Ask What You Can Do For God

I'm inspired by the words of John F Kennedy, "... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

These words have spiritual significance:
     If you're is selfishness, you ask what your country can do for you.
     If you're in love of others, you ask what you can do for your country.

We can easily extend these famous words to our relationship with others and to our relationship with God:

Ask not what others can do for you, ask what you can do for others.
     If you're in selfishness, you ask what others can do for you.
     If you're in love of others, you ask what you can do for others.

Ask not what God can do for you, ask what you can do for God.
     If you're in selfishness, you ask what God can do for you.
     If you're in love of others, you ask what you can do for God.
          What can you do for God? Follow his command:  love one another.

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Psalm 23 - A Psalm of David

We've established that there are two families referenced in the Bible, each having its own qualities and attributes:

 

è   è   è   We Develop from Selfishness to Love of Others   è   è   è
Family of Selfishness	Family of Love of Others
•       Seeking to benefit oneself •       This family has a father, mother, brother, sister etc	•       Seeking to benefit others •       This family has a father, mother, brother, sister etc
•       Father is the devil •       Kingdom of this world	•       Father is God •       Kingdom of God
•       Death •       Evil •       Enemies	•       Life •       Green Pastures •       Still Waters •       Paths of Righteousness •       House of the LORD (YHVH)
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Psalm 23 is one of the most famous chapters in the Bible. Here's how it's connected to the two families referenced in the Bible:

 

Psalm 23: A Psalm of David (NKJV)	Connection to the Two Families
1. The Lord (YHVH) is my shepherd;	The LORD (YHVH) (of the family of love of others) is my shepherd
I shall not want.	I shall not be in selfishness, wanting
2. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.	He makes me be in the quality of love of others
3. He restores my soul;	He restores my quality from selfishness to love of others
He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.	He leads me in the paths of love of others So that I have the quality of love of others
4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,	Though I am in selfishness
I will fear no evil;	I will not fear selfishness
For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.	For You are with me, bringing me out of selfishness to love of others
5. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;	You prepare me to be in love of others, instead of being in selfishness
You anoint my head with oil;	You change my qualities to love of others
My cup runs over.	Until I am completely in love of others
6. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me	Surely I will be in love of others
All the days of my life;	All the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord (YHVH)	And I will dwell in the house of the LORD (YHVH) (of the family of love of others)
Forever.	Forever
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Love of Others in Action

What actions do I need to take in order to be in love of others?
How do I need to behave?

Video:  Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - "One Day"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwAYpLVyeFU

 

Perception of Reality

The Bible actually references perception:
And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive...' (Matthew 13:14, NKJV)

Reality is what you see around you. What you see, what you perceive is your reality. You start off in this one state of reality.

Perception of reality introduces the idea that there is more than one way to perceive the world, meaning your reality. If your perception changes, your reality changes.

Going through a change in the perception of your reality means you transition from perceiving one reality to also perceiving another, you become aware of two realities.

In the first perception of reality you see yourself as separate from the world. In the second perception of reality you see yourself as being a part of the world.

The second reality was always there, you just didn't perceive it.

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God and the devil

Mutual Responsibility

We have to change the way we connect with each other.

Currently we are entrenched in egoism (selfishness) and seek only to benefit ourselves even at the expense of others. We don't care about others, we only care about ourselves.

Our ego is responsible for all the problems in the world and our selfish behaviour cannot be sustained in the long term. Something has to change. We have to change.

We have to change our nature from selfishness to love of others.

Love of others is when you seek to benefit others instead of yourself. I look after you and you look after me, we become mutually responsible for one another.

Once we change our nature we will become integrated in one another.

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Spring Brings Love

Spring brings love
Hear nesting birds singing
Smell the subtle fragrance of new flowers
See the stars in the night sky
Taste fresh picked fruit
Touch the light through the trees
Spring brings love

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Love of Others - We are All Interconnected

We are all interconnected in so many ways:

I didn't grow or make any of the food I eat, someone else did.
I didn't make any of the clothes I wear, someone else did.
I didn't make the house I live in, someone else did.
I didn't make the computer I'm using to write this, someone else did.

By the time goods and services reach me, countless people have been involved in the planning, preparation, development, creation, marketing, logistics, delivery, retail and selling.

Other people make my life possible.

Thank you to all the people who work in the various fields and industries that make my life possible.

Thank you to the One True God, the Infinite God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for giving us life itself.

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Reading The Bible

If you've never read the Bible but want to, here's a good place to start:

1.  Psalms
The book of psalms has 150 poems that will touch your heart, they express the full range of human emotion from joy and jubilation to sorrow and suffering.

2.  The Gospel of John
The Gospel of John in the New Testament summarizes Jesus' life. The other gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke also speak of Jesus' life.

3.  Genesis and Exodus
Genesis speaks of creation and how man fell from God. Exodus speaks of redemption and our return to God.

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