This is William LePar’s
spiritual source, The Council’s, fifth step of the Five Steps to Spirituality.
The Council: If you take these
five steps and apply them to your life, much spiritual growth can be
accomplished. In fact, one can
accomplish a degree of spirituality that most have only dreamed of.
The next step in spiritual
growth, this process, is: Never accept
any glories. Remember, do what you must
do. Fulfill your responsibilities and
your obligations in life. Never wait
around for that pat on the back. Move on
to your next challenge or your next step.
Many people who become involved in spirituality or in spiritual
activities that are promoting spirituality make a problem for themselves. It is bad enough that some of these people
seek a reputation in the world, but it is even worse for these people when they
seek a reputation among those people that they are involved with who may be
attempting to bring a greater spirituality to others. These spiritual movements are works dedicated
to the Divine Source, and ultimately, these works are to bring glory to this
Infinite Father. Those who help are not
permitted to take any part of those glories.
It is like this: anyone who may
serve or work for a commission, for what little bit of glory he can get out of
it is a merchant, and he ought to be cast out of the temple. This can be
applied to those money exchangers that are spoken of in the temple when the
Christ them chased out. They were not
serving the people as a means of serving God; they were serving the people so
that they could get their percentage out of it.
Remember, we must not be as
the Pharisees were. We must not stand
before others beating our breasts and putting ashes on our forehead so that all
may see how holy we are. Do what you can
do for others. Do what you can for the
Divine Source in the service to Him, but do not expect glories and
praises. All glories and praise belong
to this Divine Source. Those things that
you can use in service for others and for the Divine are gifts that you have to
help YOU grow, not to help you gain glories.
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