The God Within & Without
Affirmation, Becoming a Divine Vessel, Beliefs, Divine Guidance, Faith, God, Life, Realizing Our Own Divinity, Spirituality|“I have to wonder, though, Sibbia…although I understand your reasoning behind giving God the credit…isn’t there a balance point we can achieve where we are responsible (in a healthy way) for BOTH accomplishments and mistakes??? I’m not talking about a purely egotistic, “Look at Me” sort of thing…but a healthy feeling of pride in reaching goals, doing a good thing, etc., can help motivate me to doing more good 
Plus, it helps me to see myself as a part of God - and not something ’seperate’.
What are your additional thoughts on this?”
This comment was left by Grace, truly one of my favorite bloggers, in response to this post. It deserved a well thought out response which I will attempt to deliver right now.
To begin to give my thoughts on this, the first thing I have to cover is just what is a mistake. Webster defines mistake as:
1 : a wrong judgment : misunderstanding 2 : a wrong action or statement proceeding from faulty judgment, inadequate knowledge, or inattention.
So to have made a mistake, I have to use incorrect judgment or have been missing necessary information at the time I made my decision or action. This means I was not functioning with my highest potential or a connection to the Divine.
It is my understanding that, with effort and sincerity, any person can become enlightened, i.e. regain and maintain a connection to the Divine, the true source of all life, knowledge, understanding, energy and potential. After all, Jesus said we were to go out and accomplish even greater works.
Three of my personal affirmations for this are:
I tap into my Divine wisdom and am led to the right path and right decision at all times.
God is omniscient and knows all things about all things. God is omnipresent and therefore exists in me. I draw on the omniscience inside myself and all learning, wisdom, knowledge and insight flow into my being and awareness.
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I am connected to the one Cosmic Mind of the Universe and knowledge and understanding flow to me effortlessly.
So what about accomplishments?
Likewise, accomplishment suggests achievement of some type. I have only one true achievement, only one thing that I can achieve of my own power, as separate and apart from any other being or influence, including the Divine. It is both great and small, monumental and insignificant.
It is the control and direction of my own free will.
If you love something, set it free and allow it the chance to return to you. This is what God has done for the whole of humanity. We each were given our own free will, our own consciousness. My ability to develop and enhance this gift determines the course of my life. This ability to choose cannot be taken away from me, it must be freely given. No matter the external circumstance or situation, I have the ability to decide how to respond to it.
Like an animal I was given instinctual behaviors that help me survive and car for myself. Unlike an animal, I was given the ability to override these instincts, up to the ability to choose death itself.
I recognize this, along with the physical body I was given, as gifts and I attempt to honor them as such. I am not a meek or humble person. I alternate from a quiet reserve that can be seen as lackadaisical to an intense fiery passion with bold forthrightness. I have been known to take great personal offense and bear a grudge. My temper is fiery and bubbles to the surface easily. It has taken years and years of practice to affect any change in these things.
These behaviors, along with others, are “mistakes” and reap what they sow. I’ve made great strides (my own personal assessment) in both by directing my consciousness toward embracing the Divine and seeking to return.
What about being part of God?
As one teacher has said it, being our essence as a Divine being — as part of God — is akin to the wave of the ocean versus the ocean itself. Both are made of the same substance and have the same essential nature, but the wave cannot call itself the ocean, nor command its true force or power. Only by returning our consciousness to the source from which it came, can we realize our Divine potential.
Here are a few more of my affirmations on this subject. I use them daily along with the ones listed above and a few others. I post them in hopes that they help others in their return to God.
Each day I draw closer and closer to God and God draws closer and closer to me.
Each day I experience and express more Divine love and wisdom than the day before.
Everyday I open more to the God-force inside me. Each day I am a better picture of the Divine than the day before.
December 17th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Thank you SO much for answering my questions to you in such an indepth way. I believe I understand now how you think about this!
Do you follow A Course In Miracles at all??? One of the things that I so love about these teachings is that any sense of ’seperation’ between us and God is an illusion - and that we can be healed of that illusion. One of the things I’ve been working at doing (along with affirmations…and yours are AWESOME!) is to ask that my thinking be healed from all thoughts of seperation.
This is a fantastic post!!! ((( Sibbia )))
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December 17th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
This is very good explanation of what you believe. I love your affirmations. I believe that we are all an extension of source and that we are never truly disconnected from source for that is impossible, however that we become misaligned with source because of us allowing our ego to have more control and by believing that we are independent of source.
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