If there is a you conceiving of a God, thinking of God, hoping for God, searching for God, there is duality and failure. The moment there is the realization, “I Am That I Am,” not “I will be; I long to be; I hope to be: I would like to be worthy of”; then God has become incarnate as individual being: God the Father manifest as God the son, but still just One. God the Father is God the son.
Until you can see that I, God, am expressing my Self as I-Joel, and therefore all that I-God has is I-Joel’s, because we are not two but One, you will be missing the mark. Only this realization of oneness can stop you from wanting something or someone external to yourself. As long as there is a want or desire, there is a sense of separation.
One of the Infinite Way Wisdoms states that “desire is sin.” Why? Is it not because if I desire integrity, am I not acknowledging that I do not have it? If I desire companionship, am I not acknowledging that I do not have it? Even if I desire God, is it not an acknowledgment that I do not have It? All this is sin, because I and the Father are one, and all that the Father has is mine.
As I abide in the Word and let the Word abide in me, I have no desires. I am living only in this moment, conscious of the fact that whatever I need an hour from now will appear, whatever I need tomorrow will appear, whatever I need next year will appear. Why? Because I now embody it. I have meat that the world knows not of.
What I have to do is to be patient, live in this very moment, feel assured that all that the Father has is embodied in me, and that it is unfolding every moment in accordance with my need. If my need this moment is dollars, then those dollars will appear at the moment they are needed, often before that. If my need is transportation, at the right moment it will be waiting for me. Whatever the need is becomes apparent, not because I desire it, not because I want it, not because I need it, but because I already possess it.
J. S. Goldsmith: The Art of Spiritual Living. Chapter Nine; The Consciousness of the Individual; Why Desire is Sin; Kindle location: page 149-151