Thursday Truth in Deep Love🤗❤️🙏
“The pleasures of the self must be conquered and, due to your human natures, can only be conquered in the midst of pain! Then all you conquer is for the glory of God. Be careful, especially as you make changes, that your changes are for your well-being in My Kingdom, and not for your well being in the world. It will make a difference, at the least moment of expectation, when God searches your soul for purity from grandiosity!”(From Jesus to Gianna below)
“When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.”- Matthew 6:3
“This isn’t about me.”
It’s a thing I write down often lately, as it’s really tricky navigating the people in this world, trying to be helpful “making the world a better place,” and keeping my ego in check at the same time.
When I learned to play a guitar and sing, I had aspirations of fame, fortune, prestige and honor, but God had a very different plan, which was to use the gifts He gave me to serve Him in “little ways.” And the truth is, there’s much more interior satisfaction in helping others to shine than there is in making it “about me.” I would never trade what I have now with what I wanted then, and I suppose I am very blessed in that sense.
It’s often that we need to recruit, and recognize other people when we’re rendering service to others, and if we’re doing that right as leaders, we’re allowing others to shine, and receding away from the limelight, and allowing God to work through them that they might live fully in Him. Remembering that God sees all, and knows all, and what other people think of us is none of our business.
I belong to one service organization that’s really big on “recognition” and plaques and trophies that feed the ego as opposed to the soul. What I’d really rather have is to not have to sit through the “dinner” involved, and be “rewarded” with some free time and not have to endure all of that “pomp and circumstance.” To allow the service itself to be the “reward.” Jesus lives in the souls we touch. Not in the trophies and accolades we receive after the fact. Our service is eternal, and the “personal recognition” will die with us in most cases. It’s often better that way, because the more “highly recognized” we are, the harder we can fall with even the slightest failure, as there will be jealous souls out there who will turn on us if for no reason than to bolster their own ego. God knows what we do and who we are, and that’s all that will ever really matter in truth. Every time I try to do something to “raise myself above others,” God finds a way to remind me, that this “isn’t about me.”
When we operate from the ego, God will typically call, us out, and often “embarrass” us, as the truth of our motives is revealed. If we operate from the soul, all service will be rendered with love, and we all know that “God is Love.” I was probably about 4 or 5 when a Sunday School teacher taught us that one.
Jesus doesn’t care about how we shine. Only how we serve, and if we’re busy getting our “hands dirty,” we won’t have time to worry about our “selves.”
Only by immersion in the service itself, can we remain all in and totally His. All else is of the ego, and will die when we do. It’s not likely anyone will remember who I am in 100 years, and I’m more than ok with that. I just pray that the souls I touch and the service I render carries a lasting impact, as we walk each other through this thing called life.❤️🙏
(Reflection by Kenny Meek)
Message from Jesus to Gianna Talone Sullivan, I am Your Jesus of Mercy Vol IV
MOTIVES (8/14/92)
My dear one, My words today to My people are few. l want them to be aware that the enthusiasm behind their motives is great, but to caution them that they check themselves that their motives are not for themselves but, instead, for God’s glory.
Enlighten your mind and spirit through enthusiasm but Be careful that your motives are not self-pleasing through vanity, instead of pleasing for the heavens. Do not be overburdened by work you undertake for My sake, nor allow it to trouble you. Remember My promise to you, and this will be your consolation.
Sorrows and burdens will come and they will pass. Place your trust in Me. You will never be stricken very long. All trials and sufferings end. They will pass by more quickly than you may realize. Most importantly, continue to cross check yourself that your actions and way of life are ones which affirm My love. Many start out enthused to conquer. Few realize that the way to conquer is to be conquered first by God.
The pleasures of the self must be conquered and, due to your human natures, can only be conquered in the midst of pain! Then all you conquer is for the glory of God. Be careful, especially as you make changes, that your changes are for your well-being in My Kingdom, and not for your well being in the world. It will make a difference, at the least moment of expectation, when God searches your soul for purity from grandiosity!
I love My people, make no mistake, and My love is not in vain. What I do for you, I do for the heavens. What is accomplished in the heavens is accomplished for you! Love and peace, My little one. Ad Deum.