The Meaning Of "Thy Will Be Done"

Most often, this phrase carries with it the undertone of surrender, but of a certain kind. It is a surrender that involves man accepting the struggles that comes his way, not by fighting against it, but by rationalizing that "This is what God wants. There's nothing I can do about the misery that befalls me. This is God's will".

What rubbish.

Again we see how far man has fallen in his understanding. Man's vision of the Truth has become distorted and in accordance with that, so has his thinking, willing, feeling and acting in this terrestrial life.

It is accurate to say that "Thy Will Be Done" is a reference to the surrender of the human will, but this surrender is not an act of resignation. The surrender is a voluntary one, where we voluntarily agree to put aside and ignore the personal desires of our I-being in order to manifest the Will of the Logos through concrete action.

In every human circumstance, our "I" thinks only of its personal comfort and safety. We view the world through an aura clouded by the selfishness of our I-being. This inwardly-turned focus acts as a barrier of sorts to our ability to know the Will of the Logos. Instead, we constantly think of "me, first" and will perform no act unless we can profit from it somehow, even if that act involves helping someone else.

In order to fulfill the true meaning of the phrase "Thy Will Be Done" we must first endeavor to truly know what "God's Will" really is. The Will of the Logos has nothing to do with the prosperity of the individual ("The Father is no respecter of persons" - The Christ). The Will of the All is that we love and help one another without restriction or prejudice. The Supreme Will is that we seek diligently the Path that leads to release from this temporary emergency-order and, if we are fortunate enough to locate the Path, to follow it unwaveringly until we are re-united with The All. In order to carry out this Will, we must allow our own selfish, I-focused will to die. This is something that historically, we have been stubbornly reluctant to do. As such, for ages of time, we have stood in our own way, and blocked our own path to Liberation.

So, "Thy Will Be Done" is not a resignation, but an affirmation. it is a volunteering of one's self to become a vehicle for the Will of the Logos. Not in a negative sense, like a helpless puppet or marionette, but in a positive sense, where we consciously, voluntarily and with proper insight, go forth into the world of men and allow the Logos to manifest Itself to creation through the heads, hearts and hands of his creatures.

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