We are often distracted by our current focus that we do not choose to take the time to allow God to Sanctify us in His time, when He decides we are ready for it.
Our human nature wants to be comfortable without exerting a lot of effort. We like to take the easy left instead of the hard right. We know that it is human nature to move away from pain and towards pleasure but how we move away from pain is the key to ultimate joy.
Often our attempts to be comfortable is temporary and does not bring us true joy or even the lasting comfort we are really looking for. So we keep getting caught up in this distracting loop. If we don’t resolve it right, in the end we extend our discomfort.
Why and how did we get ourselves into that distracting loop anyways? It is because we went about it OUR way using our limited understanding instead of having spiritually open eyes to see WHY we were uncomfortable in the first place.
The stressful times help us grow our faith and elevate our level of joy. Those opportunities are refining fires for our souls. What is the difference between being burnt and being refined?
What is the reason for the discomfort?
I strongly believe that the body we are given when we came down to earth is intelligent and of divine origin. It serves a divine purpose of training us to progress to be more like God.
God is light, love and all things good. He creates and gives life. When we are more in the light, filled with love, and in the space of creating, we are healthier, happier, and holier.
When we are dark, filled with hatred, anger and negative fearful energy, we are misaligned to our divine purpose on earth and our body will manifest that misalignment in sickness and pain. It is that simple.
God doesn’t make truth complicated or inaccessible to His children.
The purpose of our physical discomfort is to create an opportunity for us to pause and realign again to our true purpose or focus on earth.
Our body is a self-correcting machine. Since we are spiritual beings having a physical experience, our body serves as a sanctification vessel for our spirits. Our eyes may be veiled and we have forgetfulness but our body isn’t veiled and is still fully operational and still following its divine directives for our ultimate spiritual success.
Our loving, intelligent Heavenly parents would never let us wonder in the dark and purposeless without tools or assistance.
Our subconscious naturally wants to be comfortable because we ultimately want divine joy. We are constantly looking for that divine joy but we are not utilizing the obvious and super powerful tool we have come to earth in…our body. Our body holds the keys that will help us ultimately be joyful.
What really brings us joy?
Us humans sometimes get caught in what the world tells what will bring us joy. The world says we will find joy WHEN we have a good job, lots of money, lots of power, lots of popularity, hot body, a young and pretty looking face etc.. This invisible list keeps growing and we never can achieve that elusive joy.
Basically, we are focusing and aiming at the wrong things and it only brings us sorrow. These things cause us to be shortsighted and distracted from our spiritual growth and development.
True joy comes from fulfilling our purpose here on earth. In my studies, I discovered our earthly purpose has four parts. These areas come together in one grand purpose to help us reach our full divine potential.
Here are the four parts of our life purpose:
- To learn to create joy with our body. We do this by following and honoring our heart compass and reading the literal language of the body. All this is effort leads us towards the uplifting, peaceful, powerful, emotional state called JOY. Philippians 2:2, 17-18, 2 Nephi 2:25
- To master our power of choice to choose God and faith in every situation. This surrendering is what people often refer to as the ‘test.’ Luke 10:42, Joshua 24:15, Alma 12:24; 34:32; 42:4; Abraham 3:25–26
- To refine and sanctify ourselves so we can become perfect as God is. Refinement and sanctification is a descension before we ascend and then transcend. We will never reach perfection on earth but the goal is to become more like God. 2 Corinthians 13:11, 3 Nephi 12:48
- Serve humanity and assist others to also come to God and be truly happy too. This is a sign of godliness because when you truly experience divine joy, you naturally desire others to have that joy out of the charity of your heart. The source of that charity is the divine love from God. John 21:16-17, Doctrine and Covenants 138:53–56
Our earthly discomforts helps us go back to these purposes. It compiles to listen to the inner voice. When we do a personal interview with ourselves and take inventory of our choices, we find that we maybe neglecting one or more of these areas. All of these four parts of our purpose is interconnected. In order to do well in one of these areas we have to be doing well in the other areas too. It is best to grow a little in each of these areas all at once. When we are sanctified we are changing and progressing in all these areas.
Basically, the discomforts means we have been distracted from our true purpose here on earth.
When we stay focused on our life’s true purpose, all our wants and needs will be met. We will get it all: good health, good looks, financial abundance, time freedom, friends and play etc. will be the natural outcome of having the right life focus.
God wants us to have it all
God wants us to have it all but we need to do it His way by focusing us on our earthly life purpose. Those byproducts or worldly blessings don’t take a high priority space in our hearts anymore. We no longer feel fearful and stressed about it.
When we open our heart up to God and our divinity, suddenly we find the power to master the elements and make room for those ‘worldly blessings’ to enter. This is what I believe is the true meaning of living in the world and not being of the world. (John 15:19)
It reminds me of the scripture “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” (Matt. 16:24–25.)
If we work too hard to help our body stay strong and healthy, we stress over the foods we eat, the calorie counting, the carb watching….we can easily let those things distract us and in the end we will still be NOT fully happy and joyful. You will still feel like something is missing because the solution to good health comes from within. (Mark 7:18-23)
Another example is when I see others focusing on personal development and pushing that forward studying and studying, without learning from the personalized divine lessons that their body is offering them, in the end they will still feel unhappy and lacking in progression.
Pretend that you are strong faith-filled, healthy, intelligent, financially well-off, and only focused on bettering yourself everyday, you will still feel like something is missing until you have identified your personal calling or mission here on earth and choose serve others.
We complete our healing, our sanctification and progression with others for some reason. We find ourselves as loose ourselves in service of others. By the way, we are only asked to serve a specific group of people in a specific special way. We are not serving everyone and doing everything. As we surrender to God, we will know the details.
All this will bring us the greatest level of joy and divine power we can imagine.
We can do it! We can have even greater ‘comfort’
All that change in focus and realignment may seem like hard work but it gets easier the more you do it. We can not afford to be passive.
The spiritual discomfort of change is similar the discomfort of physical growing pains as your body grew up into adulthood. It is uncomfortable at first but it is for your own growth and you always recover from it.
New and unfamiliar things is uncomfortable but we soon adapt to it.
Here is a great quote from an awesome faith-filled man. Viktor E. Frankl
“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
How I understand this is we will be uncomfortable and unhappy when we focus on the worldly success and happiness. When we focus on following the promptings within to serve a greater purpose than our own comforts, we will have happiness and success we wanted in the first place.
In conclusion, when we experience discomfort, instead of panicking and fearing that it will destroy us immediately, and fixing it in our limited human ways, we can choose to believe that we have the power to create comfort by focusing on our current lesson of sanctification. Make the spiritual change of focus and your comfort will be the natural byproduct.
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