The Art of Spiritualizing Actions

Life Is An Offering

Our life is like a river that is continually flowing as a offering towards God.  He is always there and is never separate from our Highest Self, therefore we must recognize Him, honor Him, and show Him the purest love that we have in our hearts. God loves us unconditionally, but it is we who have to acknowledge Him.  He will come so much as we allow Him to enter, but once He enters we find that we are no longer chasing after Him, but He is running after us just as a mother continually runs after her own child. One profound way to bring yourself closer to God is by Spiritualizing Your Activities.

What does it mean to Spiritualize Your Activities?

• It means carrying out your practical reality, or day to day life, in such a way that your own personal value system is never compromised, while understanding that the Divine Hand is at play and surrendering to its Will.
• Offering all your actions to God as a holy oblation of your love to Him.
• Accepting all that comes into your  life, whether it be happy or sad as His personalized gift to you. Lessons come in the form of varied experiences, some maybe joyful, and others sorrowful, but throughout these there is something which you have to learn. Therefore you must not condemn God for giving you a situation that isn’t favorable but rather thank Him, and pray that you gain Divine insight of what is to be learned.

See Divinity In All

Inorder make ourselves better servants of the world we must adopt a broader vision and see others in a different light.  This can be done in three ways:
 

• Adopt an expanded vision and ask yourself, “How does God view others?”  God does not see our flaws He only see our love and intention, and therefore only gives us the best presents of compassion, generosity, and love. It is our job to live up to this Image of God that we are…so make yourself like God, give what He gives!  By beginning to practice this type of expanded vision, you will find that your own personal judgments are removed and replaced by the Divine qualities of God Himself.
• See others as an extension of your own self—The Self in me is the Self in you. We are all connected  by the ray of God in each of us.
• Deify others and see only the God within as that which you are serving, and not the individual personality.

Offer Each Thought, Word, and Deed—The Simple Things please God!

• When we make a prayer or an offering to God we prepare it such a way we feel it would most pleasing to Him and that our pure love and devotion will always be expressed.  Our thoughtS, words, and deeds need not be any different than this, in fact these are all actions in themselves that must be carefully looked after.
• The ability to think, speak, and perform are invaluable to the quality of our life, so why not use these tools God gave us to honor Him. Every action that you take should express a reciprocal love and gratitude for those abilities that He has graced you with.
• When we honor God in this way, not only do we spiritualize our activities but our actions become righteous and thus purification of the mind, body, and spirit takes place.

How the Negative Gets Checked

Through this process, you begin to Act Consciously and everything you do gets placed under a finely tuned microscope.  For instance, when you lend assistance to elders, speak words of praise to a young child, or feed the homeless, you will naturally feel good about offering those actions to God.  On the other hand, if you were to argue with your neighbor, speak a lie, or steal something, you wouldn’t have the same feeling.  Something in your conscience would tell you that this isn’t right and is certainly not fit to offer to God.  Thus your actions get checked through this process, and any negative patterns in your life begin to shift toward the positive.  Negative actions will fall away as you begin to consciously choose its positive counterpart with the insight that God will be pleased with this offering.

 

Honor Yourself by Honoring God who is the

Essence of your SELF.

DAILY PRAYER

• Lord I thank you for giving me the gift of life. Lord I thank you for giving me your remembrance. Lord I thank you for being that effulgent bright light that illumines my Intellect.
• Lord I pray that may I honor you in my every thought, word, and deed.  I pray that this day be an expression of love, grace, and joy which is the very nature of Myself.
• Lord I empty myself completely so that I may be filled with your Divine elixir.
• Lord I am a soldier in your Divine Army, an instrument in your hands, a blank canvas colored by the richness of your love.
• Lord, You and I are never separated, We are One.  There is nowhere I can go that You where You will not meet me, and there is no where You can go where I will not follow.
• All the power of the Universe is being channeled unto me so that I may carry out your Divine Orders today.
• My life is abundant. My life is pure. My life is virtuous, because My life is one that flows towards God-Realization.