Follow your desires with your full attention
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- Nov 22, 2022
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Updated: Dec 6, 2024
Day 264
Here I am, now with a greater understanding of Eternal Life and Perfection, more whole and complete in their description. It is now my perception that Eternal Life is not something given as a gift to be set aside for a future time – to be thankful for, yet not fully discover what it is until later. This gift is now revealed, to be desired, to explore for divine revelation. Now I just don’t see it as something ‘to have’ in the future. There is so much more to it than what I see or understand.
Then there is also perfection, or better, Perfection. It is You, and it is me, for it is us. The understanding that it simply is still remains beyond my comprehension, yet, as with so many things of the Kingdom, it is more than I know – complete in itself, a Wisdom beyond my life experience. Yet I must live it as truth – to desire a wisdom of it I do not currently have, but also to walk in what I do have a revelation of so far – it is simply to see myself as You see me already.
"Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
– Matthew 5.48
The sum of religion is to imitate the God whom we worship. The ideal which draws us to aim at its realisation must be absolutely perfect, however imperfect may be all our attempts to reproduce it. We sometimes hear it said that to set up perfection as our goal is to smite effort dead and to enthrone despair. But to set up an incomplete ideal is the surest way to take the heart out of effort after it. It is the Christian’s prerogative to have ever gleaming before him an unattained aim, to which he is progressively approximating, and which, unreached, beckons, feeds hope of endless approach, and guarantees immortality.
– MacLaren
And so these are the first two of many desires for which I must seek signposts, that my journeys within all desires might continue. And while there may be no end manifestation of either, the pursuit of both will lead me to so much more of the Kingdom, will release further desires, will reveal much more of You than I search for; that the contentment of the heart can be so much greater than what it already possesses, to find an even greater contentment in discovering what it can be, to discover the fullness that You have created it to be – that would be the revelation of all my current desires and those to come.
Wealth, Wisdom, miracles, and other desires would be the next explorations, as these desires exist within too, and I would be remiss to not explore for the truth. But for today, these two – Eternal Life and Perfection – capture my awareness, even as they capture my heart for Whom they are named.

Now see that all you are naming, all your desires, feelings and emotions, are Me. I Am Eternal Life, and I Am Perfection. I Am all your heart desires. As I have given all of Myself, I have given all of these – they are Me: to be explored and understood; to be revealed in their majesty, freely given for you to possess. For I would be held by all whom I hold dear to My heart.
And so run into and through all; enjoy Eternal Life, discover Perfection. Unwrap all as a gift. Take apart and discover the surprises within – for both will capture your vision and reveal your delight. All of your desires will be as these – beautiful, delightful, joys to behold – to touch, to feel, to cherish. Follow your desires with your full attention, for they all lead to Me.
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