[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho Team 4/7/02

[Rick P. Giles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Confidence
Teachers: Elyon
April 7, 2002

*	Elyon (Jonathan TR):  Dear friends, this is Elyon.  Again I welcome you to
the classroom.  This time of exchange is one that I look forward to.  It is my
moment to interact with my fellow human beings.  I cherish witnessing your
expressions both of delight over your weekly activities, how they integrate with
your ideals, and your troubles and how you wrestle for meaning and apply your
insights for improvement.  That brings me to a topic, and that is "confidence". 
I would like to discuss its meaning.
	A certain element to confidence is a sense of stability, fidelity,
trustworthiness, as would be the case if you step upon a bridge you are
confident
it will sustain your weight and carry you across.  Naturally confidence is
gained
through experience by having exerted in an unfamiliar arena and witnessed for
yourself success, to have witnessed attainment where beforehand you were
uncertain if you would be in any way capable of accomplishing the goal.
	But there is another aspect to confidence besides an experiential exposure
and the trust in yourself that results, and that is the ability to seek counsel,
to receive wisdom in the advice of fellows, to receive coaching and
encouragement.  This confidence is the precursing confidence to successful
attainment rather than the confidence that follows after the experience of
success.  It does no one well to struggle through uncertainty, to apply oneself
in a manner wherein one is unfamiliar both in skill and in knowledge, by
oneself. 
Support, counsel, is vital to bringing that sense of fulfillment, worth, and
ability when your goal is attained and the task is over.  To approach
uncertainty
without confidence indicates, or should, to you that you have some preparatory
work ahead of that which you seek to do that is bringing this uncertainty.
It is
not the time for a false confidence, a blinded pursuit, an aggressive push
without the use of wisdom or insight.  It is not a weakness to present to
another
your frailties, for they are not false but rather are markers of areas of need
that can be filled with the help of another, can be addressed in preparation
that
you may work around the lack if you are not situated to replace that lack with
the required mechanism to accomplish your task.
	Urantia has been left with a legacy of self-assertiveness that, while the
trait is beneficial in the grander perspective of the ascension to Paradise
as it
was instilled upon this world, has caused much strife and hurt at the expense of
others.  It is important in the times in which you live now to modulate the
drive
to excel with a connected and interconnected reliance upon counsel and a broad
stance through cooperation with others.
	You have been told of the value of teamwork.  Teamwork in itself is not the
effect of merely the whole, the team, but rather the excellence of each
individual in coordination.  So, you are not to lose self identity in belonging
to the team, but rather as a team you are each encouraged to rise to your
highest
potential.  When a ball player enters the field and knows his team players trust
him, he has confidence, though at any moment standing at the plate he may not
have the confidence that he will hit that ball.  Having placed a homerun he now
has the accomplishment of experience and knows, even though he may fail many
more
times at bat, he can hit a homerun.
	Faith plays a great role in your sense of being capable, and fraternity
also is a large factor in supporting your faith.
	Lastly, always remember the Father who has such confidence in you that you
have been blessed with His divine presence surrendered to your sovereign will,
dedicated to your welfare, allowing you to choose your life course, ever
ready to
adjust you as you accept the adjustment.  Your divine presence within is a
guide,
but this guide will not pull you along.  This guide waits for you to choose and
then shows you how to proceed.  That is a great confidence that the Father holds
for each of you, trusting that you are capable of finding your way to Him on
Paradise.
	I wish now to hear from you, if you have a thought to contribute.

	Jonathan:  We were talking about a transmission that seemed to indicate
that our life here is important and is our time for experiential life and that
the mansion worlds will not be.  Does that imply that the mansion worlds are not
an experiential undertaking?  We know that all of the realm of the Supreme is
experiential.  Can that session be clarified?

*	Elyon:  I would first, to bring clarification, use the master's life as an
example of a larger spectrum of time, your earth life and your morontia life. 
When Michael took it upon himself to undertake his seventh bestowal, he left
behind much of his prior powers and knowledge to be born as an infant. 
Subsequently he grew and gathered knowledge as each of you have in your growing
up.  He did not have within him a preset unfoldment.  It was the Father's plan
for all Creator Sons to find for themselves what life as an evolutionary
creature
is like and to discover that they are Creator Sons rising from a state of not
knowing.  When Jesus matured in his spiritual understanding and realized he was
Michael, a new perspective guided his life from that point on.  Now he made his
decisions from a universe perspective.  Where he chose to go, who he chose to
associate with, all factored into the larger view.  He still underwent the
mistakes that are inevitable in the human life, attempting one accomplishment,
succeeding at one time, failing at another.  That was experiential.  However, it
was within a context of enlightenment.
	Today in this life you live, you live in the pattern of Michael's human
life as Jesus, discovering who you are, exploring.  It is perhaps appropriate to
define these two phases this way:  The first phase is explorational experience. 
The second phase is enlightened experience.  On the mansion worlds you will have
the benefit of an enlightenment, your own sense of survival and a culture
that is
built upon God consciousness.  So, the value and emphasis upon this life
prior to
your attainment of the mansion worlds is as important as it was for Michael
to be
born as an infant and to grow up as a child to become an adult, all in a very
human sense.  He could have done as Machiventa and bestowed himself fully aware
of his origin and purpose.  But this is not the intent of a bestowal mission. 
You could have been born with all those traits you now perceive as the character
traits of those on worlds settled in Light and Life.  But that is not the plan
for evolutionary creatures; it is the result, the goal, of evolutionary life.
	When we look at the unfoldment of Michael's plan for Nebadon we discover
that the architectural worlds were the first construction project.  Those worlds
which are reflective of the higher realms of Havona were first established.
When
that was done the greater task of evolutionary growth followed, and this has
been
the preoccupation of all Nebadon ever since.  That is how important it is to
have
creatures like you realizing your origin and attaining your destiny.
	I thank you for hearing my words today.  I will take my leave.  May your
souls be energized, your minds clear, and your hearts uplifted.