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Excerpt From
Teacher Tomas'
"Fruits of the Spirit"
A UNIVERSAL COURSE IN CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
CONFIDING TRUST
Confiding trust is a fruit of the spirit. It is a natural gift
of sonship. When you give yourself over to divinity and become
part of the Living Reality, your motives are such that you are
reborn, you are now functioning as an enlightened being, or
desire to be helpful in the ministry of Michael in your life
as you may manifest the love of God. It is a natural result of
knowing God that you should want to be like Him and to share
Him in your behaviors and attitudes with others.
The facet of confiding trust as a behavior, as an attitude,
was ideationalizied by introducing your prayerful attitude
toward the First Source and Center. Introducing the concept of
a child who comes to the Father, trusting in His love,
acceptance, overcare, guidance, consolation and so forth, is
inate to you who have been reborn, to you who are born of the
spirit and who turn to the spirit for sustenance, nourishment
and an answer to your grievances and prayers.
As you come to know The Father, as you come to
Him with your burdens, your experiences, your cosmic
problem-solving situations, you begin to discourse with The
Father as with a Friend, and your soul conveys to Him the
attitude of needing His guidance in solving these many
problems, natural problems, as a result of living the life of
a mortal of the realm, a realm much affected by darkness.
In your upward struggle you come to then confide in the First
Source and Center your feelings, not only about your external
situations but about your internal situations. Indeed, you
well know it is not necessary to discuss these things in words
with the Father for He hears, sees, knows your soul as it is
and responds to your attitude as you approach Him in prayer.
It is your attitude that He speaks to and answers. It is His
Presence that responds to you as you open for His presence.
This is a result of your confiding trust in The Father.
Your difficulties with your fellow human beings, your
distresses with your own abilities to live up to your own
standards, your dismay when you discover disharmony, your
chagrin at recognizing betrayals, many serious things occur in
a life of a God-knowing
mortal that cause deep feeling and concern, and bringing these
concerns to The Father in confidence of His hearing, seeing,
knowing and ultimately doing something about it, is a
manifestation of your trust.
As you then develop this relationship with The Father, you
look out upon the sea of personalities surrounding you in your
daily life. Each individual you encounter is also indwelt by a
Fragment of Divinity. There is a piece of God in each of His
children. As you know your fellows, it behooves you to learn
to have confiding trust also in them.
Let us speak first about fellow Kingdom believers, your
brothers and sisters in the spirit, those in whom you
recognize a God-consciousness, your friends in the spirit. You
are opening yourself to lightening your burden when you can
speak with them in confidence and in trust that they will hear
you as a fellow sojourner and respect your confidence thatthey
will give back to you in kind what The Father gives back to
you when you speak to Him in confiding trust.
When you speak with the non-believer, it behooves you to be as
wise as serpents and as peaceful as doves. It behooves you to
whet their appetite for truth. It behooves you to
encourage them to know the Father, for in knowing the Father,
they are welcomed into this fraternity wherein you have
confiding trust in one another.
Many of your distresses are brought about, as you all well
know, by placing your trust in sources which fall short of the
goals of eternity, which fall short of the recognition of God.
It is worthy of the adventure to attempt to none-the- less
convey a confiding trust even in your enemies, for it gives
them an opportunity to make a choice. Every decision that is
made brings the mortal closer to ascending one step further;
every moment provides unlimited opportunities to the kingdom
seeker.
Returning to your fellowship, your immediate associations,
which we know is the arena in which you work, play, function,
have influence and are influenced by, your arena is where you
must learn to have confiding trust. Trust is a difficult thing
for you mortals to undertake, for your trust has been betrayed
often. Your Planetary Prince betrayed the trust when he set
forth his Manifesto, and your entire evolution since those
early, early times has been founded on this distrust.
Distrust is part and parcel of your realm. It permeates every
facet of life in the realms of politics, education, philosophy
and so forth, and certainly in your behaviors and in your
reactions. Trust is a decision you make. Only you can
determine that you will trust. Faith is given to you, but to
act upon your faith requires that you trust. And so the fruit
of the spirit, confiding trust, requires an effort, even
though it is a natural fruit of the spirit. Unless and until
you are conscious of the ways you curtail your confiding trust
in others, you will not advance nor will your brethren.
It is apparent to many of us that you all distrust one
another, for you are unwilling to be exposed to the full
breadth of one another's soul. Your personality techniques and
defenses are deeply ingrained. Your inability to communicate
is an example of distrust. You distrust having to acknowledge
someone else's discomfort in not knowing. You distrust the
responsibility of a gracious response. You distrust the pain
of insight. And you distrust the comfort of communion.
You do not have to go far afield to see how cleverly you have
built up your defenses against the demands of others, the
manipulations of clever sophistries, the flash and glitter of
your material realms, the soothing tones of intimacy. Far be
it for me to parade your imperfections before you, and I am
not expanding for that purpose but only to help reveal to you
that in your immediate realm you are distrustful.
I say this not in accusation, for I trust that you are
listening to me, that you are hearing me. This is one of the
keys, that you learn to listen and see what it is that your
brother wants to share, and respond to that self-expression,
that soul need. From that understanding and that awareness,
you may take it out as far as you like, but this business
begins at home and at heart. Always remember your Source of
trust. If you are sincere in your desire to be about The
Father's business, you will refer to Him incessantly. You will
not hide behind yourself, but behind Him who sends you.
Before I conclude this subject, I would like to remind you
that the betrayal of Judas was largely due to his refusal to
trust his fellows. He refused to confide in the m his
feelings, his worries, his suspicions, his concerns regarding
Jesus, many of the Master's behaviors, and many of the facets
of life during those times they spent together. As you isolate
yourself in ivory towers one from another, you cut yourself
off consciously from the fruit of the divine spirit, confiding
trust. And so my assignment is to look this week at your
understanding of confiding trust.
Jesus trusts us. He trusts his children, one and all. And so I
ask you to look to your brothers and sisters and learn to
trust, learn to confide in others, in trust of their response
to your soul.
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