Urantia, March 2, 2008.
Teacher: The Beloved.
Subject: “Spiritual Self-Education.”
Received by Lytske.
The Beloved: “This coming to Me in the stillness of your heart is invaluable for your spiritual progress, of which it is impossible for you to truly realize all the implications at this point in time. Through your willingness to take these matters of inner growth into your own hands and, at the same time, become more subservient to God's will, you realize more clearly what God's will means for you.
More people are beginning to wake up and strive to know Me better while still in the flesh, others are brought to this necessary self-education, once they have graduated to the next level of their eternal existence. This road of spiritual self-education is open for each willing and capable mind. But many refuse this education or are incapable due to superstitious and paralyzing fear that has become a chain around the spirit soul. They will need help from Michael (Jesus) to extricate them, once they understand how mistaught their thinking has been.
Needless to say, that much trouble stems from early childhood education, especially having been indoctrinated in the usages of faulty belief systems, and man-made laws with their do's and don'ts, whereas the personal bonding with their Maker has been neglected.
Lip service is never effective when coming from the intellect alone. Heartfelt feelings need to be in place for inner growth to occur. One does not come to God by talk alone, there will be an automatic outflow of response in sincere actions when the heart is undergoing the proper growing spurts towards independence in thought and action.
This balance is always the result of an honest heart, striving for more sincerity as it develops greater inner listening skills for the Still Small Voice from God. This is always reciprocal, as spiritual bonding has been designed this way from time immemorial. It is the human self, which is learning to cooperate with the God-self within. This is by eternal fiat of the Creator God, in whom everything exists and consists.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
I Am the Satisfaction of Your Soul — The Beloved One.