Ego vs Altruism
As we grow to love God more, we learn to love our neighbors as ourselves to greater degrees. What is this Egoism we're trying to shake off?
Edification, The Fellowship of Christ
As we grow to love God more, we learn to love our neighbors as ourselves to greater degrees. What is this Egoism we're trying to shake off?
Every being on the planet, human, animal and plant. Respect life as it comes from the same divine Source as yourself.
This first Name of God can be used as a teshuvah meditation. It is used in this manner to look into and correct the past.
The restoration or mercy is the healing portion of Teshuvah. This has two parts. First, it completes the Return healing us, and second it heals us when we have been spiritually harmed by others.
As we grow in Grace, the Holy Spirit helps us purge our worldly Egoistic desires until our relationship with God grows to the point where we finally hear Him and understand.
Even Jesus Christ couldn’t avoid the appearance of evil. Sure, his accusers could find no fault with him, but they still saw him as evil.
What does it mean to have a temple in our homes? This refers to creating a safe space where one my do or prepare to do the Lord's works.
If the broken heart is one being open to both receiving and pouring out God’s Love, the true prayer now inscribed upon it, what then is the “contrite spirit?”
When teaching the people he had gathered in the Americas, Jesus did away with the sacrificing of animals. He asked for something more personal when he told them, “ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit.”
A prayer is a plea to God. The True Prayer is written in our hearts. When our hearts are pierced, we plea to God and he restores us.
We were with God as spirit children of our Heavenly Parents before we were born. We were born to help one another to come unto Christ that we may return home to that God who created us.