Jesus emphasizes almost at the beginning of A Course in Miracles: "All miracles mean life, and God is the Giver of life. His Voice will direct you very specifically. You will be told all you need to know." (Principles of Miracles, number 4) Most Christians and Jews would say this very specific guidance from their holy spirit comes in the form of a still small voice. Sometimes the guidance has us taking action or saying something or thinking a certain way. But very often, maybe nine times out of ten, the voice has a simple message:
"There's nothing you need do but wait and see what happens."
How many times have we heard our inner voice, the still small voice of our spirit, counsel us to wait ... be at peace and wait? How many of those times have we gone off half-cocked anyway, fearing that if we didn't jump in and do something the situation would not end up with a favorable resolution or result?
When will we finally develop the habit of saying to ourselves, "Hey, if I hear inside to do nothing, then everybody is really going to be better off if I do nothing!" When are we going to feel that our Holy Spirit can be totally trusted, that everything is being taken care of without having to jump in?
It's really a matter of magic vs. miracles, isn't it? It's a matter of trying to make things happen vs. allowing the Holy Spirit's happening to unfold without willfulness.
One Sunday after session some brothers were watching an NFL football game and several brothers already earlier in the morning had heard a still small voice saying: "The Bears are going to win today!" Having already heard inside who was destined to win the game, since we did not hear that same voice also giving us a specific cheerleading assignment, there was no need act like the crazed Bears fans on TV who, not being in touch with their spiritual knowingness, were pulling their hair out and jumping up and down with prayers and incantations to help the Bears win. The future had already been seen and the inner voice that we had heard could just as well have used the words: Put it down beforehand as a win!"
Of course someone might ask, "Why would anyone ever make a Bears game a matter of life or death?" Well, it turns out that for someone, maybe a coach, maybe a player's mother, maybe a seriously ill little boy watching the game from his hospital bed, maybe a man who has gambled his family's entire savings on the outcome ... for someone the result of the game could well be a matter of life or death. We may not know for whom. But the Holy Spirit does know for whom.
The game will have the result the Holy Spirit sees.
But the principle here applies to the game of life in every way. If there is a conflicted situation at your place of employment and your inner voice says "Be at peace! Wait and see what happens!" then the Holy Spirit knows what is unfolding and has with those words given you the best guidance for everyone's highest good in the situation. If there is something going on with your teenage children that is tempting you to say to yourself "I'm worried to death!" but you hear inside "Wait and see what happens! Trust!" then you can be sure the Holy Spirit is seeing things you are not seeing.
An example from politics? We knew a man from a callused-hand working environment who feared Democrats being elected. He said he was tired of being held in bondage as a slave to the Democrats' million and one forms of taxation and government regulation. During the same period, we knew a man from a university atmosphere who was scared to death that his favored style of government-controlled society would not be instituted fast enough if Republicans got elected. We found out that both men were really hearing a voice inside saying something like: "Everything is unfolding perfectly! Fear not! Wait and see what happens!" Could it be that the Holy Spirit is very active in politics bringing about spiritually beneficial results, and as Jesus would say: "Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?" (Matt. 6-27)
Family situations? Employment circumstances? Investment vicissitudes? Relationship conditions? The state of the nation? The relative health of the arts? There is no eventuality in life that cannot benefit from the release of worry and the surrender back into our natural state of trust. The Holy Spirit's guidance so often is: Wait! Be at peace! Let's wait and see what happens!"
Worshippers of activism blow a fuse when we tell them we've heard inside spiritual guidance to wait and see what happens. "That's the kind of apathy that causes all the trouble," they scream like banshees. Yet even while they are screaming we laugh and forgive them for seeing things backwards. Jesus teaches that it is our doing that has always caused all our troubles and that the solution to every painful situation in life requires the habit of doing nothing until and unless specifically guided by our still small inner voice heard when our intellect is quiet.
Advanced teachers of God can see the narrow-mindedness of worshippers of activism. They can see that it is only narrow-minded perception that insists we always have to be doing something to create our good. They can see that those who expand their minds are presented with a broader picture and it becomes clear that there is a force perhaps billions of times more powerful than we could possibly imagine working for our good at all times and this spiritual force brings results fastest when we wait and see what happens. We couldn't stop this spiritual force if we wanted to, so why not let ourselves be cancelled out of the equation and allow the flow of good in a way faster than we could ever suspect?
"You mean to tell me that my highest good and everyone else's highest good is going to show itself as fast as the speed of light if I get myself out of the way and let it be?"
That's what we mean to say! Of course one always has to listen inside for guidance in case there is that rare apparent exception. But as we said earlier, nine times out of ten jumping in and trying to make things happen wins you the booby prize of pain. Nine times out of ten the still small voice you'll hear will be whispering: Wait ... and see what happens!"
Wait and see what happens ... and watch miracles happen.
"What about the one time when I do hear inside to jump into action? Wouldn't I be trying to work magic, trying to make something happen?
It might seem that way, but remember the Holy Spirit works through the illusion of individual minds. Old-fashioned religious people would say, "Yes, God is in charge. But once in a while God needs your hands, or your feet, or your vocal chords."
So when you do hear the still small voice inside telling you to take some action, to jump in and get involved, then you might later describe the experience by saying something like: "I'm out of it! I'm going through the motions, but I'm not the doer." How did Jesus say it? "For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you." (Matthew 10:20) In such a case it's not really you trying to make things happen, so there's no need to think of it as magic.
Finally, we look to A Course in Miracles for a little reinforcement of this lesson and we find Jesus encouraging us to understand these truths: "I do not perceive my own best interests." (Lesson 24) and "I do not know what anything is for." (Lesson 25)
Well, if we don't know what anything is for anyway, and we have no idea what is in our own best interests anyway, we might as well be at peace, be happy, and dance through our days reciting the timeless rhyme:
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