A Lesson on Dedication.

Urantia, September 21, 2011.
Teacher: The Beloved One.
Received by Lytske.

The Beloved One: "Allow for this lesson to unfold, just like you need to learn this lesson during your lifetime. To totally dedicate yourself to a task takes a lot of stamina in carrying through with whatever you have set your sights on. Soon you will learn the truth about the saying: 'The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.' This you will realize more clearly with an aging body while the mind still remains sharp. It therefore behoves you to, ever more conscientiously, look after your material temple to the best of your ability. With care it will serve you well into a ripe old age. Everything works best when all systems are in harmony and balance.

"I know that these words harmony and balance are a recurring theme in these short lessons, for this is not always easy to achieve. The theme serves as a reminder for when you feel out of sorts to stop and take a breather. Then the best thing to do is to take the time and go into the Stillness to re-enforce your connection with Me within. You can do this also by going for a long walk to commune with Me, preferably in nature. Perhaps visit a park and notice the stately trees who in their silence welcome you. They are the symbols of dedication having stood tall for a long time to fulfill their divine blueprint for which they were created. It is this dedication to patiently grow each day as the life-force within knows exactly what you are capable of and what you can become if you allow the life-force within free expression, just like the acorn possesses the blueprint to become a mighty oak tree.

"All this growing is made a lot easier when you willingly give yourself over to the divine urgings within. This is only possible if you take the time for daily Stillness and 'retreat into your inner chamber'. This is a habit which can at first be cultivated through dedication. Soon you will feel the need to take the time, for if you neglect this important daily routine, you will feel that you are losing that precious connection to the Life-sap energy, growing weary in mind, body and spirit. These daily times of dedication for your nurturing and spiritual sustenance help you to cope better with the vicissitudes in life. It is the grandest gift you can give yourself, truly dedicating yourself to this growth in spirit. This is often the most neglected part in human life when preferably it ought to dominate the life of thinking humans. In all earnestness, a great flourishing progress could be made on the planet if more individuals would dedicate themselves to this discipline. They would early notice that they are so much more capable, and discover the liberty and inner freedom, which comes from this dedication as they find themselves being propelled by spirit, rather than the dictates of the material body.

"There would be a deeper sense of the purpose of life, for you would question sooner, 'what is it that I am to do here?' It then becomes your dedication to develop your inner life, rather then your outer life. Education alone is not going to get you there. It is in the personal faith, trust and wholehearted decision making process, with the dedication to find out what God's will is for you and inevitably, you will find out that God's will is nothing less than the way with the most love in it -- not just for yourself but also for each living thing and creature on the planet. Then you will be dedicated to the practice and expression of this love. This seems so simple, and yet it takes single-minded dedication to carry this out, until it becomes second nature to you."