4-50. So very gently does the infinite Wisdom of God rain down from Heaven, forever available to all the Beloved Children whenever they should be ready to step out into the showers and open their hearts to Love.
Knowledge is not wisdom. This key differentiator is a necessary division to establish within your own mind before you will become able - and more importantly, absolutely willing - to accept that the Wisdom of God is eternally accessible and ever-present, a form of Guidance that is capable of providing all of the direction you will ever require, no matter what situation arises and how uncertain you may feel about your own ability to choose correctly. Note the implication of the use of the word “feel” in the preceding - emotional barriers to accurately elected decisions are legion within any mind that continues to believe that it is an island of individualized consciousness in a sea of separation. Many emotional states are deeply tinged by the ego’s pronouncements of uncertainty, for the ego has a vested and indivisible interests in keeping your consciousness in a state of confusion, for if you were to be wholly present and completely in the moment as it unfolds, there would be no emotional reactivity at all. The Experience of the Peace of God is not actually an emotional one at all, for it is the realignment of your awareness with the Universality of Love, and from such a state, all is accepted just as it is - including your natural and innate ability to set aside all doubt as the barter of the ego that it is, accepting in its place that because all of the Creations of God are Perfect, your ability to See with absolute Clarity has never been genuinely impinged by the ego at all. Doubt enters where it is bid - it is not capable of clouding a mind that has passed beyond all illusionary and presumptive reasons for doubt or fear, finding on the other side of such a passageway that no such restrictions have ever been justifiable in any manner that is actually rational. That is one of the largest and most seemingly difficult barriers of the ego - its desire to throw up impediments at every turn, creating broadcloth monsters of illusions that seem so very justifiable, but which are only so horrific because you are supportive of their fragile tent poles with your own desire to believe that you can be restricted. You are not a victim of your own mind, and all that arises randomly and without your conscious election is not necessarily a subject of contemplation that need be engaged with at all. That is an illusion of the ego, but it is a tempting one indeed, for if your thoughts are not all your own, and they do not all arise because of a desire for cognition on your part generally, and an interest in the subject matter of any particular mental formulation specifically, from whence do they originate and why are they present in your mind at all? Such inquiries are meaningless from the position of renouncement, for it is of no consequence that mental patternings bubble up from the vast oceans of your unconscious mind - they are manifest in formulation and expression as a thought, and that is where they will remain, at least until you decide - most consciously indeed - that you wish to give them credence and value, assigning to them an import and a value that they do not necessarily possess. This is the cornerstone of absolute and indefatigably stoic awareness - to be present in your mind, observing your thoughts, and perhaps at first even evaluating them for their value, but never becoming directly engrossed within them, for they are chaotic indeed and they do not all require the support and justification that you lend to them when you elect to believe that they are necessarily valid or even relevant to your currently unfolding life situation and alignments of opportunities as they may become manifest in manners that are not always directly understandable by you. To a large extent, knowledge is as this - ephemeral in substance and necessarily limited in scope, for knowledge is the application of specificity to generalities that are more commonplace but less utilitarian, for knowing that a nuclear power plant can generate energy is in no way valuable if one does not understand the specific actions of heat transfer and control of the fission processes. Knowledge is revered, perhaps to an inordinate degree at this point in the development of this world of form, because it is specific, directly applicable to the resolution of challenges, and transmittable - knowledge can be summarized, coalesced, recorded and retransmitted to future generations ad nauseum, creating a process of expansion that has value, but no genuine usefulness to one who desire to progress beyond the boundaries of conceptualization and into the fast and verdant fields of Wisdom, all of which must be a personalized travel beyond simplistic attempts to understand God and into Experiences that transcend all rationality. The Wisdom of God is ever-applicable because it is not tailored to any particular situation or event, useful in specificity but inapplicable in aggregate to outlying occurrences that have no general formulation of approach. Wisdom is the ability to have absolute confidence in general intelligence and a heart-based certainty in Peace, regardless of the exacting details of the arising that has called forth within you a desire to be Guided as to the most appropriate response, if any reactivity is actually necessary at all. Wisdom is ever-present because God Knows All, and so God is capable of providing to you all of the Guidance you will ever require when you are faced with some event that appears difficult in any way at all, all while still maintaining your composure and equanimity, for there is nothing that can genuinely threaten the Truth of Love, and so there is no reason to lose faith, no matter how challenging any particular arising might appear to be at the time that it first occurs. All that is needed by you, to navigate this world of form and to transform the vision of judgment and evaluation that is so endemic to the ego into the Sight that is taken up again when Love is the first and final motivator of all evaluation you believe to be appropriate to apply to any situation or person with whom you interact in any way at all, is available through a surrendering of your approbation of the ego’s rote reactivity, accepting in its place the Wisdom of God, a set of Guidances not necessarily described as principles, but which will often be repetitious in their arrival in your mind, channeled through the perfect conduit of your heart, simply because they are generalized advisements that are applicable to all situations. Surrender is a key component within this arising of Wisdom and its receipt by the uppermost layers of your mind, for it is not with the solemnity of judgment that the ego so self-righteously applies to all that it dictates that you will become willing to have ever greater levels of Trust in God, turning away from your immediate desire to judge and towards the Guidance that will show you how all occurrences are opportunities for learning and growth, no matter how disjointed or chaotic they may appear to be upon their first presentation to your continuingly confused mind. Certainty is of the heart - doubt is of the mind. These two distinguishments are profoundly important, for your heart can never fail you in its ability to be a gateway between the world of form - which is an inherently confusing and contorted place, and the Heaven that is the alignment between your soul and the Heart of God that is continuous and contiguous with your present existence, even if it seems hidden away and inaccessible because you have temporarily believed that it might be possible to forget the Nature of God. God’s Nature is gentleness and infinite Love. No harshness or cruelty is applicable, for there is nothing at all to fear in Love. This is a state of infinite forgiveness and eternal acceptance, but that is so oppositional to the ego that it is not at all surprising that it seems impossible, at least from a perspective that continues to hold to an idea of separation from All That Is. The rain of Wisdom that falls downwards from Heaven is gentle and cleansing indeed. The stagnation and attempted simulacrum of Truth that is the interior of the house of ego is pained and poignantly staid indeed, for nothing can alter when growth is not welcome. Step outside of the boundaries of conception that you have placed over your Awakening vision. Run freely within the fields of knowledge, under a blossoming sky of awareness, coated by a rain of Wisdom that will remove all of the seeming stains of misperception that have accosted and assailed you continuously since you first took up a conceptualization of Love in the place of its infinitely liberating Truth. You need be stagnant no longer, Child of God, for in the infinity that is all possibility, you are already Free. Surrender your election to attempt to know all that there is to know and trust your heart to be the perfect conduit for all Guidance, just whenever it is needed, and no longer will any doubt about the next step you are to take upon your own Path back to God be possessed of any power to capture your attention and enthrall your awareness for even one more precious moment, for all of the instants of time yet to unravel for you will be spent within the reassurance and confidence that Trusting God provides to every Child of God who invests within it with an open mind and a joyous heart.