“Father, Thy Will Be Done”
Temptation
FOLLOW THE WILL OF GOD: “There is no will but God’s.”
How Should the Teacher of God Spend His Day?
- Not My Will, Thy Will Be Done/THERE IS NO WILL BUT GODS
- Morning/Evening quite time/prayer - first and last thing I do
- Workbook Lession
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- Wake up and immediately devote oneself totally to being quiet and alone with God
- As soon as possible after waking, take your quiet time, continuing a minute or two after you begin to find it difficult. ⁸You may find the difficulty will diminish and drop away. ⁹If not, that is the time to stop. [CE M-16.4:7-9]
- DO THE WORKBOOK - do your lesson. all day and every moment learn/practice/teach it. Every day, until it is complete. Then keep doing it again…
- remember the thought of the day, the current focus of my learning, current message from God to listen to, and know the truth of, and live it….
- There is one thought in particular that should be remembered throughout the day. ²It is a thought of pure joy, a thought of peace, a thought of limitless release” THERE IS NO WILL BUT GODS
- Evening quiet time - immediately before bed or before. Sitting up
- “be sure that you do not forget a brief period—not more than a moment will do—in which you close your eyes and think of God.” [CE M-16.5:8]
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“There is one thought in particular that should be remembered throughout the day. ²It is a thought of pure joy, a thought of peace, a thought of limitless release”
I thought that I could make myself safe and happy and get things……
but it is not true. This is all an illusion - and there is nothing to fear -
“there. ⁷What you give up is merely the illusion of protecting illusions. ⁸And it is this you fear, and only this. ⁹How foolish to be so afraid of nothing! ¹⁰Nothing at all! ¹¹Your defenses will not work, but you are not in danger. ¹²You have no need of them. ¹³Recognize this and they will disappear. ¹⁴And only then will you accept your real protection. [CE M-16.6:6-14]”
I am safe, I have a Guide to follow - there is no problem he cannot easily solve for me.
“⁵He is as safe in the present as he was before illusions were accepted into his mind, and as he will be when he has let them go. [CE M-16.7:5]
I of myself am powerless, but God and The HS can do all things. I don’t need to do anything, just relinquish my own will, to not rely on myself
⁴He must be sure success is not of him, but will be given him at any time, in any place and circumstance he needs it. ⁵There are times his certainty will waver, and the instant this occurs he will return to earlier attempts to place reliance on himself alone. [CE M-16.8:3-5]”
Don’t give in to temptation - the temptation is that of succumbing to my will, to not trusting in God
- anytime I do something that harms me - it is because I am seeking something in it that it can never give, that can only come from my loving surrender to God and his guidance for my life.
When I meet temptation - pray for guidance and strength to follow the Way
Temptation comes in many forms…
Simply - follow the Will of God
There is no substitute for the will of God. ²In simple statement, it is to this fact that the teacher of God devotes his day.
I don’t need to find the will of god - I just need to relinquish my will and surrender. Be in prayerfulness. Be open, listening, feeling, loving, trusting. Like a child with their loving parent.
There is no will but God’s.”
⁶“There is no will but God’s.” [CE M-16.11:5-6]
The advanced student/teacher knows that each day is its own lesson - that he just surrenders and does his role…
“To the advanced teacher of God this question is meaningless. ²There is no program, for the lessons in the curriculum change each day. ³Yet he is sure of but one thing: they do not change at random. ⁴Seeing this and understanding it is true, he rests content. ⁵He will be told all that his role should be, this day and every day. ⁶And those who share that role with him will find him, so they can learn the lessons for the day together. ⁷Not one is absent whom he needs; not one is sent without a learning goal already set, and one which can be met that very day. ⁸For the advanced teacher of God, then, this question is superfluous. ⁹It has been asked and answered, and he keeps in constant contact with the Answer. ¹⁰He is set, and sees the road on which he walks stretch surely and smoothly before him. “ [CE M-16.1]
⁴Perhaps he needs to remember “God is with me. ⁵I cannot be deceived.” [CE M-16.10:4-5]
There is one thought in particular that should be remembered throughout the day. ²It is a thought of pure joy, a thought of peace, a thought of limitless release—limitless because all things are freed within it. ³You think you made a place of safety for yourself. ⁴You think you made a power that can save you from all the fearful things you see in dreams. ⁵It is not so. ⁶Your safety lies not there. ⁷What you give up is merely the illusion of protecting illusions. ⁸And it is this you fear, and only this. ⁹How foolish to be so afraid of nothing! ¹⁰Nothing at all! ¹¹Your defenses will not work, but you are not in danger. ¹²You have no need of them. ¹³Recognize this and they will disappear. ¹⁴And only then will you accept your real protection. [CE M-16.6]
The avoidance of magic is the avoidance of temptation, for all temptation is nothing more than the attempt to substitute another will for God’s.
believing that my will works and has any power,
temptation - the temptation to believe in illusion and falsity
“Thy Will Be Done” (Thy will always is done anyway…)
There is no substitute for the will of God. ²In simple statement, it is to this fact that the teacher of God devotes his day. ³Each substitute he may accept as real can but deceive him, but he is safe from all deception if he so decides. ⁴Perhaps he needs to remember “God is with me. ⁵I cannot be deceived.” ⁶Perhaps he prefers other words, or only one, or none at all. ⁷Yet each temptation to accept magic as true must be abandoned through his recognition, not that it is fearful, not that it is sinful, not that it is dangerous, but merely that it is meaningless. ⁸Recognizing that it is rooted in sacrifice and separation, two aspects of one error and no more, he merely chooses to give up all that he never had. ⁹And for this “sacrifice” is Heaven restored to his awareness. [CE M-16.10]
There is no will but God’s.
The idea for today can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. ²God’s is the only will. ³When you have accepted this, you have recognized that your will is His. ⁴The belief that conflict is possible has gone. ⁵Peace has replaced the strange idea that you are torn by conflicting goals. ⁶As an expression of the will of God, you have no goal but His.
²There is no will but God’s. ³I cannot be in conflict.
⁵I am at peace.
Nothing can disturb me. ⁷
My will is God’s.
My will and God’s are one.
God wills peace for His Son.
³There is no will but God’s. ⁴These conflict thoughts are meaningless.
There is no will but God’s.
I share it with Him.
My conflicts about ＿＿ cannot be real. [CE W-74.5:3-5]
Practice:
There is no will but God’s.
I seek His peace today.
⁴Then try to find what you are seeking.