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===Lesson===

===Lesson===

Your lives have altered course and are needing affirmation about your correctness. Are you entering upon a life of courageous commitment to goals which are worthy, or are you embarking upon a leaking ship which could strand you out at sea? What is the [[difference]]? How do you know? I will help you to understand that goals which exalt the [[human]]ly [[spiritual]] are worthy of your life's risk, while their opposite, the [[material]] goals, are neither worthwhile or worthy of risking your [[Personality|personhood]] for. Human goals which are in the main materially motivated are tending toward human [[slavery]]. Your best [[instinct]]s and [[attitude]]s are enslaved and gradually compromised in the wholehearted achievement of [[material]] goals. Whether they are [[wealth]] or fame or purely selfish wish fulfillment of any kind, always does its pursuit result in the debasement of higher qualities of the [[soul]]. However, there is another way to direct one's life's energies, and that is toward the enhancement of living.

Your lives have altered [[course]] and are needing affirmation about your correctness. Are you entering upon a life of [[courageous]] commitment to [[goals]] which are worthy, or are you embarking upon a leaking ship which could strand you out at [[sea]]? What is the [[difference]]? How do you know? I will help you to [[understand]] that goals which exalt the [[human]]ly [[spiritual]] are worthy of your life's [[risk]], while their opposite, the [[material]] goals, are neither worthwhile or worthy of risking your [[Personality|personhood]] for. Human goals which are in the main materially motivated are tending toward human [[slavery]]. Your best [[instinct]]s and [[attitude]]s are enslaved and gradually [[compromised]] in the wholehearted achievement of [[material]] goals. Whether they are [[wealth]] or [[fame]] or purely [[selfish]] wish fulfillment of any kind, always does its pursuit result in the debasement of higher [[qualities]] of the [[soul]]. However, there is another way to direct one's life's [[energies]], and that is toward the enhancement of living.

[[Freedom]] exists in the enhanced [[motivations]] of the pursuit of the [[spiritual]] goals in life. When you [[understand]] that life is essentially only real because of the spiritual enhancement of your [[experience]], then is it plain that when your achievements are of a spiritual [[attainment]] level, then all aspects of living are enhanced and life is [[meaningful]]. When your new [[goals]] become [[clear]], are you accepting that old [[things]] are slowly to pass away, and accepting that your old [[pattern]]s of life are changing? Largely, the [[art of living]] comes in the [[grace]]ful allowance of these changes. No one here is exactly the same as he was before entering this room tonight. All [[experience]] is changing of reaction [[pattern]]. You are [[becoming]] aware that life is the experience of [[growing]], and this experience involves substituting increasingly [[worthy]] [[goals]] for inferior ones.

[[Freedom]] exists in the enhanced motivations of the pursuit of the [[spiritual]] goals in life. When you understand that life is essentially only real because of the spiritual enhancement of your [[experience]], then is it plain that when your achievements are of a spiritual attainment level, then all aspects of living are enhanced and life is [[meaningful]]. When your new goals become clear, are you accepting that old [[things]] are slowly to pass away, and accepting that your old [[pattern]]s of life are changing? Largely, the [[art of living]] comes in the [[grace]]ful allowance of these changes. No one here is exactly the same as he was before entering this room tonight. All [[experience]] is changing of reaction [[pattern]]. You are becoming aware that life is the experience of growing, and this experience involves substituting increasingly worthy goals for inferior ones.

Look ahead and [[witness]] the [[heaven]]s opening to greet you and experience the [[fact]] that as God's children, your goals have a [[duty]] attached. Living life for [[God]] is, in [[reality]], only the acknowledgment of your sonship. Living life for yourself is denying your place within reality, and what price a man not give for [[eternal]] life, let alone eternal sonship, which is immeasurably greater? Eternal sonship bestows not only [[eternal]] life, but eternal giving. [[The Father]], through His eternally giving [[nature]], allows that you will eternally, completely and infinitely partake of His [[divine]] [[being]], His nature. That your [[state]] of being is in eternal [[motion]] toward the One Eternal Source of Being, and this means that as you progress, step by step, toward the Eternal Father that you will in [[truth]] become increasingly one with Him. The eternal fount is endless, His good gifts are Himself and the greatest [[challenge]] of life is to allow Him to give Himself to us.

In order to allow His giving to become [[real]], you have to look to Him for all [[things]], in all [[circumstances]], at all times. No, I do not say you must remove [[obstacles]], rather you have to allow Him these obstacles to take away. For example: a man in himself cannot remove his [[prejudice]]s. In order that prejudice become lessoned, he must look to [[God]], find God's [[perspective|viewpoint]]; and you see, the prejudice is no more. One could say that a man may [[reason]] himself out of prejudice through [[education]], but is this enough? What guarantee does he have that he hasn't reasoned himself into new prejudice?

 

In order to allow His giving to become real, you have to look to Him for all [[things]], in all circumstances, at all times. No, I do not say you must remove obstacles, rather you have to allow Him these obstacles to take away. For example: a man in himself cannot remove his [[prejudice]]s. In order that prejudice become lessoned, he must look to [[God]], find God's [[perspective|viewpoint]]; and you see, the prejudice is no more. One could say that a man may [[reason]] himself out of prejudice through [[education]], but is this enough? What guarantee does he have that he hasn't reasoned himself into new prejudice?

The errors of [[mankind]] lie in this self [[delusion]]: that they alone, through [[human]] means can [[change]] the world. [[God]] can and does change the world with every [[individual]] who turns to Him. When all eyes are turned to Him, will there occur the [[Light and Life|golden age]] on [[Urantia]], and there is becoming this age within [[individual]] [[heart]]s today. [[Freedom]] and [[liberty]] and [[joy]] in the [[acceptance]] of universal sonship alters the [[course]] of every life who [[accepts]] this great gift. How is this to happen, worldwide? I say to you that it is happening as we speak. You are [[witnessing]] the beginning of the world's great [[renaissance]] of the [[spirit]], and question not its [[reality]] and its [[eventual]] success. Have [[faith]] that your life is not [[abandoned]], nor is your world an [[orphan]]. No, you are witnessing [[sparks]] which will set you world on [[fire]]. God's [[love]] will triumph!

 

The errors of [[mankind]] lie in this self delusion: that they alone, through [[human]] means can change the world. God can and does change the world with every [[individual]] who turns to Him. When all eyes are turned to Him, will there occur the [[Light and Life|golden age]] on [[Urantia]], and there is becoming this age within [[individual]] [[heart]]s today. Freedom and liberty and [[joy]] in the acceptance of universal sonship alters the course of every life who accepts this great gift. How is this to happen, worldwide? I say to you that it is happening as we speak. You are witnessing the beginning of the world's great [[renaissance]] of the [[spirit]], and question not its [[reality]] and its eventual success. Have [[faith]] that your life is not abandoned, nor is your world an orphan. No, you are witnessing sparks which will set you world on fire. God's [[love]] will triumph!

[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]

[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]

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[[Category: Ham]]

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[[Category: Rebecca]]

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[[Category: Slavery]]

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