Difference between revisions of "Calling"
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| − | There is no escaping this great time, this great turning point. There is no more losing yourself in your fantasies and your individual passions. For if you enter this great time—this great threshold, this time of Revelation—blind and self-obsessed, you will not be able to see, to know and to prepare. You may pray to God for deliverance. You may pray to God for the Blessing. But the Blessing and the deliverance have already been placed within you—within Knowledge within you, awaiting the time when you would have the maturity and the understanding that such a power within you must be called upon, must be followed and must be honored above all else. For this is your relationship with God, and the urgency you feel within yourself is the calling of God—the calling to awaken, to become aware and to respond. | + | "There is no escaping this great time, this great turning point. There is no more losing yourself in your fantasies and your individual passions. For if you enter this great time—this great threshold, this time of Revelation—blind and self-obsessed, you will not be able to see, to know and to prepare. You may pray to God for deliverance. You may pray to God for the Blessing. But the Blessing and the deliverance have already been placed within you—within Knowledge within you, awaiting the time when you would have the maturity and the understanding that such a power within you must be called upon, must be followed and must be honored above all else. For this is your relationship with God, and the urgency you feel within yourself is the calling of God—the calling to awaken, to become aware and to respond." |
*[http://www.newmessage.org/ee/index.php/special-teachings/the-blessing The Blessing] (April 20, 2007) | *[http://www.newmessage.org/ee/index.php/special-teachings/the-blessing The Blessing] (April 20, 2007) | ||
| − | To respond to a calling and to actually be able to take on the calling itself are two different things. They represent two different stages in your overall development. You are responding, but that does not mean that you are fully capable. The Creator's Plan is not only to give you greater work in the world, which was given to you before you even came here. The Plan calls for your preparation and the preparation of those who will be essential in your future endeavors. The preparation takes a lot longer than the greater activity at which it is aimed. Consider examples in the world. How long does it take to prepare a great musician or a great athlete or a great statesman? How long does it take to prepare a person to do something important in the world which entails a great deal of responsibility? | + | "To respond to a calling and to actually be able to take on the calling itself are two different things. They represent two different stages in your overall development. You are responding, but that does not mean that you are fully capable. The Creator's Plan is not only to give you greater work in the world, which was given to you before you even came here. The Plan calls for your preparation and the preparation of those who will be essential in your future endeavors. The preparation takes a lot longer than the greater activity at which it is aimed. Consider examples in the world. How long does it take to prepare a great musician or a great athlete or a great statesman? How long does it take to prepare a person to do something important in the world which entails a great deal of responsibility?" |
| − | *Living the Way of Knowledge | + | *Living the Way of Knowledge, chap. 5, p. 44 |
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Revision as of 04:19, 18 November 2011
Short Quotes
"God is calling you through the New Message that God has sent into the world. A message that is unlike anything that has ever been given to humanity before, to prepare humanity for a future that will be unlike anything the human family as a whole has ever had to face."
- Freedom from Addiction and Obsession (January 23, 2009)
Long Quotes
"There is no escaping this great time, this great turning point. There is no more losing yourself in your fantasies and your individual passions. For if you enter this great time—this great threshold, this time of Revelation—blind and self-obsessed, you will not be able to see, to know and to prepare. You may pray to God for deliverance. You may pray to God for the Blessing. But the Blessing and the deliverance have already been placed within you—within Knowledge within you, awaiting the time when you would have the maturity and the understanding that such a power within you must be called upon, must be followed and must be honored above all else. For this is your relationship with God, and the urgency you feel within yourself is the calling of God—the calling to awaken, to become aware and to respond."
- The Blessing (April 20, 2007)
"To respond to a calling and to actually be able to take on the calling itself are two different things. They represent two different stages in your overall development. You are responding, but that does not mean that you are fully capable. The Creator's Plan is not only to give you greater work in the world, which was given to you before you even came here. The Plan calls for your preparation and the preparation of those who will be essential in your future endeavors. The preparation takes a lot longer than the greater activity at which it is aimed. Consider examples in the world. How long does it take to prepare a great musician or a great athlete or a great statesman? How long does it take to prepare a person to do something important in the world which entails a great deal of responsibility?"
- Living the Way of Knowledge, chap. 5, p. 44