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Getting the Truth from Divine Spirit

In the outer we have certain human wants we seek so our lives are fulfilled, so we believe. We have concerns, fears, questions, that dog our lives. So, in seeking guidance from God, we ask with the backdrop of these underlying human wants, fears, passions, and anxieties. Therefore our quest for answers from God has built in expectations colored by the need to rid ourselves of these fears, or fulfill certain immediate human wants, understandably so. So that when answers come to us through dreams or our outer life, our perception is often influenced by our expectations of what we want. When they come in a way that does not seem to relate to our current condition directly, we don’t recognize them so we disregard them and look the other way.

So, truth remains elusive and always unavailable to us and our endless questions appear to go unanswered. To get the truth, therefore, we should not expect anything, since God knows what we need better than we know at our limited mind level.

To get answers from God, it helps to stay open without expectations of how the answer will come. The attitude of expecting nothing yet expecting whatever divine spirit gives us is the best way to open ourselves to recognizing and receiving answers from God when they come.