2019-06-13-Free Will
Lightline #548
Contents
• 1 Heading
o 1.1 Topic: Free Will
o 1.2 Group: Lightline TeaM
• 2 Facilitators
o 2.1 Teacher: Michael
o 2.2 TR: Mark Rogers
• 3 Session
o 3.1 Opening
o 3.2 Lesson
o 3.3 Dialogue
o 3.4 Closing
Topic: Free Will
Group: Lightline TeaM
Facilitators
Teacher: Michael
TR: Mark Rogers
Session
Opening
Prayer: Thank you Divine Parents for this interface that we create and share and cherish with you and the others. I pray to be an instrument of your peace, to be your children in whom you are so well pleased. I ask for this grace, even now.
Lesson
MICHAEL: I feel the tug of your yearning, your yearning to know, your yearning to share, your yearning to commune and it is my desire to meet you in this place of your making. I am your brother, I am your Father and I cherish the opportunity to be your friend as well, your associate and companion on the trail of life that you so choose. More and more you are in awareness to consider me, to invite me and to ask when you are in need and when you are desiring to share the bounty of the goodness of your lives.
I hear all of your gestures towards me, towards the Father, towards your Mother Spirit; all of these tones are recognized on high as the parent recognizes the call of the child. The parent becomes stirred to respond to the needs of the child, to the desires of the child to be embraced and held in love and in spirit and I am eager to respond to these calls for love. So I am here now to bring you my assurance once again that I am ever faithful to your call and that I will respond to your petitions for my presence, for me to be close to you, to join your sojourn and to assist you as you so desire.
Your sharing of your life experience with me is the gift that you give in return to the parent. It is a joy to be able to see you living your life in joy and in peace and in the presence of your spirit being. These are great rewards for those of us who have attempted to provide all that you have need of and even desire for. For you to make the most of your life experience is my dream c ome true. Your expressing your dream and feeling empowered to create your reality is my reward for it is my desire that you would have these things, that you would feel this security of my presence and of the presence of all the rest of us, your Divine Parents who so cherish you.
I understand there is desire for some further clarification as to the boundaries and perhaps limitations of this thing your refer to as your free will choice. This is a gift from on high, a gift from the Supreme, a gift from the First Source and Center. This cherished gift bestows with it a certain responsibility. Some may think that allowing an individual such wide ranging free choice would not be conducive to settling into a normal life and they would be right in their observation. The free will choice factor of the individual is the wild card in every situation. It is the ultimate freedom and flexibility granted to the individual to make their own choices and to suffer their own consequences as a result of their choices.
You may observe that individuals wield their free will choices to varying degrees, some insisting that they have very little and they are victims of their circumstance and they certainly lack the freedom to create their own choices. Others realize that this free will choice means that the ship is theirs to steer, that the direction is theirs to decide, the opportunity is there to seize and in so doing they actively go about engaging in the creation of their reality. So on an individual basis, the use of this gift of free will choice ranges quite widely.
One may never assume the responsibility and the opportunity of using the full depth of their free will choice and never really seize control of their own destiny. Or one may realize that this freedom of choice is the key to your ability to re-choose, to choose higher and better options, to reexamine their choices in light of divine values and meaning and choose accordingly. For these people it is quite possible for them to create for themselves a reality that they envision, that they foresee but that does not universally exist around them.
You all are aware of your references to the mystics or the monks in the hills who have become enlightened and live in this state of enlightenment regardless of the fact that their country may be surrounded by people of a different mindset, of a material perspective. This is where one may consider the boundaries of the personal and individual effects of free will choice and the effects of necessarily existing in groups wherein there may be different values and different perspectives and all these individuals with different perspectives, with different values still possess this supreme gift of choosing, their way of exercising their free will choice to choose a way that is different than the way you might consider to be more righteous.
This is where you are granted a divine opportunity. You will of necessity, bump into and contact many of your brethren who are not as enlightened in the spiritual perspectives as you have developed yourselves to be. Terms like ‘Light and Life’, terms like ‘being the light’ are familiar to you, routine and customary. To others, they will not have the meaning that you ascribe to them. They may not have the personal experience of this citadel of spirit that you have created for the purpose of sharing as we do now and so what will affect change, is your presentation of who you are as a result of having grown in spirit.
This is where you are commissioned to bring the light into the arena of shadows and darkness. You may be an example of the shining light, the comforting beacon and simply by being who you are, without struggle, without pressure, others will be attracted to your glow and it will be not necessary to break down any misunderstandings or misperceptions as you would see them, rather, your mission is to illuminate the darkness and chase the shadows away. In this gentile illumination comes awareness and this is accomplished simply by your being an emissary of light.
So, when you ask how things are affected between the individual free will and the collective free will choices, I point to the fact that you can use your individual free choice, your free will, to become these magnificent spiritual beings as you have chosen to pursue and in this way your becoming an emissary of light will naturally and normally spill out into the greater pool of humanity and condition the environment just by your presence. Likewise, the sentiment of the crowd need not unduly impact your individual citadel of spirit, your individual choice to function in spirit capacity and with all the values that you find there. So fear not about the group mentality, only attempt to lift it up bit by bit, by example and with love as your guiding motivation.
Where you do encounter some difficulty or the rub, as you may say, is in your perception that things such as conditions you refer to as ‘Light and Life’ should be closer than it is, should be easier than it is. These are the frustrations of the forerunners of these states of being, those that can already foresee these states of peace and love and wonder why everyone doesn’t see their vision. Simply go about doing good, being good and shining out the Father’s love in the process.
Trust that all will made right but it is a great process of discovery for very many, all of which have the same endowment, the same supreme gift of choice and by necessity will need to learn for themselves the value of spirit awareness. Be patient, as you have said, be loving and kind as you would have the patience and kindness for small children to learn their lessons. I have endeavored to bring some more meanings to all these word symbols around free will choice. I hope there has been some understanding in the process. I am open to any thought patterns or questions generated by this dialog.
Dialogue
Question: I guess we have a question of our Commander in Chief’s free will that seems to be hurting vulnerable people and our patience with it now is: Is there any effect that we pray for spiritual enlightenment for others?
MICHAEL: : My dear, I would bend over backwards to establish the certainty in your mind that prayer is always a powerful and potent thing for you to consider doing. Your prayers, your petitions reverberate through the heavens as they literally “bounce off” of the individuals who are all observing you as the scenario unfolds. Part of the condition to understand with free will choice, just as was illustrated in the grand example of your System Sovereign Lucifer who was granted ultimate free will choice, even to the level and the degree that he went with it to separate his world, your world, from the connections and the circuits and the influence of the Father Himself, many would say: Why was it allowed to go that far?
And the answer is because there is that much love contained in this gift of free will choice. That is, will be allowed to play out as you so choose, because in playing out the choices, one is then able to see the consequence, one is able to then note the contrast of cause and effect and the results of the choices become apparent. In your scenario you pointed to, the same rule applies. The individuals, all the individuals, are allowed the expression of their free will choice. They are not, however, free from the consequences of their choices. They are not free from the loop that they have created in exercising their choices but their choice simply will not be removed from them, will not be taken away.
This is how the game works and after things have played out, certainly with hindsight, one could easily look and judge situations such as World Wars, Lucifer Rebellions and other incursions into fear and doubt and Godlessness. But history will recall how those events were terminated in natural due course through the very same processes that they were instigated with. It may seem an abomination for individuals to have so much power and be so mischievous with it, but I assure you, all of this is a matter of record and all must be reckoned with in this vast expanse of time for the individuals involved.
I understand that there is a heartfelt desire, from you my children, that I or someone of a parental capacity should protect you, should save you from the malicious intents of the other children on the playground and for this request I assure you, each and everyone, I will protect you. Individually, you are safe with me. I will never forsake you or abandon you. I have committed to protect you throughout your eternal career and this will be so but I will not step in between the children on the playground and remove rights from some and protect others as you would see it.
These issues are yours to resolve through this same method of choosing and re-choosing and choosing again, when you have seen the results and choosing, when you have seen the contrasts and choosing, when you are in greater awareness of a greater truth and being the light and helping others as they search for a greater truth.
This is your task at hand in this life and if you will ask for my assistance as you tread this path, I will surely fellowship with you and counsel with you as you so desire. But I assure you, you are quite safe, your eternal career is quite impermeable. You even have the phrase: “To all those who know God, what does it matter if all earthly things perish” as an example of how faith and trust can be your guiding light.
The magnitude of the plan is such that you cannot, at this stage, have it figured out but you can connect with the makers of the plan as you do even now and fellowship and enjoy the company of all of us who are in this together. You may take away the assurance that I bring you that you are as an individual having chosen to return to the First Source and Center and follow God home, your freewill choice has saved you. You need fear nothing. Let the other children on the playground exercise their choices and reap the consequences of their actions, all the while you, knowing your citadel of spirit is quite safe, your eternal career may not be impacted by such small matters such as the worldly affairs of Urantia.
Closing
MICHAEL: I leave you now with my peace, I pray that you take it from me. Father, these are my children. I am so pleased and I love them so much I have committed to shepherd them through on their path home to You and I will do this. We will approach You together Father. It is our combined desire to do so and so it shall be. I bid you all farewell.
