The story in the Bible at Luke 2 is about Jesus’ birth and consecration. The consecration was a ceremony required by Jewish law. Every firstborn male had to be taken to the temple in Jerusalem to be dedicated with a small sacrifice, namely “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.” When Jesus was taken to the temple, two unusual things happened:

Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah. Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required, Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying:

“Sovereign Lord, as you have promised,
you may now dismiss your servant in peace.
For my eyes have seen your salvation…”

There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; … She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.

Today’s reading says that Jesus’ birth “represents the birth of willingness, humble at first, but promising within it all of the glory of Heaven.” It interprets the story about Simeon and Anna in this way:

This tiny willingness, only newly born and without achievement of any kind, is received by the Holy Spirit as a wonderful gift, and it is received with eternal gratitude.

So it is with your  willingness, no matter how humble that willingness may seem to be to you.

Yesterday, we saw that the path of awakening is a path of choosing higher vibrations over lower vibrations. We also saw that although the code is multi-layered, not all vibrational levels are currently available to us as options. We are aware of the vibrations that are closest to our current vibrational level. Some of those vibrations are in tune with the lower edge of our vibrational level. Others are in tune with the higher edge of our vibrational level. We rise up by choosing the options that are in tune with the higher edge of our current vibrational level.

NTI Luke 2 offers willingness as a higher vibrational option that is in tune with our current vibrational level. Gratitude for willingness is another a high vibrational option that is available to us. Through gratitude, willingness grows into true desire, and true desire grows into intense desire for awakening. Intense desire for awakening is a very high vibration. As we have already learned:

Awakening the extremely intense desire for Liberation is the most important first step that can be taken towards being liberated here and now in this lifetime. ~ The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss by Michael Langford

As you read from NTI today, keep in mind that NTI Luke 2 provides a very important key. As it says in The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss:

Some teachings are essential powerful keys. The knowledge that increasing your desire for liberation is the most effective first step you can take, is an essential powerful key.

All obstacles that appear in your journey to freedom are caused by too little desire for freedom. Even a little increase in your desire for freedom is helpful. As your desire for freedom grows in intensity the ego creates fewer obstacles.

Since willingness is a higher vibrational choice, it’s helpful to choose willingness whenever a lower vibration is tempting you. For example, imagine you are very annoyed at a person close to you. Instead of acting from that annoyance, say this prayer with your heart:

I feel very annoyed right now. I don’t see how I could not be annoyed at this. However, I am willing to see differently. I surrender all of my thoughts about this situation in willingness, and I remain open to any guidance that will come.

With a prayer like this, you make the higher choice, and you rise a little higher in vibration, which makes an even higher option available to you. The new higher option is called “guidance”. It might be the guidance to rest-accept-trust, it might be a new way of seeing the situation, or it might be something else that is different from the original options that were available in your mind.

Whenever you choose the highest option available in the moment, you are guided to the next higher option through a rise in vibration. That is what guidance is—a higher choice leading to the next higher option. By following guidance, which is the highest option available now, you continually rise in vibration.

Thoughts of Awakening # 62

When you feel resistance
in your heart and in your mind,
put not your trust there.
When you find resistance,
remember what you truly want,
and rest,
so that resistance may pass you by.

When you know willingness,
clasp hands with your Holy Spirit in joy!
Walk forward in trust and willingness.
This is your desire awakened,
and it is leading you Home.

~From our Holy Spirit

Summary of the Bible Story:

In the Bible, Luke 1 is a story about Zechariah and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist.

Zechariah was a priest. He was in the temple burning incense when an angel appeared and said, “Your prayer has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. … And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens…” Zechariah’s ability to speak was lost because he did not have faith that his old and barren wife could bare a son.

According to Jewish custom, on the eighth day after the baby was born, the baby was circumcised and given a name. It was customary for the baby to be named after someone in the family. Since Zechariah could not speak, and women were not part of the ceremony—women watched from behind a partition that separated them from the men—the priests were about to name the baby Zechariah, after his father, when Elizabeth called out, “No! He is to be called John.”

The priests were not inclined to name the baby John. They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.” Zechariah motioned for a writing tablet, on which he wrote, “His name is John.” When he wrote this, his ability to speak returned.

Today’s reading in NTI is an interpretation of this story. The interpretation makes two primary points.

All Are Precious

The first point is reminiscent of Jesus’ teaching in the famous Sermon on the Mount. Jesus said:

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. … See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is burnt up in the hot sun, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?

Bentinho Massaro defines faith as knowing all is well always, under all circumstances.

The idea of a God-being that gives and takes away is only a concept. What appears to give or take away is the script, which is written by consciousness through the Third Principle of God, the creative principle. The creative principle is not a God-being; it is divine nature. It is the natural means of manifestation.

As The Code teaches, we make choices based on thoughts, emotions and perceptions that come to us from the creative principle. The choices we make return to the creative principle and write the next moment of the script.

With this clarity in mind, notice that faith—knowing all is well always, under all circumstances—is a way of staying with the higher vibration instead of slipping into low vibrational thinking. As a high vibration choice, faith raises our vibration towards true perception. It also affects future manifestation. However, as one rises toward true perception, manifestation becomes less and less important.

One difference between you and the “birds of the air” is that birds live at a more consistent vibration, one that comes from the whole. They live by instinct instead of choice. You have the ability to choose your vibration. Seeing yourself as unworthy is a low vibrational choice. Having faith that you are precious and the universe cares for you is a higher vibrational choice.

Two Choices

Although the code is multi-layered with several vibrational options available, we are not aware of all of the vibrations simultaneously. We are aware of the vibrations that are closest to our current vibrational level. Some of those vibrations are in tune with the lower edge of our vibrational level. Others are in tune with the higher edge of our vibrational level.

In today’s reading, that which is in tune with the higher edge of our vibrational level is called the Voice of Worth. The other voice, which is called our thoughts, is in tune with the lower edge of our vibrational level. Today’s reading encourages us to trust our worth and choose the Voice of Worth.

Realize that the creative principle responds to you. Cooperate with the creative principle by choosing the highest vibration available to you. Also, it’s important to follow through with your choice. It isn’t helpful to say, “I choose faith,” and then attempt to control the situation. As we have often heard, “Actions speak louder than words.” Our action demonstrates the choice we’ve really made.

Summary

In truth, you are greater than the creative principal. You are the First Principal of God. Consciousness is born in you. The creative principal operates in you, and all of manifestation comes and goes in you. That doesn’t seem true if you believe the lower vibrations of the script. Follow the higher vibrations. Following the higher vibrations is the way of “true discovery.” That is how you discover that you “are the One.”

Thoughts of Awakening # 61

I am the one Will of God.

When you join with Me,
you join with God’s one Will.
When you join with God’s one Will,
you join with your truth,
your glory,
and your recognition.

You will know God’s Will
when you recognize it.
You will recognize it,
because it is you.

Join with Me.
Join with your one Will.
Know your truth.
Know you.

~From our Holy Spirit