Too busy even for God

So many people rushing but heading in all the wrong directions.

5.25 LK 14:16.27
Jesus forewarns those who ignore God’s call:

“A man prepared a great feast and sent out many invitations. When everything was ready, he sent his servants to notify his invited guests that it was time for them to arrive. But they all began making excuses. One said he had just bought a field and wanted to inspect it and asked to be excused. Another said he had just bought five pairs of oxen and wanted to try them out. Another had just been married and, for that reason, couldn’t come. The servants returned and reported to their master what the intended guests had said.

“The master was furious and told them to go quickly into the streets and alleys of the city and to invite the beggars, the crippled, the lame and the blind. But even then, there was still room.

“‘Well, then,’ said the master, ‘go out into the country lanes and out behind the hedges and urge anyone you find to come so that the house will be full.

“‘For none of those I invited first will get even the smallest taste of what I had prepared for them.’”

The average person is usually so preoccupied with worldly matters. There are chores to do at home or some work that needs to be handled at the office. Building a career is necessary to ensure a bright future. So is making money. Finding a suitable mate and raising a family also takes up much time.

Then there’s relaxing, partying, meeting with friends and enjoying the good things in life. Why not? After doing the work, you really do deserve to have a break, a reward and a means to refresh and recreate.

Sometimes though, what with all the distractions and the fun times, it’s so easy to forget and ignore some more important obligations and responsibilities that should take first priority – your spiritual needs, the things of God. Often, they are passed over when more time-sensitive concerns require your immediate attention. 

Lest you be too negligent, you should remember that, while you can certainly do whatever you want, everything you do or not do will have dire consequences.

This reminder cannot be emphasized often enough.

Those who have not been apprised of the recent clarifications and deeper level interpretations of the Divine Teachings can perhaps be excused for their failure to comply.

But Jesus has words for those to whom he has simplified, upgraded and made his Gospel message plain but have brushed it all aside, nonetheless, and preferred instead, to hold to the false, superseded and socially acceptable but seriously flawed teachings of false prophets.

“If you were blind, then, you wouldn’t be guilty; but since you claim that you do see, then, your sin remains.” 1.12 JN 9.41

“If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of committing sin. But, as it is now, they have no excuse for their sin.” 1.13 JN 15.22

Everyone has been given his own special mission in life. You should keep your focus and never lose sight of your true objective.

Your success or failure in this life depends on it. Don’t be remiss.

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God provides for your every spiritual need

6.05 MT 6:25.32 
“Don’t be anxious about life. Don’t worry about food, drink, or clothes. After all, isn’t life worth more than mere food? And isn’t the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds! They don’t plant seeds; neither do they reap nor store up grain. And yet, your Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they are? Furthermore, will all your worries add a single moment to your life? And why worry about clothes? Observe how the lilies of the field grow and thrive without having to work at all. And yet, I tell you that even Solomon, in all his glory, was never arrayed as magnificently as one of these. And if God so adorns the grass in the field that lives only for a day and is quickly gone tomorrow, will he not more surely clothe you? How little is your faith! Therefore, don’t worry about what you will eat or drink, or even what you will wear because your Father in heaven already knows all that you need.”

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When troubles come, it’s so easy to lose heart and lose faith. Life can be really difficult and the solution to your problem may not be readily in sight. But there is no need to despair. 

However, still on the positive side, in fact, much more important, but not all too often understood, just as frequently, we just need to accept what comes and let things be. Sometimes, there is really nothing to be done or can be done. Yet, there is a reason for everything, a spiritual benefit to be obtained. We only need to understand more what God is trying to tell us and where we can’t, then we should trust that God All-knowing and All-just knows what is best for us and this is what He has sent our way.

When we want to build muscles, we exercise. To gain spiritual strength and fortitude, we need to experience hardships and difficulties on way to overcoming them. In the process, we are also able to develop important skills and talents.

When we want to learn something, anything, we need to study them, all aspects about them. We research, investigate, probe, test and analyze before we can really know anything for sure. To develop our character, first, we need to realize our character flaws and deficiencies, and the error of our ways. Hence, we are made to experience the exact trials, tribulations and karmic consequences of our own thoughts and deeds. They provide us the necessary opportunities to learn and develop, spiritually.

Jesus here is telling us just that: God knows and God is providing for our every spiritual need, every time. Really, no need for us to worry.

Why some are able to understand but many can't

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1.02 MT 13:03.23
Here is the spiritual meaning behind the Parable of the Sower taught by Jesus to his disciples who were permitted to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven.

“Once there was a man who went out to sow grain. As he scattered the seeds in the field, some of them fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them.”

The man is the Lord, the field, the people and the seeds, the divine teachings. Those in the beginning stages of their spiritual development hear his message but are incapable of understanding it. Young in spirit age, grossly ignorant and lacking experience, they don’t know enough to form a considered opinion. Their consciousness is still in the early formative stage. Thoroughly steeped in materiality and entranced by the things in the world, they are unable to see beyond to the more spiritual realms, much less, they are unable to appreciate the spiritual teachings. They still have so much to learn and do in the physical worlds. They should listen more to learn more. And they should increasingly apply what little they understand and can accept of the divine principles in their life.

“Some of the seeds fell on rocky ground where there was little soil. The seeds soon sprouted, because the soil wasn’t deep. But when the sun came up, it scorched the young plants; and because the roots had not grown deep enough, the plants soon dried up.”

Those who have gone a little forward in their development hear the message and receive it gladly because they are already aware to some extent that the spiritual is superior to the material. However, when the accompanying necessary troubles, trials and persecutions — the hard lessons intended by God to teach them and strengthen them — are sent their way, they give up at once. Because of their past frustrations and difficulties, they lack the strong conviction they need to persist and stay on the Path. As they persevere more, they will succeed in overcoming. And their growing faith will enable them to carry on forward until they finally succeed in the end.

“Some of the seeds fell among thorn bushes which grew up and choked the plants.”

Those who are very much preoccupied with worldly concerns and so easily succumb to fleshly temptations have yet to fully satisfy these lower desires. As yet overly concerned with their selves, they are unable to give full expression to the divine principles in their life. Motivated purely by profit and self-satisfaction, they perform no really good service to anyone and thus fail miserably in the fulfillment of their duties towards God. However in time, like little children eventually tiring of their toys, they too will come to realize that Earthly treasures are far inferior compared to the true spiritual riches waiting for them in Heaven. And eventually, inevitably, they will turn and change the direction of their pursuits.

“But some seeds fell on good soil and produced a good crop, some brought in a hundredfold, some sixty and others thirty.” And Jesus concluded: “Those who want to learn should listen.”

Those who listen to the message and understand it strive to love and serve their brothers, more and more. They feed the hungry and give drink to the thirsty: they take in strangers and clothe them; they help the sick to get well and visit and comfort those in prison. They are the only ones, for now, who are on course and are proving by their deeds, everyday, that they merit the right to enter into the life of peace, happiness and well-being that will last for all eternity.

Now, we should perhaps ask ourselves to which of these groups we belong. If we are honest, we will come to realize where we are presently situated and, more importantly, what we need to do still in order to get to where we really want to go. But no matter. Speedy or slow, perilous or less hazardous, difficult or excruciatingly painful the journey, regardless, our eventual triumphal ascension to our true Heavenly home is preordained.

From: John 16: 12-13: The teachings of Jesus Christ clarified and made plain