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One day while meditating I asked my wise counsel “What does God want from us”. Does God want us to behave a certain way or to do certain things, if so, where is free choice?
The answer I received was that all God wants is a relationship with us that’s it. No expectations, no specific actions. But this relationship is hard for some to achieve.
God is truth and if you are living in illusion, not truth, you are far away from God and can not (or it is very hard to) have a relationship with God. So the people living in hate, cruelty, anger (which are not the truth of God) have a hard time getting to know God. You must be in God’s world – Truth – to actually get to know Him. The biggest truth to maintain is being truthful to yourself.
Posted by: Ann
June 27th, 2009 >> God, Life, Physical/Material, Relationship, Sacrifice, Spirituality, Truth
Do the Enlightened Sacrifice?
This one is deep and I am not sure you will grasp what I am saying but here goes.
I have been reading “A Course in Miracle” which is a 1-year course and I am on year 4 (yes, I am slow). I was just reading some of my old notes and wanted to post this one. Lesson 100: 7.3 reads “Then realize your part is to be happy.” and 7.6-7 continues with “You have indeed been wrong in your belief that sacrifice is asked. You but receive according to God’s plan, and never lose or sacrifice or die.”
As I thought about what this said it dawned on me that the word “sacrifice” is mans attempt to put in words a spiritual idea but failing miserably at it. Materialistic man is trying to explain what they see you do when you are spiritual or enlightened, however when you are far enough along the spiritual road, you realize there is no such thing as sacrifice. To give others what you have is no sacrifice because you know more will be coming to you.
The way common man uses the word sacrifice implies scarcity but there is no scarcity for the spiritually enlightened. The idea of scarcity is keeping many people of the world poor materially and spiritually. God, (Higher power, Infinite Being or however you want to describe it, but I will use God for simplicity) is a God of abundance. All things are His and so all things are yours as a child of God.
The idea of suffering and sacrifice is a forcing of a higher spirituality on those who are not yet ready for it. It is trying to get people to behave in a more spiritual manner. It is like little children who have never been to school, playing teacher. They go through the motions and think they know what is going on but they don’t really grasp the whole concept. The spiritually enlightened appear to be sacrificing for others but they are really living out of abundance, out of a knowing that there is plenty more out there.
No I am not there yet.