Alabama, US of A, September 10, 2014.
Teacher: Thought Adjuster.
Subject: “Give without Expectations.”
Message received by Oscar.
Thought Adjuster: “To abandon all false expectations is equivalent to undoing all the conditioning that society has incorporated into your way of thinking throughout your life. However, the progressive understanding of the truth and your effort to draw ever closer to the presence of the Father within you will greatly help to clarify your intentions and reveal your purpose.
How can you identify your false expectations? Here, we are referring to the decision to give without expecting anything in return. You have heard this many times; now, let us try to clarify what this expression truly means. In its simplest interpretation, giving without expecting anything in return refers to offering your spiritual service blindly, without knowing what will happen. This would not be an appropriate form of service. Service must always have a purpose. The higher the purpose, the better the quality of the service you offer to your fellow beings. If you do something for your brothers and sisters, you should at least have an idea of what your service aims to achieve—enlightening an idea of spirituality in their minds, lifting the heavy burdens they unnecessarily carry on their shoulders, and so on.
It is better, then, to give and to expect that the greater good will occur—what is good for everyone equally, not just for the one who receives your service. In this way, you better understand why it is better to teach someone to fish than to give them a fish, for the one who receives food without effort will be hungry again tomorrow, but the one who learns to provide for himself can help himself and even others. Clearly, the second alternative will produce greater benefit for all your brothers and sisters and for you.
The key lies in elevating the quality of what is expected in return for service to the category of the spiritual and the eternal. When you serve with the primary desire of gaining the recognition of others and obtaining some material reward, you devalue the purpose of your service to trivial and temporary levels. When you offer loving service with the intention of expressing the best of your nature and showing an image—however partial—of the Father to those you serve, you elevate your service to the level of co-creation with your Father in heaven.
You can find within yourself the motivation behind every decision and action you make in your life. It truly takes an honest mind capable of thinking freely to objectively evaluate the motives behind your decisions. Human beings have an almost limitless capacity to justify themselves and to validate even the most far-fetched ideas, but once a mind opens itself to the divine guidance of the Inner Teacher, the answers arrive with clarity, and the only difficulty lies in making the right decision. The path toward perfection is never hidden from anyone, but it is up to each person to choose to walk the path suggested by the presence of the Father, even if this means abandoning ideas, expectations, and illusions that have been nurtured throughout a lifetime and recognizing their falseness and their exclusively temporary value.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
Faith is just curiosity tinged with hope — Thought Adjuster.