"Whoso would save his life must lose it. Think not that I have come to bring peace but rather a soul struggle"
(Jesus) ..
I see in the teachings of Jesus, religion at its best. This gospel enables us to seek for the true God and to find him. But are we willing to pay the price of this entrance into the kingdom of heaven? Are we willing to be born again? to be remade? Are we willing to be subject to this terrible and testing process of self-destruction and soul reconstruction? Has not the Master said: "Whose would save his life must lose it. Think not that I have come to bring peace but rather a soul struggle"? True, after we pay the price of dedication to the Father's will, we do experience great peace provided we continue to walk in these spiritual paths of consecrated living.
Urantia Book page 1782
We can read a book like "The Urantia Book" many time and stay there without moving, without really progressing in spirituality : because we are just reading, because we want to believe that is sufficient to intellectually know the truth. But the truth is unknowing in its totality without the experience, without that we really embark in the conjoint creative adventure which we are destined. Do we not learn something by doing it ? If we want to live a spirituality, we need to be the Father on earth, without what we will not succeed to do it, to live it. We will brush, but not veritably touched the spirituality. Then we will pass nearby. In itself its not difficult to live a spirituality. Whats hard is to accept to live the psychic and soul suffering of the other that we make growing from our actions, from our creation. In short its there than we feel this reconstruction, this soul renovation. With the little of consciousness that we have like human here, we generally dont realize why its suffering like that. The fear and insecurity make suffer. But also the action is struggling because thats change us in the same time thats change the other. Its the self spiritual gift, the psychic pressure of the truth gift who make is way in the other and in ourselves. Then we feel the soul struggle provoke by the force of the truth in ourselves. A fight between our contenting well lay ego in his terrestrial kindness, and the gift of truth that we recognize with difficulty because it hurt to accept to change.
How many nice personality stop himself of doing act, to still advance further because they dont understand their suffering, or because they are afraid to suffer.
The soul struggle its the daily life of the active personality whos devote to spirituality. When all this is accept by us and control by our Father govern who perfectly know us, there is not reel danger. There is construction, serenity, security, happiness, peace.
Pierre Girard, ( Mars 28, 1996)