Discerning the will of God

The Holy Spirit, like the ego, is a decision. Together they constitute all the alternatives the mind can accept and obey. The Holy Spirit and the ego are the only choices open to you. God created one, and so you cannot eradicate it. You made the other, and so you can. Only what God creates is irreversible and unchangeable. What you made can always be changed because, when you do not think like God, you are not really thinking at all. Delusional ideas are not real thoughts, although you can believe in them. But you are wrong. The function of thought comes from God and is in God. As part of His Thought, you cannot think apart from Him. T-5.V.6:6-16

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

At its most elemental level, life is very simple: you can think with the Holy Spirit or with the ego. When Christians pray the prayer that Jesus taught, the “Our Father”, they say in part “...Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven…” If we take the prayer seriously, we ask “What is God’s will for me and the world?” This question begins a search which is called “discernment.” How do we discern what is God’s will?

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. The Course teaches that the world of the ego is delusional and that truth is be found in the world of the Holy Spirit.

Today, it is suggested that we discern the will of God by asking “What would Love have me do?”