____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  *** The Little Worker's Newsletter *** Issue of October 2005 Published by CDTTT - The Committee for the Difussion of The Third Testament _________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS: - FIRST WORD - DIVINE WILL AND HUMAN WILL - SETTING LIMITS TO GOD - REMOVING THOSE LIMITS FROM GOD - LAST WORD ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  - First Word Who, among us, has not, at an any given time, elevated a petition to the Lord, which arising from the bottom of our heart or our necessity, seemed to us as if it is not being answered? Who, among us, that having being caught by a painful ordeal, has not told the Lord: "Father, may Your will be done", and then proceded to complain against that same will if things don't go as we expected or if we feel that the results are unfair or inconvenient to us? Yes, my dearly beloved, I do not believe that it wouldn't be imprecise to say that, one moment or the other, we all have been in that situation. We know for sure that we should not question the high designs of the Lord, but truth is that we try to do just that almost every other moment. In this issue we shall cover, in a brief fashion, some considerations towards what the divine will is, considerations that perhaps have been in our minds and hearts for a long time. And in close relationship with this, we will reflect a little upon about why sometimes it seems to us that the Father does not attend our petitions and we will see what is really going on. ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  - DIVINE WILL AND HUMAN WILL We all know that phrase from the divine teachings that says: "The leaf of the tree does not move without the will of God"- And certainly that's the way it is: neither the leaf in the tree, nor the rays of the sun, nor the stars in the firmament nor the waters in the oceans move without the divine will. But, alas! men do. We, spirits endowed with freedom of choice, move, most of the times, in accordance not with the divine will but with ours, in direct opposition with what happens with the elements of nature, who are obedient in every way to the Creator of all things. "You say that nothing happens without the will of God, so as to excuse yourselves from your errors; but in truth I say to you, that you are wrong, because your errors, your slightest actions, do happen without the will of God. Behold how the Almighty never imposes Himself through force upon you because of His power; you are the ones that do so with your weaker brethren." THE THIRD TESTAMENT How many times have we blamed the divine will for the bitter fruits that we gather in our life! We put the blame on God for the suffering and the war, for the misery and for the unjustice when all of these, have emanated from our own free will, not from the divine one. We haven't quite yet understood, that, due to us having abandoned the path of obedience to the divine will, we have sketched different and strange pathways and life-styles that have taken us far away from the road of complying with the Law, thus calling upon us the pain, the misery, the sickness and the death. "The path of trials for your spirit has been long. You are like the millenary trees that drop their dry leaves at the touch of the winds that lash and strip them, to be covered later with new leaves." "That is the way the tree complies with the will of the father; that is the way that all of you should comply, allowing that the trials and lessons that through life your Father gives you, strip you of old garments, of impurities and shreds of the spirit, to emerge covered with new clothes." "You must know, disciples, that pain removes from your heart the bad fruits and will give you experience, making your errors turn into positive things." "Has pain shaken you at one time or another? Have your branches rustled, have the dry leaves been blown away, and have the bad fruits fallen from your tree? I say to you, that the good that your spirit has acquired is much more valuable in comparison with what could be considered of any value in the world." "I point out examples which you see in nature every day, like in the tree when it is lashed by a strong wind, because the material nature is a manifestation of the divine nature. Therefore, for everything that surrounds you in this existence, you will find a lesson or a revelation for your spirit." THE THIRD TESTAMENT ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  - SETTING LIMITS TO GOD When a strong ordeal strikes our life, or when we feel overwhelmed by suffering, we appeal to the Heavens and elevate the most diverse petitions seeking for the divine help, and then we wait... sometimes in a trusting manner and sometimes, in not such a respectful way. And if, after having waited along for a certain amount of time, we do not see our petitions fulfilled, we are very hasty to reproach the Father for His indifference before our prayers, thinking that He is insensitive, and not only that, we then try to move him in different ways, believing with it to be "softening His heart" and trying to awaken His mercy and compassion. We just don't realize that this is completely unfair and that we are the ones that set a limit to the divine power. Yes, my brothers, this is so. We do limit the reaching of the divine love, thus alienating ourselves from its wonders. King David spoke about this in his Psalms: "How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel." "They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy. How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan" Psalms:78:40-43 In these few inspired Psalms, David refers to the people of Israel while at its journey through the desert, that very same people that even though had witnessed and lived repeatedly through the portentous extents of the divine power, in their foolishness and stubbornness and forgetting all the wonders that the Lord manifested before them, kept denying in a very persistent and ill-mannered way, all of what the Lord had granted them. In resemblance of that Israel of yore, the spiritual Israel of this time is wondering in the desert again, the desert of human life, and just as happened before, we keep denying once and once again the divine power, when pain touches us or when the ordeal knocks to our doors, and in our despair and ignorance, we set, unadvertedly, a limit to God. We set a frontier, a border to the divine love. In other words: We beesech Him, while at the same time we build a limit for His action. And just how is that we set that limit? How is that we refuse to accept the grace that flows incesantly from the divine love? Because our scarce faith and our lack of perseverance. It is our lack of faith the one that makes us unable to contemplate how the wonder we have asked for takes place in our life; our unbelief, our incredulity deceives us and thus we get to believe the lie that there are things impossible to God. The Divine Master explained this to those who surrounded Him in the Second Era, when they didn't see that they were able to perform such wonders as those they have witnessed the Divine Master spread widely at His walk. "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." Mtt:17:20 "...and nothing shall be impossible unto you"... how encouraging these words are to those who are so needy of the divine help! And we wonder: Would something exist that is impossible to God? Let's take a look on what the angel of the Annunciation tells Mary: "For with God nothing shall be impossible." Lk:1:37 Once again, it is confirmed that there are no impossibles to God; this is so, whether it is about the late conception of a child in life (thing that Abraham and Sarah corroborated) or it pertains to things that appear to be absolutely impossible... e.g. the redemption of humanity. Certainly, the salvation of humanity looks at first glance as something totally impossible... but, is it? It may appear as something absurd and utopic for us to even think that humanity could be saved, but this is because it is not a human task, it is a divine one, since for God there are no impossibles. If this salvation depended on us, then we would be doomed for sure... The Divine Master points to us that while even there are things that for men are impossible, they are totally possible for God. "And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." Lk:18:27 How we can make then, that what we have asked for, even those things that we deemed as impossible, get to be fulfilled? By believing in it, strongly believing in it. "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Mtt:21:22 "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them]." Mrk:11:24 I humbly ask you, my beloved brothers, to pause at this point, and reread all the preceding paragraphs in this section. Consider them carefully, roll them over in your mind, until you fully grasp its tremendous significance, and fully make them your own thought, your own deepest belief. For in those few lines is condensed a statement of wonderful divine truth, which, if taken advantage of, will transform you into a living symbol of good, into a living proof of the divine power. Do not proceed with this reading, until you have fully grasped the importance of the knowledge just remembered to you. ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  - REMOVING THOSE LIMITS FROM GOD We can suppress from our lives and spirits those limits that we have set to the divine action. Obviously, as we mentioned before, the first thing to do is to have faith. It is enough for us to think in that whatever thing we made our plea for is possible, since it already exists inside our spiritual mind, so that from there, it simply goes and gets manifested in our life, in our world. James, the Just, explains this: "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." "For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord." "A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways." James 1:5-8 Perhaps the best explanation yet is found in this small quote taken from the book "The Message of Mary", an essential part of The Third Testament: "Faith is a powerfill force that accomplishes what is humanly impossible, realizing what you call a miracle." THE THIRD TESTAMENT And then, after faith, we just need to have perseverance in prayer: "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.". James 5:16 How can we make prayer more efficient? With fervor, with devotion, with insistence on it. "Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.". "And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." James 5:17,18 Jesus, the Divine Master, was the one that taught this to His disciples, as seen here: "...men ought always to pray, and not to faint;" Lk:18:1 Prayer, made in a perseverant and fervent manner, obtains all which is good that we ask from the Lord. And in the Third Era, the Father points us again: "I ask you: Why do you not touch My Divine Spirit with your clean thoughts, and with your fervent prayers? You would obtain everything your spirit and flesh need." THE THIRD TESTAMENT ____________________________________________________________ 互户互户互猾せカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカせЙせカ  - Last Word Beloved: I sincerely hope that these brief lines have contributed to the better understanding of these topics which, for some of us, have the outmost importance. I humbly exhort us all to pray, to pray a lot, knowing before hand that with faith and perserverance, we shall obtain that, which until now, has looked as impossible to many. May the Peace of our Father be with all my brothers Your brother in the Lord The Little Worker ************************************************************* Join as an spiritual volunteer to the Spiritual Corps of Workers http://www.144000.net/cuerpo/ ************************************************************* PASS THE WORD: If you find this humble newsletter interesting enough, feel free to copy it and send it to your friends, family and colleagues... and why not? 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