Living in the Presence of God (Vol I/Pt I - 19)

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CHAPTER 19 You

have lived until now in a very selfish love. "God" is a common word

that you come across starting at your birth. Being familiar with the

word, does not mean that you have experienced it. You have understood

God to be far superior, on a much higher plane, a place you seem

convinced of not being able to reach. You have accepted Him, only so

that you can reject Him. The sacrifice of God in your lives has made

your life your punishment. God

is the link between the "you" and the "self". You will not know of the

self without God, and the self cannot and will not emerge to link this

"you" without God. With only the "you" and no "self", there is no

selfless love. The "self" is not the "you", and "you" are actually only

the "self". Your

heart must begin your journeys of selfless service. Each time you must

serve more of the self and less of you. Selfish love will give and find

its way back to the "you". Selfless love will give, only to find its

way to My love. The "you" will become the "self", only when the "self"

has become "you". Enwrap

yourselves in God and you have found purity, peace and bliss. Let Me be

the photo and you the frame. The frame encircles the photo, and the

glass over the photo must be transparent for the photo to be clearly

visible. I, too, will be clearly seen, when your life turns at every

point, only to choose in My direction, and the transparencies of your

purity that develops will emit you to be only a reflection of God. Prayers

must bring peace to you, or else your prayers must lack devotion. Your

daily prayers must not be a ritual that you dread. Such prayers are

only chanted and not felt. Such prayers will satisfy the ego and not

God. God will not see the length of your prayers. He will only measure

the weight of your devotion in it. He will measure the strength of your

yearning for Him. He will observe the efforts you make to please Him,

constantly. It will not impress Him if you memorize a thousand of His

names. Even if one name of His sparkles with brilliance in your hearts,

even if one name is remembered with all the love in your being; then

that name will come, that name will answer you, that name will respond

with His love, and that name will forever become your "first name". The

prayer of true love, I will never disappoint. The prayer in which you

struggle to love, that prayer, I will help to uplift to true love. The

prayer of the wretched and spiritually downtrodden will, too,

ultimately, light to seek the help of the divine. Start your prayers

today, but only let the heart speak in the silence that surrounds you

of God. - Divine Messages received and recorded by Mrs Seema M Dewan(Copyright reserved by the Author) 'Sai Divine Inspirations' is now on Facebook!Facebook link : http://www.facebook.com/saidivineinspirationsBlog link : http://saidivineinspirations.blogspot.com/