Goodness is an aspiration gradually spun into our life by The Father, when we of our own free will choose to follow His counselling, spoken into our thoughts with a view to assisting our passage through life. Our journey of self discovery teaches us that we have much more to learn than our school, and university can possibly begin to coach us with a willingness to present us with a diploma evidencing our belief that we are smart.
Carl Jung introduces to the awareness that those often bitter lessons littering our path are sign posts, encouraging us to change our ways with a determination to grasp, and master all that our life's journey is attempting to teach us. My favourite quotes from wise old sages informs us that when we fall seven times, we rise eight times with a willingness to keep learning from all that is endeavouring to keep us walking on the straight, and narrow road.
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”~ C. S. Lewis
The Father has His way of intervening in our life, imposing His timing on all that He promises us, He will deliver in response to our trust by doing all that He asks of us.
Reciprocation is our free choice enabling Our Father to respond in kindness when we do all that He invites us to deliver to Him.
Reciprocity acts as the basis for what we may call ‘spiritual’ values."That which you sow, so shall you reap." (Galatians 6:7-9 ). The principle of reciprocity is similarly the basis of the ‘Golden Rule’ of conduct, to "Do as you would be done by." It also underpins the tradition of ‘Karma’ (per our Buddhist brethren) also known as "the law of cause and effect" evidencing the results of our actions.
The Covenant between Our Father, and all His children without exception guarantees that God will never abandon us,
even when we believe that we know better than Him, when rejecting His counselling, and following our own self seeking way.
9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God;
he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
~ Deuteronomy 7
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