Glorifying God as necessary motive 2

> So what are you going to do? This is where the
> phrase Glorify God comes
> to me. What ever I do I can do it in order to
> glorify God. You can do
> that doing EVERYTHING you do, but it will take some
> kind of commitment.
> Hard to define what this would mean... I'm still
> working on it.


A signpost is this passage from James:

26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

I included verse 26 because it makes 27 grammatically read more clearly, but remember elsewhere James says if you can control the tongue you can control 'the ship', so to speak. But the clue to how to glorify God is in verse 27. This is God telling us what pure religion is. In commentaries this verse is said to mean obviously more than the literal meaning (helping widows and orphans). That means: (actually he says 'visit' them, which allows more meaning), again, that means: visit those who are without the Son and who are without the Father. The widow is husbandless, and Jesus is the husband of the 'bride', or believers; and the orphan is fatherless, and God is our Father. Then it says to keep yourself unspotted from the world (identification comes in here).

So, to 'visit' the afflicted who don't have the Husband, or the Father (don't have a connection to God, and all that means also internally) is what needs to be pondered. Obviously, as has been mentioned previously, you can 'visit' people who have some contact with you in your time (your circle of living time) by attaining true moments, and sustained levels, of consciousness. When it's real it's real, and it is like electricity flowing through the lines of time. Also just basic, real development of level of being does it. It is like godly leaven in time; all the higher aspects of time.

And glorifying God can be seen in this process by the degree you're able to remember what you're doing and not blow up and get resentful at the widows and orphans (human beings still asleep in the General Law). I.e. in being able to handle your role and the higher energy and all of that. - C.




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>
> >>>What deepens the Work is the necessary motive,
> that you can only
> come into by degree methinks, of glorifying God. If
> your motive is
> self-development
> alone, or just awakening alone, you hit a wall.
> Those are good motives
> for awhile, i.e. they work when just launching into
> it all; but after
> awhile to REALLY deny self - which is what the Work
> teaching demands as
> well - you have to have the motive to glorify God.
> Then you get into
> potential stumblingblocks of moralism and what not,
> which have to be
> gotten over by understanding, but...
>
> This was a great post. It connected with thoughts
> I've been having of
> late; strange thoughts - I sometimes just sigh and
> look around and think
> that I want to give my life to God. Or else, what
> ELSE are you doing?
> Just screwing around... I love the idea of the
> motive being to Glorify
> God. Now THAT'S worth being alive for.
>
> But the question is what would that really mean?
> Does it mean I have to
> become boring and conservative? No!!! It is
> something that requires you
> to draw in your energy then let it SHINE OUT like a
> blazing fire.
> Somehow, it has to be a statement to the humans
> around you. If you
> really say you want to give your life to God then
> you are saying you
> want to represent God. It is like being willing to
> fly the banner. But
> how is that done, by Work Christian? By some kind of
> unearthly living
> example - we do not preach with the tongue. If you
> are a Work Christian
> then you cannot allow yourself to "die like dog"...
>
> I know its supposedly not good to say you are
> different from everyone
> else, but that's also like being politically correct
> too. The real hard
> core truth is that if you decide to give your life
> to God then you ARE
> saying you reject all that screwing around, on some
> level. Hard to
> exactly define "screwing around" but I know what I
> mean... It really
> means DEEP LEVEL IDENTIFICATION WITH THE WORLD.
>
> I was just at the beach, and I went for a swim and
> then lay on my towel
> sunbaking and drinking a beer. I don't really fit
> the profile of your
> average Christian, I don't know what I am. But what
> was clear to me was
> that I was TOTALLY OUT OF SYNC with the mass of
> other humans around me -
> I felt sort of invisible. They all seemed
> interconnected like one big
> seething creature. At times like this I also become
> intensely awake -
> full body all-centers-awake self remembering. You
> know, I do my thing
> and I have all my various interests and what not,
> but on some DEEP level
> I'm not Identified. I of course have my levels of
> Identification which
> cycle in and out, but that DEEP CORE IDENTIFICATION
> with the flesh and
> the things of this world seems to be weaker. That's
> the thing that seems
> to connect all the masses together, which is why to
> my eyes they appear
> all psychically in tune with each other. It is like
> a mutual thread that
> connects the masses. Its easy to see in situations
> like I described
> above, a large mass of humans at the beach on a
> sunny day, all deeply
> lost and interconnected, moving together in a
> seething mass. I feel like
> I somehow got popped out of it and I spend life
> standing at the
> sidelines watching it all.
>
> So what are you going to do? This is where the
> phrase Glorify God comes
> to me. What ever I do I can do it in order to
> glorify God. You can do
> that doing EVERYTHING you do, but it will take some
> kind of commitment.
> Hard to define what this would mean... I'm still
> working on it.
>
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>
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