Mother Mary's Garden, If it is the Father's good pleasure to give you his kingdom, why don't you have it?

If it is the Father's good pleasure to give you his kingdom, why don't you have it?

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NOTE: This is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Keys to the Abundant Life.

Let us begin with a reality check. Let us look at the statement, “It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Although you may have heard that statement many times before, have you really spent the time and the attention to consider what this truly means? If you look at this statement, you will see that there really is only one meaning. It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom, and this must mean that God really wants you to have his kingdom. God really wants you to have the abundant life. It is his good pleasure to give it to you.

So if you look at your life and see that you do not have abundance, then you must reason that something has gone wrong. Something is preventing you from having the abundant life that God wants you to have. And now we can begin to reason together and consider what could possibly have prevented you from having the abundant life—if it truly is God’s desire and God’s will that you should have that abundance. What could possibly have gone wrong? What could possibly prevent you from having what God wants you to have? What could possibly prevent God’s will from being a manifest reality on planet Earth?

Let us now take a look at planet Earth. There is great beauty in nature on this planet. Your scientists are continually discovering how intricate, how complex, and yet how wondrous this world is designed. There are so many interwoven and complex systems on Earth that even the most materialistic scientists cannot help but once in a while feel a sense of wonder and awe over the intricacy, the beauty and the symmetry they discover in nature. And if you are a spiritually inclined person, you will tend to agree with me when I say that this intricacy must have been designed by a mind that is very capable and that has great imagination and reasoning ability. So what you see in nature is that God truly has designed a very beautiful and wondrous creation, a creation that has great abundance.

Yet when you look at the area of human affairs, you see a different picture. Even though the human body is the most complex of all of God’s creations, human beings seem to have trouble figuring out how to use their bodies without destroying themselves, without destroying others or without destroying nature. And whereas you often see abundance and balance in nature, you do not see the same abundance or the same balance in human affairs. Think about the words of Jesus, when he said that you are of greater value than the sparrows (Matthew 10:31), meaning that if God is capable of clothing and feeding the birds, he is surely capable of giving you everything you need. Yet there are many people on Earth who look at the birds with envy because the birds are free to fly wherever they like and they always seem to find food just for the taking. In contrast, many people are trapped by various circumstances and can hardly move. They must struggle their entire lives just to make a living and feed themselves and their children. And so many people long for the carefree life of the birds and feel that in contrast their life is only one long struggle.

Yet when you look at the beauty and the abundance that God has built into nature, does it seem logical to you that God would not be able to design a planet that can sustain human life with the same abundance and carefreeness that you see in the life of birds? Is there really any reason why God should not be able to design a planet that can give you the same freedom and the same carefree living as you see in the life of the many creatures that have far less intelligence and, as Jesus said, far less value than yourself.

You have only limited options when you start reasoning this through in a logical manner. You cannot deny the reality that human beings do not have the abundant life. And when you consider the concept that it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom, you must say that if God wants human beings to have the abundant life, then something must have gone wrong either on God’s end or on your end.
One option is to reason that apparently God was able to create a wonderful and intricate planet that is able to sustain a carefree and abundant life for the birds and other creatures with less intelligence than humans. Yet when it came to humans, God somehow was not able to engineer the planet so that it could sustain your life in the same abundance and freedom from care, lack or suffering. So you can reason that God’s ability to design must somehow be flawed, and when it came to human beings, he made a mistake.

There are indeed many people who have reasoned this way. Some of them are religious people, and having been brought up to fear going to hell if they blaspheme God, they quickly push such thoughts aside. Others are willing to acknowledge the thoughts and some have even used them as a reason to reject all religion or reject the concept of God.

If you are inclined to think this way, I ask only one thing of you. The next time there is a clear night where you live, please go outside and look up into the night sky. Look up into the Milky Way and contemplate how many stars there are. You don’t need to look up in a scientific book that tells you how many billions of stars scientist have calculated to be in existence. You just need to look with your eyes and see that there are more stars than you can count. And then ask yourself, “If God was able to create a universe of such incredible vastness and complexity, does it seem logical that on this small planet, that we call Earth, God was not able to provide an abundant and carefree life for the highest life form on this planet?”

My beloved hearts, if you will contemplate this, I think you will realize the absolute truth that God is fully capable of designing planet Earth in such a way that every human being on this planet can enjoy an abundant and carefree life with the same freedom as that enjoyed by the birds. And so the very fact that most people do not have this life cannot be caused by a problem on God’s end. And this leaves only one logical conclusion. The lack and the poverty found on Earth must be caused by a problem on your end. Something must have happened on Earth that prevents God’s desire from being manifest here. Something must have happened that altered God’s original design for this planet, so that the highest and most complex life form often encounters a less abundant life than what is enjoyed by many of the creatures of far less intelligence.

If you step back from this issue, you might find reason to question the image of God that you have been given since childhood. You might consider these questions:

If God truly is the almighty and infallible God that he is portrayed to be by many religions, and if it truly is God’s desire that human beings have the abundant life, then how can it possibly be that God’s desire is not manifest on Earth?
What could possibly prevent the desires of an all-mighty and all-powerful God from being manifest?
If it is God’s good pleasure to give people the kingdom, how could they possibly fail to have that kingdom?

You now reach another logical conclusion. Either there is something wrong on God’s end or there is something wrong on your end, meaning that either God has a flaw or the image of God upheld by many people on Earth has a flaw.

Once again, if God can create such an intricate and vast universe, is it likely that he is unintelligent? The logical conclusion is that there must be something wrong in the image of God that has been painted by certain religions on this Earth. This leads us to a fruitful area of discussion because we can now begin to consider what might be missing in the image of God that you have come to accept.

We have seen that God is quite capable of designing a very vast and complex universe. We have reasoned that a God who can create such an incredible universe is fully capable of creating a small planet that can provide the abundant and carefree life for every human being living upon it. Yet despite the fact that God is able and willing, the current reality on planet Earth does not reflect God’s desire and God’s ability. Therefore, something must have come between the design for Earth that God holds in his mind and the reality that is currently outpictured on this planet. As I have said, what could possibly prevent the desire of an almighty God from being manifest? Well, it is logical that nothing can prevent God from having his will fulfilled. So the only possible conclusion is that either God is not almighty or he has chosen to set aside, at least on a temporary basis, his almighty powers on Earth.

This opens the possibility that God has given human beings dominion over the Earth, as the Bible clearly states (Genesis 1:26). What does it mean that God told people to take dominion over the Earth? Does it not seem reasonable to assume that God has given human beings an ability to not simply live on this planet and adapt to the natural circumstances, as you see in animal species? God has given human beings the ability to not simply adapt to their environment but to take dominion over that environment and to actively and consciously alter that environment to suit their needs. In other words, human beings have the ability to choose how they will live. They are not simply slaves of their environment that must either adapt or become extinct.

When you look at nature, you will see that all animal species are adapted to a certain type of environment. Although there is great adaptability in nature, there is a limit to how much an animal species can adapt to different types of environments. The reason is that an animal does not have the consciousness and the creative ability to either alter its environment or to insulate itself from that environment. Yet human beings do have that ability, and therefore you will see that no animal species has the same ability to live in many different environments as is the case for human beings. This alone should make you realize that God has given human beings abilities that are far beyond what is found in the animal kingdom. Therefore, human beings are more than simply sophisticated animals. Human beings are not simply highly evolved animals because humans are, to use a modern expression, a quantum leap above any animal species.

The logical conclusion is that God created human beings in his own image and likeness (Genesis 1:26), meaning that humans have a consciousness and self-awareness so sophisticated that instead of simply adapting to their environment, they have the ability to imagine that their environment could be changed and that such a change could enable them to have more abundance than what their environment currently provides. Human beings also have the ability to freely choose that, instead of adapting to a particular environment, they will actively seek to change that environment. So what sets a human being apart from animals is self-awareness, imagination and free will.

On the positive side, these creative abilities give human beings the potential to act as extensions of God on Earth. This might give us a new view of the story of creation told in Genesis. It is explained how God spent six days creating the Earth, the animal kingdom and human beings. And then on the seventh day, God rested. Could it possibly be that God resting means that God temporarily stopped his creative work on planet Earth? He did this because he had created beings that were meant to act as his hands and feet on Earth, as extensions of himself on Earth, so that they could finish the creation of Earth? Is it possible that God created human being in his image and likeness because he wants them to finish the creation of Earth, so that, instead of passively living here, they could take active part in God’s creation, they could feel that they played an active role and that they could take part in bringing God’s kingdom into full manifestation on this planet?

Yes my beloved, I know these ideas go far beyond what you were told in Sunday school, and they go far beyond what your scientists are willing to even consider. Yet these ideas can explain the reality that you see in your own life and in the lives of billions of people on this planet, namely that you do not have the abundant life.

If you think deeply, you will realize that somewhere deep inside, you know that you should have abundance, you know that life should be different, that life should be better than it is right now. And you can understand this by looking at the flip side of the coin, because the fact that God has given people imagination and free will has a dark side, a negative potential. It is possible that people can use their imagination to envision something that is less than what God wants for them. And it is possible that they can use their free will to choose to manifest something on this planet that has less abundance than God’s original design. As I have tried to explain, God originally designed this planet to give human beings the same carefree living as enjoyed by animals. God wanted humans to build upon this foundation, so they could create even more abundance for themselves than what nature is designed to provide. Yet human beings can also go in the opposite direction and tear down the foundation built by God, whereby human society enters an unnatural state of lack that leads to poverty and inequality.

If you will go deeply within your hearts and consider these ideas, you will see that they can indeed explain why there is so much inequality, so much suffering, so much lack, so much poverty on this planet. And these ideas can also explain why, deep within your heart, you have an inner knowing that this is not natural, that this is not right, that this is not what God intended, that this is not the way life is supposed to be.
In conclusion, we have now seen that it is truly the Father’s good pleasure to give you the abundant life. This is the natural state of affairs on planet Earth, namely that all human beings have abundance of every good and perfect gift. As Jesus said, “That ye may be the children of your Father which is in Heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45).

The conclusion is that human beings have done something to obstruct the natural state of affairs on Earth, to obstruct the flow of God’s abundance and to prevent it from reaching every human being. Once you reach this conclusion and begin to accept it – in the inner reaches of your being as well as in your outer mind – you gain an entirely different perspective on life and the possibility of attaining the abundant life. You now see that instead of thinking you are living on a planet where suffering and lack are somehow inevitable, the reality is that abundance is the natural state of affairs. This is what God wants and he has designed a planet with the full capacity to provide that abundance.

Oh yes my beloved, I know you have been brought up to think that what prevents the abundant life on Earth is a lack of natural resources, but this is not so. God has designed this planet so that it has every resource necessary to provide the abundant life for all people. In fact, the Earth can provide this abundant life for more people than are currently living upon it. The problem on Earth is that human beings have used their minds, the power of their imagination and free will, to limit, to divert, to obstruct the natural flow of God’s abundance.
When you reach that conclusion, you can take your thoughts about the abundant life in a new direction. You can being to consider how you can personally stop obstructing the natural flow of God’s abundance, so that you can truly inherit your Father’s kingdom and experience the abundant life while you are still here on Earth.

You see my beloved, you can take two approaches to the abundant life. One is the passive and one is the active approach. When you take the passive approach, you might accept that God wants you to have abundance but since you do not currently have it, your only option is to reason that for some unknown, mystical, unknowable reason God does not want to give you the abundant life right now. And since you cannot understand why – and you cannot explain why because there is no logical explanation – your only option is to simply wait and hope that at some future time God will change his mind and give you that abundant life. This puts you in a waiting position and it turns you into a helpless victim of circumstances and forces beyond your control.

On the other hand, when you take the active approach, you reason, as I have just explained, that it is natural for you to have abundance. Thus, if you do not have it, something is blocking it. If you can find out what is blocking it, you might be able to remove those blocks and then God’s abundance will naturally start flowing into your life. My beloved, if you can accept this possibility, you are truly ready to receive the next keys to the kingdom that I will give you in the following chapters.

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