PARABLE OF DESIRE FOR GOD'S LOVE - Complete

A PARABLE OF DESIRE FOR GOD’S LOVE

Complete Parable

A woman who loved God traveled to a far country, to a location where she was told that a teacher of God would be present and where she hoped to ask a question that burned within her.

After a long journey she arrived and went to the place where the teacher was speaking. A large crowd was present; and when she saw the opportunity to ask her question, the teacher acknowledged her, and she said,

Dear teacher, I love God and I have a desire to know God and to experience His great Love. What must I do to develop this desire?

The teacher smiled and answered saying:

“You are blessed in that you have a desire to experience God’s great love.

“There is no person having such a desire and who longs for the Father’s love that will ever be disappointed and be turned away from our Father’s Love.

“We are His children and we are the object of His love. There is no royal road to experiencing God’s love. His love surrounds us and envelopes us all. And yet His love will never force its way into the soul. It never enters the soul of its own initiative; and no person is ever compelled to receive His Love.

“You ask, ‘What must I do to develop my desire for God’s Love?’ The answer is easy to understand and to follow, for you do not need a highly developed mind in order to know the truth of how a soul receives the Father’s love in abundance.

“Solomon said that faith and prayer on the part of a person will bring love – the Divine Love – into the soul. This, he said, is the greatest truth. And also you have heard it said that the one and only way that a soul will receive God’s great love is the way of prayer and longing for its coming.

“In the prayer that our elder brother gave to his disciples we are taught that we are God’s highest and greatest creation – this of course, meaning our soul. But there are teachers who make you feel that you are unworthy to receive God’s love, and others who endeavor to have you believe that you are a sinner or even a depraved creature. Do not listen to such people. There is nothing in our soul or in all creation that separates us from God and His love. It is our Father’s desire that we receive His love and that we partake of it until a great change takes place in our soul.

“We are His children and we are invited to grow in our relationship with God to such a degree that we will know that we are of the substance and qualities of His Great Soul.

“You may wonder how this happens. This happens when we continue without ceasing in the way of prayer and longing for the Divine Love. It is only we ourselves who will determine our destiny, and whether we shall become the completed creation of our soul. Our Father’s desire is that we will choose the course that leads to the divine angel, but He will never force us to make this decision. We remain His beloved children no matter what the choice is that we make.

“Thus, there is no ‘must’ in the answer to your question. It is simply the presence of a desire in your heart, and whether you will continue to follow your desire. Your desire brings the great love into your soul – bit by bit, drop by drop, increment by increment. The process of change is gradual, and this is why we are urged by our Celestial friends never to faint, and never to cease trying.

“We are asked by these Celestial angels never to cease to realize that God’s love is waiting for each and every one of us; and that when we come to God with faith and earnest aspirations, His Love will never be withheld from any one of us.

“The desire for God’s love may begin very small and be extremely weak, and we may even have unbelief. Nonetheless, if we will make the start, and what may appear to be a feeble start, I say to you that our Father will not turn a deaf ear to us. He hears our words but not our words only, for more than this, God feels the longings of our soul.

“Our soul – though with damage and injury – will experience healing. His love is the substance in our soul that will remove things from our soul that defile it and alienate us from Him. When we receive His love it will eradicate defilements, and with abundant love all such things will disappear. Love changes the essential quality of the soul, and is the only thing that will change the soul since its creation. With this love will come faith, and our faith will grow, and our longings will grow until we blossom into His loving children.

“Our Father in Heaven is all loving and merciful, and He smiles on us in all our weaknesses. He never rejects us, turns a deaf ear to us, ignores us, criticizes us, scolds us and condemns us. He loves us and keeps on loving us no matter what we feel or don’t feel. His love is always waiting and ready to help us; and if you can accept this, you will find Him ever so quick to take you into His arms of Love.

“This is why I said to you when I began to answer your question, that you are blessed in that you have a desire to experience God’s love. When you continue to follow and to express the desire in your soul for God’s great love, you will be filled with it.

“Anyone who desires God’s love already has a small portion of it. Go, then, and be filled with it in abundance!”

When she heard these things, the woman went her way rejoicing, for her heart was filled with joy …

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WRITTEN WITH THE GUIDANCE OF CELESTIAL FRIENDS

BY JOSEPH BABINSKY - DEC 4th, 2011

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