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WHAT IS GOD’S WILL?

At the early stages of recovery, I kept hearing about God’s will and gaining the power to carry it out.

The word God to me means something that is different to me than many people I know, and it is a word that when I hear it turns my thoughts turn to church and religion. I believe in no one church and do not follow a particular religion.

God for me today means a power great than myself (Higher Power), the divine spirit of the universe, the small quiet voice that dwells within and feelings similar, and God is a highly personal thing with me.

I have conscious contact today with my Higher Power, and do not ever knock anyone’s concept of God as long as it is not a living person on earth currently. I don’t think I could ever go there, but do believe the higher power exists within all living things. God is life.

How could an individual like me be sure of what God’s will for me is? I am not that smart to know with certainty. So, I posed this question to a person I felt was spiritually fit. His answer was so simple it shocked me!

He stated simply, God’s will is what happens.  Ouch!

Upon reflection, I have come to believe this simple truth.

There are many horrors and personal tragedies that happen. I do not pretend to understand why because I learned the hard way that I am not God. There are things that are within my power to understand and for me; these are better things to focus on. God is a “higher power” not human power, and comprehends what I can’t.

God did give me abilities and skills. He also gave me an ability to make choices. He gave me an ability to communicate externally and an ability to listen. I can say; I developed the former (communication) for a long time far in advance of the latter. God also gave me a soul that I believe is the small quiet voice that has always been inside of me. This voice has always given me a sense of right and wrong IF (the big IF) I chose to listen.

The power of listening and listening deeply on a regular basis leads to my personal level of spiritual fitness, and when spiritually fit and in conscious contact, I make better decisions about life. I take better care of myself and make a better contribution to the world I live in and the people I touch. God’s will manifests’ itself in a far more positive fashion.

I did many things to myself and to others that I am not proud of. I understand today that they were God’s will for the Keith at that moment, and that from the feelings these actions caused, consciously or unconsciously I went on a spiritual fitness program that continues today that allows me to be far more in tune to the message of my Higher Power, and through listening, God’s will for me today manifests itself in a far more positive way externally. Internally I am blessed with hope, serenity and peace that I did not know for years.

The holistic process of co-creative life recovery for me has a large spiritual (not necessarily religious, although for some it is) component to it. My Higher Power is a co-creator, the key co-creator in my recovery. Changing behaviour including gaining remission from my addictions succeeds daily dependent on my spiritual fitness. The more fit, the more abundance life has and the more positive is the manifestation of God’s will.

So do you want to make a quantum change in how God’s will is playing out in your life? Are you not happy with how things are playing out within and around you? By changing how you live and practising an improved level of spiritual fitness in your life you may transform your thinking about God’s will. Let’s kick this around at www.hopeserenity.ca or on this site! What is God’s will for you going forward?