5. What is Your Goal?

People who have been connected with the Spirit world for many years often assume that everyone has the same goal for relating to the Divine.  Conveniently, that goal is usually in line with what their goal is.  However, there are as many different reasons for connecting to the Spirit world as there are ways to connect to the Spirit world.  We will be talking about a few of them here, to try to give some direction.

Why do we need to determine the reason we want to connect to the Divine?  Isn’t it enough for us to desire the Spirit?  I suppose, but almost all of us have a reason for desiring the Spirit, a hidden agenda, so to speak.  If we know what our inner agenda is, we will be more likely to find the paths we need to meet that desire, and so we are more likely to achieve our goal, whether known or not. 

In other words, the one who aims at nothing usually hits it.  And this is frustrating both for us and for the Spirit.

It is frustrating to us, because if we take the wrong approach, our inner need and desire will not be met.  We have a hidden agenda and then we do not meet it and we give up, because we didn’t know what we were after in the first place.  Then we think “Spirituality is not for me”, and consider the whole thing hogwash.

It is also frustrating to the Spirit.  Remember, the Spirit is a person and has many of the same emotions we do, even though the Spirit deals with them differently.  And the Spirit would get frustrated if we give up too soon, because the Spirit wants to give us something.  The Spirit’s goals are not our own, and He is sneaky about hiding his goals from us until He is ready.  But if we give up too soon, before we receive the Spirit’s gift, then we undermine the Spirit’s desire for us.

So us knowing our goals for our relationship with the Spirit helps us meet those goals and helps the Spirit meet his own hidden agenda.

But supposing we don’t know what our goals are? We have a desire for the Spirit, but we really don’t know why? 

The posts following this present some common goals of seeking spirituality.