When it comes to
the possibility of spiritual rebirth, it isn't that God does not will this for
all of his earth-clad children. Quite the contrary: In this world of ours the goodness
of God's Will is always active through his Son. What nullifies the birth of
this eternal Life within us is that we have yet to learn how to ask and receive
it. What is freely offered to us goes unaccepted because we haven't yet the
heart to surrender ourselves for it. We cannot let go. Too many parts of us
cling to their fleeting and altogether conditional sense of self - so that we
remain willful and self-certain instead of being reborn a citizen of Heaven.
For anyone
willing to see the truth of this secret self-centeredness, and the sorrow of
the separate sense of existence it perpetuates, this unseen state of arrogance
may be found running through many, if not all, of our prayers. Just see how the
sense of "I" dominates our dialogues with God. With this finding in
mind we must ask ourselves a spiritually telling question: "How many times
need the word 'I' appear in any prayer of 'Thy will be done'?"
In the majority
of our supplications to God a perpetual sense of "what I want" rests
squarely above all that it requests. Virtually undetected by us is that this
same petitioning nature sits there within us as a would-be ruler over the very
relationship that it asks God to come in and be the King of! We are betrayed in
the very core of ourselves by an imagined wealth of sincerity coupled with
certainty. In these self-pleasing states of self are found ample amounts of
selfish motive and its attendant means, neither of which (it turns out) can
bring about the release of one drop of God's Good Grace.
What must be
done spiritually is the undoing of our self, something that this earth-bound
nature has neither the will nor the heart to do. And that is precisely the
point. Once we can see that of ourselves "we can do nothing" because,
in realty, we are nothing (as we imagine ourselves to be) then - empowered and
rightly emboldened by this light of Higher self-understanding - we can agree to
our nothingness, our poverty, before God. Here, in this conscious prostration,
we have let go of the illusion of our will in favor of the reality of His Will
to run our lives. This is the right request. It is the sacrifice that is the
seed of spiritual rebirth. And it will be done.
Ask by prayer or
affirmation for the guidance needed for this cleansing to occur. Continue this
prayer/affirmation daily to show your true Heart felt desire. Ask for the eyes
to see and the experience that is needed for this to occur. Then pay attention
to what is brought into your life to help you with this. Working with Prana
and Kundalini will
also start this process. Allow your inner guidance to show you which way is
most appropriate for your current belief system to accept the starting of this
process and go with it. You must do the
work to continue moving forward. Ask for God’s will to run your life for your
highest purposes and then follow where your life goes and trust the path being
shown to you. Your consciousness and sight are then translated to a spiritual
dimension of Light or paradise, where we all will live in union with God and Christ
while on earth now. This will happen while in our present time on Earth and
not in a distant future time as the majority currently believes if you are
willing to do the work to receive the blessings. This is nothing new and has
been occurring for many years but has accelerated with participants with the
help of current technology during these modern times.
Note: Excerpt from Gnostic Gospel of
St. Thomas