Week 44: Why Tell God Anything, When he Knows Everything? Why Offer God Anything, When he Has Everything?
Our Reading and Affirmation For October
What is it to Make Peace?
Stanza 7
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”
From the book
The Beatitudes: Their Inner Meaning by Swami Kriyananda
Rays of One Light: Weekly Commentaries on the
Bible and The Bhagavad Gita
by Swami Kriyananda
Jesus Christ teaches as the ideal prayer one that addresses very human demands to God:
“Give us this day our daily bread,” “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” and, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
“Those who partake of the nectar remaining after a sacrifice,” says the Bhagavad Gita in the fourth Chapter, “attain to the Infinite Spirit. That person, however, who makes no sacrifices never truly succeeds in enjoying even the blessings of this material world; how, then, could he attain happiness in subtler realms?”
Week 44: Why Tell God Anything, When he Knows Everything? Why Offer God Anything, When he Has Everything?
What inspired me from this week’s reading from the Rays of One Light to share with everyone was…
“God knows everything already. He knows what is in your heart. It is you who need to clarify your feelings, that you attune yourself to Him in turn more clearly. For only by such clarity will you be able to receive perfectly what He gives you”.
We will take these words from Jesus into our meditation together for reflection. But firstly we will listen to
“Psalm of David “
Psalm of David
Let’s Reflect on
“God knows everything already. He knows what is in your heart. It is you who need to clarify your feelings, that you attune yourself to Him in turn more clearly. For only by such clarity will you be able to receive perfectly what He gives you”.
