THE WILL OF GOD IN CREATION II

Learn to observe attentively and to use properly the currents in this Creation which bear the Will of God and thus God’s Justice in a pure form. – Abd-ru-shin

Consciously Adjusting to the Will of God

We must recognise that no church or religious organisation can be the custodian of the Will of God. At best these are groups of like-minded people who wish to seek and experience the Will of God together and in so doing strengthen each other. They represent human endeavours towards a collective ideal, which is a normal human behaviour and as such have proved beneficial for many. But for this to support spiritual development the individuals within these cults must be free and strong.

Unfortunately, most churches and religious movements in existence today fall far short of this requirement. They have developed into unwieldy empires, kingdoms and dominions with rigid dogmas and rules; with formalised systems of worship and moral codes that break the back of the poor adherents. It was no different in the days of the Lord Jesus. His words to the religious leaders of His day may aptly be applied to the leadership of all major religions of today as well as to their numerous factions – “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.”

The human spirit is imbued with the ability to recognise the Will of God simply by experiencing Creation. He/she does not require any extraneous aid for this. That is also why the servants of God as well as the Son of God, Jesus did not outline the Will of the Creator as a set of do’s and don’ts. Instead, they point at Creation around us, the birds of the air, the flowers of the field and our neighbours, both fellow human beings and other beings of Creation for the lessons on what the Will of God demands.

The Creator relates with His Creation through the perfect, unchangeable Laws of Creation that embody His perfect Will. It is therefore ridiculous and conceited to believe that God relates to us arbitrarily, favouring us because we had believed in His Son. This is the unsound basis on which two individuals on the opposite sides of an uncompromising divide, whether they are of the same religious conviction or not, claim that the Creator upholds their side. On this basis of religious zealotary they kill and maim each other. And this without regard as to how they have adjusted their lives to His Creative Will.

The Will of God is immutable and does not change with circumstances, but all circumstances fulfil themselves in the Will. Nor is it subject to the will of man. If for example, someone is sick, has an accident or lost a dear one, it is wrong to believe that the Creator has specifically ordained this for the one because he has no apparent immediate input or control over it. In all simplicity, the individual only experiences what he or she has sown in Creation, which the Laws, in their immutable impartiality return to him or her.

Let’s be clear, it is not the Will of God that we suffer but neither is it the Will of God that we do not suffer or experience the difficulties we put into Creation. The Laws that govern Creation proceed from perfection and are therefore perfect without any arbitrary fulfilments. We define ourselves, as all Creation must, in the requirements of these Laws that bear His Will.

In the original state of Creation there was no suffering and everything, as we are told ‘was good’. It is only the activity of human beings and other fallen beings that brought suffering. We have sown suffering in our activities and according to the inviolable Will of the Creator we reap suffering. One of the fundamental Laws of God for His Creation is that whatsoever a man sows, that will he also reap!

We must avoid the habit of helplessly saying ‘it is the Will of God’, when we cannot or have failed after exhaustive efforts to change the course of an event. Correct experiencing will permit us to perceive that the Will of the Creator only determines that sickness, death, accidents and other human experiences are a logical consequence of certain seeds we have sown, although we may have forgotten the circumstance of the sowing. God does not Will us to suffer, but the perfect ordinance of Creation determines that we experience the returning effects of our volition and action, according to immutable Laws that embody the Will of the Creator. 

Thy Will be done, the profound prayerful volition given to us by the Son of God, implies a willingness to subject ourselves to the Will of God. It is a declaration of trust and confidence from a child to his father. We thereby avow our determination to live in such a way that the Creators Will be firmly established even here on earth, where so much has gone wrong; that It will become manifest in our every activity – our volition, thoughts, words and deeds. We declare our willingness to adjust to the Laws that embody His Will, such that whatever we encounter is joyfully received and recognised as a great help and blessing, being the natural outcome of the operations of His Loving Will. 

These experiences we thus declare, even before they reach us, as eminently acceptable to us whether they are favourable or unfavourable, joyful or sorrowful; that we are willing to grasp with a full hand the rich experiences that Creation permits us and use the knowledge and recognition gained to ennoble ourselves and the whole of Subsequent Creation, to the glory of God.

To be able to do the Will of God in our lives is a great goal worth any sacrifice! And the time demands it, for we are already standing in the judgement. It is now no longer enough to know the Laws; we must make it an integral part of our conscious being.  Unfortunately many human spirits who still carry the longing for God deep within the struggle to recognise the Will of God for us. They choose to depend, as did their ancestors, on guidance from other human beings who claim to know better, whether these be religious leaders of ancestral priests or diviners. But the grace of God has made His Will easily accessible to all who seek through His Creation and through Divine Messages. As a special help for the time of the Judgment the Word, as promised by Christ, has also been granted to the whole of Creation in an easily accessible form in the work, “In the Light of Truth”. No one who genuinely seeks can now claim that he or she could not find.

As a first step to making the Will of God an integral part of us, however, we must at any point of decision first ask ourselves, what the Will of God Is for the situation under consideration. Ideally, we should, if we are spiritually intuitively awake, recognise the demands of the Will of God automatically when confronted with any moment of decision. Having to ask therefore is a reverse way of doing things necessitated by the fact that we are no longer intuitively alert. 

If we are led by our intuitive perception in all things, the right choices will be clear as a matter of course; but unfortunately for the majority of us, the intuitive perception is only poorly if expressed at all. Therefore, the point of weighing each decision briefly in the scale of the Word of Truth, to seek the Will of God, serves among other things to also gradually re-awaken the spiritual intuitive perception and give it the necessary, absolutely essential lead in our activities. In our present state, it is indeed better to weigh a matter slowly and carefully, seeking the spiritual value it contains than to pass over any decision intellectually in spite of pressures to the contrary.

Decisions are acts of our will of which we make many in any given day, and they must be brought to swing in the Will of the Creator. It is the Creator’s Power that we use to execute our own will and we must surely account for our husbandry of this life-containing power. The vast majority of our decisions, even when we consider them trivial have lasting consequences. For instance, a decision to indulge one form of excess or the other (even with things apparently as trivial as food, television, sports, alcohol etc.) may, as a least consequence, harm our physical body which may ultimately shorten our earth life and with it the gracious opportunity for earthly experiencing for us. If these develop to become a compulsion, we may even be bound to that propensity when we leave the physical body. 

A business decision (or a decision taken at work) may affect the lives of other people resulting in misery, hunger, suffering or even death. The consequences of these can easily be imagined.  It is easy for instance to see the physical manifestations of the wrong decision made by a medical doctor. The government official who embezzles public fund, thereby starving some projects such as public health, road construction and repairs, support for the elderly and the poor etc., has also taken a decision with disastrous spiritual consequences even if at the time he could not foresee the consequences.

Although the human laws may protect these, the perpetrating individual cannot escape the spiritual consequences. Because of the pressure of the time, when according to the Will of God the returning effects of all our volition occur more rapidly than ever before, we now see even the mundane laws catching up with people who in the past were apparently untouchable. The fruit of our wrong volition now frequently manifest in our present lifetime. It is as if the words of Christ have sprung out of the confines of spiritual text – ‘There is nothing hidden that will not be made known’.

But it is not only in the public domain that we make decisions of far-reaching consequences. In privacy, perhaps while leisurely driving your car, you may still take instantaneous decisions that affect your life and that of other road users including your passengers. And it is fallacious to protest that these decisions were beyond your control. Even in your home, you are called upon to take decisions that affect the life of other people. Harmful gossips, thoughts of hatred, envy and malice which we indulge in private touch other human beings and harm them. But in all these things we harm ourselves most, for the returning effects in the Laws are multiples of the original seed sown.

We must therefore be extremely careful with all our decisions especially those that apparently require no intellectual input from us, because these often arise from our inner being, our heart – as the common expressions describe our intuitive ability. Apart from representing our true spiritual state, these types of decision also carry more responsibility because they are imbued with more intuitive power than those we process through our intellect. It is indeed what proceeds from a man’s heart (intuition) that makes him who he is in creation. 

Consider, it is not how much wealth and importance you command, the colour of your skin, the brilliance of your wit and intellect, the importance or meanness of your job but the extent to which your inner being, your intuitive perception swings in the Will of God that determine your value as a human being.

Other important factors may influence decisions such as our emotions and our wrong opinions as to what constitutes right or wrong. Both prevent us from having a clear survey and especially with wrong opinions may even misrepresent the Will of the Creator. This is often rooted in conceit and so is easily overcome by humility. 

Indeed, humility and childlikeness together with purity have been regarded as the great armour of righteousness, protecting us from transgressing the Will of our Creator. No wonder they are a recurring demand of the Light Envoys and Messengers of God. No wonder they are the very virtues the current world system is most determined to eradicate, often by subtle but sometimes also by grossly overt, oppressive discrimination. 

It is therefore against the background of a humble seeking after the Will of God that all our decisions on a minute-to-minute basis must be taken if they are to swing in tandem with the Will of the Creator. There is no benefit in taking the Will of God into consideration only when our endeavours fail or we reap unsavoury returns. Quite often we do not remember our Creator at the point of decision or even at the point of execution, but only later when events do not go quite the way we want it. Then, only then, we plead or negotiate in what we like to call prayers and sometimes even go to the extent of blaming Him for our failures. 

Seeking the Will of God and adjusting our lives to It does not require us to live eccentric or ascetic lives, isolated from others and wearing pensive, moody or even excitable countenances. On the contrary, a life in the Will of God is most natural and free, joyfully meeting all obstacles and facing up to the challenges that earthly existence throws at us. It does not encourage excesses but is characterised by real abiding joy. A joy that permeates everything we do regardless of their societal rating and irrespective of our social standing.  

We may not understand why we are faced with any circumstance or what exactly we have to do at any given moment but we face everything with the firm conviction in a God whose Will is Loving, and whose Will ultimately manifests in the experiencing. It is this living conviction that does not need to be assured of profit that identifies the true servant of God.

The individual who lives aright in creation is often ordinary, fulfilling his/her daily duties as necessary without expectations of special recognition or reward, but with a firm conviction in the ordinance of Creation and the fact of ultimate good as the goal of existence. This individual is thus often selfless, humble, consistent and persevering with his objectives even when beset with obstacles. Above all he will hesitate to bring harm intentionally to his fellow human beings or to Creation and will share and even sacrifice his comfort for the welfare of others. In every experience he/she bears peace and abiding joy, the type that the world around does not understand. He or She must necessarily bear ridicule and discrimination for the world system insists on a more aggressive and materially orientated attitude.

The Laws of Creation

It is unfortunate that most of those who have a longing for God are not always sure what the Will of God Is, in spite of or perhaps because of dogmas and scholarly writings intended to explain It. Yet we must become intuitively and consciously aware of the Will of our God in all our activities. Since living in the Will of our Creator is the basis of existence, it is essential that we must achieve an understanding of the meaning of the concept.

The Will of the Creator cannot be extrapolated from the will of man and it is wrong to consider the Will as a vague wish from the Creator that things go well or ill with us. We often hear people expressing, rather grudgingly and resentfully, that difficult events in their lives represent the Will of God. When challenged beyond their capability, they resignedly declare – Thy will be done -, often with hidden bitterness. However, the Will of God transcends petty individual affairs and it is the individual that must necessarily work out his or her affairs within the requirements of the Divine Will. 

The Will of the Creator is a code governing Creation that we can clearly recognise, both in ourselves and in our environment. Although it is immanent in everything it can only be appreciated if we experience everything within us and around us in the right way i.e., with an alert, humble, God-seeking intuition. As we pass through various experiences in this way, we begin to perceive the operation of the Will of God in simple, unchanging and ever recurring Laws. Within these Laws we can recognise and appreciate the Will but only to an extent determined by the maturity of each individual. Thus, for an individual, the Laws may give much or little although we all live and experience in the same Laws.

One will expect that with the complexity apparent in even only the visible world around us, the Laws of Creation must be complex. However, the opposite is actually the case. The Laws are extraordinarily simple and easily accessible because they proceed from Love, Justice and Omniscience and because they vibrate in perfection and are intended for all. Irrespective of the level of literacy or erudition any human being can easily perceive how he should live in Creation and how the natural laws interact with him. 

The complexity, the difficulties and the incomprehensibility result solely from the bypaths and the distortions introduced by human volition. Of course, human volition cannot alter the Laws, which as the outward manifestations of the Eternal Will are perfect and immutable, but we may influence how these Laws affect our environment and us, and in so doing may obscure the clarity of perception.

We experience the Laws of nature at various levels of human endeavours – as individuals, as societies, at various occupations, as well as in the sciences and the arts etc – and in all these they point to the perfect Will of God. In them we are meant to recognise the Will of our Creator, which we must adjust to and obey. Through them we are ultimately to recognise our God.

It is also these perfect Laws speaking to our inner self (i.e., perceived by our intuition) that form part of our conscience. When we transgress these laws, we do not need an external agency to tell us that we have done so. If we are still spiritually alive, we immediately feel the weight of the transgression – literally. This burden of a transgression varies depending on the degree of our spiritual alertness. While some people may feel it as an oppressive weight, others may just feel it as a ‘prick of the conscience’ and in extreme cases, in people who are spiritually dead, even the most gruesome deeds may leave them completely unmoved.

The various occupations afford opportunities for us to experience and recognise the Will of God. The same Natural Law which determines that what you put into Creation, whether it is what you have done to or for your fellow man or what you sow in the field, returns to you in a similar fashion often multiplied, is clearly apparent in many human occupations. The farmer is aware that when he sows wheat, he will expect to reap wheat and nothing else and that the harvest, unless it fails completely, brings multiples of the same seed sown. In all occupations the effort is generally but a small proportion of the reward, the nature of which is exactly the same as that of the effort, even when we do not recognise it to be so. If the main volition behind an occupation is material gain, then the reward is often entirely material as in financial, professional or social progression. If on the other hand a nobler, spiritual goal is intended the rewards may not always be apparent materially but will, nevertheless, be a multiple of the effort.

Human endeavours, especially those that are close to nature tell a rich tale of the Will of God in Creation. We can still perceive in the laws of physics, chemistry, biology etc, the same principles recognised by the individual and the society. The same Law of reciprocity is seen in both sowing and reaping as in laws of physical motion defined in equal and opposite reaction. 

The same Law that determines that individuals by their activities define their levels in Creation is seen in the laws of gravitation, buoyancy and in Einstein’s relativity theory etc. The same Law of attraction of homogeneous species is seen in the segregation in society, the flocking of birds of the same feather, schools of similar fish, the aggregation of similar atoms and molecules to form substances. The Creation Law of perpetual motion drives everything – the activity of the various species in Creation, the movement of the various parts of the natural world including the sun, moon, earth and all the stars, the motion of atomic particles etc. The Law of balance governs harmony in Creation. Everything is bound within these laws that manifest the Will of our God to us every second of every minute of our existence.

The basic structure of societies is built on certain fundamental principles that are the same in all societies and cultures, which are imperfectly copied from the ordinance in Creation. It is easy to see, in spite of all distortions, that social segregation in various cultures from very ancient times also swings in homogeneity, one of the fundamental laws of Creation. 

Yet in spite of the various manifestations there is only one uniform Law and it is only our level of appreciation of the Will behind them that results in the various Laws. The more mature the spirit the more the Laws converge. Indeed, we often find that the Laws of gravity, homogeneity and reciprocity cannot be finely demarcated in many things.

The necessary pattern of our experiences if we are to live in the Will of God is encapsulated in these words from the Light: – ‘You have been permitted to wander through Creation, go in such a way that you do not harm others in pursuit of your personal desires’. The Lord Jesus had earlier summarised the commandments of God for us as – ‘Love the Lord your God with your whole being and Love your neighbour as you love yourself’, neighbour here embracing all of nature and all beings in Creation.

We must therefore conclude that the Will of God for us in Creation swings in the one word LOVE. The Laws of Creation guide us as to how to live this life of love extending it to all of nature and all beings in Creation.

1. In the Light of Truth, the Grail Message by Abd-ru-shin
2. The Holy Bible
3. A call to Spiritual Awakening by Uchenna Mezue