How much time and effort is spent in your life pursuing things you want?
How much time and effort is spent in giving for others?
Jesus Christ has set the ultimate example on how to live to make the fastest progress to health, harmony and heaven. He lived for others.
Jesus Christ’s life was all about giving.
Jesus gave his time to study, pray and heal others. Jesus gave his career over
to God to do God’s will. Jesus committed all his resources – financial, physical and mental – to serving God and humanity. Jesus was pure unselfed love. Everything he did was about helping others, loving others and walking in the footsteps of Truth. And he succeeded in conquering all evil as a result. There was no selfish evil in him.
Mary Baker Eddy, a woman who learned from Jesus’ example how to heal spiritually, wrote, “The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, – a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love” (Science and Health, p. 1). Those words “…an unselfed love” are critical to success in demonstrating spirituality.
Unselfed love is a desire to serve God before self, a desire to bless one’s neighbors, to help them, even heal them of suffering. It is putting selfish wants aside for the betterment of the community you live in. It is realizing that you already have all you need coming from God, and you have so much blessing already, that there is a moral imperative to share it with others and help them find the same.
Unselfed love is freedom from wanting.
Unselfed love feels complete, whole, healthy, well, and even glimpses what it feels like to be perfect.
Unselfed love is liberation from want, loneliness, depression, pain and disease.
Unselfed love is heaven on earth.
Eddy also wrote, “Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power” (Science and Health, p. 192).
If you want to feel more divine power, practice unselfed love.
Unselfed love is not about seeking personal or physical gain, but about reflecting divine Love, abundantly, unconditionally, universally.
Selfishness is the source of a large amount of personal and physical suffering amongst humanity. Unselfishness is the ticket out.
Don’t be afraid to sacrifice selfish wants to live unselfed love. It’s the path to freedom from all that binds thought into a dark, empty, vain world of unsatisfied desire.
Unselfed love is divine. It is empowered by God to do great works, and it heals. Enjoy the fruits of living unselfishly!
“He who is afraid of being too generous has lost the power of being magnanimous. The best man or woman is the most unselfed” (Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellany, p. 165).
That says it all today, Evan. Thank you.
Evan, you will never know how much this post helped me. It puts everything in perspective.
There is a person as of today giving unselfishly for my care and others without a thought for self. I have known her since 2002. The caring of this person cannot be exaggerated even if one tries, it cannot be done. Her name is Gaitree Ramcharitar and she has been caring for me 24/7. She has also bent over backwards for caring for complete strangers in monetary and physical help without thought of self.
Thanks for this reminder!