God is the source of what you desire, no matter what you desire

Everyone desires something. All intentional human action is pursued under the hope of a certain outcome.

The prevailing opinion is that what God wants is only of import to those who desire what organized religions claim to provide. What organized religions provide, however, is not appealing to all. Many of peoples’ actual desires are not featured among the claims of organized religions, and even when there is overlap, the credibility of organized religions is strained by their tendency to overpromise and underdeliver.

The surprising truth is that all desires lead to God and, perhaps even more surprisingly, that God leads to the fulfillment of all desires. Even what seem the basest of desires can only be realized through true mappings of cause and effect, of which God is the author, arbiter, and agent. If anyone will obtain anything, it will be by living the law God has appointed for receiving it.¹

Many outwardly dismiss the utility of desires that are less than what they imagine to be ideal, though mostly only when discussing the desires of others, not their own. However, the process of acquiring greater truth is a pathway comprising the continuous discovery of the limits in what is already believed and replacing it with something better. The best way to do that often includes sincerely seeking the fulfillment of what a person desires, no matter how imperfect the object of that desire. In realizing the limits of what they desire, they will be more persuaded of the value of what they previously dismissed when it was offered or lacked the reasons to search for themselves.

Most religionists would balk at the notion that anything they already believe in could be regarded as “evil.” And yet, in the process of pursuing an ideal life, there is no difference in how we ought to respond when something better is discovered, no matter whether what we believed before was something religions teach is evil or something religions teach is good.

We have been designed with sophisticated capabilities for searching out truth. Every person has some degree of inherent intelligence, and each of us is capable of advancing our latent intelligence through effort and honest inquiry. We have time and talents with which to search things out—to drink deeply from the experiences of life and to reflect deeply about what we observe.

All such introspection will eventually, if not curtailed by dishonesty or fear, lead a person to God. While his existence might not be immediately evident,² those who dare to face the hard questions and experiences in life will eventually perceive his fingerprints on everything they have ever observed or experienced here.

There is no need to delay this realization. While many false witnesses of God exist—supposed testimonies of those who have not known him, do not obey him, and are not like him—he has arranged for sufficient numbers of true witnesses so as to make it possible to find them, in spite of the noise, for all those who care to look.

Searching out all good things will lead a person to God, and searching out God will lead a person to all good things:

`[I exhort] all men to come unto God...in all things which are good; for there is nothing which is good save it comes from the Lord; and that which is evil cometh from the devil. (Omni 1:25)`

When it comes to searching out the limits of present beliefs and the discovery of greater beliefs, the most direct pathway, and the outcome of all such pathways, is God.