LESSON 6: Doing the Will of the Father

Jesus is rapidly becoming a man, not just a young man but an adult. He has learned well to bear
 responsibility. He knows how to carry on in the face of disappointment. He bears up bravely
 when his plans are thwarted and his purposes temporarily defeated. He has learned how to be fair
 and just even in the face of injustice. He is learning how to adjust his ideals of spiritual living to
 the practical demands of earthly existence. He is learning how to plan for the achievement of a
 higher and distant goal of idealism while he toils earnestly for the attainment of a nearer and
 immediate goal of necessity. He is steadily acquiring the art of adjusting his aspirations to the
 commonplace demands of the human occasion. He has very nearly mastered the technique of
 utilizing the energy of the spiritual drive to turn the mechanism of material achievement. He is
 slowly learning how to live the heavenly life while he continues on with the earthly existence.
 More and more he depends upon the ultimate guidance of his heavenly Father while he assumes
 the fatherly role of guiding and directing the children of his earth family. He is becoming
 experienced in the skillful wresting of victory from the very jaws of defeat; he is learning how to
 transform the difficulties of time into the triumphs of eternity. 127:6.12

Born into the world a babe of the realm, he has lived his childhood life and passed through the
 successive stages of youth and young manhood; he now stands on the threshold of full manhood,
 rich in the experience of human living, replete in the understanding of human nature, and full of
 sympathy for the frailties of human nature. He is becoming expert in the divine art of revealing
 his Paradise Father to all ages and stages of mortal creatures.

And now as a full-grown man—an adult of the realm—he prepares to continue his supreme
 mission of revealing God to men and leading men to God. 127:6.15

“Never forget there is only one adventure which is more satisfying and thrilling than the attempt
 to discover the will of the living God, and that is the supreme experience of honestly trying to do
 that divine will. And fail not to remember that the will of God can be done in any earthly
 occupation. Some callings are not holy and others secular. All things are sacred in the lives of
 those who are spirit led; that is, subordinated to truth, ennobled by love, dominated by mercy,
 and restrained by fairness—justice. The spirit which my Father and I shall send into the world is
 not only the Spirit of Truth but also the spirit of idealistic beauty.” (1732.4) 155:6.11

You are my apostles, and to you religion shall not become a theologic shelter to which you may flee in fear of facing the rugged realities of spiritual progress and idealistic adventure; but rather shall your religion become the fact of real experience which testifies that God has found you, idealized, ennobled, and spiritualized you, and that you have enlisted in the eternal adventure of finding the God who has thus found and sonshipped you. 155:6.17