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Please can you please help me understand the full meaning of the popular phrase, "doing the Will of God..."
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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." Doing the
will of the Father in Heaven 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.
This
is about as full an explanation that I can give in a letter. If you
like, you can see our
topical study of The
Will of God for even more
inspiring quotes and links to specific Urantia Book text.
Thanks
for writing!
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