Exact Alignment
from
Almighty God
Martin Cecil December 6, 1970
“Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” The will of God is done in heaven, in the pneumatomenal world. When man is in place what occurs in heaven instantly occurs in earth. The human view of God's will has tended to be a second-hand concept. If it is done in heaven, someone needs to find out about it so that at some later date it may be instituted on earth. This idea is partly consequent upon the fact that with man out of place what happens in heaven takes some time to show up on earth, and when it does show up on earth it has been so thoroughly mutilated and distorted that the heavenly original is scarcely discernible at all. The impact of what occurs in heaven upon man is considerably delayed because of his insensitivity, his coarseness, his uncomprehendingness. Eventually a little of it gets through subconsciously and it hits him. He reacts to it, and the result is the action of man on earth. While the heavenly original was intelligent, purposeful, and had meaning, by the time it comes out on earth, at least what there is left of it, it may be a century or two late and an entirely different thing altogether. There has been this lag between the heavenly doing and the earthly result consequent upon man's delayed reaction to the heavenly doing. So perhaps it is because of this that the idea of letting God's will be done on earth has merely assumed second-hand proportions.
It is possible to examine earthly events in order to trace them back to the heavenly original, not that very much would be gained by such an undertaking, because it's all several centuries out-dated. But if we see that the things that are occurring in the external sense in the phenomenal world are of this nature, then again it emphasizes the utter futility and nonsense of trying to deal with the phenomena. Human beings rationalize what they do, but we have already become aware of the fact that what they do springs from something out of the past, something that erupts out of the subconscious mind for instance. Now we may begin to see that while there was a heavenly impact of some kind, the earthly result through man has become a garbled portrayal of what is long out-dated. All the grandiose efforts of human beings today are of this nature. The activities of men result from something established in heaven in the past but reacted to in a disorderly way by unpolarized man.
I have pointed to the larger field of world events, but exactly the same thing is true from the standpoint of personal experience in the little things of life. The Plan of God, the Heavenly Plan, is designed so as to bring this lagging state of affairs up to date. The evidence of this being done was spoken of as the shortening of the days. There is a thinning out of the dense cloud that has surrounded man, so that the heavenly impact penetrates more quickly and the reaction consequently comes more quickly. The delay between the original action and the reaction is not quite so lengthy; there is not so much of a lag as there has been in centuries past. We ourselves can see something of the change in this regard on the basis of our own experience; for we have been participating, to whatever degree, both unconsciously and to some extent consciously in the heavenly action, what is being done in heaven. Our association with this has permitted us to share a much more immediate experience than has been true in the general sense for most people. We have a keener awareness of what is happening in the heavenly sense, closer to the time that it happens, than most people do. And in the case of most the awareness merely is of the reaction that more or less automatically occurs in the person according to his polarity, according to his response.
We have noted various expressions that have been used from the standpoint of our ministry that are being reflected by people who have no awareness of our ministry in the world. We come across these things more frequently these days. Those who express such things presumably have no real consciousness of where they originated, any more than we have tended to have with respect to our expressions, as to where they originated. They originate in heaven, in the pneumatomenal world, and have been given the opportunity to take form on the basis of response rather than reaction.
Where there is response it very rapidly becomes an instantaneous thing. Where there is reaction it tends to be delayed because of the wrong polarity in those concerned. But the faster the reaction appears, the more destructive the experience. As the days are shortened and quicker reaction occurs to what is being done in heaven, the destructiveness of this becomes increasingly apparent.
We look around us in the world and we find destructiveness of all kinds, recently in the form of murders and kidnappings and such, taking form in the experience of the most unlikely people. In examining such things, or any other realm of destructiveness, the minds of the world are applied to try to find some way of handling the situation. Nowadays we are told that we are going to have to live with it. I'm quite sure that's true, because the destructiveness is not going to get any less as the days are shortened.
The lag is reduced, and the intensity of destruction is increased, therefore, wherever there is reaction. It can be easily seen how futile and indeed ridiculous it is to wrestle with the destructiveness, because this destructiveness is merely a reaction to something else. This something else is happening and there is nothing that anyone can do to stop it happening. God's will is done in heaven; the happening occurs in heaven. If the polarity is wrong the individual will react, and that reaction will be a destructive experience. There is nothing that can be done in the external sense to stop it being a destructive experience. The only way the external change could come, so that there might be a creative experience, is for reaction to change to response.
There is nothing wrong with what is being done in heaven; it's God's will, after all. But the result of God's will being done in heaven has tended to be destruction on earth simply because man was out of place, didn't know what was happening, hadn't a clue. Things were triggered in him by what was done in heaven, and he reacted and translated them according to his concept on earth. Now his concept on earth might have seemed to him to be a very worthwhile thing: this was good; this was a pleasing experience. But regardless of his judgment it proves to be a destructive experience because it was based in reaction. It was not based in response.
“Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” The only way that this is possible is through response, through a willingness to let it be that way regardless of anything that may be felt on earth, because all the things that are happening on earth are simply the lagging results of impacts out of heaven that eventually penetrate sufficiently to hit people on earth. When they are hit they react, and so it is all translated in this destructive fashion.
Something that at the point of origination is creative and perfect becomes something terrible and tragic on earth, both in the larger sense and of course in the smaller, individual sense. To the extent that anyone begins to open up in yielded response to God, the gap between lagging reaction and instantaneous response begins to close, so that there may be a participation in the heavenly action now. The heavenly action now will for the most part produce results in the experience of human beings in the world tomorrow—not necessarily in the next twenty-four hours, but maybe next week, next month, next year, depending on how rapidly this lagging process is being dissipated. All this is resulting from what is happening in heaven.
God's will is done in heaven, and the gap is closing. When it reaches the point where it is in exact alignment, that's it!—instantaneous destruction for reaction and instantaneous revelation of God's will on earth through response. All the things in our experience in the external sense that come to us day by day—all of them—are the result of heavenly action in the past. They are distorted and disordered, because they have come into the world through distorted and disordered people on the basis of human reaction. Our responsibility when these things come to us is not to judge them and say with respect to some, “This is most displeasing; I don't like it; let me escape!” or, “This is most delightful; I do like it; let me grab hold of it!”
The things that are appearing in the external sense are old stuff. They are absolutely meaningless, all of them, until someone who is letting God's will be done in earth as it is in heaven updates them. This is what we are here to do: to let the things which come to us be the means by which God's will can be done in earth now, as it is being done in heaven now. Then the thing is updated. When we do that we find that the things we handle are not what we thought they were. They are transformed by the creative action of God's will which is allowed to work in the earth now, as it is in heaven.
This brings everything up to date
within the range of our own field of responsibility.
What a lot of foolish nonsense has gone on, and goes on, because the things that occur in experience day by day are translated as though they were meaningful of themselves! Anything of this nature only becomes meaningful in its transformed state when there is someone present in whom heaven and earth are one. Then whatever it is that comes to such a person is updated and it ceases to be what it was. It becomes something new. "Behold, I make all things new." The key in all of this of course centers in that familiar word “response”. The measure of response determines the measure of creativeness. The measure of reaction, which is a rejection of what is being done in heaven in the moment, is the measure of destructiveness. Properly speaking, emphasis is placed upon the idea conveyed through the words, “Glory to God in the Highest.” Too many get hung up on the following words, “On earth peace, good will toward men.”
Glory to God in the Highest
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