So…what then is the relationship between God’s will and our personal freewill?? Does our will have to be aligned with God’s will? If so, why so? What is free about freewill if that freewill must be aligned with someone else’s will? What happens if our freewill is not aligned with God’s will? Are we punished?
Ahhhh….hmmmm…..this could take awhile!! Hahahaha!
Okay. God is the First Source and Center. God is reality. God is the source of all other reality. There is only one reality. Freewill that is not aligned with God’s will is not aligned with reality. God does not require us to sacrifice our will or forsake our will. But if our will and choices are not aligned with reality, then they are not real themselves. They are irrelevant to reality. They are unreal. Unreality cannot survive time or space. There are no eternal meanings or values associated with unreality.
There is only one universe reality but certainly there are as many personal reality perspectives as there are persons with reality perspective. Experiential beings are all given personality and freewill and time and space and Deity connections and Deity Gravity to LEARN about reality experientially. The more we learn about reality and respond to reality, the more real we become. We become spiritualized and spiritized by reality experiences which are delivered by our decisions, choices, intentions, ideals, hopes, priorities, and acts which are aligned with reality and the Spirit within – our Spirit Nature. All such experiences and expressions are ETERNAL in both source and effect. They have repercussions of an eternal nature. They change us permanently or forevermore. They are an effect and a cause. They are the realization or actualization of potential into reality itself!!
Everything we do or choose that is not of an eternal nature is temporal. Temporal is temporary. It fades. It does not last. It is not the actualization of potential. It is really irrelevant to eternal meanings or values or reality itself. It cannot survive.
We are free to choose irrelevancy. As tadpoles or newbies in this material life, it is really our faith – or Spirit response – that is most relevant and most reality aligned and most productive regarding our spiritual progress and spiritization. Our faith experience and expression does not depend upon or require any particular knowledge or belief…faith is a response to the inner presence of Spirit and it results in hope and ideals and morality and duty and loyalty and love. Those are each and all REAL and reality aligned. The fruits of the Spirit are produced simply by our connection to and response to the Spirit!!
In this material life we are judged, and our progress measured, ONLY by our heart and motivation and hope and response to God
– or the presence within. We are not judged or measured by our knowledge or understanding or beliefs or wisdom or experience. Our faith alone grows our soul and acutalizes potential into eternal reality and viability and relevance and adds to the totality of reality and the very being of God the Supreme – the Experiential Deity of time and space.
So…God defines reality. God’s will is reality. To align our will with God’s will is simply to choose reality….and thereby, to choose eternity. We do so without knowing God’s will or understanding universe reality and can do so without any knowledge of reality except what we directly experience on this world of our birth and origin.
Our temporal or material origins and nature is real in its way but it is and can only be – temporary, temporal. Our soul is eternal. The freewill choices we make which have eternal meanings or value grow our soul and survive, not only death but also survive all of time and into eternity, never ending reality. That which is temporal or non-eternal cannot survive time or last and offers no real meaning or value in our eternal nature or potential.
So…God does not require that we align our will with God’s or with reality. But our relevancy and our eternal adventure depends upon our response to reality which does, all by itself, actualize our potential and deliver eternity to us. As we gain experience and knowledge and wisdom, we will also gain perspective of universe reality and become more and more real and more and more relevant and more and more effective in our being.
We will still be us…or me. I will always be me. You will always be you. We are self creating (more acurately – co-created by personality and by Deity) by the choices and the values and the motives and the perspective and the experience and the expression of that experience that is uniquely and personally us. We can never be God. God doesn’t want us to be God. There already is God. But there’s only one of you too!! God’s beloved child. A gift to universe reality born in time!
12:7.1 (137.4) There is operative throughout all time and space and with regard to all reality of whatever nature an inexorable and impersonal law which is equivalent to the function of a cosmic providence. Mercy characterizes God’s attitude of love for the individual; impartiality motivates God’s attitude toward the total. The will of God does not necessarily prevail in the part—the heart of any one personality—but his will does actually rule the whole, the universe of universes.
12:7.2 (137.5) In all his dealings with all his beings it is true that the laws of God are not inherently arbitrary. To you, with your limited vision and finite viewpoint, the acts of God must often appear to be dictatorial and arbitrary. The laws of God are merely the habits of God, his way of repeatedly doing things; and he ever does all things well. You observe that God does the same thing in the same way, repeatedly, simply because that is the best way to do that particular thing in a given circumstance; and the best way is the right way, and therefore does infinite wisdom always order it done in that precise and perfect manner. You should also remember that nature is not the exclusive act of Deity; other influences are present in those phenomena which man calls nature.
12:7.3 (137.6) It is repugnant to the divine nature to suffer any sort of deterioration or ever to permit the execution of any purely personal act in an inferior way. It should be made clear, however, that, if, in the divinity of any situation, in the extremity of any circumstance, in any case where the course of supreme wisdom might indicate the demand for different conduct—if the demands of perfection might for any reason dictate another method of reaction, a better one, then and there would the all-wise God function in that better and more suitable way. That would be the expression of a higher law, not the reversal of a lower law.
12:7.4 (137.7) God is not a habit-bound slave to the chronicity of the repetition of his own voluntary acts. There is no conflict among the laws of the Infinite; they are all perfections of the infallible nature; they are all the unquestioned acts expressive of faultless decisions. Law is the unchanging reaction of an infinite, perfect, and divine mind. The acts of God are all volitional notwithstanding this apparent sameness. In God there “is no variableness neither shadow of changing.” But all this which can be truly said of the Universal Father cannot be said with equal certainty of all his subordinate intelligences or of his evolutionary creatures.
12:7.5 (137. Because God is changeless, therefore can you depend, in all ordinary circumstances, on his doing the same thing in the same identical and ordinary way. God is the assurance of stability for all created things and beings. He is God; therefore he changes not.
12:7.6 (138.1) And all this steadfastness of conduct and uniformity of action is personal, conscious, and highly volitional, for the great God is not a helpless slave to his own perfection and infinity. God is not a self-acting automatic force; he is not a slavish law-bound power. God is neither a mathematical equation nor a chemical formula. He is a freewill and primal personality. He is the Universal Father, a being surcharged with personality and the universal fount of all creature personality.
12:7.7 (138.2) 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. And then, if human life is further enlarged to include the morontia experience, the divine will is observed to shine brighter and brighter in the spiritualizing acts of those creatures of time who have begun to taste the divine delights of experiencing the relationship of the personality of man with the personality of the Universal Father.
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
