Squeeze

There is only so much room inside yourself for things to fit. Think about this for a moment - you cannot put some other kind of juice inside of an orange. It is already full of juice and we cannot go fill it up with some other kind of juice and hope that will come out of it. Only orange juice will come out of the orange. The same is true of us. We would all like to say and think that what comes out of us was placed there by someone or something outside of ourselves. However, what comes out of us and what we focus on is what was there already. So I like to ask a question - "When things, the stresses of life, squeeze you what comes out? When your spouse does something you may not like, how do you react? When your boss or coworker do something that would normally cause you stress, how do you react? When something happens you were not plannig on happens, what do you do? Whatever your reaction, it came from within.

Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

1 John 2:15

Interesting that if we are full of love of the world, if we are full of wanting - any kind of wanting - we squeeze out the love of God. At times we need to change from the inside out. We all need to look at ourselves at times and understand what we want, why we want it, and see if it is really necessary. This wanting is not just about things, really it is more about ego - the want to look important, to have things for self, and to make sure others like us. It just isolates us from God because we are full of self and so self is the things that has to come out. God does not come out, but self does. If self comes out first, it is very difficult to be a servant and to give our lives away. This is why God gives the assurance that if we seek God first all the "things" will be given to us. Change what is inside so that when life squeezes you God come out in the form of love, kindness, creativity, abundance, acceptance, and compassion.

Namaste'