Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God
The psalms are one of the oldest parts of the scriptures of the Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All wisdom that is in your world has its origin in Me, including that of the Psalms. It was brought by My Angels to religions and cultures that came and went again, before Judaism evolved from those that came before it. To ensure the required evolutionary progress, as well as teaching humankind invaluable lessons, all things in your world eventually must vanish.
In Psalm 4:3-5 I told you: ‘The Lord will hear when I call to him. Be angry and yet sin not. Commune with your own heart and meditate upon your bed. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness and put your trust in the Lord.’ As you can see, even in those days I advised you to do that which is good and right and to trust Me, the living God within your own heart, to show you right from wrong. Through various teachers I have always given you messages like this one from the earliest point of humankind’s descent into matter. I gave them to you because it has always been true, as indeed it is to this day – not merely from the days when the Psalms first appeared in your world – that to those who follow their intuition, the living God within, in due course only that which is good and right can return.
That is why, from the earliest stages of your earthly existence, through the teachers I sent to your world, I presented you with the message that whenever anger threatens to overwhelm you, you should find safe and loving ways of expressing yourselves. Recognise all your feeling for what they truly are, including this one. Anger is but one of the signals I send you through the world of your feelings, to draw your attention that something is amiss and that some kind of corrective action is required from you. I am the small still voice of your conscience that has always been with you, trying to guide and protect you and to lead you into doing that which is right, whilst keeping you from destructive and detrimental things that do not serve you well. And if you meditate upon Me and My presence regularly, especially last thing at night before going to sleep and if in all your activities you learn to listen within for My advice, you simply cannot go wrong.
The wisdom contained in the Psalms of the Christian and Islamic sacred texts was taken from those of the Jewish tradition. In the case of the Christian Church, it was brought together and freshly presented to you by its founding fathers in the New Testament of what was in due course become known as the Bible. That’s why the gospels at times present you with almost identical messages, for example: Matthew 6:31-33: ‘Therefore do not worry or say: ‘What will we eat or what will we drink or with what will we be clothed? For worldly people seek after all these things. Your Father in Heaven knows that all of these things are also necessary for you. In almost identical words ’St. Luke 12:29-31 ‘So do not be anxious about what you will eat or what you will drink and let not your mind be disturbed by these things. For worldly people seek after all these things and your Father knows that these things are also necessary for you. But seek the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added to you.’
As you know by now, My kingdom is everywhere in the whole of Creation – it is within and without of you. And to clarify the meaning of the above Bible teachings, I inspired the translators of later editions to write: ‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God and its righteousness’. This addition, however, was not intended to indicate that the Bible in its present form and you, when you are quoting from it, should always be right. It was merely a reminder of the necessity for human souls to make every effort at doing what is good and right in words, thoughts and actions. Because I fully intended that throughout the ages ever more understanding of My wisdom should come to your race, the words of all the sacred texts that have ever appeared in your world were never intended to be cast in concrete or carved into stone – far from it!
My Divine qualities are in each one of you in seed form. Your most important task in your present existence is learning to master the drives and urges of your lower earthly nature. Instead of being driven by them, the way all of you have been in past ages, now you are required to bring forth from within you My highest characteristics, because they are also yours. Through constantly practising My kind of righteousness and at all times giving of your best, each one of you slowly but surely grows into the role of being a fully fledged and responsible young God in their own right.
You will then be able to draw the great abundance of the whole of My Creation towards you. I will place it your disposal. Yet, because of your ever increasing awareness that the concerns of the spirit are of far greater significance than worldly possessions and money, you will only desire as much as you require for your survival and comfort on your present level of existence. Your ever growing sense of responsibility towards all life, including Mother Earth and all her children, not merely human ones, will ensure that none of you will place too much of a burden on any of the resources I shall put at your disposal.
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The above is a chapter from ‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’.
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