Radio Ruhaniyat: December 23, 2017

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"The first step towards change is awareness. The second step is acceptance"~~ Nathaniel Braden.
It is only when we turn to God and accept Him, that we invite Him to start showering us with His profound blessings!

A young man named Charles Murray, who had been raised as an atheist was training to be an Olympic diver. The only religious influence in his life came from his outspoken Christian friend. The young diver never really paid much attention to his friend’s sermons, but he heard them often.

One night the diver went to the indoor pool at the college he attended. The lights were all off, but as the pool had big skylights and the moon was bright, there was plenty of light to practice by. The young man changed into his swimming gear and climbed up to the highest diving board. As he turned his back to the pool on the edge of the board and extended his arms out, he saw his shadow on the wall. The shadow of his body was in the shape of a cross.

Instead of diving, he knelt down and asked God to come into his life. As the young man stood up and turned back towards the edge of the highest diving board, a maintenance man walked in and turned the lights on.

The pool had been drained and emptied………for repairs!

God is always looking out for us. He is fulfilling all His obligations towards us but are WE fulfilling OUR obligations towards GOD? When God does not do things our way, we question: “WHY ME?”
HOW OFTEN DO WE DO THINGS HIS WAY?
We are always focused on what our “RIGHTS” are! How often do we think about what our DUTIES are?

We have so many ‘wants’ and desires in our daily lives. We go crazy about some things, and get obsessed about certain others. We are essentially self-centered and are mostly concerned with what “I” want. Seldom do we think about what others would want. When we do things to please others, we have self-centeredness associated with that as well. We often try to please others to make our own selves look good and look forward to getting appreciation for our efforts.
Have we ever thought about what God wants…..from us?
May be He also has a list of things that He wants from us…may be, He too has EXPECTATIONS from us!
He would definitely like to see us follow an ethical path of Morality and practice Humanity towards mankind. He expects us to achieve our goal of SELF-REALIZATION through GOD-REALIZATION.
He is always with us, and He expects us to be with Him as well: at every MOMENT.

GOD LOVES US! He sends us flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever we want to talk, He'll listen. He lives everywhere in the universe, and yet He chose our hearts for His eternal abode. He gave us the ultimate gift of life and blessed us with a soul; which is part and parcel of His own self. He made us in His own image!
All He wants in return; is that we be with Him, at every moment. Do we love God the way He loves us?

He doesn’t want us to worry about anything. He says; surrender to me and I will take over all your problems. All He wants from us is complete Faith and Trust in Him. He wants us to turn to Him at every step of the way. He surely does want us to have Faith in Him and Trust Him with the fact that everything that He does in our lives has a valid reason for our betterment. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through difficult times. But God knows that when He puts things in His order, the outcome will always be the best! Just like a father wants the best for his children, and will sometimes discipline them to teach them the ethics of life, God also chooses circumstances for us to help us with experiences that enable us to live life with its full potential.

When something is God's Will, we will feel an inner joy even before we start doing it. While working, we will enjoy the contentment that comes from following His will. Finally, we will be equally happy regardless of whether our action is fruitful or fruitless. Ordinarily, we are happy only when success dawns and we see victory at the end of our journey. But if we can have the same kind of happiness, joy, and satisfaction whether we succeed or fail and if we can cheerfully offer the result of our actions to God, then we will know that what we have done is God's Will.
In Faith & surrender, our happiness lies in the eternal bliss that is experienced by the soul, not in the material outcome. As we walk on the path of spirituality, our focus shifts towards the “TRUTH” and the materialistic pleasures start to seem superficial.
If we LOVE God, we become happy. If we SERVE God, we become happier.
If we SURRENDER our individual will to God's Will, we become the happiest.

-Until next time, this is Preet Sahi reminding you to Stay Spiritual!

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