Asking, Seeking and Knocking: The Journey Home.

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 7: 7 ESV

What did Jesus mean by this? What is it that we are  all  truly wanting? What is it that we truly want to ask for or seek?   What door do we want opened?

I guarantee that He was not  speaking about asking for a 100,000 dollars or seeking the entrance to a cave with material treasures hidden within it.  Nor is the door that we want opened that of a garage with a new Porsche inside.

Oh we may think we want these things.  We could ask for them and we could get them or find them...but these are not the things that will fulfill us. These are not the things we really want.

These are things the ego may want but I hope we understand by now...that what ego wants is not usually what spirit wants.  Right? In fact the ego  usually makes us miserable in the long run.

Do you realize that the ego must set you on journey  which cannot but lead to a sense of futility and depression? ACIM:T:12:4:1

What we really want is inner peace whether we know that right now or not. What we want is joy.  The kind of joy you feel when you walk into your home, the comfort  that you missed so much  after being away for a period of time.  That is what we want.  We know when we are "home' everything will seem easier even if things don't change on the outside.  The weather, relating to  others, life circumstance is so much easier to deal with when we are home.  It is so much less threatening or annoying, right?

What we really want then is to go home. And you will make that journey eventually. We all will...we are all making it now.  We are all asking  and searching now.  We are all knocking  and waiting for that door of "home" to open for us. The problem is that many of us are looking "out there" instead of "in here." We are on ego's journey to futility.

You will undertake a journey because you are not at home in this world.  And you will search for your home whether you realize where it is or not.  If you believe it is outside you the search will be futile, for you will be seeking for it where it is not.  You do not remember how to look within for you do not believe your home is there. (ACIM:T:12:IV:5:1-3)

The home we seek, the peace we want and the joy that is waiting is not out there .  It is in here.

The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs. Neither will they say Lo here! or lo, there! for, behold, the Kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17: 20-21

So just be aware of what you really want and journey in that direction.  Ego may resist and persist that it knows what you need but don't follow ego's guidance.  Seek the inner guidance within. 

For it is your mind that believes in it [the ego's direction] and gives existence to it. Yet it is also your mind that has the power to deny the ego's existence, and you will surely do so when you realize exactly what the journey is on which the ego sets you. ACIM: T:12:IV:2:5-6

All is well!