"Get over self" is the entire message of the Sermon. Extended: "...for the benefit of the other." [There's always an other.]
As I read my "God Calling" this morning, the last line of the passage gave me an ah-ha moment...Had they lived My Teachings out in their daily lives they would have had Fullness of Joy. With that I realized that living out God's teachings in my daily life boils down to Get over yourself.
According to me, that's the entire message of the Sermon on the Mount, also for that matter, the Twelve Steps of recovery groups, the passive resistance of Gandhi and King, et al. Which causes me to wonder if all the how-to preaching and teaching about self-acceptance and/or -improvement (emphasis on self) isn't another detour around real spiritual growth.
Face it, getting over our self for the benefit of another requires a change not only of our mind but of our consciousness. This is hold-your-nose-and-take-a-leap-of-faith time...which means turn off the thinking, start doing. In full knowledge that we may be wrong...that's trust on the wings of an angel. But how else do we build trust? Thinking on it surely does not get us there.
And there it is...that's how we know "Fullness of Joy." Trust, be wrong, admit, correct, trust, be wrong...until the day or hour we do it right. Who knew that "right" was to do it selflessly...for the benefit of an other? Without thought or preplanning about our self and how our self is going to look or feel.
That is Fullness of Joy.
Thank you.
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