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This is a wonderful question, and I am happy
to help you explore the
subject as it is treated in The Urantia Book. It is actually a more
elusive subject than one might think at first glance. In this following
quote we find the first mention of the will of God:
(1:3.6)
In the universes God the Father is, in potential, the
overcontroller of matter, mind, and spirit. Only by means of his
far-flung personality circuit does God deal directly with the
personalities of his vast creation of will creatures, but he is
contactable (outside of Paradise) only in the presences of his
fragmented entities, the will of God abroad in the universes. This
Paradise spirit that indwells the minds of the mortals of time and
there fosters the evolution of the immortal soul of the surviving
creature is of the nature and divinity of the Universal Father. But the
minds of such evolutionary creatures originate in the local universes
and must gain divine perfection by achieving those experiential
transformations of spiritual attainment which are the inevitable result
of a creature's choosing to do the will of the Father in heaven.
This quote explains that the will of God is present in our world, but
it exists only in the Spirit of God which indwells all normal-minded
mortals. The good Spirit actually IS God, and is our only means of
contacting God outside of
Paradise.
This is a wonderful and reassuring
truth - that God actually DOES indwell our minds, and through our own
efforts, we can use this indwelling presence to progressively discern
the will of God.
This following quote further explains just how we, as mortals of
earthly origin, grow to adopt the leadings of the indwelling Spirit,
the "will of God," thereby achieving ultimate eternal survival. When we
choose to be led by the Spirit-within, we then create that
indestructible entity known as the soul, which is the very part of us
that survives.
(1:3.7)
In the inner experience of man, mind is joined to
matter. Such material-linked minds cannot survive mortal death. The
technique of survival is embraced in those adjustments of the human
will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby such a
God-conscious intellect gradually becomes spirit taught and eventually
spirit led. This evolution of the human mind from matter association to
spirit union results in the transmutation of the potentially spirit
phases of the mortal mind into the morontia realities of the immortal
soul. Mortal mind subservient to matter is destined to become
increasingly material and consequently to suffer eventual personality
extinction; mind yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly
spiritual and ultimately to achieve oneness with the surviving and
guiding divine spirit and in this way to attain survival and eternity
of personality existence.
Although you did not specifically ask, I thought you might like to have
further information regarding the will of God - for example, how the
will of God is discerned and performed in a human life. How do we
actually DO the will of God? These quotes may give you some direction
and encouragement:
(111:5.1)
The doing of the will of God is nothing
more or less
than an exhibition of creature willingness to share the inner life with
God—with the very God who has made such a creature life of
inner meaning-value possible. Sharing is Godlike—divine. God
shares all with the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit, while they, in
turn, share all things with the divine Sons and spirit Daughters of the
universes.
The imitation of God is the key to perfection; the
doing of his will is the secret of survival and of perfection in
survival.
(111:5.6)
This choosing of the Father's will is the
spiritual
finding of the spirit Father by mortal man, even though an age must
pass before the creature son may actually stand in the factual presence
of God on Paradise. This choosing does not so much consist in the
negation of creature will—"Not my will but yours be
done"—as it consists in the creature's positive affirmation:
"It is my will that your will be done."
So, we can now see that the "will of God" is truly an "inside job." The
will of God exists in the form of the indwelling Spirit of God in the
minds of mortals (known in Urantia Book teachings as the Thought
Adjuster, or Mystery Monitor), and the finding and doing of that will
consists in sharing that inner life - the life apart from the purely
mechanical function of the brain - the life of the mind, and in the
arena of free will. In other words, it is our mandate to choose, of our
own free will, to do the will of God, allowing the leadings of the
indwelling Spirit to inform our choices in life. Finally, I chose the
following quotes to give you an even broader view of the function of
the will of God in the mind of man.
(12:7.7)
The will of God does not uniformly prevail
in the
heart of the God-seeking material mortal, but if the time frame is
enlarged beyond the moment to embrace the whole of the first life, then
does God's will become increasingly discernible in the spirit fruits
which are borne in the lives of the spirit-led children of God.
(34:7.6)
... present-day mortals would experience
less of this
apparent warfare between the flesh and the spirit if they would enter
the spirit kingdom, wherein the faith sons of God enjoy comparative
deliverance from the slave-bondage of the flesh in the enlightened and
liberating service of wholehearted
devotion to doing the will of the
Father in heaven.
(39:4.14)
The keys of the
kingdom of heaven
are: sincerity, more sincerity, and more sincerity. All men have these keys. Men use
them—advance in spirit status—by decisions, by more
decisions, and by more decisions. The highest moral choice is the
choice of the highest possible value, and always—in any
sphere, in all of them—this is to choose to do the will of
God. If man thus chooses, he is great, though he be the humblest
citizen of Jerusem or even the least of mortals on Urantia.
(107:0.4)
Any mortal who has seen a Creator Son has
seen the
Universal Father, and he who is indwelt by a divine Adjuster is indwelt
by the Paradise Father. Every mortal who is consciously or
unconsciously following the leading of his indwelling Adjuster is
living in accordance with the will of God. Consciousness of Adjuster
presence is consciousness of God's presence.
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