will with God’s will, we become one. It is in this oneness that we NEVER have to question whether or not our goals are on their way because “it is done”. It is in this oneness that we can relax and let the Divine Order take the wheel, because “It is done.” It is in this oneness that we can trust in the Divine Timing of the situation and look at every experience as the perfect manifestation for our highest growth at the moment, for our growth is assured, our goals are certain, and “It is done.”

You are a Divine Child of an all-providing Father/Mother/God. It is done.

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