It seems as if we awake one day at the door of our own spiritual life. We open that door and almost the first thing we hear is that we need to change only one thing about ourselves. Which happens to be every single thing about us...which actually is just one thing: our thinking. Specifically the idea that "taking care of No. 1" will ever bring us joy. We begin our journey when we realize that i, me, my, mine is no longer any of our concern.
Our concern now is to realize the importance of I Am. To realize I Am as you, yours, me, mine, us, they, them, theirs...all of whom equates to We. To the fact that we are one with God, subordinate to and servants of. That is our function, that is our joy.
Joy itself now takes on a new meaning. God Calling today speaks of "the Joy of the Lord." So live with Me in the kingdom of Joy, My Kingdom, the Gateway into which may be service, it may be suffering. Tell me your reasoning mind welcomes that opportunity...joy in service is questionable, but suffering?! Our ego-driven, ego-based reasoning mind will not ever agree.
There. That's the nut of the whole change we are asked to make as we enter deeper into higher consciousness: To change our minds, to upgrade our thinking, from me to we. In that process we do suffer, but it is the ego-pains of stripping ourselves of our me-first thinking, and changing our minds to we-thinking. Knowing that unaided we cannot do that, we invite God to do our thinking for us.
There we find "the Joy of the Lord." The joy we experience from God flowing through us in love for our "enemy" with us receiving the love of that same "enemy" in return.
Thank you.
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