ABRAHAM -- DIVINE ASSURANCE
OCTOBER 20, 2002
WOODS CROSS GROUP

I am ABRAHAM. It is always a feeling of returning home when we meet. At home
there are levels of comfort and safety that are not really found anywhere
else in the world. I am amazed at times to see how you each are really
intertwined with one anothers lives. This is good. This is the feeling of
home. As you begin to move away from the material life however, you will be
more so embracing that home feeling throughout your eternal career. It is
wonderful that always goodness and light outweigh personal differences. Well
done.

As you each move further toward attaining self-mastery are you filled with
that divine assurance, that inner knowing that God is everything. "He is
always with me. I move with confidence toward more truth, beauty and
goodness every day. Every day I am becoming." Divine assurance helps us to
recognize the ongoing growth and the comfort that we are never stuck or
without choice. Self-mastery is for the most part about embracing all that
is true, beautiful and good. It is about committing to living the divine
life, not just talking about it, studying about it or wishing for it, but
truly striving to become that which God would have you be.

Divine assurance does not have us believe that Father wants us to be an
ascending puppet, no. He desires us to experience life as all other
evolutionary creatures before. This is the way of the universal plan. Father
does not tempt, nor coax us into doing good so that we may be a reflection
of Him, no. By His natural law does He allow us to choose what we will,
learn what we will and definitely does He desire us to grow toward Him, yes.

It is well known that most of Father's children desire to do good, but
through the natural outworking of the mortal life there are mistakes made.
It is completely understood. For the purpose however of attaining
self-mastery, it is necessary to be completely committed to living a
spirit-led life. Granted, at times mistakes will be made, but I am speaking
about a loose commitment. There are many things that would attract your
attention away from a full commitment to the spiritual life. Pain, physical,
mental or emotional, would certainly strain ones mind to fully focus on
their commitment.

Weak practicing of the spiritual life would perhaps cause one to waver
between faith and doubt, and therefore commitment would not have the same
meaning. In other words: "It is acceptable from time to time if I should
knowingly sin. Father will understand and in time I will forget about it."
This is not going forward with self-mastery, no. This is not receiving
divine assurance, no. This is walking a fine line between darkness and
light, which always leads to confusion and spirit poisons. This loose
commitment is leaning away from that comfort, that feeling of home, that
confidence of really feeling God is your Father.

Mistakes are understood. Bad choices are understood. Intentional knowing
that you are crossing that line of divine integrity is to feel undeserving
of God's watch-care and becoming a servant to that which occupies your mind.
If one is accepting of practices without integrity then that is what one
will serve. That is where you feel that orphan-hood, that is the source of
self-unworthiness. Last week our lesson entailed those things that you fill
yourselves with that promote self-mastery. Whatever you allow to fill your
mind is for the most part what you serve. It is what drives you. It is what
inspires or depresses you.

To be committed to serving the Father out of pure love for Him is to broaden
your horizons far beyond what you thought possible. This is where we find
our assurance that God is with us in all we do. He knows our struggles,
heartaches, concerns and desires. In the assurance we become working
partners with our divine Parents. Working together, not like perhaps a
typical earth family, where a child may do something pleasing in the parents
eyes for additional privileges, but truly enhanced spiritual power is yours
because you are co-working with the Father. Truly it is natural and
attainable for all.

This week think about your commitment to the spirit life. What is considered
a loose commitment to you? Think about what is acceptable to Father versus
your own understanding. Some here may still hold the old traditions from
past church experience and maybe that is a bit too ridged. What is
co-working with God? What is divine assurance to you? Just a few questions
please.

CALVIN: Abraham, we welcome Gib and Lou Ann back. Feel free to step in with
questions.

DIANA: Abraham, about this idea of assurance and the knowingness that I am
completely taken care of and that Father wants my highest and best possible
good--I have struggled with this, as you know. My beliefs seem to keep me
stuck in not thinking that this is possible for me in certain ways. So I
like this idea of assurance.

ABRAHAM: Yes Diana, we, beginning out as babes in the universe, learn that
there are rewards for those who do good. It becomes inevitable however that
we discover good does not always reap good and always doing good is not
always possible. We are not born with all we need to know and the road to
perfection is very, very long. You, my daughter, have worked a great deal
and believe me, you have really done well. You are moving closer toward
having that divine assurance as a part of who you are and what you believe
in. Thank you for your comment. Another question?

MIRIAM: Abraham, I haven't been here for a little while. It is good to be
back. I have been reading the story of Jesus' life. It just knocks me
out--here He is God on earth doing our thing. After He got baptized and went
up and hung out for forty days, just kinda thought over the whole deal, the
reality of how He checked in with His Father, the reality that we can do
that very same thing every single day, single moment if we choose to. With
that mind thought--it is just wonderful. As you know I fell on my knee
recently and tonight you were talking about being in pain, we can have a
painful moment and reach Father. You can reach to Him in joy too. I am just
in this grateful thing lately. We are truly blessed.

ABRAHAM: Thank you, Miriam, for that beautifully touching expression. I am
in agreement that Father shares our joy and our pain if we can allow Him.
Life is most definitely supposed to be filled with more joy than sorrow, and
definitely sharing a life with our Father insures that will indeed happen.
Well said, my daughter. One more question or comment.

SARAUNA: Abraham, maybe you can explain to me a little bit more about what
you said regarding being a reflection of Father?

ABRAHAM: Certainly. My meaning was that Father does not dangle the good
things in life to draw us to Him so that we may do His bidding or be a
reflection of Him. He does not bribe us, no. He does however allow the
natural and divine plan to work so that we have choices, we have free will,
we have the opportunity to experience, become educated and through our own
love for Him, make effort to be closer to Him, thereby becoming a truly
beautiful and pure reflection of Him. Does this help? (It does. Thank you.)
He works not like man. He is not with ego or a parent who would offer us an
reward if we should do His bidding. He has made the path and has lit that
path, but indeed does not force us down it.

With that I will express my gratitude to our Father for His ways of love,
caring, strength and power, which helps us all to make our house a home.
Know that my love is ever growing for each one of you. Until next time,
shalom.