Desire: Your Moving Force

 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. John 16:23

   Desire is the force behind all things. It is the moving principle of the universe and the innermost center of all Life. Your challenge is to acquire the knowledge that will guide your desires to their true objects of satisfaction. To do this, you need only to engage in the habit of right thinking. Right thinking that is aimed at satisfying your noblest desires is the whole end of acquiring knowledge. Any knowledge applied otherwise is only a partial knowledge, which is nothing more than ignorance which has granted itself a college degree.

   Therefore, desire is the sum-total of the “aliveness” of Life because all movement, whether at the physical or spiritual level, comes from and through it. In essence, desire is the mind seeking to manifest itself in some form which as yet exists only in its Thought. It is the principle of creation because all creation has its origin in the desire to bring something into existence which does not yet exist.

   On whatever scale you exercise your creative ability, the motive power will always be desire. Desire is the cause and its fulfillment is the effect. There is no greater nor more comprehensive definition of the Law of Cause and Effect than the fact that without desire, there can be no fulfillment. Without cause, there can be no effect. Thus, desire is first cause and motive for everything that has ever been created.

   As you understand the relationship between desire and cause and effect, you will be quite clear in your own mind about the reason the All-Originating Spirit of God created humankind. It was His desire to do so. Since you are created in the image and likeness of the All-Originating Spirit of God, you must harness your desires to create the new heaven and the new earth where truth, justice, and love reside for ever and ever.

   The ultimate desire of every human being is to enjoy life to its fullest possibilities. Thus, your true desire—however you may have disguised it—is to “have life and to have it more abundantly.” This desire of yours is innate because of your generic relation to the Spirit of Life through your having been created in the image and likeness of All-Originating Spirit.

   When you seek to fulfill your innate desire in the right way, you are righteous. When you seek to fulfill that desire in the wrong way, you are sinful—i.e., you are behaving in the inversion of righteousness, which is sin.

   The bedrock and foundation of sin is seeking externally—from outside yourself—what you can only attain through growing from within yourself. Sin, the inversion of righteousness, is a fact of life that is in your past, your present, and, more than likely, your future. So, the issues you must resolve are: 1) how you must deal with sin; and 2) under what circumstances you can remove it from your life.

   You must acknowledge that you have been trying to live by an inverted conception of the principle of Life, whether this wrong conception has manifested in crude and gross forms, or shown itself more subtly in your intellectual life.

   In either case, you cannot continue to ignore the fact that you are conscious of not having a completely guilt-free relationship with the Spiritual Source of Life. The good thing that this conscious awareness instinctively brings you is understanding that mere knowledge will not solve the problem. You know you need something more, and that “something more” is Forgiveness and Love. You need Forgiveness because that is the only cure for your inverted behavior. You need Love because it does not condemn you, but heals and restores you.