Desires can be misnamed by calling them needs. Calling our wants needs give us the feeling that we have the right to require God and others to give us what we want. This distorts our relationship with God, ourselves, and others. Moving out of this pattern will give us greater power to become whole and holy. It gives us more power because we can see what we want and how God desires to give it to us. It takes us out of the victim role and puts us in an empowered, loving relationship with God.
What we desired in the Pre-existence is in large part what we experience in this life. Our Pre-earth desires are combined with our desires now. All of our current experiences stem from these two desires combined. God’s desire is to have us return to Him and give us all He has. Everything He does lines up with keeping His promises to honor our desires, and bring us back to Him (if we desire).
The law of desire has many paradoxes. We are to have our own desires but also given them to the Lord. As we become clean and whole (holy); this creates God’s ability to give us what we want. This process of becoming clean and whole-y, is the process of giving up what we desire and picking up what God desires. God’s desire and our desire meet when we let go of fear, anxiety and impure motives. Then we are like Him -sanctified, empowered and perfect.
God’s commitment to help us understand and experience both the bitter and the sweet of desire is wrapped up in His unconditional love for us. This teaches us what is best, but also allows us to experience what is not best for us. Paradoxically, in the end both are the best thing for us because they become our learning experiences that teach us how to follow God and become sanctified in His love.
Desire is the driving force in the universe. We are what we desire. Everything we do is because of desire, knowingly or not. Throughout life, as individuals we have one great overarching desire, something that each of us loves more than anything else. That desire incorporates all our other desires. We would be well served to look at what we desire, how we are getting it, and we are not letting ourselves desire because of guilt, shame or fear. Everything we desire can be given to us by God. When He administers our desires to us they are gifts and they are clean. When we try and take what we desire or we receive what we desire from a dark source they are dirty and will subtract light from us. God desires to give us what we want. What do YOU want?
~Karen Prier Understanding the Divine
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