I AM THAT WHICH I DESIRE TO BE
DO YOU
know the secret of life? Do you know the password which will open all closed
doors? Do you know the thrill of real life? Would you like to feel continually
as you do on some fine spring morning when the sun is just peeping through the
rose and turquoise and flirting with a million diamond dewdrops?
YOU CAN.
Here is the password for you:
"I am that which I desire to be."
One moment, please. Use no headstrong, blind and stubborn will power. Use
no struggling, mental gymnastics, and contort your mind by vainly declaring so
many words.
LISTEN:
You remember who "I AM THAT I AM" is, don't
you? It is the name of every living man. Because "I AM"
has sent me. My name is "I AM." Your name is "I
AM."
What did "I AM" send you here for, but to give
expression to Himself; to give expression to love, beauty, holiness, harmony,
happiness? Take your Bible down from the shelf and find out what the attributes
of God are. They are peace, holiness, happiness, beauty.
Your means of communication with God is called prayer, and prayer is
desire. Doesn't it begin to look simple? You have your "I AM"
and your meaning for "desire." And since all good comes from God, who
is good, then even your desires are in reality the "still small voice"
seeking utterance in you - - yes, your very desires are (in reality in so far as
they are good) the open lines of communication - - are the messages from God to
you.
Did you ever desire to be that which you are not? Did you ever desire to
be strong, well, happy and well supplied? Aren't these all good desires? Where
did they come from? From the base, so-called mortal mind?
You never stopped to realize, did you, that your desires are the embryonic
formations waiting to be made manifest in the flesh? "Thy will be
done" - - let thyself be manifested in me.
"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." What are you
thinking? "Now are we the sons of God" - - NOW, in
great glowing, vibrant letters. No matter what you were an hour or a minute or
even a year ago - - "NOW are we the sons of God." NOW - - think
about the present possibility of the word - - NOW.
The pattern which moulds our desires is already cast for us "Sons of
God." Then desire to be what you are - - a child of the King. Are you
acting to the full extent of your nobility? "Seek (in prayer desire) the
Kingdom of Heaven (which is within) and all things shall be added."