To honestly seek to do God's will requires our complete trust in the goodness of God. This is the reason we meditate, the why that we must needs discipline our own self daily to sit and wait on the Lord...to come to that basic trust. For it is a surety that the day will come when God's will looks less than wonderful...dire, ugly and let-this-cup-pass awful. When that hour comes, our ego-based reasoning mind will be out the door and down the street...and there it is. This is the reason we meditate.
It does no good to resist our resistance...that just builds it stronger because we're giving it our complete attention through our resistance. Negative resistance gets negative results.
It takes a great deal of mind-emptying to witness the opening of the gates within...we cannot think grace into consciousness. We can only welcome it once it appears...and sometimes not till afterward do we recognize it.
The reasoning mind will always fear the appearance of any unknown if on its face it looks dicey. It will accept the appearance as reality and mentally resist either by fight or flight, both of which are barriers to God's will.
The answer? Same-old-same-old. Welcome that fear, kiss it on the lips so to speak, and detach...that's what's known as unlatching the gate. Then just sit quietly with or without a smile on our face for God is on the field.
Thank you.
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