Ask what you will and it shall be done unto you. -- John 15:7
My understanding of that quote is ever expanding...to me today what that promise implies and how it results are polar opposites. Face it, in our walking-around world, our wants are ego-generated no matter how pretty we dress them up. However, at the next few levels up, i.e., where we're aiming, our wants are transmuted into our needs and needs are universal...each impacts all.
Plain speaking: We may get exactly what we asked for...ah, but not to our naked eye. There it is, Whaa? This isn't even close to what I asked for.
To ask what we will is going to be all about me, me, me, but, coming from God, the being done unto us has to encompass All. Specifically, God's fulfillment of our will impacts God's world. To me, an apt analogy is the air moved by a butterfly winging it in Africa will eventually impact air movement in Ohio. God's perfect will for me impacts God's perfect will for you, for Sylvia Schloppenhaufer in Germany, for Yoe Fong in China, et al.
Still, when I again come to ask what you will and it shall be done unto you, immediately I think Money! Romance! Safety! And in that order. Haven't risen above myself yet no matter what Lucy's whispering.
Thank you.
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