Jesus Speaking: On Falling in Love with Life by Gina Lake

Author:Gina Lake [Lake, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Surrender

Surrender usually has a negative connotation. It often means giving up something you dearly love. But spiritual surrender is very different from that. It's quite the opposite, actually. Spiritual surrender brings you everything you have ever wanted. Instead of taking something away, you are given something very precious. You are given peace of mind, you are given a loving heart and a gracious way of being, and you are given happiness and contentment. Isn't that what everyone really wants? Contentment? Don't you just want to be satisfied once and for all? Don't you just want to stop wanting, stop feeling that you need something, stop feeling that you are lacking?

What you surrender in spiritual surrender is this sense of lack, the sense of longing and wanting and needing something that you can't have. That sense of lack and those desires are created by the egoic mind, the voice in your head. It says: "I need this, I want this, I have to have this." This voice is the source of suffering, not the fact that you don't have something, but the fact that you want something you don't have.

Wanting something you don't have is suffering. And wanting something you don't have is just a thought. The desire to have something comes from a thought: that you want it, that you need it, that you have to have it. And then the feeling of longing, sadness, and desire are created—from a thought. Without this thought, where would you be? You would be without desire and without longing and suffering.

It is your nature as human beings to think these thoughts and have these desires and suffer over them. But you are here to discover your divine nature, which does not suffer, which does not have such thoughts, which is already full, complete, and content with life just as it is.

Your divine nature is content with this ever-changing river of life, which is always bringing something new to you. The mind doesn't see it that way, however. The mind doesn't see that there is a river here. It believes it has to make life happen, and the way it makes life happen is by thinking about it—about what it needs, what it wants, and what will make it happy—and then going after those things. That is how life is created on the level of the ego.

That's fine. You are meant to be human and to have these desires and thoughts until a certain time in your evolution, when you are done with the suffering, and you begin to look for the cause of your suffering, and you turn and look at these thoughts. Other spiritual teachers and masters have pointed to this: The cause of suffering is your desires, your thoughts. But it is only at a certain point in your evolution that you are ready to see the truth about that. So until you are ready to see the truth, it's fine that you have your desires and follow them.

There have always been deeper desires driving you, which are designed to fulfill your particular life purpose.

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