You Reap what You Sow.
RECORDER coments:
When you read this instalment from Christ's Letter 2, try to understand that none of Christ's teachings are given to people to make them 'good' people or to show them how to 'please' God.
It is most important that you should finally understand there is no judgemental 'God' on High whom you have to please. There is no judgement from on High to fear.
You can behave exactly as you please and there will be no punishment - BUT - whatever way you behave, -whatever way you think, feel, act, you are using your own consciousness energies, and these energies are busily creating patterns - electro-magnetic blueprints which will re-produce themselves as experiences or situations which will be made visible in your lives at some future date. Therefore whatever way you behave, think, feel, act will be manifested in your tomorrows. YOU create your tomorrows and nobody else. You may think that that other people create your tomorrows, but if you were living the Law of Love daily all the time, no one would ever be able to intrude in your life and bring you sorrow.
Therefore these following passages are all directed at showing you how you make your own problems. If you can change your behaviour and think, feel, act always in accordance with the Law of Unconditional Love, then LOVE will be clearly manifested in your life.
The fruits of LOVE will be yours when you live LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY all the time.
Therefore if a person asks you to do them a favour - such as walking a mile with them - and you say 'no', then next time you ask someone to do a favour for you, the response will probably be 'no' to you.
These are tremendously important passages which, if they become the guide lines of your daily behaviour, will truly enable you to create the Kingdom of Heaven in which all things necessary are supplied and you find peace of mind and happiness.
Don't forget that when you LIVE LOVE daily, you are in constant contact with Divine Consciousnes inWhich you live, move and have your being.
CHRIST says:
“A man shouted out to me: ‘Tell us, Teacher, how do we remain peaceful with our neighbours when they, themselves, will give us no peace?’
I said to him, smiling: ‘When your neighbour comes to you and says he has to travel some distance away and does not want to go alone and asks you to go with him, - what do you do?’
The man laughed. ‘If my neighbour wanted to take me away from what I was doing, I would not be pleased. I would tell him to find some one else to go with him as I was busy.’
‘And how would your neighbour feel?’ I asked.
The man shrugged. ‘I don’t know’.
‘And next time you needed him to do you a favour, how will he respond to your asking?’
The man was no longer laughing. He did not reply.
Another man said: ‘He will swear at him and tell him to go elsewhere for help.’
I said to the people: ‘He has answered rightly. And how will he feel?’ I pointed to the man who had first spoken, smiling at him.
A woman shouted above the laughter: ‘He will tell everyone he meets what a selfish and miserable neighbour he has. Perhaps he will want to hurt him in some way.’
There were shouts of agreement and I nodded: ‘Yes, he will have forgotten that he was once asked by his neighbour to walk one or two miles with him and he refused. He will not see the LAW of REAPING and SOWING at work in his life. He set it in motion when he refused to go a mile with his neighbour and now he is reaping of his attitudes and actions. Of what use to be angry when he has created the situation all by himself?’
The people laughed and nodded and spoke to one another. Never before had they heard such knowledge of human behaviour. Here was an entirely new teaching.
I said to them: ‘I advise you, when your neighbour comes to you asking you to walk a mile with them or anything else that will make him more at ease and happy, first think about what you would like him to do for you if you also have a need? How would you like him to respond to your request?’
A murmur swept through the crowd and I could see that they understood what I was telling them.
‘In fact, if your neighbour asks you to go one mile, do it with a happy, easy agreement and be prepared to go on to do two miles if necessary. When you refuse people, you do not realise it, but you tighten up your minds and bodies ready to protect yourself from being forced to something you do not want to do. You tighten up your minds and bodies and the ‘Father’ is tightened up also and cannot do Its LOVE WORK within you, and out of this tightening comes sickness.
‘Again, you may meet someone sorely in need, who is cold and unhappy. He may ask you for your coat. Don’t pass him by, glaring at him.’ Some people laughed. They knew this was what they would do. ‘No, give him your coat, and if he is really cold, give him your cloak also. Go your way, rejoicing.’
‘Rejoicing?’ A disbelieving voice asked.
I laughed and said: ‘Yes, my friend, - rejoicing! Firstly, because you had a coat and a cloak to give, and then rejoicing because you realise that now you have a lack of a coat and cloak yourself, your ‘Father’ within you will shortly return the coat and cloak to you in some surprising way. If, however, you give him coat and cloak and then continue walking, grumbling to yourself - ‘Now why did I do that? I was foolish. Now I will be cold instead of him, and people will laugh at me because I have given my coat and cloak and left myself with nothing - and what will my wife say when I get home?’
The people were nodding and laughing, enjoying the picture of the man who gives away coat and cloak and then remembers what an evil thing he has done to himself. I knew that very often, they did deprive themselves to help others - and then regretted their generosity afterwards.
I waited a moment and then shouted in a loud voice to get their full attention: ‘But have I not told you that you REAP as you SOW? Have I not told you clearly that your thoughts, words, actions create your future circumstances? So what do you want to SOW to REAP after you have given your coat and cloak to the stranger? Do you want your gifts restored to you - or do you want to be without coat and cloak for a long, long time, because that is what will happen to you if go on your way, angry and upset because you gave away your coat and cloak. Your words and actions will seal, make hard like rock, the poverty you have brought upon yourself by giving away your coat and cloak.’
The people were no longer smiling and laughing, they were very quiet and listening intently.
‘Remember, first do to others what you would have them do to you, then there will be peace and contentment in your minds and hearts and the ‘Father’ will be able to do Its LOVE WORK within your bodies, minds and hearts. Give and give abundantly, and rejoice that you have gifts to give to those in need, because as you give so will your gifts be restored to you in the way that you most need them. Give with happy hearts, give in the faith and knowledge that where there is lack in your lives, so will the ‘Father’ do Its LOVE WORK abundantly in you - and for you.
Do nothing with heavy heart because a heavy heart is what you will continue to have.
Give everything with joyous spirit, that everything in your life may bring to you only joy and spiritual insight.’
A man commented: ‘This is against man’s nature. It is natural to be anxious about the future.
Clothes are expensive, food is not easily come by. Life is a constant struggle.’
I answered him in a loud voice because he was only saying what I knew most of my listeners were thinking.
‘But you do not know for sure that tomorrow you will be struggling to live. You do not know that tomorrow you won’t have a splendid job, or any other wonderful thing come your way. You do not know this - but you are making very sure for yourself that there will not be a marvellous job, or some other wonderful opportunity in your life - because you are creating the circumstances of your tomorrows.’
He was angry. ‘I am? How am I doing that?’
‘Have I not just told you?’ I turned to the people laughing. ‘Tell me, how has this man, up front, in the red cloak, created his tomorrows?’
The crowd was silent, then a very young man, Mark, shouted to me: ‘I know. He said he would be struggling to buy food and clothes. You have told us that what we think and talk about is what we will get.’
‘Exactly” I said. ‘You are a very clever boy. You have understood. Take care that you do not create for yourself the things you do not want. And I will be happy for you to become my disciple when you are older and your parents will let you go.’
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When you read this instalment from Christ's Letter 2, try to understand that none of Christ's teachings are given to people to make them 'good' people or to show them how to 'please' God.
It is most important that you should finally understand there is no judgemental 'God' on High whom you have to please. There is no judgement from on High to fear.
You can behave exactly as you please and there will be no punishment - BUT - whatever way you behave, -whatever way you think, feel, act, you are using your own consciousness energies, and these energies are busily creating patterns - electro-magnetic blueprints which will re-produce themselves as experiences or situations which will be made visible in your lives at some future date. Therefore whatever way you behave, think, feel, act will be manifested in your tomorrows. YOU create your tomorrows and nobody else. You may think that that other people create your tomorrows, but if you were living the Law of Love daily all the time, no one would ever be able to intrude in your life and bring you sorrow.
Therefore these following passages are all directed at showing you how you make your own problems. If you can change your behaviour and think, feel, act always in accordance with the Law of Unconditional Love, then LOVE will be clearly manifested in your life.
The fruits of LOVE will be yours when you live LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY all the time.
Therefore if a person asks you to do them a favour - such as walking a mile with them - and you say 'no', then next time you ask someone to do a favour for you, the response will probably be 'no' to you.
These are tremendously important passages which, if they become the guide lines of your daily behaviour, will truly enable you to create the Kingdom of Heaven in which all things necessary are supplied and you find peace of mind and happiness.
Don't forget that when you LIVE LOVE daily, you are in constant contact with Divine Consciousnes inWhich you live, move and have your being.
CHRIST says:
“A man shouted out to me: ‘Tell us, Teacher, how do we remain peaceful with our neighbours when they, themselves, will give us no peace?’
I said to him, smiling: ‘When your neighbour comes to you and says he has to travel some distance away and does not want to go alone and asks you to go with him, - what do you do?’
The man laughed. ‘If my neighbour wanted to take me away from what I was doing, I would not be pleased. I would tell him to find some one else to go with him as I was busy.’
‘And how would your neighbour feel?’ I asked.
The man shrugged. ‘I don’t know’.
‘And next time you needed him to do you a favour, how will he respond to your asking?’
The man was no longer laughing. He did not reply.
Another man said: ‘He will swear at him and tell him to go elsewhere for help.’
I said to the people: ‘He has answered rightly. And how will he feel?’ I pointed to the man who had first spoken, smiling at him.
A woman shouted above the laughter: ‘He will tell everyone he meets what a selfish and miserable neighbour he has. Perhaps he will want to hurt him in some way.’
There were shouts of agreement and I nodded: ‘Yes, he will have forgotten that he was once asked by his neighbour to walk one or two miles with him and he refused. He will not see the LAW of REAPING and SOWING at work in his life. He set it in motion when he refused to go a mile with his neighbour and now he is reaping of his attitudes and actions. Of what use to be angry when he has created the situation all by himself?’
The people laughed and nodded and spoke to one another. Never before had they heard such knowledge of human behaviour. Here was an entirely new teaching.
I said to them: ‘I advise you, when your neighbour comes to you asking you to walk a mile with them or anything else that will make him more at ease and happy, first think about what you would like him to do for you if you also have a need? How would you like him to respond to your request?’
A murmur swept through the crowd and I could see that they understood what I was telling them.
‘In fact, if your neighbour asks you to go one mile, do it with a happy, easy agreement and be prepared to go on to do two miles if necessary. When you refuse people, you do not realise it, but you tighten up your minds and bodies ready to protect yourself from being forced to something you do not want to do. You tighten up your minds and bodies and the ‘Father’ is tightened up also and cannot do Its LOVE WORK within you, and out of this tightening comes sickness.
‘Again, you may meet someone sorely in need, who is cold and unhappy. He may ask you for your coat. Don’t pass him by, glaring at him.’ Some people laughed. They knew this was what they would do. ‘No, give him your coat, and if he is really cold, give him your cloak also. Go your way, rejoicing.’
‘Rejoicing?’ A disbelieving voice asked.
I laughed and said: ‘Yes, my friend, - rejoicing! Firstly, because you had a coat and a cloak to give, and then rejoicing because you realise that now you have a lack of a coat and cloak yourself, your ‘Father’ within you will shortly return the coat and cloak to you in some surprising way. If, however, you give him coat and cloak and then continue walking, grumbling to yourself - ‘Now why did I do that? I was foolish. Now I will be cold instead of him, and people will laugh at me because I have given my coat and cloak and left myself with nothing - and what will my wife say when I get home?’
The people were nodding and laughing, enjoying the picture of the man who gives away coat and cloak and then remembers what an evil thing he has done to himself. I knew that very often, they did deprive themselves to help others - and then regretted their generosity afterwards.
I waited a moment and then shouted in a loud voice to get their full attention: ‘But have I not told you that you REAP as you SOW? Have I not told you clearly that your thoughts, words, actions create your future circumstances? So what do you want to SOW to REAP after you have given your coat and cloak to the stranger? Do you want your gifts restored to you - or do you want to be without coat and cloak for a long, long time, because that is what will happen to you if go on your way, angry and upset because you gave away your coat and cloak. Your words and actions will seal, make hard like rock, the poverty you have brought upon yourself by giving away your coat and cloak.’
The people were no longer smiling and laughing, they were very quiet and listening intently.
‘Remember, first do to others what you would have them do to you, then there will be peace and contentment in your minds and hearts and the ‘Father’ will be able to do Its LOVE WORK within your bodies, minds and hearts. Give and give abundantly, and rejoice that you have gifts to give to those in need, because as you give so will your gifts be restored to you in the way that you most need them. Give with happy hearts, give in the faith and knowledge that where there is lack in your lives, so will the ‘Father’ do Its LOVE WORK abundantly in you - and for you.
Do nothing with heavy heart because a heavy heart is what you will continue to have.
Give everything with joyous spirit, that everything in your life may bring to you only joy and spiritual insight.’
A man commented: ‘This is against man’s nature. It is natural to be anxious about the future.
Clothes are expensive, food is not easily come by. Life is a constant struggle.’
I answered him in a loud voice because he was only saying what I knew most of my listeners were thinking.
‘But you do not know for sure that tomorrow you will be struggling to live. You do not know that tomorrow you won’t have a splendid job, or any other wonderful thing come your way. You do not know this - but you are making very sure for yourself that there will not be a marvellous job, or some other wonderful opportunity in your life - because you are creating the circumstances of your tomorrows.’
He was angry. ‘I am? How am I doing that?’
‘Have I not just told you?’ I turned to the people laughing. ‘Tell me, how has this man, up front, in the red cloak, created his tomorrows?’
The crowd was silent, then a very young man, Mark, shouted to me: ‘I know. He said he would be struggling to buy food and clothes. You have told us that what we think and talk about is what we will get.’
‘Exactly” I said. ‘You are a very clever boy. You have understood. Take care that you do not create for yourself the things you do not want. And I will be happy for you to become my disciple when you are older and your parents will let you go.’
© 2007 Recorder. All Rights Reserved
www.christsway.co.za (English, French, Italian, Dutch)
www.caminodecristo.com (Español)
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