Just carry out My wishes and leave Me to carry out yours.
That one sentence in today's "God Calling" is, eyebrows up, fairly simple to get if we just want to talk it...but walk it? Rarely, oh so rarely, do we walk it in our lives.
Yet, I believe that is the very nut of how we are God's hands and feet, his voice box, eardrums, eyeballs...we start by carrying out his wishes. How do we know what his wishes are? Any proven spiritual principle...and there are few on this earth who haven't heard at least one...any proven spiritual principle will take us away from our ego-victory thoughts, so there's our starting point.
Then we leave God to carry out our wishes...and it's okay to laugh at that. That in fact is a very valid response. To laugh at and love our inability to self-will ourselves into leaving anything, much less our wants, to God is heading in the right direction. The right direction being powerlessness.
And there it is. There's our life's work...proving our own powerlessness by the new, the unselfed, way we walk and talk, see and hear. We know and show that our will and our life are in the care of God. Are, indeed, of God.
The good news is we get started on this new, this unselfed, way of life the minute we serve another, help another, inconvenience ourselves for another. To inconvenience ourselves for another with whom we disagree...now that is divine.
Thank you.
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