Knock and the door will be opened to you.

Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. Peace is. This is the prerequisite for knowledge only because those who are in conflict are not peaceful, and peace is the condition of knowledge because it is the condition of the Kingdom. Knowledge can be restored only when you meet its conditions. This is not a bargain made by God, Who makes no bargains. It is merely the result of your misuse of His laws on behalf of an imaginary will that is not His. Knowledge is His Will. If you are opposing His Will, how can you have knowledge? I have told you what knowledge offers you, but perhaps you do not yet regard this as wholly desirable. If you did you would not be so ready to throw it away when the ego asks for your allegiance.T-8.I.1:1-10

A Course in Miracles (p. 279). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

Jesus makes it very clean that the goal for learning the teachings of A Course In Miracles is peace. With peace comes knowledge which might also be called awareness and which the Course teaches is experience not intellectual understanding. The pursuit of the things of the ego will not bring peace nor awareness and so happiness, peace, always seems just out of our reach. It is suggested that when we give up pursuing our own will and instead accept God’s will for us then peace and awareness becomes our experience.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This truth and meaning is to be found in accepting God’s will for our own.

Today it is suggested that we turn our will over to God’s will for us. Further, we can and should ask the Holy Spirit for help in doing this. Jesus said as reported in Matthew 7:7  “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”