Faith and Surrender

Speaking With Heart

We say, "Oh God, everything is yours." But we are only speaking with our tongue, not with our heart. God knows our inner self. When we truly offer everything to God, He gives us everything to use, though not to own. To feel that someone Else is the owner of these things frees us.

Guru Arjan Dev says, "Whosoever has God as his friend never wants for anything." 

He has all happiness, he has all joy, because his dealings are with God. Whatever he says will be fulfilled by his Father.

We need not worry. The only thing we should worry about is whether we have hurt anyone's feelings or deprived anyone of their rights. It is God's job to take care of us, just as God takes care of all creatures.

Tender Mind

God has given us a mind that is so tender, so full of love and truth. But we harden it by worrying. From morning to evening, we worry about what will happen next. Our anxiety actually creates accidents. Instead, hold fast to truth, love, and joy by loving God. We should at last admit that nothing happens without God's orders. We should unite with the One who gives the orders.

Jesus was asked, "Master, what are you? At your word, the fig tree which was not bearing fruit has withered, the wind has stopped, the waves of the ocean have subsided, and the water has become like a road beneath your feet. What are you?" 

Jesus replied, "I am nothing. The difference between you and me is that I have faith. I know that everything is under my Father's command. When I see my Father and say something, my father immediately does that. If you have faith even the size of a mustard seed, your thought can move a mountain."

We should pray, "Dear God, please give us that faith which cleans our mind of all doubts, leaving only love." Once you receive God's love, you will be filled with so much love for Him that whatever you ask of God, He will provide. 

Don't Lose Faith

Even if you do good deeds and follow a spiritual discipline, you still may experience difficulties in the world. But do not lose faith, for through these difficulties, the actions of your past lives are being cleared away. People assume that everything should go according to their own desires. That cannot be. Our lives are shaped by our past deeds and thoughts, from hundreds of thousands of previous lives. Our karmas from all these lives form a crust of filth on our mind. If we want to change our fortune we must burn our karmas with the fire of meditation. Sometimes so much rubbish has accumulated that even if we set it on fire it will keep burning for days. With such heaps of rubbish, it is unrealistic to think that we will achieve something simply by performing some special worship for ten days or forty days. Trying to bargain with God like this is of no value. Whether we worship God or not does not add to or detract from His greatness. The whole of Creation is already worshipping Him. Where we crave results there are desires. And where there are desires, there is no true love of God. Think, "Whatever I have done, I have received my due." Do not blame others for what happens to you.

It is the person who has cleared all his karmas who knows God as the One who fulfils all desires and gives all happiness—Icha purakh, Sarab Sukh Data. There is no difference between him and God, between his thought and the thought of God.

In order to be made into precious jewellery, gold must first be melted in the furnace. A washer-man whacks and whacks clothes to clean them. It is not that God treats us unkindly; we are drubbed to cleanse our filth and to purify our mind. The filth will only leave us through constant pounding. pounding, pounding.

God says, "I am the Doer of whatever is happening. Accept this. Don't worry, don't become angry or envious. You know only one birth, but your age is actually hundreds of thousands of years. These things only appear to be difficulties because you do not understand them. Think of them instead as My Love. Actually, the sword was coming to cut off your head, but only its shadow has brushed you."

Jesus said, "Anyone who walks toward me and faces difficulties along the way is blessed. If they are coming to me and other people trouble them, they are blessed; if they become sick, if they are poor, if people are stoning them as they walk toward me, they are blessed."

Many infants were killed by the king when Jesus was born. The king had learned that a great power had been born and he hoped to end that threat to his supremacy by ordering all the babies in the area killed. Many babies were killed, but Jesus's parents took him away safely. As soon as the king passed that order, God ordered that the new Sun should rise quickly, and the king’s light was covered with darkness. God embraced Jesus and kissed him, and said, "My son, whatever I say to you will remain forever on the earth." The infants who died for the sake of Jesus were all reborn into great houses; they enjoyed worldly blessings and they themselves became great. People who are killed for the sake of a Prophet of God are always reborn into very good lives, they are especially blessed by God. God is very watchful when His Prophets come to the world. It is a period of great blessings.