1,479 thoughts on “Working for God not Self”

1. I learnt a while ago that when we make it about people and not money the money then just flows and there is no more struggle. How amazing is that! I think someone felt the same as you in that ‘I get this image of a rat running and jumping across the top of a long line of rats all shuffling forward, which seems to me to be apt and very close to the truth for me. How many of us have run on this treadmill? And how many have we trodden on?’ I learnt a while ago that when we truly make it about people and not money the money then just flows and there is no more struggle. How amazing is that!

2. Making life about working for God changes everything and takes away the sense of needing money, security etc.. we are here to serve and be the love that we are not gain anything personally from life. Sure the more we are the love we are a lot of amazing things come our way but only as a biproduct and never the focus. I find the moment I make life about myself or what I want or need it becomes a struggle whereas make it about love and working for God and everything is taken care of in more ways than I could ever have thought possible.

3. We can ‘generally succumb to life.’ or we can connect to a deeper purpose in us and bring God to all we do; express the divinity of who we are in each moment and doing so puts a whole other slant on things, and makes life about the bigger picture of which we’re a part and not just about us.

4. We work for God and in everything we do we present that to all around us, and our job to simply be us … it changes the equation completely no trying required, just a surrender and an allowing of who we truly are.

5. It’s such a massive illusion that we get caught in, the never ending drive of the doing in order to be something, achieve more or have enough. I can feel the energy I myself have wasted and still do on such false feats. You can feel when you choose to work for God you are not driven or depleted of energy, but pulled where ever you are needed and filled with joy.

6. I totally love this blog Lee, I often concern myself with the thoughts of the future and having enough when I am old, but If I am present and work for God instead of self I’m sure the future will be provided for.

7. Working with God, as an equal.

   1. Good point Christoph, not as a lesser but as the equal God that we are.

8. A world that makes it about constructing security is one in which self is the main character. After all, who else will fence for yourself but you?

9. The need to fill our emptiness is incredibly draining, we have so little appreciation of what we have that is not tangible or related to financial income.

   1. Yes, being part of the whole is much more enjoyable and takes good care of ourselves at the same time.

   2. So true the focus on material gain is exhausting as you are forever blind to true wealth.

10. Beautiful Lee, how you express Father, in equallness and all honor of who he is and how much he supports us here within our lives (living) when we allow him (the love we are).

11. From the moment we are born into this world we are subject to forces that influence and shape us to conform to the established way of living here on Earth, and that is to seek all the vestures of self at great expense to the All, we all, are a part of. To renounce this way of living and shed these garments is an extremely liberating experience, for through this process we begin to see that we are moved by a far greater hand in accordance to a great plan that our tiny human mind bereft of this divine connection will not fathom.

    1. Beautiful to read Liane, being more willing to see the forces at play the more we will see the divine. We have to be willing to see all.

12. Working for God doesn’t mean doing what’s ‘right’ or pushing a philosophy onto other people like we traditionally think. It’s a super simple honouring of our body and our connection – from this all that follows will naturally be dedicated to the divine.

    1. Beautifully stated Joseph.

13. “Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.” I feel this is true I can remember certain times in my life that I said no rather than yes and I can still feel the holding back from allowing what was naturally there within me to come through.

14. Yes and it is clearly shown how money never satisfies as there are people suiciding when they are very successful in life and earn good money. True joy comes from knowing ourselves in full, that we are beautiful beyond this world, have a connection with the stars and are going to go back one day to the stars as that is where we are from.

15. It’s common to chase the $, and I can relate to having done that myself, and for a short while feeling bolstered up by it, but inevitably working is not about the money or the recognition it can bring. Because we know money cannot buy us happiness or deep contentment – this we have to discover inside of ourselves, rich or poor.

16. ” It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.”
    How wonderful what a change from being in the ” rat race “.

17. What a gorgeous blog. I can really feel how you have put things .. or rather what you value as a perspective in life and that it is not about things, but rather the quality in which we live and what do we bring to others. Today I have heard more and more about the continuing .. and worsening poverty everyday people in our society our facing, with many not being able to afford food and women not being able to afford sanitary towels. We cannot deny that things like this (and worse) are happening, but we can make it about love, people, true care and true quality getting the self out of the way. There is always the far bigger and grander picture there to guide us back to who we truly are.

18. I love this Lee and all that it reminds us of, as it is our innate way of being to live our Godliness, as such all that we do is simply the hand of God moving us, through which life is enriched and our evolution maximised.

19. Its like discovering the purpose to life is not about collecting stuff but letting go of the stuff we have energetically collected that gets in the way of us intimately knowing our inner most self and knowing that God also resides there.

20. Thank you Lee for this powerful reminder that we are not here to struggle as individuals, but to return to living as one in true brotherhood – Working for God.
    “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know”.

21. Being ourselves with no expectations is a big yet simple one. I know a few years back, when someone said to me, just be yourself, I wanted to hit them because I just did not know who that person was nor how to be with them. And that is after quite a bit of ‘soul searching’ and self-healing workshops. It was only when I discovered Universal Medicine and reconnected to the Ageless Wisdom again, that I worked with the fact that we are already everything from the moment we are born and that our job is to live that. Clear away what is not us, and live the everything that we are.

22. Well, you’ve inspired me Lee to send my resume’ and cover letter direct to Heaven. It’s interesting that I came across this blog tonight after just having an identical conversation with my partner while on a walk today how I could feel that recently there have been situations at work and home that have not flowed very well and I felt that I was forcing things out of a individualistic approach, rather than trusting God and surrendering to what is needed by everyone, not just myself.

23. There are no contradictions between working with God and being wealthy. One doesn’t follow the other necessarily but there is no contradiction. There is a contradiction between working for self and being with God, though.

24. ‘Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.’ And that’s it, it’s all there when we surrender our need to own, to control and understand that we’re part of a bigger, grander whole, it’s ready and waiting, it always has been and it always will.

25. Thank you Lee, it’s amazing realising that just living connected to and in the quality of our soul is the true purpose of life, whether we are in our job, out shopping, doing dishes or with friends, every part of life is simply about our connection to love.

26. This is one of my all time favourite blogs Lee, we can make life about having a job, or having enough money or security but we are missing out on one of the most magical parts of life.

    1. Yes, God and complete security of the safety kind don’t quite seem to gel as we then exclude most possibilities in life.

    2. I agree I love the blog as well, and have found as soon as I make life about money, security etc.. then the magic in life goes and suddenly it is about getting through the day almost like a battle. Whereas when I get up knowing that I am simply here to be the love that I am and my purpose is to show this to everyone then life becomes a joy and there is no hesistation to get up, go to work etc.. because I know everything before me is an opportunity to be an expression for God.

27. Our only purpose in life is to return to Soul – our inner godliness. All else is but a distraction fed to us to lead us off the path we would otherwise walk.

    1. It sure is our only purpose Liane, the moment we make it about anything else we simply delay the inevitable.

28. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” Beautifully said. We make life hard but it needs not be that way.

29. ‘we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.’ And we all bring a different aspect of God which is needed for all, the piece of a puzzle, never one can be missed to get to the whole.

30. ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle’. I have finally let go of the struggle that I created and chose in order to calibrate and ‘fit in’ with everyone else around me. Life is simpler just being me and not needing anything from anyone as I fully accept and meet myself.

    1. You can feel how important that ‘simpler is’ and how letting go of the struggle means we surrender to the love that is there and holding us all the time. We surrender to the rhythm of nature and our father.

31. Reading this blog reminded me of my upbringing, there was always this drive to be better, to have it all, have the best paid job, a house and even better, have it paid off as quickly as possible. And then we would teach this to our children so they could carry this batten onwards.

    I live in an apartment and it goes against the grain of owning a house and i still hear my elderly parents say I ‘should’ have bought a house when they visited Sydney 5 years ago and today I would have got over the huddle of ’struggling’ to pay it off.

    The interesting thing is whether it is a house or whether it is an apartment, it will most likely still be there the day I take my last breath, it makes no difference how big or small it is.

    I have travelled to many of the South Eastern countries and I observed people who had less materialistic things seemed to have something more than the people who had more materialistic possessions. Life was simpler, not only did I see but felt the joy in these people, whilst the people with more wealth, well I never saw them out and about.

    I’m breaking many beliefs about money and one of its associations is of what I am worth. No amount of money is satisfying or worthy than to be able to make a life time difference to or for a person.

32. We are all born to work for God but so many of us are not willing to accept this magnificent role and have demoted ourselves to delay our evolution.

33. The difference between working for self and working for God is huge. When we are working for self, I can feel it is loaded with competition, comparison, self-gain and superiority. But when we work for God, there is equality, space, brotherhood, truth and love. Not an ounce of competitiveness or comparison, just pure joy and evolution for All.

34. I find that the more I connect to my being, the more I connect to what my Soul is calling for me to say, do, walk, express. I find my finances are equally supported without me even trying. I get extra tips at work (as a waitress) or I get a tax rebate or even finding money on the floor everytime I invest in my relationship with God.

35. “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?: – great question and I would say that it is entirely possible and indeed what actually occurs. No amount of “stuff” could ever fill the gap we feel when we are not connected with our essence because it is through the connection with ourselves that we can feel the whole of the universe and our place in it.

36. I come back to this blog every so often, as its something we often consider: who are we working for and what is the true purpose of our part in life? When we embrace the truth of the fact that we work for God, it changes our entire approach to life.

37. “We just have to say YES.” I can feel the amazing honour of saying Yes to working for God and the responsibility and purpose to live love in every moment.

38. I have just had a session on working for security. It gave me a very big ouch moment having to feel how working in this way was not true, and had kept me on a never ending treadmill with no true wealth. It exposed my lack of self worth I had been using as my foundation, a foundation that had many holes I kept falling through. What has come from it, is me building a solid foundation of worth, walking more consistently in knowing I am a Son of God and from this place work with all of me in all I am worth.

39. Lee a great blog that makes me consider differently how my life would be should it be focused on working for God. Now typically one associates this with being a priest but what I love in what you share here is “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.” it begs the real question about what is working for God truly about and in that confirms it’s all about the quality of living who we are first and foremost.

40. A beautiful reflection on God and what life is about.

41. ‘I work for God, not myself’ Suddenly everything becomes clear and we no longer have to do anything to prove anything or avoid anything we can just hand it over and be all that we are in the moment step by step.

42. The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle. Sometimes that old habit likes to sneak back in, and when it does, it feels outdated. But I clock it and know that if struggle is there again I have created it. So I let go, breathe and surrender, and my body immediately feels a lot lighter having released the tension.

43. This saying ‘yes’ to life, keeps us in a constant flow of receiving, receiving all that we need for the present and our next steps.

44. The feeling of lack so many of us walk around with is a constant presence that, by design, prevents us from being ourselves. Life is truly full and abundant without it.

45. ‘The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support’ Yes we do, I can feel I am so supported and often do not fully appreciate all the support that is there for me.

46. Perfect to read today Lee and be reminded that I work for a different purpose and I too work for God, where the support is unlimited if we stay open to receive.

47. Beautiful Lee, when we start working for God we see our wealth bloom in many ways.

48. Talk about re-setting our priorities! Connecting to our divine interconnectedness rather than isolating ourselves and seeking to self-gain…

49. As I listen and keep listening to my innermost I feel the connection to myself and therefore there is less space for struggle to enter. All I can do is to keep following what I feel impulsed to do and struggle no longer becomes a part of my life.

50. It’s great to have men leading themselves into business in this way. There is so much pressure on men to perform or to earn or to do or to carry and yet none of it for me comes close to truly respecting or valuing men. We can do many things but when we identify the ‘do’ as the man then we know we have lost sight of their true value. We are needing more and more of us to hold true or to shine our value into the world and show us all again that we are not valued by what we do, our true value is from ‘being’ who we naturally are.

    1. We all bring an enormous amount to what we do and who we’re with, simply by being who we really are, and when we start to appreciate that, the need to prove who we are by what we do starts to drop away.

       1. The appreciation of this single fact alone, “We all bring an enormous amount to what we do and who we’re with, simply by being who we really are” is already life-changing for many of us. The world is more than willing to keep you in the doing if you allow it and this negates our natural being. This appreciation isn’t a one-off or even now and then type of thing, appreciation is a moment by moment choice that allows more of your real being to shine. Somethings are crushing for the truth of men and on any level carrying a ‘doing’ before the true appreciation of the being is one of them.

51. “Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.” And in saying YES we begin to solidify our purpose to the all and make everything we do, say, walk etc about the simplicity of our connection to who we are and then bringing that expression with the best of our ability to all. That is pretty special and brings true purpose to the fore. Life is about saying yes and enjoying the unfoldment that expands thereafter.

52. There has been a discarding of thoughts, beliefs and pictures of what I thought would fulfil me and as I read this blog it dawns on me there is some more discarding of what feels like an old belief that is in the future that may never arise. This belief and many others are what I feel shared beliefs that can get in the way if we allow them to, created purposely to delay the connection to ourselves and to God. What more do I need other than to serve God through the connection to my soul.

53. It brings a truly enriching purpose to life to know that everything we do affects everyone and so we can either choose to live in a way that is in consideration of the all or we can seek something just for ourself, in whatever form we want that return to be…

54. Sure we in general have an investment in the physical life and are in the belief that that is all there is in our lives, and from that way of living I do understand that there is a tendency to own stuff. But what if we are actually divine, as we are, and the material world is only there to reflect back to us that we are so much more and have to return to a way of living that suits our being and brings true purpose to our lives. Then we will still need physical subjects in living our lives here on earth in a physical body but not to possess these but instead for these to bring us that reflection for our continuous evolvement back to Soul.

55. That is gorgeous Lee, I am understanding every day more and more of what working for God is and how this in truth is eliminating self – as we are one big mass of light (even though we have all separated in individual parts,the essence remains) and we are naturally being pulled back together.

56. I find it an amazing exercise if I ask myself when I’m doing something if this is how I would do it for God, for example if I’m chopping vegetables, or preparing dinner, or the way I make my bed, would I do it the exact same way for God? It shows me without fail where I compromise.

    1. This is a great point.. where do we compromise, and why? Spotting all the millions of ways that we compromise ourselves and what we can feel, means that we must know how amazing we actually are, and not be comfortable with it, otherwise why would we play anything less?

    2. I love this question Meg and will enjoy using it my day
       ‘How would I do it for God’?

       1. I find it brings a completely different perspective to life, would I cook this for God if he was coming over to dinner? Would I clean my room more often if God was coming over? I find it an amazing way to raise my standards.

57. Knowing we work for God changes life quite dramatically. There is nothing to prove, earn or be recognised for. It is simply in how we live.

    1. Yes Nikki, there is no trying or planning, all we do is turn up every day, saying yes to what is needed, sharing ourselves and God’s love as the day unfolds.

58. ‘Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.’ So true Lee, I know when I say yes I have got the ‘self’ out of the way and connected to the bigger purpose at play – everything just seems to flow with simplicity and ease then.

59. An amazing person I know said – what if just waking up is our job? And I love that, what if our job is every moment of the day and not just confined to 9 to 5, and we always have work to do from the moment we wake up to when we go to bed – and what if that work is much grander than any organisation or business or profession?

60. When we work for God we no longer have the need in us to prove ourselves by the money we earn, and we never feel less without the big bucks.

61. I love the sense of purpose that is available to us when we come back to our greatest job in life – to work for God. As you say, the support is immense, truly the best employer. The benefit scheme is full of practical support that means we can work right up to our passing over – no retirement or holidays – no need, there is simply the one consistent expression.

62. Everything in this life indicates us that life is about progress and we jump onboard and try hard to make it happen. Making progress our number one goal is something that taint all spheres of life.
    If we make life about ourselves first and foremost, we buy into the idea of life being a race and us having to perform. A very poor vision of life and what it has to offer.

63. It is insane really, when we honestly consider the amount of effort we invest into going around and round incessantly trying to secure a state of attainment through what we do, all the while the true sense of fulfillment we seek already exists within through our connection to who we are, in which we discover that a life of true enrichment is possible by surrendering to being ourselves. As you wisely shared – ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.’ We are sparks of God as such we are the representation of God incarnate, here to shine the light of all that we are in this world we are born into.

64. “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” You are spot on Lee, there is no question this is what we do, although many other things we do to fill that gap come to mind as well… we get busy, we strive to achieve and make ourselves ‘a name’, we say yes to relationships that are not truly supportive, we get married and have our 2.4 children with a white picket fence, we travel the world… and the list goes on. A life of true fulfilment comes from a deep connection with who we are as a Son of God and all that is impulsed from this connection.

    1. It’s a true richness living connected to our soul and to God.

65. Finding a true esoteric practitioner, so we ‘get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose’ is the greatest movement we will ever make.’ So if we look into the ‘grandness and glory’, it is a way of living that is felt with no elation but a simple connection that is constantly there as a divine feeling. When we are opened up to our divine connection there is a full-ness that is felt in the heart and when this is maintained we become re-connected (religious) with the Soul and this is a complete lack of emptiness so we feel our true ‘grandness and glory’.

66. When we work for God we are given all that is needed and money no longer has the same desire or drive.

67. When we move in a way that expresses our inner connection we are choosing a movement that not only supports our bodies but also then supports all and it is held in the quality of energy we are choosing. These movements then become loving choices that not only support all but bring an amazing quality of who we are to the fore. This is then how we bring true service and then God is felt and expressed by our every movement, a pretty heavenly way to live.

68. It’s amazing how persistent the feeling of lack can be. In the case of money it is an ever-present feeling of anxiety combined with jealousy and resentment for those that have it. Massively ugly on all counts and only serves to perpetuate and magnify those feeling within.

69. Thank you Lee for reminding me that we all work for God!

70. Until meeting Serge Benhayon meeting there was constant search in my life to fill a feeling of emptiness and not being enough. The change of no longer feeling that has not been over-night but the feeling of no longer needing to search was. Since then it has been a steady building of confirmation of self-love, appreciation of myself, the knowing that I am enough in myself and with that an ever-deepening connection with God. This has come about because of “hearing, feeling and working with the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine” and their loving support.

71. Where do I apply for this job, as this sounds like a job that will last for life times? This is a unified truth and no judgement sets the tone for our evolution, so well done Lee.

72. It seems like we spend our life feeling empty, wanting to be fulfilled, trying to get somewhere, be someone, while completely ignoring the fact that we are already enough. God keeps reminding us we are that, yet we keep coming up with ‘what about this/that/the other?’ What if we are able to simply surrender to what we are, totally and utterly, then what would life look and feel like? I have not done that for a very long time. Something very much worth exploring.

73. For me working for God is simply being with God – how joyful! Sharing love and truth, being joy, enjoying harmony with all, and moving from stillness – now that is a pretty awesome job description!

74. ” Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.” when connected to our inner essence we know without a doubt what we are here to bring to this world, saying yes to our being-ness allows us to reflect to others that we are so much more than the physicality of this body and this life.

    1. Yes, connecting with our being-ness changes one’s whole approach to life – it brings true purpose.

75. What I am finding truly beautiful at the moment is just how much we are supported when we inevitably support ourselves to be just as we are. The way we choose to live and how we simply go about our day to day activities can be, the way we move and connect with God . If we move with our complete presence we then connect to our inner wisdom and from here we connect with the world on a much more relatable and responsible way. It’s also really fun and we can learn a great deal from the world around us and the people we connect to everyday.

76. Sometimes we can get so caught up in “life” that we forget to actual live. We are so much more than the material things we gather up and define ourselves by, its funny to think that we even reduce ourselves to this picture. In saying that, I am no hippy, I like to have everything I need in oder to be all of me.

77. And the beauty about what you share is that is gives us all space to just be and do our part and enjoy ourselves and each other together and not in separation.

78. I have recently had a time of being out of work and felt the true support of my grandness that held me in a trust until I had work again. A very humbling experience.

79. There comes a time in everyone’s lives, be it this one or the ones to follow, where the ‘self’ and its pursuit of acquisitions is able to be surrendered to a far greater purpose. This does not mean we all give up our ‘creature comforts’ and go sit on a rock on top of a mountain and meditate, nor does it mean we give away all our possessions to a church, religion or cause we may follow, it simply means that our being becomes infused with a greater sense of what we are here to do and that is to assist us all to return to our true and full expression – Sons of God in earthly form (multidimensional beings living in a third dimensional realm) so that together we can arise out of the material world and all its trappings that we have sought comfort in for so long by not living true to the essence of who we are.

80. I recently heard a child say- we are hear because we just have to learn to love each other. I thought that this was very beautiful- if we made this our focus each day- our lives would be very different.

    1. So simply stated and straight from Heaven. You don’t get a clearer meaning of life than that! The search is over, it simply now needs to be lived.

81. Could this question be the true answer to all the obesity and disease that are dramatically on the rise throughout the world?
    “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?”

82. This puts a totally different spin on things Lee! Working for God is exactly what we do when we are connected to our inner most, the God and love within all of us.

83. I’ve read this before but today I can really feel how we are here to bring the presence of God into all that we do. At one time my beliefs about God would have prohibited me from making such a statement or living the truth of it, but today I know God is all around and within us and we have the opportunity constantly to choose alignment with him and his Will. Obedience to Divine Will is not giving our power away to God but as Lee suggests here, being who we truly are. We are innately loving beings and in the expression of this love we are bringing the presence of God to what we do.

    1. Thankyou Richard, what a great line “Obedience to Divine Will is not giving our power away to God but as Lee suggests here, being who we truly are. We are innately loving beings and in the expression of this love we are bringing the presence of God to what we do.” Obedience is the loving choice to not separate from our magnificence as souls, to stay connected, to not move away from ourselves via the wayward impulse of the spirit.

       1. Thanks Melinda. We have made obedience feel rather dark and imposing – as if we are being controlled by a force – but I now see that this is not the case when we are choosing obedience to our ‘magnificence as souls’ for it is the only true liberation from our reduced and very limited state of being.

84. ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.’ When we let go of our own expectations, we will not be exhausted anymore and naturally appreciation for what we bring, uniquely so, can become the foundation of our life.

85. “I work for God, not myself…..Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.” This is our true purpose of work, working for God, simply being who we are and in that we reflect to others. There is no trying or preaching. As we live our love and truth we are working for God.

86. A great reminder Lee “I work for God, not myself.” and that this means simply being ourselves and connected to the love we are. I appreciate that this is what our true job is everyday, regardless of how our work looks in the temporal / physical world.

87. Our whole perspective on life and work changes when we open up to this understanding. If my focus is on going to work to serve rather than for myself to make enough money to survive, it actually makes it joyful. A far cry from the drudgery that is usual when people think about work.

88. The rat race of today that we have all contributed to creating can only be mastered when we are honest about how and why we have created it, and then being completely open to bringing the necessary corrections to deconstruct it.

89. Thank you Lee, I feel like this too – that I work for God not myself.

90. You present two very very different ways of living Lee. One which is constantly under the never ending, eternally exhausting drive to make life work for self and self alone. And another which is about us all knowing that we are all part of the whole picture equally so and that our responsibility is to support the whole by being who we are in full.

91. I randomly select blogs to read daily from the dates, I love that I have come across this again so close to the last time I read it, and having quite a different experience whilst reading it, really connecting to the first part about the struggle we create to survive and be secure through money. How that actually feels is horrible and void of truth or love, yet it is all around us being told and sold as an image of how we should live. Yet the power of living in the connection to our innate divinity is a wealth beyond comprehension from the place of security, yet when you sit in the place of connection it is as natural as the next breath.

92. Of course Lee when we connect back to the purpose of life it really is joyful and simple. Whatever your bank account is becomes irrelevant the abundance felt in the knowing of the depth of lives order and divinity is vast.

93. A beautiful initiation that there is more to life than we can see with our eyes and are currently living.

94. The rat race is exhausting. Step out of it and we are free to enjoy every moment without a feeling of lack.

95. Working for God is the ultimate job – and the amazing thing is that we’ve all go the job, there are no failing candidates, the question is … do we choose to take it?

96. God is a great boss. He’s the kind of boss you would never know is there and is very unimposing. You are given all the space in the world to do what you will. Responsibility is your choice as is commitment. You don’t even need to show up for work, but the thing is, when you don’t show up, commit or take responsibility you are the one that suffers the most. When you do say yes to service there is so much on offer, more than what is comprehensible from the place of not saying yes.

97. ‘This enjoyment of life seems to stem from money and how much you have of it, or not’. I have always struggled with money, mainly that there wasn’t enough and there was never a natural flow of abundance which stemmed from an old belief that I was not worthy or deserving to receive. I can feel there is still something to clear around this once and for all as this old belief can no longer hold true in my body.

98. It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know. I felt this yesterday when some-one I knew passed away, thus I got to feel the responsibility of being all that we are which is love, with everyone I come into contact with.

99. ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle’. I have identified with struggle for most of my life, but it feels old now and can no longer hold true when so much is flowing and unfolding in my life effortlessly which is a solid confirmation of how abundant life truly is when we get our small selves out of the way and know that we ‘work for God’.

100. Love, love, love this blog, it is so perfect for me to read today…..I have been offered a new job, it requires me to move which I feel ready to do, plus it feels perfect and all I have to do is say YES… but what I observed is I brought in a tiny bit of complication ( an old pattern of mine, go figure!) thinking the hours would not be enough as the new job is less hours than the job I have now….. So a very timely reminder that when we work for God, all our needs will be taken care of!

101. The purpose that we are here to bring the presence of God to everyone and everything we do brings a great simplicity to life. It’s not that there won’t be or aren’t challenges but to have that underlying purpose is like having the truest compass we could ever have.

102. Nature is showing us the abundance of life and how it is there for everyone, When we say yes to this abundance, that is in us all anyway we will all work with our own unique qualities for God.

103. When we are working only for ourselves (self-gain) we can easily feel drained and feel there is never enough, striving to continuously fill an emptiness. But when we choose to work for God through being who we are, there is purpose, expansion, love, grandness and continuous support not just for us but also for humanity.

104. The more I ponder energetic responsibility the more I realise how far I have strayed from it. I used to think I understood what the term meant, but years later I’m not sure I understand at all what it means. I can feel something within me knows what it is but it feels a bit buried. This blog has inspired to take a deeper look.

105. It’s great how such a seemingly small word can hold so much in terms of our next evolving step. When we say yes we are offered our next movement towards not only new opportunities to learn and grow but the world opens up in magical ways. A real rhythm and flow for life starts to emerge when we say yes to life and living with responsibility.

106. When you finally get to understand life all the struggle starts to dissipate. It has been a breath of fresh air meeting Serge Benhayon and remembering that there is another way to relate to life – the way my heart has always wanted but my mind has insisted it is not possible. My mind does not give up so easily yet day by day the way of my heart is having more of a say.

107. Saying yes to God offers the next step and clarifies the purpose, bringing what is required in the moment. Trying to ‘work it out’ first, the ‘what’s in it for me’ approach is saying yes to the force that wants payback by way of our energy, our life force. God doesn’t require pay back, when we work with a our fullness for divine purpose we are abundantly provided and our natural vitality confirms this.

     1. This so true Sandra, very well said. No wonder a huge majority of people feel exhausted. The example you shared about working for the force of energy that requires pay back explains to me why exhaustion is so common. Not many people are aware of what energy they are choosing to work for. Your comment and this blog really support people to see what is really going on.

        1. It makes me appreciate the responsibility of which energy source either spirit or soul is chosen.
           Soul brings vitality, spirit brings exhaustion it is a matter of one or the other.

108. This is beautiful, and rings true with me. It is not about the material posessions that we created this world on from the lack of love we feel. But this lack of love is only created by ourselves, and we can make a different choice to connect to the all that is living within us and we are part of. The idea of working for god feels great and I know it is the way, and it is my commitment to release all that stands in the way of living all of me.

109. The image of we only live once has its powerful grips on the many who buy into it. The moment you align to this image, you give yourself permission to do life in a specific way: with self at the center. When we open to the possibility that there is reincarnation and understand why this is so, the vison of life and how to live changes. It is not about self anymore but about responding to the call of God to return to where we truly belong to.

110. ‘I appreciate the ever-deepening relationship with my Self and our Father’. I do too, and the more I appreciate and love myself, the more I am confirmed and my awareness expands.

111. A cracker of a blog Lee….. and I love the truth of, our first job is to be ourselves. That is to live who we truly are and in doing so we offer a reflection to all others, the ripple effects can be far reaching. And yes the pay is amazing in the unlimited and eternal support that is provided because when we work for God and not for ‘self’, all our needs are taken care of.

112. I can relate very much to what you share here Lee, except that instead of attempting to gain wealth I prided myself on my poverty. Now I can see that this is just another flavor of the same competitive pursuit you outline here. It is an important distinction to make as make traditional religions equate lack of material wealth with being close to God. Nothing to me could be further from the truth. For when you truly connect to God’s purpose, you know everything is about abundancy and true richness – in your relationships, vitality, bank balance and health – all of it flows when we follow what we know to be true.

113. When we are in the rat race, scrambling for pennies we miss out and are completely blinded by the riches that we already have in our lives. What I am finding is that settled feeling of ‘richness’ does not come from my bank statement but from appreciating the qualities I have in my life such as the quality I choose to work in and the quality of my relationships which continue to grow richer and grander than I could of ever imaged. Our richness doesn’t come from objects it comes from the quality they and we come with.

114. A beautiful blog and sharing Lee and one that is truly there for everyone to grasp our real purpose and work simply being who we are with God in connection and way of living. i love your quotes
     “I work for God, not myself.”
     “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.”
     “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever”
     “The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose”.
     “I am shown things about life constantly if I stay open and keep saying YES to the work that is constantly provided.”
     These are to beautiful not to share again and again Thank you.

115. This is so utterly gorgeous Lee. To hear and feel someone claim that they are not living just for themselves but in service to us all is so refreshing when so much of the world is made about security and self gain at the expense of others.

116. Lovely blog Lee and I agree we are not born into the ‘rat race’ it is a way of living that we choose to engage in at some point as we grow up. Even those who react and rebel against the rat race are still caught in the influence of it. But as you say Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon has presented very clearly how simple it can be to live in another way that honours all of our responsibilities and realities of life but is not caught in the security game. It is true freedom from the race for security and with each other.

117. Indeed Lee, we are way off from the true definition of work. Although work is needed to earn our money to pay our bills and to buy our food, the amount of money does in truth not give us any worth at all. The true worth of man is in their inner most and only can be found by reconnecting to that inner place we actually all know so well. If we would make work about making our society a place in which we all could prosper and evolve, back to that divine being we naturally are, we would be working for God, as it is his plan.

118. How different this world would be if we followed what you share in your blog Lee!

119. We have been falsely led to believe and have accepted as such that money means power. Yet in truth there is no greater power than that of one who walks in the knowing and lightness of who they are through their connection to their Soul. For in the kingdom of Soul the riches of oneness, that are freely and readily available to us all, are out of this world. It is deeply gorgeous to feel the gift we are, when we accept that the most important work for us to do here on earth is to reflect God, by simply being our true selves.

120. This is beautiful –”It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” I just love the idea that my number one job is to reflect God on earth.

121. I love this Lee. “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” What we do in this life is not important, it is how we do things that matter and if in doing them we have brought the presence of God then we have done our job.

122. What a beautiful milestone Lee, knowing and serving God is the ultimate gift and responsibility.

123. It’s very easy to get caught up in how the outside world looks, to believe that what our eyes receive is the full truth of life, that we are just physical beings in a material life and part of industries, systems etc. But we are so much more, not only are we not just physical but life itself is composed of energy as well. Behind the clothing of physical life is the truth of who we are, why we are here, and what we are part of – and it is immense and grand. Living from that place changes how we approach life and who we all are – and our purpose. It’s a truly beautiful way to live.

124. As soon as we do not want to feel something, all that we do becomes so much more important than just being ourselves in all that we do. The thus the key lays in feeling what is there to feel, the ugly but also the super beauty that we are.

125. We are moving house and a lot of our ‘stuff’ we own is going through our hands and we realise how much there is to let go, sometimes I think it feels so empty but when I keep on surrendering I feel the space that is there to move on and how light the way back is to the love I am.

126. Lee your words ‘Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?’- a really interesting question. If we leave the love that we naturally are there is a large void that we try to fill, but nothing seems to work until we reconnect back to the love we are.

127. All the money and riches of the world can not compare or substitute the endless riches and fullness within. Imagine how different the world could be if this was not only a known fact, but also lived.

128. Working for God or self – I know which one I would rather choose, working for God I feel a purpose and a responsibility that empowers me and allows me the energy and vitality to work long shift hours and to feel the joy and power in connecting to everyone I meet – the bonus is I get paid for doing what I love.

129. Really God works for us if we but allow him to.

130. Working with God is simply living the light of our soul and reflecting it to another through our movements for the benefit of all.

131. “The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose.” A whole new take on pay, is richness really about money, or do we receive something much grander, much more valuable than money if work as who we are and in that deepen our relationship with God?

132. The struggle of life is so deeply ingrained and impossible to live without if there is no awareness of our Divine Essence – the energetic quality we all are, first and foremost. Being in a physical body in a physical world is very limiting if there is no connection or relationship with the universal cycles that we are naturally aligned to, but not living. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle”.

133. The only thing I would say is that such is the strength of religious ideals, and strong pictures that arise when one says “working for God”, is that further explanation is needed here. Firstly, if you want to “work for God”, then you have to accept your own magnificence and own sense of divinity. For to work for God is simply to align to your true energetic state of being, or that of fire, and allow that to emanate in every little thing you do. It requires no more than that. Now, that is not so easily done in a world of physicality, where our true state of being is not so easily understood. So, there is a way of discipline, integrity, and movement, that is designed to open up our energetic awareness to this fact – and that way is called The Way of The Livingness.

134. “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” It certainly seems so Lee. Yet by rediscovering the love we are – and that we are all sons of God, life becomes simpler and the ‘rat-race’ disappears and so reflecting this out to the world.

135. A powerful and inspiring reminder Lee that all we have to do is live who we are in full and thus bring the presence of God to others, simply by our reflection. This is the bigger picture that is so easy to lose sight of if we are working for ourselves as individuals. Thank you your reflections.
     “I work for God, not myself.
     It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.
     Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are”.

136. Thank you Lee for sharing how working for self with all its hopes and dreams of what money can buy leaves us with empty feelings and a longing, when working with God allows us to feel the true value of who we are and what we can bring to humanity, this is a job worth living for.

137. Life is a lesson to come back to ourself. The knowing of God is so important in this. Bringing the deep love that stems from god to our everyday is our task.

     1. So true Benkt – The more we confirm the love we can connect to and the energy that we are all equally from, the more simple life and letting go of what does not serve us becomes.

138. ‘Reflections and guidance through nature and other people are the on the job training’, this makes the approach to work training completely different. It is not about fear of being shown up for not knowing how to do something, it is allowing others to reflect how to be in whatever new situation we find ourselves in and accepting that when we work together we can achieve so much more.

139. ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.’ It sounds so simple but it is amazing how much stuff I can bring in to complicate my ‘job’ and the myriad of expectations that I allow to frequently overwhelm me. When I connect and feel that all I need to do is ‘be me’ life instantly becomes simple and I can get myself out of the way and feel my true purpose. The illusion of needing to strive for individual wealth is shattered and I can trust that I will be given all that is required. A truly beautiful way to live and work.

140. When I was 12 I can distinctly remember looking at those around me who were all struggling in one way or another and deciding I would not allow myself to do this. But I didn’t choose love or God, I choose the illusion that is material success and what I believed was the comfort and safety of surviving well. It was no coincidence that taking the loveless route I actually struggled to make ends meet and created a life of struggle regardless.

     For many years I fought what you’ve expressed here: “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” I wanted those many years of struggle to pay off in the delusions that if one works hard (aka, is in great disregard) one gets rewarded. Now I know that being in disregard serves no one but actually prevents one from allowing the love of God to express through one’s body. I’m also learning that all the suffering in the world is there from poor choices at some point in one’s many lives and does not prove scarcity in life but actually supports a person to come back to love. How a person chooses to come back to love is their choice – they can either learn the hard way or listen to what is true and respond. For example, I know if I stay up late night after night I get ill. Or I could choose to listen to my body and respond to its call to rest and not over ride it.

141. The term “work” is an interesting one. What is it to “work for God”? Does it mean a life of worship, or perhaps a life of pious service in the kitchen feeding the homeless? Personally, I would venture that if you want to know what true work and service looks like, study the bee. Don’t just study what it does, or take note of its selfless devotion to its task at hand for the good of the greater hive, or the harmonious way in which it can live amongst others in seemingly overcrowded quarters and not get put off. Look closer, stop and feel. Register a swarm of bees early in the morning around a flowering tree, and then feel the quality of their movements. Develop a sense of that in full, and then you begin to realise that working for God is about the developing consistency in your quality of your movement, and the quality of your being. After that, it matters not what you do, for it is the quality of movement that you emanate – just like the bee – that changes life. And that revelation on its own challenges the very nature of what we commonly call “activism” or “service”.

     1. Love this Adam – study the bee and the quality of its movements and bring the same consistency to our own movements and we have a key to true service by its reflection to others.
        “Register a swarm of bees early in the morning around a flowering tree, and then feel the quality of their movements. Develop a sense of that in full, and then you begin to realise that working for God is about the developing consistency in your quality of your movement, and the quality of your being”.

142. A lot of the systems and up bringing in the world develop us to search for security, to get the job, to get the car and the house and the family and the ‘image’ – but pass by the beauty that is all around every day.

143. I say yes with a capital ‘Y’, so much so that my ‘L’ plates have now changed to ‘P’ plates as I deepen my relationship with God.

144. This is a beautiful reminder that when I approach my work with the knowingness that I work with God I am presented with absolutely everything I need in order to complete what needs to be done, there is a surrendering in my body that allows me to be more of me in everything that I do.

145. Dear Lee,
     if we accept the responsibility that comes with working with God, there is immediately an inner consciousness that gathers us and presents to us what is needed by us to be able to work for God. This level of understanding and awareness often means adjustments in how we live are needed. In my experience the more I feel, the more honest I become and the more clearly my body speaks, asking for a deeply tender care, as I give this to myself my heart opens and working with God feels natural.

     1. I also find that when I humbly surrender to my body that the divine will of God, has always been there. Thank you Leigh and Lee, for the absolute honesty of what you have shared, and I now can fully appreciate I will never be on an unemployment list.

146. A beautiful reminder that we only have one job, and when we say yes to this job, all is provided.

147. If we let anything on the outside own us, be in money, relationships, food, work and other things, we pay the expense of forsaking the wealth that is within. It’s not wrong to have those things, money, relationships or to enjoy food, it’s just about how we do it and what we let run us that is the key. Coming to the world from a fullness within will guide us to making choices that support the life we are designed to live.

148. Lee when you saying working for God, I had a vision of a 17th century monastery and being a nun, living a life for God. Praying, tending the garden and not doing a lot of talking. But does it really have to look like that? Those pictures we have in our mind can be very powerful and colour the truth of nearly everything and prevent us from understanding that we could be cleaning a toilet and working for God. But it’s not about what we do, it comes from how we are with ourselves, how we treat ourselves. The greater we care for ourselves, the more we come to know who we are. Then when all we do is filled with who we are, we are actually no longer working for ourselves, we are then working for the benefit of all.

149. Lee you have so greatly pointed out how restrictive the illusion of ‘being rich and having lots of money is what will full-fill us’ is, and that this is our purpose in life. Yet we have corrupted the meaning of true wealth, through our incessant chase in the world outside of ourselves. Through our connection to ourselves – our inner-most essence, we not only discover a richness that surpasses anything in the world outside, but also our relationship with God and all in this world eternally deepens revealing a wealth of wisdom, power and sacredness that we are all equally here to live. As is our true purpose and responsibility for being here together.

150. I loved coming back to your gorgeous blog Lee. As I am currently looking for work it is a very timely reminder of who I in fact truly work for – God – and also that “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” This is one I have really struggled with over the years and so to read your wise words and to feel the truth in them is another reminder, that God would not want me to struggle but to accept all this ever available abundance.

151. There comes a point in initiation when one becomes aware of their greater responsibility with regards to life. This awareness is based on a connection to the beauty from our own divinity, and from that the realisation that on the whole humanity does not live what is actually theirs naturally so by divine right. At this point in awareness, it is very easy to fall for the illusion of what is called “service”, and in that one starts to place the world before themselves. At this point, ideals start flooding in – based on selflessness, martyrdom, charity, and benevolence, all of which seem to offer solutions to the world’s predicament. But invariably these ideals themselves are based on illusion, and the most sinister being that we ourselves are secondary to such a call for service. But the truth is that when one connects to the true pulse of divinity, one realises that it is not about selflessness, but rather being full of self. In other words, yes, service is important, but never at the expense of self. Self is never left behind, but rather looked after.

     When one realises this, one starts to see through the illusion of the belief that living a life of service is to live a life of humble penance and sacrifice of one’s own worth. One then starts to understand that true service comes from committing to life in full and by your lived and loving way, inspiring others to reconnect to the same source of life that you yourself have rediscovered offers the pathway of true resurrection.

     1. So true Adam, I also find that when I am ‘full of self’ to the best of my ability that the work flows to me, and all I my being is in the surrender of my full self, as I humbly commit to God.

152. ‘Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?’ I am so feeling this at the moment as I clear out lots of old clothes, throws, handbags shoes and fabrics from my cupboards. I am feeling so much lighter and available to the love that is in me and everywhere waiting for me to connect to it.

153. Like rats trapped in a maze we run at high speed over each other, all in the vain attempt to succeed at a game that is not even true, that is all about ‘me’ and never about you. And everyday in our thoughts, we can entertain this and go on this way.. “I think this, I like that, this person would be better if they did that”. But what you present beautifully Lee is this all just a trick, and a distraction from the fact we are just here to walk and move everyday knowing we are all from the same source, and that the impulses and guidance you receive are not yours alone but are ours. So let’s break down and deconstruct this maze we all have been played by, and return to the simplicity of unity and the magic of God we are here to serve, deliver and bring through.

154. Thank you Lee, ‘Working for God not self’ feels like an invitation for all to join the union and become shareholders in the business of evolution of humanity.

     1. It does indeed, like the purpose of life is bigger than just survival or self gain and instead is about how we are, the care and the resulting effect this has for everyone in the world. The scale we work on is much bigger than is normally considered.

155. “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.” to work for God, to make life about this first and foremost is certainly a different way to be and one that is the most rewarding. I know when I make my life about responding to what is needed and first being me that I enjoy each moment, no matter what comes my way.

156. Such a joy-full read this is – to know and claim our life to be about saying yes to God and evolution, and forever unfoldment that goes with it. Thank you, Lee.

157. I can feel Lee how much this impulse of working for God comes from within you and what feels true. The word God has been reinterpreted to such an extent that it often can turn people off when taken to mean working for organised religion or some guru, yet it is really ultimately about working for and with the the truth we all feel in our hearts.

158. “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” This is beautiful Lee and really brings it home how important it is for each of us to be exactly who we are and share ourselves with the world from the living breathing divine beings we are. Thank you.

159. “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.” No expectations, only an unfolding of what is there already. It shows that life can be very simple if we choose so.

160. ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.’ I know this to be true and yet sometimes I let the world get to me and go down. Whenever I let the affairs of the world have precedence over my connection to myself in my body I am cut off from this internal feeling which when I allow it connects me to everything that is happening in the world but from a place of strength and solidarity.

     1. Thank you Elaine, very succinctly put “Whenever I let the affairs of the world have precedence over my connection I am cut off”. I find I react a lot to what’s playing out in life when it’s not actually about that, it’s about me maintaining my connection to myself and to God through my body and inner heart.

161. A job for life-times has the past as our starting point, so why not live the future now so the past is a reflection of who we are, which is we are all equally the Sons of God! As I deepen my relationship with God the feeling of true wisdom that comes from that connection is undeniable. All I have to do is keep on getting the old ‘lost me’ out of the way.

162. ‘ Reflections and guidance through nature and other people are the on the job training that is such a learning and deepening ‘ this is so true Lee, every moment support is there in ‘ on the job training ‘ God sending messages if we are open to reading and receiving them. I’m saying yes thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, the meaning of life and living completely changed… Great Blog.

163. Working for a power higher than ourselves, higher that humankind with all its judgements and expectations takes us beyond material possession and has definitely offered me a purpose which means I am unlikely to ever retire, unless I am heading back home to the boss of course 🙂

164. When we know we are here to work with God and not self, we understand that we are just vessels for him to work through us and the only responsibility we have is to take care of our bodies to the best of our ability so this communication can occur, we develop a blind trust that everything is taken care of and we just need to live with open hearts and offer our true reflection to the world.

165. Life is based on security and protection so it makes sense that society is in constant drive to achieve more as we have learnt to identify with materialism and knowledge. What you have shared here Lee is profound, as it is only until we appreciate and accept who we truly are that we get to feel the power of our reflection and how in fact we are working with a divine plan of our return back to our soul.

166. Lee Green – this is brilliant, this is truly good, this is everything. This one sentence breaks through all the consciousness we have created and made life to be about… whilst this is unreal and not the truth. We are not here to serve ourselves – but truly work together. This totally shakes everything upside down.. to its true and right place again. There is no satisfaction needed or goal to be achieved – just simply being who we are and support everyone with that.

167. Seeking security is something most of us, I would say, are familiar with choosing but maybe there is a picture we hold that working for truth/ God/ all of us would mean suffering… It’s not necessarily all sunshine and rainbows but there is immense joy to be found in the consistency of that connection and true love is spherical so we don’t have to suffer to work for one another’s best interests.

168. How easy is it to become identified by any role we play. Be it in the workplace or elsewhere. The moment we do this we deny the fact that we are equal and therefore equally capable of working for God.

169. It is interesting what you shared about there not needing to be a struggle for there is eternal support, grandness and glory available to us in abundance…. It appears that we do not live as if this is true and I have even witnessed the creation of the struggle when there is none just because there is a comfort in what we are used to. It is beautiful to know that if we stop denying it, it is all there for us.

170. Life for me has become much simpler since I have allowed God back in my life! God as in the one who has always been there and I was the one who had left him, thinking he had deserted me. The God, who loves me so much that he lets me learn my own reasons in life, is now known to me.

171. Getting ourselves out of the way and working for God is a beautiful way to view everything we do and saying ‘yes’ to this way of living brings an expansion and a different quality that is felt by all.

172. I love that feeling when you again feel expanded and your body has opened up to a deeper level and you can again feel the beauty and grace in life and are not worn or bogged down in the overwhelm of what can make up the day but instead embrace it.

173. Thank you Lee for a very beautiful description of the love that God provides us with in every moment of our lives. Working for God the best and our only true job.

174. “Life feels very different after spending the last decade hearing, feeling and working with the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Thank you. I appreciate the ever-deepening relationship with my Self and our Father.” I agree absolutely Lee – same for me.

175. ‘Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?’ Wow Lee the answer to obsessive shopping, hoarding, greed and materialism. Filling the emptiness is our goal when love is not felt.

176. Wealth on its own is not good nor evil. It is our attachment to it and our thirst to fill our own emptiness by filling our financial pockets that is our downfall.

177. Once we realise that we are working for God and not for self then things will really start to shift in a way that will bring the world back into harmony, which is our natural state of being. This is something I have to remind myself of daily, if I start to let my mind run the show, I let go and allow the process of life to unfold around me in the knowing that everything will be taken care of if I make my life about purpose, and not making my own life better.

178. I had to come back to this blog as I have noticed recently as I started a new job that an old pattern of pushing myself to meet a perceived expectation from others at the expense of my body, coming up – and what for? And I could feel life started to feel as though it was closing in on me. So, thank you, Lee – for this brilliant article that reminds me what life is all about and what we are here to do.

179. Hi Lee, its definitely possible that we replace our innate love for being recognised and gaining more for ourselves, because we feel so hurt by how false and careless life has been made to be. Its empowering to know that everything is ultimately a choice, it is a choice to sell out, toughen up and engage with the rat race, but it is also a choice to give our value to what is already inside us, and that is where all of the joy and wonderment of life lies.

180. Love this Lee, working for god goes past just doing it in our workplace, it is in family life, and personal life and with friendships and more. Its not any sort of dictation or rule, but the truth is either there or it isn’t.

181. Could it be that when we feel we have nothing to offer to the world, we think we somehow have to endure and even be punished into something we don’t like doing to earn our living? That we are not enough just being and expressing who we are in full? Looking at the world where so many are living checked-out or holding back, sure – we are indebted to the Universe and I feel that is the tension we sense, but it is not something we can compensate by contracting ourselves even more.

182. “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.” And the more we allow ourselves to do that the lighter life will become.

183. It is such a beautiful perspective what you present here Lee. “Working for God not for self” will change everything in our nowadays societies and in that I feel we will become all equal and perform any job that is needed as no value or prestige will be attached to falsely reward us with. Every job we do will be done in the love that we innately are, the love equal to that of God, as we are his Sons.

184. To be ourselves, first and foremost, is it. And to know ourselves and where we come from, is paramount to this. There are so many theories out there about who we are and where we come from, but it is the Ageless Wisdom teachings that Serge Benhayon present, that truly makes sense of this. We are all equal sons of God and for many people, that will be a difficult sentence – and blog – to read as our relationship with God has been hijacked by religious institutions. But to me now, it is knowing there is a divinity in each of us and what surrounds us and a divine intelligence that surpasses any human intelligence and it is knowing there is a divine order to life. And that it involves a whole lot of LOVE. And not the emotional kinda love. The steady, true, all encompassing kinda of love.

185. ‘I appreciate the ever-deepening relationship with my Self and our Father.’ I had a stop when I read this sentence and to be specific the word ‘our Father’. I have been raised in a catholic family and always ‘our Father’ reminded me of the church, this never felt open and free and now for the first time I read ‘our Father’ and I could feel his care and love for all of us, our true Father.

186. Valuing myself just as I am was not something I was taught as a child yet I can see that babies have no sense of themselves as being imperfect. What a shame that the constant messages we receive growing up are that worth is tied to achieving something that meets the expectations of others. As you say Lee – the best thing we can be is simply ourselves. It is taking me time to wind my way back to discovering who that person actually is, but each step closer reveals someone quite amazing. Thank you for reminding me!

187. I enjoyed coming back to this blog as it really brought home what I have experienced lately in feeling the drain that trying to gather a new job from a stance of ‘I am not enough I need more’ really brings to the body. If such a situation isn’t working then what if we questioned – is it possible that there is an inner value not being valid here? what if this ‘not enough’ feeling was not true? So many people don’t enjoy their jobs as they don’t value what they bring to the job, this I have started to build in myself and the pressure to find a new job has been melting away, in time I will find a new job but without the pressure and stress of my value as being tied into what I do.

188. This is fabulous Lee, this is about true religion living the reflection of God on earth, that what we have deep inside us. It is beautiful to connect to this and feel the truth of work, and why we are here on this planet, bringing the presence of God, into all that we do, we just have to surrender to all that it is. Which is grander than we can imagine.

189. Being who we truly are is a powerful reflection we can offer another as it is through this transparency that we reflect the world heaven on earth and deep down that is everybody’s job.

190. I loved coming back and reading this blog Lee, It is very timely as I have just been moved to a whole new program at work. Working as a consultant in a large government organisation, it is not unheard of, but what it brought up in me was a lot of self, what had ‘I’ not delivered, what could ‘I’ have done differently etc. This didn’t last for long, a day or so, whereby I was able to understand that it wasn’t about me, it was actually ‘where was I needed next’, in the current program I was on I could feel that people had closed down to what I was offering and therefore there wasn’t an openness any longer. Where I have moved to and working on feels a lot brighter and open, so potential for a lot to unfold.

191. Thank you Lee for writing so clearly our purpose of evolution and not solely on the security of $$$. My focus has changed with this clarity too.

192. Hi Lee, thanks for the reminder. I love returning to you blog and the simplicity in your comment – ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever’. The joy is expansive when with someone who is celebrating who they are or simply being all of me. Today I will be celebrating this reminder, the joy I am and the joy in others.

193. Our inner struggle Lee can certainly be debilitating, however what you have highlighted in your blog is the antidote, that is work for God not self. Love your work and you Lee.

194. Absolutely Joseph, in your words I am reflected protection and security, the enmeshing prison that all are trapped by. We know what poverty looks like and we don’t like that image so we go for the image of a ‘good’ life instead. But how far away form the truth is that, because we can work a whole life with no connection to God and develop a multitude of diseases as a result and then pass over knowing we didn’t truly live it.

195. It feels totally beautiful to consider that we work for God. To have more meaning in our day to day job, not in a way that gives us hope but purpose and clarity, is an awesome way of working, the opportunities for understanding and wisdom would be endless.

196. Working for God and people is joyful, fun and all encompassing. I am yet to embrace this fully in my work and from reading this blog and comments inspires me deeply.

197. Wow, what a way to work. This makes work so much more purposeful and enjoyable.

198. Beautifully said Rachael. This exposes that everything we do, the way we move and express can be divine and selfless regardless. This brings joy to life in all aspects when we connect to this.

199. When I am home within myself and with God, I feel a deep presence and connection to my body and am able to observe everything going on, with my senses and my feeling. Then I get to feel all the ‘stuff’ as you say Lee, that I have accumulated and also all the stuff that others have and what is allowing us all to get in the way of reflecting God’s light. But in this connection I also get to feel that stuff falling away and this is the most amazing work I can take with me wherever I go.

200. “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.

     Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.

     Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.”

     These three simple sentences stood out for me Lee – just being with no expectations and allowing others to feel the quality that we are living and to understand how inspiring this is for them through the reflection being offered is a great start.

201. Re-reading this Lee I am beautifully reminded of the power and joy felt at work when I work for God and not self.

202. How many of us have reluctantly taken on a job, or sat in an office considering how we could run this company better? How many of us have resisted or identified with work and the pay? For what you show here so beautifully Lee is that our true job is equality. And its power lives in any moment we connect to the true purpose of why we are here: to return to brotherhood and one unified truth we are all from. For this job position, we are all perfectly equipped.

203. Lee this particularly stood out for me ‘I left the session having a deep sense of belonging, knowing that I was here for a very different purpose to the $$$ –– the $$$ security that we have all been taught makes us someone or something.’ Yes it makes us someone we are not, and when we connect more deeply to who we truly are we find the importance that we placed on money disappear and people become more far more important to how we live our everyday life.

204. That’s so true, we are asked nothing more than to be ourself. Which brings the joy we all long for, as that is purpose in life, living more and more of who we are to grow and live the grandness of love here on earth.

     1. Beautiful Benkt. It takes all the pressure off ourselves when we accept and live who we are.

205. I love this blog, and can feel the great truth you present we are not here to gain wealth, but to serve and live who we truly are, presenting the presence of God in all that we do.

206. “Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.”….thank you for the reminder Lee.

207. Very cool realization Lee, when we bring God into all we do, all is enjoyment and all is learning, and when we live and work as a vessel for God everything we touch gets a blessing.

208. I’ve found it really interesting to observe and realise how many of us see work as an obligation in order to put food on the table, buy clothes etc. and see it as a ‘have’ to rather than as a choice which we make to support ourselves and others. The difference for me in changing this has been to first make it about caring for, and looking after myself, which then enables me to make work about people….

209. Working for God feels expansive in my body. Awakening and opening as I am no longer burdened by the drive of having to know things to make myself better or to get by in life. It feels like a holding and in this there is just the innocence of doing all of what you can and accepting all of what you can’t

     1. Amazing Joshua to feel you express this so clearly – I am too starting to feel life with out drive and push and the space that is there for us to fully embrace all that we can bring through.

210. How many times do we work extra hard to get a look of approval, a sign that we are doing well…I have tormented myself with this year after year. Nothing changes the treadmill gets quicker and the goal post seemingly gets smaller and smaller as they drift into the distance.

211. “Our first job is about being us” absolutely! Its the most delicious thing we can do, a staple for a healthy life. When we are truly ourselves, then I have found life is full of joy, magic and connection.

     1. The golden line ‘Its the most delicious thing we can do, a staple for a healthy life’. Who would’t jump for joy?

212. Love it Lee. Its a phenomenon that we have a world, an entire creation that is about doing, and is not about being what so ever. Every part of us and every part of society is screaming for something more, and the connection with ourselves and with God is what is missing.

     1. So true Harry.

213. Wow Lee, this line totally jumped out at me “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.” I know that I have carried expectations for many things throughout my life, expectations on myself, situations, work colleagues, family, partners, pretty much every aspect of life. These expectations then carry judgement, when they are not met. This equally has played a huge role in my life. Less so now, i just find that the reactions that occur are more subtle, but there non the less. This continually exposes for me the opportunity to go deeper with my love for myself and others, to fully accept myself, my love, my strengths, what I bring and my divine connection. This in turn allows for an incredible love for others and acceptance of where they are at too.

     1. Still very much a work in progress for me too Reagan, what I love about what you have written is that how much love there is to be with, with others and how much this allows us to deeply accept all others.

214. There has to be something amiss in a life where the focus is on jumping over rats and exhausting yourself in the process just so you can fill an emptiness with possessions to create an identity that always needs a refill the moment you stop pouring.That’s not loving on the body and ends up a mousewheeled existence, where purpose and self-respect are constantly questioned. I know this for a fact because I once lived it.

     1. You and me both Cathy – when you put it so succinctly it seems so ridiculous does it not?

215. Thank you Lee I loved reading your article, these words stood out for me to day” The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” when I go into struggle as I do at times, I can remind myself that I work for God , all the tools are provided, I just simply need to just be.

     1. Beautifully said Jill, the struggle is just a way of keeping us from being so simply in our essence. It does not support or allow us to move freely, or express as we can – it holds us back. But as you have identified the tools are available for us to reconnect with and just simply be who we are.

216. Every time it is Friday, I hear people saying thank God it is Friday. How come we never tell each other: hey, isn’t that, great, it’s Monday today, thank you God.

     1. Haha Mariette, so fixed on the relief of the weekend we forget that every day is a blessing working with God.

        1. Very funny and so true, when working with God who needs a weekend? or more so, who wants one?

217. “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” I sure was caught in this mess, the more I was missing love the more I wanted to own, whether it was a career, responsibility, money etc, I became driven to achieve at the expense of my body.. That all changed once I met Serge Benhayon, when I realised I was really just missing love.

     1. Admitting this Amita and deeply accepting what is truly missing is the first step back to knowing who we truly are.

218. To consider that I can work for God is as bold as beautiful. Thing is, we are in burn out for a long while now, humanity as a whole that is, safe a few. The company we run is bankrupt and it seems God has hired a coach to help us to come back on track: Serge Benhayon.

     1. Couldn’t have said it better Felix, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have supported and inspired me back to a life where I am at least aware that I work for God and that all my choices are therefore my responsibility – do they serve all or just me?

219. Great turn of phrase Elena – ‘…working for God is transformational and game changing.’ Absolutely True.

220. Ahh Bernadette reading through this, your reminder to keep things simple serves me so well today.

221. Fumiyo I used to be one of these people – looking at the other side of the glossy leaflet called life where money and holidays and cars and …was all over there and I had to work. Interesting how much life has changed since I have chosen to get true support with Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. Work for me is like hanging out at home, certainly there are pressures and things to deal with and look at – constantly – but it is so much fun – I love it and get to learn more about me and the way everyone is every single moment. Huge learning and so far away form the drudgery I used to believe it was.

     1. I love what you are saying here Lee Green – ‘Work for me is like hanging out at home, certainly there are pressures and things to deal with and look at – constantly – but it is so much fun – I love it and get to learn more about me and the way everyone is every single moment.’
        I can feel a genuine surrender from you in your work now and the potential of how we can be there. Surrendering to ourselves and our natural way, like being at home, but still being about to deal with the pressures and tasks at hand in that surrender state. This is beautiful to feel and very inspiring for my day of work ahead.

     2. Getting paid to learn about life and the world around us and within us, what’s not to enjoy about that? I can certainly relate to this and the other side as well. When we shut down from people and maintain a guard, that’s exhausting, so the idea of going out into the world believing that we have to be guarded with others is daunting, and rightly so! Is it any wonder that there is a lack of commitment to work if everyday it comes with the perception of going into battle and being on guard every day?

222. Everything that is needed is simply communicated, all the tools provided, every resource taken care of, all the ingredients have been supplied. The only thing we need do is heed the impulse, the direction and the recipe given to our inner heart. What a relief Lee when we stop trying to be the boss of God.

     1. Brilliantly said Joseph – just allow and all is there before us.

     2. Love this Joseph, stopping the momentum of control and allowing all that we are to flow – simply divine. Over to you God.

     3. This is glorious Joseph, the way to God is surrender, and that does not mean disempower, it means whatever we think God is – its not it, it is what he is and his will, will be.

223. ‘The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support’, I have found this to be true, as support just keeps flowing effortlessly my way….and all this support has replaced the old struggle I had with life.

     1. Yes, this is the hit! “this support has replaced the old struggle”
        And every time I still do feel struggle in my life, I remind myself to open up for the support that is there and: Open Sesame! Heaven’s gates open up.

224. Love to read this blog Lee, and the title says it all….I work for God too, and how my life has changed where it was all about me, me, and me, and where life was one big struggle. No longer do I struggle, rather my life has become so simple with a very clear purpose, which is to share and express all of me, in other words to stay true to myself.

225. I can so relate to this Fumiyo – having been on the end of complaining about work for many decades and also knowing of many others who either can’t wait to retire or win lotto so they don’t have to work! Much has changed for me in the last 5 1/2 years as I have begun to simply be more of ‘me’ rather than being in the push and drive and identification to achieve that I used to be, – and while I have to be honest and say that there are odd occasions I’d rather not be at work, the majority of time I love going to work and have no intention of retiring! I love going to work because I love just being me!

     1. I could feel Angela how much you love going to work, same here, for I can now say I have a work ethic which has become a very strong foundation and support for me, whereas in the past I was lazy and mostly checked out….

     2. What’s not to love about going into a place full of people, completing tasks, expressing and feeling what’s happening for you, for others, all around, getting paid to learn about you and humanity? I can’t believe it took me so long to connect with the wonder of work.

     3. Really gorgeous to read the change we can bring in our attitude to work when we make work about bringing us to it. I see how I (along with so many) have fallen for the belief that work is just to pay the bills, yet the reality is work is where we spend most of our time so why are we choosing not to be ourselves when we are there? I feel it does come back to seeing the importance of every little thing, actually seeing when we choose to be present (bringing all of ourselves to what we do) work flows and from there the joy of work becomes evident. It becomes another place we bring ourselves not a place to escape. As a wise man once said you will never miss having me time or look forward to the end of the day when you live in presence as YOU are with yourself all day long.

226. Many people I know see life as you have described, stuck in the struggle and looking forward to the day when they are free to do what they want – yet this moment sits within them waiting for them to return to their connection to self and see the bigger picture of life. Your comment – ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle’ is truth, God provides. Living in appreciation and surrendering to God’s plan, clears the struggle and life blossoms with the love that exists in everything and everyone. Thanks Lee for sharing.

     1. Classic isn’t it – struggle everyday looking forward to the day when we can get off the ‘treadmill’ only to find that it’s the same treadmill just a little slower and with more TV!

227. Re-visiting this blog Lee has made me aware of all that we intrinsically ‘know’ but can choose to lose sight of – your simple words ‘I work for God, not myself’, has grounded once again the truth for us all.

228. Yes,this indeed smashed all that says work is a struggle. We could and should bring all of us to whatever we do, we are not just on our own, the support is there we only need to choose it.

229. ‘The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose.’ – Such a beautiful reminder Lee to say YES to being who you truly are, and any struggles in life just melt away.

230. I am saying yes in full.Yes to working for God, bringing all that I am to all that I do.

231. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” The more I understand life and live in a way that supports me, not from a monetary point of view but in a loving caring way building a rhythm and flow in life, the more I know there is no need to struggle. Struggle is the illusion that keeps us trapped in wanting and striving for more.

232. Lee Green, this is fantastic, not because it is about money, but it is actually about the truth behind money. As money is our life force, it is easy to abuse money and so abuse our life force. What this represented for me is that I have been holding money as a security in life. As if I have troubles with money, I freak out.. It is interesting when I relate this to my body. As the idea living without money makes my body contract. So there is something to look at for me. With that I can feel that this security is not really saving me, but actually holding me small and dependent. I now understand why money brings such dilemma’s and issues to the surface, therefore it is good to be aware of what investments I have in money that are no longer supporting me.

     1. I get this too Danna. Money holds this very powerful position in society, people scramble trying to get it, give up when they can’t get it, steal or commit crimes for it …the list is endless. I love how you relate this all back to the body which then is even more crazy when you think about this game to get life force, hold it, and not let go of it. Certainly a contraction around how we all deal with money unless it is used with true purpose to serve the plan.

233. I love this Lee – revealing lovingly the aspect of ‘self’ that we develop and which keeps us away from the simplicity or our true purpose. Brotherhood and service.

234. Working for God, living the love we are, walking our talk, honouring ourselves – they all are the same – it is our commitment to the divinity we naturally are that will guarantee our job tomorrow, the next day and the next day after that.

235. Thank you Lee for a great blog, I love the words “life need not be a struggle” for me that is how I had lived, if life was easy then something must be missing. What a relief to know it is not about the doing, but all about being, being us, this is the work we are called to do.

236. Lee, I loved re-reading this exquisite blog. What i can feel is how in that missing of ourselves not having been met when we were young we very easy fall into a forever moving and exhausting treadmill where work and everything we do is in order to prove ourselves. The money we make or don’t make defines how we’ve identified ourselves. In that we miss our true and natural purpose, our real work, which is to reflect an aspect of divinity on earth simply being ourselves. Practical day to day life then has an extraordinary meaning, a purpose and what we do, what comes our way is not personalised and made into struggle. We know that there is work to do, and we do it, knowing we have God right beside us all the way.

237. I agree raegankcairney. Working for God puts a whole new perspective on every choice we make. Every moment is on the clock and no job can be less important than another.

238. I really love coming back to this blog – there is such humility and true purpose being offered. I feel honoured to be called to do God’s work on earth, like we all are, but only some a actually saying YES. Now there’s some appreciation to feel for the morning.

239. ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.’
     Humanity is so caught in this struggle, as am I at times too. Lee, your blog calls me to true account ‘you know who you are, what you are here to do and who you are working for – so why play it small?’

240. To know that God is my boss leaves me with a feeling of being absolutely safe.

     1. Yes felixshumacher, when we know we are part of something so vast and universal and that we have a powerful role to play in this plan and accept this, we feel held in the all that is offered with this — we feel God’s love holding us as we simply get on with life — in full.

241. The more I understand that I cannot reach any goal just for me, the easier life does become. I become humble and see that there is no need other than to being myself and loving myself for being just who I am.

242. Lee I love this line “Reflections and guidance through nature and other people are the on the job training that is such a learning and deepening”. This is beautiful as we work for God in service just being us in truth, we are forever learning through reflections. God is patiently waiting for us with no judgement.

243. Trying to comfort ourselves with material goods will not work, because it will never feel enough. Looking at who we really are and discovering all the marvellous qualities we already have will let love and appreciation for ourselves grow and by that we will less and less feel the need for anything from the outside to comfort us. Centered in ourselves.

244. Well explained Lee the endless pursuit of financial freedom has got the whole world chasing its tail and I think the best renumeration we can get out of life is by connecting and expressing from our true essence

245. This blog is not only just beautiful to read, but it really supports me when I feel frustrated/annoyed at any work related situation. It puts me back to appreciate work as one way to express myself in a bigger picture.

246. Wonderful ch1956. Yes, why do we wait to bring our true ourselves to the world?

247. ‘It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know. Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are. Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.’ So beautiful Lee – just by being who we truly are.

248. Money as I am discovering can be a great distraction from connecting to me. I blame money for when I don’t have enough and when I do have some saved I want to reward myself and spend it. If we had no attachment to money then it would simply be a piece of paper with no value. Yes money is a trading commodity we use in society so we need it but we don’t need to be reliant on it to fulfil our emotional needs. If we were responsible with money and used it for what it was intended then we would have space to look deeply at ourselves and see what is truly going on.

249. “I work for God, not myself” this is beautiful Lee and as we are all the Sons of God we work for humanity and ourselves at one and the same time when we say ‘yes’ to love.

     1. Yes, thy will not my will shall be done…. claimed in full Lee. Thank you.

250. Just running into one direction, not knowing why and having the impulse to arrive there first. Why do we do it instead of asking why and stopping and looking if this is really our way forward?

     1. Great question Michael – the need to keep moving in any direction seemingly gives us purpose but is it true purpose or are we just spinning our wheels?

251. I have applied for many jobs and got rejected many times. And here it is, a job I will never get rejected or fail at the interview. It is absolutely beautiful to feel how every single one of us is equally being offered this job opportunity. All we need to do is just say YES and keep doing that. This really exposes the absurdity of making life a personal struggle, instead of surrendering into the arms of God.

     1. I love this Fumiyo, ‘a job I will never get rejected from’ Some of us are aware of this and have started doing the work. Others are still waiting for God to call back.

252. The warmth that starts flowing throughout my whole body when I work for God is so very precious, because it is eternal and no one can have more of it than another. Everybody can access the same. And the job God has on offer for us is kind of simple: to be who I am!

253. I am realising that I actually have a responsibility in the world and that responsibility is to just be me.

     1. Hurrah for this Heidi Crowder – I will join you and just be me.

254. „there need not be a struggle“ – This I will write down and put it on my mirror as a post-it-note.

     1. Love this Felix, the struggle is all made up anyhow – so what truly is the purpose?

255. Awesome blog Lee. I’ve noticed that many people are attached to ‘things’ or ‘objects’ even up to their last living breath. Jewelry, cars, clothes or money are a wedge between feeling the love of who we are. The importance placed on things is so out of proportion to what really matters but it is something that is characterised by the way the world operates today.

     1. Great point Matthew. The attachment to ‘things’ is very revealing. Recently someone pointed out that an item I was attached to didn’t actually feel very pleasant. I didn’t want to hear it at the time, however, I could feel that they were right. As I sat with this I realised that this ‘thing’ was something i had identified as a part of me, a representation of who I am. Of course this is not the truth at all. Knowing this I feel I will be able to dispose of a lot more things that are actually making my home feel heavy.

     2. Always revealing when we realise that we had an attachment for the things that we thought were more important than the love that we actually are and the magnificent beings we truly are.

256. I love God’s patience without judgements. When we step out into the world shining at full power, there is immense support there to help us move through life and that is huge. Thank you Lee.

257. “Feeling the never-ending wells that have literally drained me of who I am and who I came here to be.” This is such a strong statement and it captures the threads that we choose to hang onto that make us less than who we really are.

     1. Well said Nicole and the great thing is they are only threads..we can easily discard them and focus on our true selves more consistently.

258. Your blog brings a wonderful ‘stop’ moment Lee. Whether or not it is dollars we are after or approval or recognition the rat race seems very real. I love how you say: ‘What is interesting to note is that this agenda isn’t there when we first arrive, born back into the world. Landing as we do, we come unclothed and unhindered by the material goods that we then quickly learn to engage with.’ We come with what we need and then somehow w get hooked into a daily round of almost futile and certainly damaging momentum. Thank you for offering this moment to re-group Lee!

259. “we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.”
     So simple, Lee but we make it so hard. The support and the wealth is all round us but its’ not in the shops and malls. It’s all there in nature if we but choose to stop and feel.

260. I love this sentence “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.” that frees a lot of the struggle from work, I can feel how this knowing helps to serve and be who we really are.

261. I have spent many years being anxious about what I should be doing in the world. ‘It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know. Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.’ This makes so much sense and explains why I was so unsure of what I wanted ‘to do’ – because I wasn’t being myself. I am learning now to bring me and the presence of GOD to what I do and to who I know. I love this simplicity.

     1. Great work Simone this is clearly how many of us find it hard to know what we are here for…if we lack presence with ourselves we are like a broken compass spinning and spinning with no true direction – no connection/direction back to us.

262. I am currently making decisions about staying at my current job or leaving. I have been making it complicated and making it an issue. I have been forgetting that ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.’ when we make it all about what we do, instead of simply being, then we lose our true purpose. Thank you for the gentle reminder.

     1. Yes it’s pretty gorgeous isn’t it? My heart smiled when I read that. It takes a WHOLE load off.

263. Love this Kristy and so true.

264. A master speaks ‘I am shown things about life constantly if I stay open and keep saying YES to the work that is constantly provided.’ This is true education Lee. If we stay open to life and what it has to teach us it is the greatest classroom on Earth.

265. We aim at owning things (money, knowledge, etc) in the hope that what we own will help us to be happy. Our focus, therefore, is to consolidate and enlarge what we own. We work for self. Life is about us. Yet, once you factor God in you realise that you have an option between continue working for self or working for Him. Suddenly a new perspective on life opens up as a possibility; as a choice. When this happened, what was natural for you, you realise that it was a choice over the other one. You have been choosing all the time.

266. Working for god I have to be careful not to think of myself as less grand for I may lose myself. I find it easier to think of myself as working for humanity, and I am part of humanity, equal to all others, and it is okay if I am paid to work honestly.

267. I have heard people say, is this it? Is this what life is about? Going to work coming home, going to bed and then doing it all again and again. Without the understanding that there is a purpose to life. Cars, houses, gadgets and holidays are bought, the appearance of ‘having it all’ in life but feeling that something is missing. What the missing ingredient is, is the connection with themselves and with Gods love,and bring that love with you every day to all that you are in contact with. Now that’s living.Thank you Lee

268. Thank you Lee, we are working with God every day and I immensely appreciate the constellation that it brings – ‘I am shown things about life constantly if I stay open and keep saying YES to the work that is constantly provided.’

269. The simple state of ‘just being’ allows an ever deepening connection to God, and the return is the Magic of God revealed in every detail from the messages the birds deliver, to perfect timing of a new job. It takes our breath away at the exquisite nature it is delivered and to know it is there in abundance for all when we choose to bring “the presence of God to all that we do and everyone that we know.” A relationship that is ‘simply’ Divine!

270. Beautifully expressed Kristy, I had a similar experience when I was a kid as well that deep connection to God and the knowing that I was such an important part of it all it really felt amazing and thank goodness to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I feel that I am finally coming home and reconnecting with God within me.

271. Thanks Lee, it is awesome waking up every morning with the knowingness that it is another day I get to work with God and that simply means staying present with everything that I do as best as I can and feeling the support, love and joy that comes with that, amazing!

272. ‘I appreciate the ever-deepening relationship with my Self and our Father’ This is true for me also Lee. Thank you.

273. Thank you Lee for reminding us to bring all of us to ourselves and each other. This week has been one of finally knowing the reason for coming home from work exhausted: I had not truly been myself. The next day I took all of me to work and enjoyed being me all day, playful and loving, and not an ounce of exhaustion in my body at the end of the day. Awesome.

274. Thank you for this wonderful article! Much of what you write Lee, I can only underline! I was caught very long in this rat race and have compared myself with others! This was very stressful and brought me into financial trouble! Higher, faster, Next, was the motto! But my life has completely changed! The focus is no longer on have, but rather, being! Thank Universal Medicine, I learn more and more to be a son of God!

275. “Reflections and guidance through nature and other people are the on the job training that is such a learning and deepening.” Lee this is information that helps us in so many ways. It shows us God is always there, communicating. It shows us how we can be reflections for each other. How we can deepen and evolve by using reflection. And how we are ultimately responsible for the reflection we choose to reflect to others. Reflection is key to our evolution together.

     1. I deeply agree with all what you say here Rosanna! ‘Reflection is key to our evolution together.’

     2. I totally agree rosannabianchini, the key for me is to live life the way I would like humanity to be with love and respect for each other and the all, as you have said “Reflection is key to our evolution together.” spot on.

        1. A gorgeous philosophy for life Francisco: “to live life the way I would like humanity to be with love and respect for each other and the all.”

     3. Thank you Rosanna for putting some depth to Lees beautiful observation that “The guidance through nature and other people are on the job training” I love it, it’s so true.

276. I love how you express ..“that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” We can’t hold this back, it’s in every pore of our being, for the reflection for everyone to feel too.

277. “Our first job is about being us with no expectations whatsoever” sitting with this for a while I could really feel that in the past I had done a lot of ‘expecting of myself’ to be or act a certain way or to get/obtain certain results. Having expectations feels like setting ourselves up for failure. To make the first job about being us – Phew! takes away so much pressure and leaves an opening for all things new. Thank you Lee a real gem of a blog.

278. The constant striving for some thing outside of us, e.g. money, does create a huge drain on our energy levels because the seeking never satisfies and is therefore never-ending. However if we were to look inward, there is no striving, only the gorgeousness of who we truly are, which is totally satisfying!

279. I enjoy playing with the title and came to ‘working with God…’ Only our man-made re-interpretation of God would take Her to be something standing over us with a stick and carrot (not suggesting that this is in any way expressed in this blog). The God I know sees us all as part of the whole that is Him. Therefore, in working with each other, we work with God.

280. ‘we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.
     Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.’ These words had me reflecting on my career to date – one minute I thought I was doing OK but forever searching for a sense of purpose, then, following some major life decisions, I found myself without a job and in a new location without a permanent home. Suddenly my ‘comfortable’ career had ended, I was nearing 60 and didn’t know what ‘job’ I could do. I had met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine 5 years previously, and had been inspired by what was presented, so I have spent the 5 years since I moved discovering who I truly am, learning that God is not just a big bearded man up in the clouds, but something huge that we are all part of. I’ve learned that my employment job isn’t what matters, it’s bringing my presence and my ‘being-ness’ to everything I do. The purpose was there all along.

281. Letting go of the expectations and judgement will make us realize how beautiful and amazing we truly are – and always were.

282. Awesome Kristy, coming back to what we innately knew and felt as children, this feels so gentle and simple in all its innocence. It is only as adults that we make life so complicated, and boy oh boy do we make it complicated, when all we really need is to take it all back to ourselves, re-connect to love and go with the flow of God and not use our minds to sabotage ourselves time after time.

283. “Every step of the way God has been there waiting for all of us, patiently, and without judgment”
     And God will continue to wait until the whole world realises it. How God must love us all considering we have turned our back on the one thing that can truly support us in beginning the journey back to our Soul. Thank you Lee for the lovely reminder that God is with us in every moment and at every turn and that we are not alone in the Universe and never have been.

284. I’m so glad that it dawned on you “that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” That phrase brings to me a tremendous warmth and a great reminder of the real purpose of our living. Beautifully written.

285. The struggle and stress for the image of success is seen all around us yet people are complaining and not coping with their lives. And yet this image of struggle reflects success ! When we awaken to falseness of what we call life, and begin to come back to ourselves, how amazing to be with who we are and not what we do .

286. Recently my relationship with God has been popping up to feel and look at and in this I realised I ‘thought’ this connection was present when in certain places or situations and could feel God around and in me at these times only rather than feeling how God is with us ALL the time if I allow myself to be aware of this and the constant communication that is going on in every moment. This is freeing and helps me see how it is me who chooses to struggle at times. Now instead I am starting to feel the natural flow and cycles in life and how support and guidance is always there when I choose to live in relationship to my self and God, and simply Be Me as presented by Serge Benhayon.

     1. Thanks, jsnelgrove36, the phrase ‘it is me who chooses to struggle at times’ feels like an important acknowledgement for all of us – that it is a matter of choice, not a life experience that just ‘happens’ to us.

        1. I really relate to the word ‘struggle’ and have worn it as a badge of honour many times. I can see now it is a choice and one when made stops us feeling the simplicity of our relationship with God, the support that is always there and the love that is always holding us.

287. I love how you describe this: I work for God not for myself. This sounds crystal-clear.

     1. And it is such a relief Geraldine, to work for God. Although I just became conscious aware of this way of working and am not continuously working for God yet, I do know the experience of working like that and the enormous eternal support that is provided in this and the ease in which the work is done. I am just questioning myself why I do not yet always work for God, because he is the best boss you can ever get?

288. ‘It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.

     Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.’ This is beautiful! It blows away all the drive, the trying, the doing, the self doubt, the comparison and the resultant exhaustion that ensues. Thank you for a wonderful blog Lee.

     1. That is really a life-changing line, Jane. As you said, it takes away all of the constructs that we have so elaborately put up around what it means to have a relationship with God or to live a life with God. It is as simple as knowing that I am here to bring God to life, just by being who I am. It is that simple and that beautiful.

     2. Jane. I agree we are all in the presence of God in all we do, and everyone we know.
        If we preach rather than being, people will fail to listen.
        If people see how we live and do things that are good for ourselves and others, hopefully they will follow our examples of another way of living.

     3. Jane this is so true – when we commit to working with God ‘..It blows away all the drive, the trying, the doing, the self doubt, the comparison and the resultant exhaustion that ensues.’

289. “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” This is a great reminder Lee and something we have mostly forgotten in our society today, but is so vitally important and makes such a huge difference to our lives.

290. Lee your final comments really struck me… “Life feels very different after spending the last decade hearing, feeling and working with the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.”
     It is clear from what you write how different your life is now to the way you grew up to be, and the relationship with God you have developed and the relevance of this relationship in your everyday life is profound in it’s ordinariness. Until studying the Ancient Wisdom through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I too had never come across an understanding, or an account, let alone an experience of God that felt remotely real or tangible. Of what use is such a profound Being if there is no actual felt-relationship beyond faith and belief… both of which have appeared to me to provide nothing more than an empty comfort. Thanks to Universal Medicine this is no longer the case, and thank you for this beautiful account of your developing relationship with God.

     1. Jenny, I love what you have said here about ‘what use is such a profound Being if there is no felt-relationship…’ You hit the nail on the head here. Our relationship with God is Divinely intimate and I feel, if we are truly honest about it we all know it to be so. As I think back over my life, going to church as a child, exploring other alternative avenues, I have never in truth been able to get away from the knowing that God is present with us in all we do, say, experience, feel, express…et al. As I reconnect to that feeling there is such a sense of letting go in my body, an ‘Aha! moment’ you might say. Yes, it is true, we all have that felt-relationship with God and in fact, faith and belief simply serve to remove us from it.

     2. Absolutely agree Jenny, before I came across Universal Medicine, every avenue or religion I explored only served to take me further away from what I felt inside naturally. Serge Benhayon and the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom resonated instantly and awoke deep within what I knew to be true. That constant connection with God I once lived as a child is now returning ever stronger as I learn to live equally that light.

     3. This is beautiful Jenny. I have always felt connected to God yet the concept of God as a being I could have a direct relationship with felt out of my reach. I get the sense that God must find this hilarious as we are innately connected.

291. Your last line made me shudder with appreciation and tears sprung to my eyes. “Thank you. I appreciate the ever-deepening relationship with my Self and our Father.” I too am deeply grateful to Serge Benhayon and all the Benhayons and students of the Way of the Livingness for shining so brightly that there is another way !

292. I love what you have shared here Kristy. Allowing simplicty back into my life has been a joy 🙂

293. I love what you have shared here Kristy. There is much joy in allowing simplicity to be a part of my life again. I am also finding that the more I appreciate the more there is to appreciate.

294. ‘It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know. Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.’
     Thank you Lee, this is enormous, so powerful, yet so clear and simple.
     As you say, Yasmin, it’s very grounding and confirming to have this, our true purpose, put so succinctly. What a beautiful way to start the day, feeling these words.

295. The heading captured my attention ‘working for God not self’, and it is true for me also that in the past i ‘stuffed’ myself with the outside, but instead of money for me it was the ‘spiritual’ way…looking for some form of enlightenment to make me feel life will be better than this, and feeling good for fleeting moments and then again seeking as non of it is sustained…

     Then i hit the Jackpot – i came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, that is not a place of knowledge but a place of learning where we can actually go out in our lives and live this way…living this way is bout coming back to our ‘being’ who we are, our true self, our divinity, and you know what, its not hard but very very real… and in that i understood that i am working for God, by being me, and really living in life and the wisdom and understandings of this way, i can share with others…because it is in them also…Thank You Lee, ‘working for God’ is the biggest game changer in my life…actually the only true game changer…Thank You God!

296. The other day I awoke with the words Agent of God. I recognised how that is exactly what I am . This feeling supported me to be so much more honouring of myself and to consciously be in service as I went about my day.

297. I am inspired again and again as I just love reading this blog Lee, its conforming something for all of mankind to re connect – our true purpose and all the joy and humility that comes with it ….There is love to be done !

     1. To do love. Yes. Love is what we are and what we do.

298. Great blog Lee. I love what you have expressed here, so simple yet so wise.
     “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know”

     1. Yes Shirley it is expressed so simple and very wise….’working for God’ is the new dawn…in my life!

299. This blog is a great one to come back to as I am reminded that reconnecting to what life is all about, God, the plan, and my responsibly in it. This is the real work and leads to others choosing this same way of working. Thank you Lee.

300. This is so beautiful Lee to read and know for myself. Life certainly is so different after a decade with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and I would not have it any other way. From learning to be myself and working for God by simply being me is a joy and fullness beyond everything and anything. Knowing we are here to bring the presence of God to all we do, everything we touch and everyone we know is everything. It brings the true meaning and purpose to life and the fullness to our bodies and is something to continually expand and evolve from, being a journey of evermore love. We have made a world where money and distraction is foremost and missed our real purpose in every day, but with truth we can reclaim this for ourselves and humanity as a whole.

301. What a great blog. This paragraph stood out for me: “Recently I had a session with an Esoteric Practitioner that allowed me to feel how much the need of gaining more has been such a drain, not only on my physical body, but also on my energy levels – feeling the never-ending wells that have literally drained me of who I am and who I came here to be.” I could feel how this is draining me too, constantly feeling I do not have enough money and concentrating on getting more. This so affects the quality of how I am living each day as there is this undertone of ‘I have to gain more money – then I will start to live truly’.. Of course that moment will never come as you shared what I feel I am here to do is working for God. Working for God is just being myself everyday, it is not just for the time I am literally at work, it is also when I am with my family, traveling, shopping, walking… everything really. Thank you for writing this blog an amazing job.

     1. Beautiful Lieke, work is not only about the place where we actually work, but also outside. We are in fact constantly ‘working’ when we see working for God is about being ourselves. Then whatever we do and where ever we are, we are at work.

302. So no matter what, you will succeed Lee, God can never sack you, demote you or sidestep you. Nor me for that matter. No higher power will save me, but to me, working with God means I will succeed in whatever I choose to do, because I choose to be me, living in connection with what is true for me. Since I have the spark of God in me that never goes away, I get to have God in my camp every step of the way. That’s very cool.

     1. Love it Suzanne, ‘God can never sack you….’ there are no conditions, no rules, nothing that brings you down, reduces you…only love and the allowance to be all of me and in that connection and presence which i bring to life!

        1. Yes love it Suzanne…’ Since I have the spark of God in me that never goes away, I get to have God in my camp every step of the way.’ That is very cool indeed and beautifully said!

     2. “God can never sack you.” Love this. If I were a graffiti artist, I’d like to tag that on the side of the Vatican. Those five words could release millions from the thorned shackles of guilt that maintain their congregations.

        1. Indeed. The ownership of God is the foundation on which the church is built. By maintaining the illusion that they are the gate-keeper they are able, ad infinitum, to keep their congregation in servitude, whilst at the same time merrily, repeatedly and with disgusting regularity, continuing to commit, deny and cover-up the most unforgivable of crimes. As more and more of us see that God is inside each and everyone of us (not a big building with fancy paintings) then we will also see the full extent of the horrors that have been committed under the banner of God’s name.

303. Wow Lee, this is a great what you write, we are at first here to present god on earth not us. Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES. How truly beautiful is this, thanks Lee for your precious reminder.

304. It’s a funny thing but I don’t feel I was one of those people looking to gain finanically or materially. What I looked to gain was a better me in another way. I was always feeling that I didn’t have enough intelligence or knowledge and that if I could gain this I would be richer than others. But again the richness of the human intellect stills leaves you empty. These days it’s no longer about intelligence for me but feeling the true purpose of what I bring just in being me, stripping away the coat of human intelligence to reveal something eternally richer, the intelligence of my inner heart and the way back to the job I signed up for.

     1. What you say is very true. There are many who would also say that they are not consumed by the pursuit of great wealth or material goods. But are those people any ‘freer’? What about those that go totally the opposite way; rejecting all material wealth and goods, living a hippy, sustainable-living, hand-to-mouth existence…are they any freer? Or the celibate monk in a cave? Or the vagrant traveller delighting in the appeared freedom that he/she is of-no-fixed-abode? Are any of these any freer? What in fact is true freedom? For me, it feels like the daily-lived acceptance of my responsibility, an absolute awareness of the every-second choice that I have and an appreciation of the whole. Because unless I am living within that wisdom then I don’t actually know what game I am playing, thus are those choices that feel free actually, truly free? Is it possible that he who thinks he is free is in fact the most imprisoned?

     2. This is great to read we have a way of being engendered in our western world that states education will bring you this or this or that. The thing I have observed is that the money and status thing is all set up like a pyramid and very few reach the top – those that do are driven and not averse to stepping on who and what they need to succeed. The question is how does this support humanity if we are aware of the place we have and need to pull out all the stops to accelerate ourselves from the bottom to the top. It is all about the individual at this point and not the all.

305. This week I started at a new client site with work and what was beautiful was feeling that I am there to simply reflect divinity to everyone. The team I’m working with are a bit stressed at times, and our working environment is chaotic and messy. What was great was arriving at this new site and feeling really steady within myself, and not feeling affected by the chaos and mess around me or any need to say anything about it. Feeling this, I am confirmed in knowing I work for God – I know why I am there, and I wouldn’t be sent anywhere that I couldn’t handle…I’m there because I can handle it and ready for the next challenge. I feel a bit like an undercover agent (or should I say angel) with a hidden agenda to my ‘job’ and that is to bring love everywhere I walk, talk and work 🙂

306. Lee, the first two paragraphs of your blog sum up how it was for me as I moved from my teens into adulthood. I had a well-paying job, a car, money to spend on going out, holidays, buying clothes, boyfriends, lots of friends, etc. It looked as if I had it all and the future looked rosy and set out for me – find a husband and have kids. However, I was miserable inside and covered it up well to the outside world. I had bulimia that nobody, not even my family knew about, I used to binge drink regularly, party hard and craved affection from men and I smoked cigarettes like a chimney. I had no real confidence or sense of self worth and knew there was something missing in my life because despite looking like I had it all, I felt so empty inside – and nobody knew. The misery I felt surfaced every now and again for years, with bouts of depression, illness and lots of distractions to cope. I worked solely to earn enough money to have ‘nice time’ in life and pay for the distractions to stop me feeling the misery. That was not living, it was barely existing. Thankfully life is very different now thanks to finding Universal Medicine and myself along the way.

     1. Sandra this is so awesome because we constantly do this to pay for distractions away from the banality and mundane way of life that we get corralled into. The distractions merely mask the truth and yes Universal Medicine has presented a very different way – Truth in living.

307. I totally agree Lee, that which is lived requires few words, as it is deeply felt by all.

308. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.”
     Ultimately this is the truth, but it is so far from how human beings are living in this world. There is struggle everywhere and this will take much time, attention and teaching about our choices to unfold back to our natural state of joy and freedom, that may seem unfathomable now.

309. YES YES YES! What a great job, so natural, simple and joyful.

310. I have loved re-reading this. The line: ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.’ stood out for me this time. The word abundance has been tainted to infer that wealth and/or material gain are part of this. True abundance is the fullness of living us and our lives in full with God. This we can do whether we have wealth or not, whether we are surrounded by material things or not. When we choose to live life working for God we have everything we need in every moment.

311. This security thing is very interesting. We want to feel safe and perhaps we think that with enough money and stuff we will be safe. But what I have observed is that it is never enough? Why? Because if we are dis-connected from ourselves, from God and our true purpose for being here then we will always feel unsafe or insecure, no matter what we create for ourselves on this planet.

     1. Agreed andrewmooney26, the insecurity has it’s own foundation in the disconnection from God, from who we truly are – it is futile then to pursue the building of security through money, careers, material goods in order to stay safe.

312. I am with you Lee. Your sentence: “I am shown things about life constantly if I stay open and keep saying YES to the work that is constantly provided”, resonated with me. When I am in ‘anxiety mode’ the body and the world around me contracts to nothing: a vacuum that is completely empty. When I stay open, I expand and the world expands with me and around me. Absolutely magical.

313. Really enjoyed reading your blog Lee and love the part “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever. The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose.” A no-brainer so to speak!

     1. I also loved this, this is a great marker of how our work life could be if we made it about being ourselves, who we truly are first and what this brings in our working life!

314. Check in with the big boss … ahhh … keeping it simple!

315. This is such great expose Lee that i have no doubt many can relate to, I certainly can. That need to do more, be more, accumulate more to fulfil something within. But I like you, have learned to realised, there is nothing on this earth that will ever or is ever going to fill the void inside. No amount of money. Isn’t this mirrored to us each and every day when rich and famous peoples lives are splattered across the tabloids. A lot of these people, have complete train wrecks of lives, I am saying that without judgement, just that it really does show that having all the money in the world does not make you happy. It does not equate to growth and evolution as a person and certainly doesn’t make you feel you are working for God. I know where i’d rather be.

316. I love this Lee: “I work for God, not myself.

     It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.

     Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.”

     This says it all…simple!!!

     This is great to remember when the challenges occur at work.

317. “For a large part of my life I have lived with that inner struggle” I can relate to this, but not so much about getting wealthy – more a struggle to survive. This creates drama to distract from the simplicity and joy of life.

     1. hi Gyl, I also find the struggle we choose in life keeps people out – and ourselves locked in.

        1. Hi susanG, yes it a cunning game we play, not letting people in – to avoid the simplicity and joy of being divine.

        2. Yes Susan, simply being all that we are is in fact all we need do, not only opening up to our true selves but also to everyone else in the process, it has taken me many years to come to this understanding, doing away with any need for “the struggle”.

318. “when we first arrive, born back into the world. Landing as we do, we come unclothed and unhindered by the material goods that we then quickly learn to engage with.” what I feel is this also applies to all of life not just the material goods, we arrive here pure and fresh, unhindered by the impositions of other people and life. We are allowed to just be ourselves – than be something for someone or something else, what an amazing freedom this is.

319. I was walking through the city tonight after a long day at work. I love my job, I love that as I start to fill me up more each day each interaction is more whole and shapely – not flat and deflated. As I strolled feeling me at the end of this full day I noticed a movie poster – it caught my eye because of the title and then the graphics. Essentially the movie poster showed an image of a man in a fast sports car with notes around this image stating age and health state of the man – his name and net worth also listed.
     It’s then that I began to wonder why we have the two inextricably linked – our net worth equals capacity to live in many, many people’s eyes. If you have limited funds your life is not what it could be – the selling of this ideal and belief is constant and imposing and yet we all have never called it out. Any way the other thing that struck me was the man was listed as having a terminal illness and the twist is that you have the best life but then you die early?
     If you die rich it’s super sad because you can’t enjoy this amazing life you have thus formed because of all the money you have…
     Where have we got to that it is now not even spoken of but rather assumed and entrenched that life and it’s worth is about net $$$ and the health factor unless you are terminal you are beating life. There is much more to explore here but felt to share and see where it winds up.

     1. That life is measured as a battle – with victory or failure measured in $$ and physical attributes – leaves us so far short of the grandness of love that lies within us all that it is no wonder statistics (and the evidence on the street) show the decline of our connection to each other, ourselves and to life.
        When you have inside you the keys to heaven and your life is measured in function it’s pretty disheartening.
        Lets bring back the connection, the joy, the love – and the real purpose of life – Brotherhood. It’s what counts at the end of the day.

        1. Brotherhood is what counts at the end of the day, our the quality of the world would change over night starting with the quality of our own lives! Love is extremely healing…

     2. My feeling here Lee is that we fall for the trick that with wealth seemingly comes more choices or more options in life to do what we want to do or perhaps what we have always wanted or hungered to do, believing that this will make us happy. Perhaps we seek to create this illusion to avoid feeling the one choice we have – to be love or not, as that is what we innately are.

        1. Yes andrewmooney26, this is a great point – something we all know deep down is that ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’ but we also have a million other ideas about what does, and many of them require money! I agree that at the end of the day, when we have exhausted all these ideas, only to discover we are still empty, it is only once we go deeper within that we discover it is this inner-self, which is where we find our connection to God, that what we are missing was there all along.

        2. I like your comment Jenny Ellis. Many of us accept that money doesn’t buy happiness – but as you rightly point out we have just shifted our attention to the pursuit of something else. The point is, there is nothing outside of us that will make us truly joyful. Any and every thing is just a fix, a hit, a drug – and like all drugs, we become addicted and crave more. Which, in essence, describes how most of society live. And in the same way that drugs kill our bodies, so to does this way of living – which is the achingly simple reason why humanity’s health is crashing. We are constantly ingesting any and every thing to try to make us happy. Insane – when, as you say, true joy awaits each of us, in the inner heart of each of us.

320. Lee I have returned to your blog because I get something different each time I read it. Today I thought about how many of us ask the question “who I am and what is my life here on earth about?” It may come up from time to time but I know, I, like so many of us have fallen for the ‘rat race’ of trying to accumulate all the things that tick the boxes that then amount to you being so-called ‘successful.’ Living that way has never really cut it because that feeling of emptiness would always return. When you said ‘It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know’ it brought a big smile to my face. Another way to live without all that striving, just being ourselves and bringing that connection to god to everything we do.

321. Coming back to your blog again today Lee is again a blessing. The title alone ‘Working for God not Self, just brings me back to me and what I’m here for’.

322. Working for God not self means letting go of all we are identified by; the doubt, insecurity, apathy, anxiousness, greed, excitement, misery etc. and instead being completely willing, with every particle of our body and being to just be ourselves in the thick of it all without all that rubbish getting in the way. Problem is, we have become so accustomed to letting that stuff get in the way, we don’t know how to let go of it and if we are completely honest with ourselves, nor do we want to. These interferences become like a security blanket to us and provide us a very comfortable reason (yes, misery can be comfortable) to not be the ‘all that we are’ in all that we do. They are the tiny cries from the human spirit that are exactly what stop us expressing our love in full. It is little wonder a lot of us are so terrified to admit there is a God, let alone be whole-heartedly willing to work for him, when still we cling so tightly to this blanket.

     1. Liane, I will add letting go of nervous energy as well to your list of things that the self identifies with.

     2. That security blanket is smothering us – even if it does feel comfortable in its familiarity – burying us under all those complicated emotions and dramas. In letting go of it (them) – not so difficult really yet nigh impossible without humility – we are delivered a sense of vast and expanding spaciousness within and an internal stillness that is steadier and more capable than could be imagined or measured externally.

323. Thank you Lee, I love this blog. Bringing ‘the presence of God into everything we do’ also makes everything effortless and stress free, with no drive or investment. Everything is a loving action that is fulfilling, no matter the task at hand.

324. Love your blog Lee – “I work for God, not myself.” There is no true purpose any other way.

325. “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.”
     Perfect timing for me in reading this blog, thank you Lee, amazing Being that you are … for the first time in a long time I am feeling who I am and am then seeing the overlays on that (me) which the mind assumes it has the right to do – what a noise, what distraction, what self-importance – to my surprise it leaves me in joy to see all this palaver as I now know it is not ‘it’.

326. Re-reading your blog yet again – because it certainly merits that many reads. This time I come to the blog in a different space; in the middle of a very intense period at work, and thus your blog has even more potency for me. What I am experiencing is how when that intensity really increases, I find it harder to maintain my connection with God and thus I find myself working for….not exactly the $$….but for the job itself purely on a temporal level, functional level, get-the-job-done level. Furthermore, without that connection to God or purpose of working for God (which is irrespective of the nature of the job itself or its intensity) my working day changes so dramatically and my physical well-being changes so dramatically. I become drained, overwhelmed, foggy-thinking, and reactive. So it is a huge blessing to come back to this blog and re-focus on that commitment to working for, and with, God…and see that actually this commitment is ever more important when the intensity is such that it currently is.

     1. So true Otto, what a blessing it is, and so wonderfully simple.

     2. Well said Otto. When we work with God we are saying ‘yes’ to love, when the self steps in we are saying ‘yes’ to all that is not. This is easier said than done in a world that is set up to foster the self and hence the stress that comes with living in disconnection to our innate divinity.

        1. “It is easier said than done.” Part of me agrees with this. But then another part doesn’t want to settle for that excuse – because I’m not actually sure that it is true. In that if you choose to work with God – which is nothing more complicated than a simple choice – then any and everything is possible. If it weren’t possible then God wouldn’t have you working there in the first place. So, whilst I accept that there is definitely some super intensity out there – for sure – no question – it is also important to never underestimate the power that we have, and the power that our ‘boss’ has.

        2. I stand humbly corrected by the truth that you speak Otto. I agree. ‘Easier said than done’ reads as an excuse to not express the love we already are with the world as it currently stands, by way of making it all ‘too hard’. It is a belief that we buy into in order to avoid taking responsibility for the choice we have made to NOT be love. For once love/God has been chosen; the rest is very simple and no big deal despite the intensity surrounding us. Thank you for this.

        3. Gosh so true Otto and Liane, it is so so simple when we choose God and choose to simply be in the world. It is only complicated when we choose otherwise. Yes it requires a loving discipline but it is our choices that make the difference.

        4. I like your phrase “a loving discipline”. That is perfect. It is a discipline, that has to be committed to and worked on. Most disciplines are dogmas that require ‘hard work’ with a blinkered, lineal approach. This is how I have, at times, approached The Way of the Livingness – and boy, oh boy does it NOT work. Which is why I love your addition of the word “loving” – this is the game-changer. When I approach my discipline with an already claimed and practiced level of self-love, when I approach my discipline with my eyes seeing the big picture, when I approach my discipline with a loving commitment to the whole of humanity, when I approach my discipline with my heart wide open to letting others in and myself out…then the discipline hasn’t one iota of ‘hard work’ in it. It is a joy. A pleasure. A no-brainer.

     3. Its great to have blogs like these that remind us how important our connection to ourselves/our connection to God is. I too find I can more easily loose this connection when I am very busy or feeling the outside pressures of work or family. That’s when I need that connection the most. When I feel that connection and that inner support, I feel more able to stay steady and deal with what life throws at me.

     4. I agree. In those intense times, we can shift the focus to the end goal and God has seemingly adjusted his presence. But God didn’t change. We have. And it’s those times when we are called to deepen our connection with the all which supports us in turn with presence, authority and majesty.

     5. You paint the picture so accurately Otto – I totally relate to your experience at work. Thanks for the great tip on coming back to this blog – will definitely add it to my tool box.

     6. You make a good point here Otto that it is not always the $$ that lure us away from our connection with ourselves, our connection with God. Sometimes perhaps it is just identifying with what we do or anything outside ourselves, that takes us out of our presence and all the side-effects that come with that.

        1. Absolutely. Personally I feel that the pursuit of the $$ is in fact an excuse that many, many people use. Actually what they are craving is the recognition and acceptance.

     7. But how awesome to feel the level of ‘damage’ that it did to your body and whole week. That is fab Lee Green. That now makes the consequences of the choice ever more clear to you. And (hopefully?!) makes it easier for you to make the true choice next time that elephant comes in to the room. It reminds me of parenting of kids; if they don’t get to feel the consequences of their choices then how can they learn to choose truth. It’s the same for us adults.

        1. Absolutely ottobathurst – feeling how we parent is a brilliant way of seeing how we get to choose differently. My body has got a very clear marker – my heart knows what is true and now I just have to choose.

     8. And if you make the untrue choice, you get to again feel the consequences. No drama. Just another opportunity to learn and correct. I have found (and am still very much trying to master) that the killer in this is judgement. If we can fall on our bums and pick ourselves up and go again WITHOUT judgement then glorious wisdom awaits us.

327. I started having a chat with God only this morning. I can feel I can work for God by building my relationship with him, a relationship that I feel I have put off to the side for some time. I’ve always known he is there, sort of like the boss, but I can better work along side of him if I get my schedule for the day first up. Then I know that we are a team and support is there for both of us.

     1. This is key Elizabeth building a relationship with God, indeed with the Hierarchy supports us to do the work on earth.

328. How can we ignore the pay and benefits of Working for God and Not Self? As Lee points out: The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose – Why don’t we so choose?

     I am shown things about life constantly if I stay open and keep saying YES to the work that is constantly provided – Why are we holding back from saying Yes?

     Reflections and guidance through nature and other people are the on the job training that is such a learning and deepening. Every step of the way God has been there waiting for all of us, patiently, and without judgment.- Why do we ignore these reflections and guidance that are natural, true and loving and not laced with any media hype?
     Thank you Lee for your very thought provoking blog – When I ponder on my answers I know that working for God and Not Self is ‘a given’ for me – I now have to get to work!

329. A thousand comments on this blog. That speaks for itself. There are many people who feel very strongly about getting out of the way and working for the God in the playful service to humankind.

     1. I noticed the same thing. More than 1,000 commenting on the subject of “working for God”. That’s huge. A groundswell. I’ve got a cute image in my head of the government announcing the un-employment figures alongside the God-employment figures. “Today’s news; the un-employmnet figures have plateaued at just under 2.7 million in the last quarter, meanwhile the God-Employment figures continue to rise steadily as more and more people connect to the joy and truth of themselves and an absoluteness to the purpose of their day.” That would be cute. There could be a nice little sub-piece on the knock on effect on the NHS and other health services……

        1. Brilliant ottobathurst, I love how you’ve playfully expressed this. We would see many more knock on affects too – lower incidents of violence, drug and alcohol sales down, porn usage down… to name just a few of the big ticket issues today.

        2. I also noticed the over 1000 comments and noted that working for God is a vocation that many are enjoying immensely and being true to our essence is the greatest work experience there is! Otto I loved your ‘government announcing the God-employment figures’ – steadily rising they certainly are.

        3. God employment figures rising! Love this image ottobathurst and you are right the knock on effects would be significant.

        4. Love it. It feels lovely to be re-claming what Working for God is….simply being who we are and bringing that to the world in full. Claiming and celebrating your spot in the world. Committing to me, committing to people, committing to life. Bring it I say!

        5. I’m loving this picture – a study in the benefits of working for God & The Plan. Gold

        6. I would suggest a little alteration to your comment Jo Swinton. You say “steadily rising”. My feeling is that it will be more of an exponential curve. The more people who start to live, walk and work with God, the more that expression is felt by ALL around them. Not all will immediately choose the same line of employment, but many will, and so the numbers will rapidly grow.

330. Yes the struggle of living to the image that society reflects of success. All the time living each day not for our true purpose. The struggle and stress is seen all around us as people are not coping and complaining about their lives. When will we awake to the falseness that we call life, and begin to come back to ourselves and feel content with who we are not what we can do.

331. “The enjoyment of life seems to stem from money and how much you have of it – or not” Re-reading this today it brought up some memories of how at a very young age money did not come into my thoughts at all and I made no comparison with all those that I came into contact with, treating everyone the same, as equals – My parents often said to me they did not have enough money for all that I asked for. Noting that friends had the latest trendy clothes, comics etc I clocked it very quickly that I came from a background of the “or nots” which must of put a lot of pressure on my parents. Not till later in life did I realise I was making a visual judgement on others, what clothes they wear, the type of car they had or even what district in the neighbourhood they lived in. Comparison Mmmm!!!! Allowing myself to be influenced by the outside world. As you share so clearly with us all Lee “Our first job is about being us – with no expectation whatsoever” This opens up a whole new way to live life – in full.

332. I still struggle to let go of having some sort of financial security and trust that it will be there even though I live a very simple life and have no great desire for overseas travel or holidays. All I want to do is a Unimed retreat and as many workshops and sessions I can afford every year although I still worry that I wont be able to once I am no longer working. I am still working on being able to trust that what I need will be there for me. . Poverty thinking has always been big for me and writing this has highlighted my ongoing trust issues.

333. Sometimes the jobs offered by God can be things we don’t want to do or on a pay level that is not the most desirable, but no matter, in any case the job God offers us is perfect for us and can be a great learning opportunity. It is after all ultimately about what society and humanity truly need and not just about us.

     1. The self can kick up an all mighty fuss sometimes when it seemingly does not get what it deems as enough money or enough responsibility. All the while missing the fact that every step is building a foundation for the next steps.

        1. Well said Lee, sometimes what we deem as the ‘next step’ is not actually our next step at all but an avoidance of the learnings that are presented before us. I have had many jobs, some I have not liked at all but each one was perfect at that moment and showed me lessons I actually needed to learn.

334. Great blog. Thank you for the reminder to trust that we will be taken care of. “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever. The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.”

335. You never get stuck with the one job with God. There is always progression to the next level in your job and he pays handsomely and there are always bonuses.

     1. Yes lindellparlour, I feel I’m getting richer by the day. Some times I hold back on the investment but then I feel the heart balance reduce slightly and I know it’s necessary to deposit a cheque of appreciation to bring it back into balance with room for more

336. I have loved re-reading this. You express so simply, Lee, how the purpose and direction of humanity has got lost and how life is no longer a struggle if one chooses ‘to work for God’. I feel enriched by reading this.

     1. Jonathan I agree, the expression here is nothing short of wonderful and without expectation. I liked “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.
        Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES”.
        Yes I am in, I am working for humanity.

     2. I am really seeing this more and more Jonathan, how my surrender to being out in the world as me is all that is needed, and that it doesn’t matter whether I am at home, at work, commuting, shopping – it’s all the same. Ever moment of every day is just about being me with whoever I’m with and whatever I’m doing, and there is no struggle.

        1. Well said Sandra. It doesn’t matter where we are or what we are doing, it’s all the same if we are ‘being me’.

        2. Lovely to feel the commitment and dedication in your writing Sandra Dallimore.

337. The title of this blog by Lee Green is powerful when I stop to connect with the depth of what is being shared here. We are truly the expression of our the source we come from – the measure of my expression of this is found in every breath I take, let alone my thoughts, feelings and activities. Learning to trust that I am held in my level of acceptance and appreciation of this truth, without judgement or criticism is my job description at present whilst ‘Working for God’.

338. “The abundance of life is there truely for everyone – there need not be a struggle”
     It seems to be such a struggle for us to accept that life is abundant, if we don’t accept this we stay trapped in a “poverty mentality”. Poverty for me is not just the $ aspect it’s being stingy with what we allow ourselves to appreciate and flow in our everyday life because we as a society are encouraged to believe money is the answer. Life is so much more when we are here “WORKING FOR GOD NOT SELF”

     1. Yes merrileepettinato, we can be stingy with our time, appreciation, love, attention. The poverty mentality does not only relate to money. We do miss out on seeing the abundance of life when we are blinkered and just focused on acquiring monetary wealth. There is so much more to life.

        1. This is a great point – poverty is not just about monetary wealth – those that attest to being time poor for example are also not choosing the flow of life, rather the struggle that keeps them identified.

     2. I agree with that merrileepettinato, that living in poverty is not always and only the $ aspect. Living without God, that is the true poverty in life regardless of the amount of money we have. It is about the inner richdom we gain when we work for God and not for self and money will be no issue anymore, but just means you need in life.

339. There is nothing like a relationship with God and our own divinity to dissolve the idea of life being a treadmill or a struggle to protect our hurts. I have never felt so free as since I embraced that I am a deeply religious person – in the true sense of the word.

340. Yes why struggle, we are love and the loving sons of God all equally so. So could it be that if we don’t work for God or love, we work against ourselves?

     1. Exactly Greg, we do work again ourselves.
        Only if we start working for God and by that begin to let go of the expectations, investments and needs in life that we have had, we will realize that what looked like working to “create a good life for us” in fact was distracting us further and further away from ourselves.
        When we are working for God and thereby for everybody all that we truly need will be there – no struggling needed anymore.

        1. Yes Michael, in letting go the struggle ends, and we return to our essence!

        2. So true Michael, when we work to co create with God a good life for others, ‘all that we truly need will be there – no struggling’

     2. Yes, true Greg. We are working against our true essence when we work against God or Love.

        1. Imagine in religious studies at school, which was compulsory when I grew up and may still be in some schools, if they taught that love and God are our true essence and if we work against this, we are working against ourselves and who we truly are. So simple, yet I know how profoundly life changing this truth is.

     3. Brilliantly said Greg. What’s crazy is the illusion that by working for myself only means that I am free. But, if this were so, why do I never feel free or liberated living just for me? Why do I only feel truly free, at ease and at one with myself, God and everyone when I am working aligned with God?

        1. So true Karin, bringing God as our focus and true expression, which allows me to be connected to my true inner-essence thus leaving me feeling free or liberated to that expanded love, comes from my inner-essence. This is simply the quality of the reflection that Serge Benhayon shares, and this quality of God is also in us all equally so!

     4. Exactly gregbarnes888 and that struggle has been identified with for ages, rather than the simple choice of coming back to that which we innately are.

341. A very honouring article that brings it all back to the simplicity of how we live and in truth, what we all are really here for….

     Thanks Lee…

     Rachel….

342. “How many of us have run on this treadmill? And how many have we trodden on?” This sentence got me thinking. What does treading on people look like or feel like? For me it is not just the obvious “get chosen for a promotion over another” scenario… I can feel that I ‘tread on someone’ every time I fail to connect with them in full or bring a lack of presence to what I do. All of these choices affect others.

     1. Leonne you introduce a level of responsibility here that really makes me think. Everything we do, say and think has an impact on ourselves and everyone around us. The important thing is to connect first with each other and then one by one we will be jumping off the treadmill we call life.

        1. Absolutely Sally. I want love and connectionwith others more than anything. Treading on others or treadmills makes no sense, yet this is what I do every time I choose to check out.

        2. Sally and Leonne the degree of responsibility in every moment is something both your comments and this blog brings home. The times I’ve chosen to check out I’m now feeling impacts on the level of presence I can bring and how this isn’t serving those I am with. I can feel really bad about this but rather than beat myself up I am realising I can feel how I live does make a huge impact on those around me and not just myself, and simply choose to reconnect and be present when I realise I’ve checked out and keep on doing this.

     2. Whow Leonne, that is big and so true what you have presented here. The level of responsibility that I have at all times to be present with myself and connect with others in full is more powerful than what we think, Thank you for the loving reminder.

343. When money (or something else) becomes what we want to fill our lives with, is it not true that what truly fills us is already being emptied? What choices have we made to no longer feel the fullness that we came here with? Can we ever lose it or is it set aside and forgotten? And God then says “Hello, remember me?”

344. Struggle hard, climb over others to get ahead, load up with more pressure than we can handle, so we can fill up life with stuff….or, be ourselves in whatever we do and receive “eternal support” as our pay and “step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose.” Hmmmmmmm…..no brainer if you ask me. I choose to work for God.

345. “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” This is a powerful statement Lee and oh so true. How many us try to fill ourselves with all sorts of things from material possessions, to food, relationships, exercise, movies, all sorts of “stuff” so that we don’t have to feel the emptiness that is there inside of ourselves. However, what we all want is love and that isn’t something money can buy. Love can only come from deepening our relationship with self first of all, filling up our own bucket so to speak rather than looking outside for things to put into our bucket.

346. What you say Lee about being at the front of the pack is spot on. The competition is strong in trying to outdo each other, but it is done in all sorts of ways, some blatantly obvious while also the quiet achievers, all aiming to reap a standing of being at the front of their chosen pack. But really the competition is with the self and not a unified or supportive way of living, causing deep separation.

347. Lee, this is very inspiring and I can feel how much we can bring if we get ourselves, our issues and our patterns of discontentment out of the way and just bring each of our light through in everything we do.
     We would be so productive and I don’t think we would have nearly as many problems on a global scale like we do now. Issues of greed, power issues and racism/cultural divides.

348. I love how in this blog, and in a lot of the blogs on this website, ‘ordinary’ people’s relationship to God is made simple, like it is such a natural thing. In the past although I know that relationship is there, I have actually put God on a pedestal meaning that he always is just out of reach, instead of seeing that he is around me all of the time, in every situation. Thanks for a great blog Lee.

349. Taking on the responsibility of a task, job etc. stops me from being in the flow of knowing my true purpose that is working for God. For me it’s starting to feel like when I’m in the doing mode it is because I’m not trusting my connection to my inner knowing, which is my connection to with God and the greater purpose.

350. Very inspiring Lee – in the past all my life and my work was just about me and what I need. Today I know that life is not only about me, it is always about everybody and what humanity needs.

351. The sentence: ‘Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.’ is very confirming and supporting. Thank you Lee.

352. The line that really stood out for me this morning is “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle”. Before Universal Medicine came into my life I was struggling – those hurdles I’d created are now slowly dispersing and all the while God has been there waiting patiently. A very powerful sharing with us all Lee thank you.

353. … “we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” Knowing, feeling and living these words has the ability to change everything in life as we know it.

354. Lee, your blog and sharing gives humanity a key in unlocking themselves from the shackles of ‘societies norm’. No longer must we strive for success, money and things to fill our emptiness. As you say, ‘the abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle’. All we must do is connect to who we really are and what we are here to do; a Unifying message for everyone to read and feel.

355. ‘Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.’
     Thank you Lee, this line (along with the rest of the blog) is so empowering and inspiring.

356. I love that Lee “there need not be a struggle” but we make a good job of it don’t we! Struggle, struggle, crisis, stress, excitement, intensity, it is like we addicted to everything that is not the very steady, loving pulse of divinity that like you share, is available for all! Utter madness.

     1. Well said Vanessa and we make things so complicated so we can steer ourselves away from the simplicity of working for God.

357. “I work for God, not myself”, I love this line Lee, thank you for a fantastic blog.

358. Love your blog Lee – what a beautiful way of looking at work and our true purpose. Makes that song “Working for the Man” have a whole new meaning.

359. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” How easily we get caught up in the struggle to be more, have more, yet in truth when we let go of all these needs, everything is there waiting for us. The more I let go of the struggle and the need to be more and have more, the more I can see the natural flow of life, simple, easy and uncomplicated. Working for God not for Self….a great reminder Lee as I go into my day.

360. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” I love this, Lee. Work is often laced with the feeling of struggle or more aptly, toil. Earning through the sweat of our brow, or by defeating all others to reach the top of the heap where we stand victorious…. and alone…. To live as a Son of God is to know that all are equally His Sons. No exceptions. And that all is provided to each and every one of us to return us to His side. No exceptions.

361. It makes a huge difference to how you look at things when you say to yourself ‘I am working for god’, and with it comes this inner strength which helps you to see things clearer. After first reading this blog I have applied this into my daily working life and things have really started to change.

362. So beautiful, Lee. The Divine support is available to everybody who is open to it and asks. I used to struggle through all my life till I met Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. I learned to re-connect to God and to the real me, God within me. It turned my life 180 degrees.

     1. Love this a complete 180 turn around – awesome Ingrid.

363. It is interesting that we come into this world with no material possessions, and leave without any, and yet we can become so attached to them and so driven to accumulate them – for what purpose?!

364. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” Beautifully expressed Lee…I notice when I start to react to all the chaos going on around me at work everything becomes a struggle, however if I stop and just be me in the midst of all this, everything changes. Suddenly my day starts to flow – people and events constellate to create an ease and flow, and with this support harmony reigns once more. It can be like a magical switch is flicked – one minute chaos, the next harmony, and it is always my choice.

365. Lee, your writing takes presence and purpose to a whole new level. Such clarity, I feel moved by this piece this morning. This is a life that I continually say ‘Yes’ to a further level of deepening that I feel able to engage with. The more I say ‘Yes’, the easier and more joyful it becomes.

     1. Love this Emadanchin – saying Yes to deepening that loving connection that has never not been there.

366. I love coming back to your blog Lee…when we work for God, we don’t have set work hours – we work 24/7. The quality of our being affects us and everyone around us all of time whether we are at home, on a train, walking, cooking, talking, shopping, etc. There is no down time or holiday from this, only a choice to check out from it.

     1. Yes Sandra and the 24/7 commitment to responsibility is the key – a constant marker for our own unfoldment – not a harsh discipline but a loving marker that says there is more , there is so much more.

        1. What I’ve noticed by living in this way – that we work for God 24/7, I have more energy than I had when I used to have my 8 hours of work time, my x hours of travel time, my relaxation time, etc. It is the on and off is that exhaustes us rather than just seeing whatever we do as being God’s work.

367. This time when reading your blog Lee I couldn’t help but reflect on how the rat analogy is exactly how I see us acting out an aspect of ourselves that is striving to be recognised. In amongst all the things you mention there is a strong push to put yourself in a position where you can tout your accomplishments, have some form of recognition of some sort that fits into an ideal … A great singer, musician, intellect, mother, father, son, daughter … There are many positions we can put ourselves in to give us recognition. I see this is why reality TV shows work so well as we watch the rat race strive to be recognised for their great talents … You can even be recognised for the awful way you are living with some reality shows. It doesn’t seem to matter what you do as long as you are recognised. It’s crazy! Being recognised in the eyes of our father and working along side him is what life is really about and then a whole joyful world opens up that seems impossible to comprehend when you are stuck in the treadmill that is the rat race. Instead you live in the cycle and rhythm of life still circling around the sun but with true purpose which makes life worth living.

368. Beautifully and simply put Lee, when you finally realise you answer to no one except for God and you have no other responsibility than to maintain that connection to Him, the world becomes a magical place to reside in. Life is no longer a struggle, hard work – yes, but not a meaningless rat-race as you have described. It was Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that supported me to re-connect to this Divine Purpose for all.

369. I love having God as my Boss! He is so loving and gentle, he just gives me gentle impulses to get the work done. All that needs to be done is for me to be me.
     Thank you Lee I can feel the depth of your love in writing this blog.

370. I love this Blog – I work for God and my job is to bring great joy and light into this world by just being me. Each one of us brings such greatness. Some have just chosen to hide it from themself and others.

371. Many a time when something appears to be ‘simple’ I put so much in the way and once complicated it keeps the mind happy! but as you share so beautifully with us Lee. “There is no struggle” ‘Just by being simply who we truly are’.

     1. Isn’t it fascinating, that all we want is simplicity in living, yet we’re more familiar to complications generally and therefore seem to bring-in a never ending stream of it unless checked.

372. I love this quote “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” This has supported me to feel the issue underneath my resistance to decluttering, and begin to explore the “hanging on” I do to certain things.

     1. Melinda, this was also my favourite quote, so simple but spot on! It certainly explains our current materialistic society where the catch phrase is “More! More! More!” or Bigger! Bigger! Bigger!” – people forever chasing ‘stuff to own’ or stuff to entertain or distract them from feeling the emptiness we all carry until we make the choice to reconnect to our inner-most and start to live in the fullness of the love that is offered.

373. Lee, I can really relate to the ‘generally succumb to life’ version of living, or in this case, existing. Just this small sentence reminds me about the choice we always have to either live by our interpretation of what the world wants or connect to what is true for ourselves and those around us. I know I gave up on myself (and sometimes still do) in favour of gaining favour from playing my version of the world’s rules of gaining favour or rebelling.

     I used to set myself up with obstacles and complications to keep me distracted from working for God. This needs constant effort to keep going, the working hard at overcoming struggles and issues, the keeping of these struggles going. Sometimes I liked to reward myself with the overcoming of an issue which, because I had created it in the first place, I already knew how to resolve.

     I know it’s a work in progress letting go of my investment in creating this way of life for myself. But reading blogs like yours supports me to realise I could fully embrace a life that is far, far grander and stop selling myself and everyone short of what is possible.

374. Awesome sharing Lee – it’s so true that constantly striving to prove oneself and to succeed brings no joy or true sense of fulfillment. But when you begin to value yourself and the qualities you bring and understand how this quality affects everything around you, you begin to feel true purpose. Every job or task – no matter how small, then has equal importance.

375. Lee I am revisiting your blog , and I have found it just as inspiring the second time around. I too feel that we are not here to be only concerned with acquiring possessions and wealth. When we have that attitude to life we find life is always a struggle because we never seem to have enough, and life becomes about competing with our equal Brothers and Sisters and love goes out the window. There is enough for all to share in a world where love and equality is the rule. Thank you again for a great sharing.

376. How we do what we do. I have been concentrating on that for a while now and can definitely say it has eased any load I might have put on my own shoulders. The load appears to come from feeling like I have to achieve, yet concentrating on just being me in every moment brings it back to working for a grander plan. Definitely a work in progress.

     1. This is cool Lucy Dahill – we do load ourselves up to build up an achievement cupboard stacked full of things the world really doesn’t care about – it really looks the other way when it gets the first opportunity. Coming back to ourselves in the truest way possible enables us to really feel the the fact that we are from a grander place and here for a truly grand purpose.

377. Working for God says it all Lee – what a Joy to feel these words and this living Truth.
     Everyone equal, each playing their part and working for a unified purpose.

378. Sometimes I find myself in thinking about how to handle this or that and under the pressure to get something done. Then I bring back into my mind that I do not need to know how to do it, not need to know what is right. (In fact there is no ‘right’) – I can just connect, surrender and let the Plan come to me. Very unbending.

379. Love you style Lee, Old God would have to be the best boss ever, constant love,you don’t get the sack if you stuff up and all the free will to do what ever we please and the benefits are endless. It does come with huge responsibility as well, when we truly look at it.

380. This is just what I needed to read this morning, because there is a possibility for me to step into another role at work and out of my comfort zone, so reading ‘I work for God, not myself’, is a great reminder. Thank you.

     1. And Julie, God won’t give you anything you can’t handle…any new challenges are presented to us because we are ready and can handle what’s coming.

381. “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” – a brilliant question Lee. I agree, most of our society seems to be obsessed with money, and has that as the main marker for success. But through Serge Benhayon’s presentations I have grown up with the understanding that money is not the ‘be all and end all’; success includes everything, from relationships with your partner/kids/people you meet in the supermarket, through to how you are in each of your daily tasks at work or home.

     1. Success at work for the large and most part of our population, is something based on outside markers like work accomplishments/promotions, amount of salary earned, a job title, level of seniority held (and more…), and yet in my experience as a Recruiter, I have found that if we achieve ‘career advancement’ at the expense of the harmony of our relationships – both inside and outside the office, typically through unease, tension, conflict, even break ups, and not to mention the dents to our sense of our wellbeing, sanity and health, then is the big job, title, with the big salary to match – ‘a success’?? After all success means a favourable outcome, or something positive. Achieving or accomplishing something with any pain or upset, is not success. Success isn’t about what we do, produce or earn, but the way in which we do this that is in respect of ourselves and all others through the way we live. Success is living and working with love.

        1. Brilliantly said Zofia – that chase and near thrill of advancing up the ladder produces that ‘tunnel vision’ that literally discounts all relationships in truth – for it is really only about advancing and satisfying self.

382. Thanks Lee, your article is very timely as I have been recently weighing up the value of material possessions, which turn out to be a big weight to carry in most instances. The things we need in life to truly sustain us turn out to be very few in number.

     1. Great Jennifer. I also have been endeavouring to lessen my material possessions. Bit by bit, I am making more space in my cupboards. It is very much a work in progress, working layer after layer. I guess this will go on for quite a time yet, until eventually I make my life way more simple. Not always easy after many years of accumulating but feels really worthwhile.

383. I love this Lee ‘It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are’ So confirming to read these words . I have never been particularly driven to make money but also never fully grasped my purpose. Your words very clearly and simply unify us all, they are a Universal Truth with so much power. Thank you.

     1. Thank you Lee for a very beautiful blog. I spent most of my life concerned with security. I have at last let that go, my purpose now is so different, to just get me out of the way and do what is needed to help God with the Plan for us all.

        1. Security and perceived safety helping to keep us small and contracted. Feeling your purpose is way bigger and grander than that previous way Beverly Croft.

384. Lee this is so beautifully expressed. Having been caught up in ‘working for self’ and feeling so empty and lost, despite an outwardly great life… returning to the love that I am was a welcomed relief. Showing others that they are as equally divine feels so very natural and expands my heart.

     1. Outwardly looking great lives crumble at some point don’t they? I have observed in my own life where the pieces just don’t stack up any more and they all fall down. Coming back to the truth, the realisation that actually living with truth is fundamental to inspiring others back to their own truths.

385. Lee thank you for this glorious claiming of who we are and the joy that is rightly ours to live. I too was caught on the treadmill however deep down I knew that this was not it. Since choosing to work for and walk with God again I do feel like I receive eternal pay rises, as my glory and grandness expands with every moment that I choose to bring and express all that I truly am.

     1. The expansion back to the grandness we are is certainly a ‘pay rise’ – that fullness is priceless.

386. What I have found I often do is make life complicated – when I do this I know I am working for self, as when I work for God life is very simple and complete.

     1. What a great marker to know where your focus is and what is running you Gyl. Complication is a go-to for me also, and feel that it’s me living from my mind rather than my heart, a good point to know who I am working for, self or the All.

     2. Great point Gyl – yes, when there is complexity and that foggy contracted feeling that accompanies it, I know I am making life about self and not the all and is God.

387. “Every step of the way God has been there waiting for all of us, patiently, and without judgment.” I love this line Lee as I know it to be lived truth. Even on days when I feel like I am way off, in reaction or feeling so much tension in my body – thinking ‘I’ll never get there’ – what happens ….God reminds me I already am there and he is with me all the way. It might be by a white feather appearing at my feet, a love heart somewhere or a reminder, confirmation or reflection in the amazing people I meet. And in that moment I know I am complete, that God is with me always and why I am here.

388. Sometimes I have the image of touching everything with God’s hands. Like, if God is speaking through my hands, what would that feel and look like?

     1. I love that Jenny thank you, even as I type now, feeling the absolute love, delicateness, power and deep care for everybody. And so so tender.

     2. That’s beautiful, Jenny – I’m going to bring this to my days also.

     3. I do this too Jenny James, I love to be delicate and gentle with everything I touch. Someone said to me recently “you don’t like noise do you?” and I replied, it’s not so much the noise but the energy in which something is done if it’s done in a harsh way, like slamming a door or putting something down heavily like cutlery in a drawer, or walking hard on your heels. Considering everything is energy I like to consider that everything I touch then carries the energy of me and that then becomes a responsibility to bring through the love of God through my hands, delicate and gentle like a feather.

     4. ..we can hear Gods voice when you sing Jenny James!

     5. Wow, Jenny James, that feels absolutely wonderful. But then if we are Sons of God and are truly connected with ourselves and therefore with God, then yes, God would be speaking through my hands. Something to be so, so aware of now. Thank you.

     6. That’s gorgeous Jenny to see that our own hands are an extension of God’s hands. Wow!!

389. I have a very different sense of purpose to life since I realised that I work for God and the hierarchy. When I fully live this knowing my life is joy-full, complete and very simple

     1. Yes, Mary-Louise Myers, having a true sense of purpose is really a key to my life now. It feels so great to be working for God and the Hierarchy. I find myself doing things I could never have dreamed of before. I have learned so much new technology over the past couple of years, and it is certainly not for myself, but for God, I just love having this awesome sense of purpose.

     2. I’d say you work with the Hierarchy with a ‘capital H’ Mary Louise absolutely.

390. Lee I love the title of your blog ” Working for God not Self” and it just reminds to get myself out of the way and focus what life/work is truly about.

391. When I gave up trying to be someone or something at work, gave up trying to succeed, and focused on the purpose of my work, what value I bring, how is what I do influencing many more people than I see every day, everything changed. My income doubled, I was promoted quickly and I loved a job I used to hate! Working for purpose is working for God, and it has changed everything.

     1. An amazing confirmation and reflection – when we get ourself out of the way.

     2. Well said Heather, working for purpose is working for God. Since I realized that I work for God my life changed and got a true purpose. Very beautiful.

     3. I first read this reply a couple of days ago and it has stuck with me, reminding me through out my working day and has helped me to make a decision with regards to my own work situation. Thanks Heather.

     4. Thanks Heather – a beautiful inspiration at the start of another working week.

     5. I can relate to this too Heather. I laugh to myself sometimes when I say ‘oh I get paid to do what I do too’, like it’s a bonus! I love my work and regularly say that I have the best job in the world because I am connecting and being with people all day and reflecting to them that they are also divine, they’ve just forgotten…I am there to simply remind them, not with words but with how I am.

     6. The key word here is succeed – at what cost have I driven my self near into the ground to grasp those dollar bills or drive that car, own that house etc. We all have fallen for the illusion of success – redefining this is as simple as you say Heather – focus on the purpose of the work and the value that you bring. Awesome.

392. This is something that I have only really just understood but it is only because I have allowed myself to really feel it in my body that this is the case so to speak. The whole identification that I had about being me and that it is my body and my Soul is such a controlled way at looking at life. Clearly we have a creator – God, that is pure and divine which means we are also this. So if this is what we have been created from then how can we possible claim to own who we are. Being and extension of God and allowing this to flow in and through me is not mine to own but one to share for all that I meet along the way.

393. Money or God? Give me God every time. For with God I have a richness of life and relationships that money could never buy.

394. “We are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.”
     -Very powerfull statement indeed!
     In claiming who we are in full- a Son of God; Love as the core of who we are allows us to come from this grandness and glory, instead of seeing ourselves as the sum equivalent of how many $ or possessions we have, or job status.

395. yes i agree Lee, life does feel very different and its so much brighter and shinier than ever before since i came across the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I have never looked back and I now love living and participating in life in such a way that i never knew before.

396. When I work just for money I do two things.
     Firstly I do not care deeply about what I do and attend to every detail as though it were the most important thing in the world.
     The second thing is that I show everyone I work with that money comes before everything and it is not only OK but natural that they should do the same. I get tired working like this. Weary in fact.
     When I know that I have the capacity to represent God in everything I do, the details become opportunities for his light to be expressed through me, and I show people (and it can make them very uncomfortable) that there is nothing so small that we can just let it go by.
     They say that “the devil is in the details”. Well I say that God is in the details, but only when we consciously choose him as the one we are working for.
     It is amazing to me that the more I choose the correct “boss” – who happens to be the least bossy boss ever – the less weary I become, and more I want to work.

397. I love it working for God not for self; it brings true purpose and direction to life instead of the mundane, dreary existence many of us settled for.

398. Hi lee, thank you for sharing this blog with us, I could really feel when reading the first few paragraphs that exhausting and almost debilitating way of living which you described that I was once completely stuck in and given up over. The wheel or rat race as you call it, a never-ending pursuit for short moments of happiness or contentment. Stepping off the wheel, which is what the teachings of Universal Medicine offers us has been for me incredibly empowering, as it does then become about our relationship with God, with ourselves, with nature, and therefore with all. It has for me changed everything, opening up a space for true contentment to be lived in that I have been brought back to the responsibility of meeting myself – claiming the truth of who I am, and living this in the world. A very confirming summary of how you view this Lee, thank you.

399. “feather their nest with as much as possible so that they can eventually leave the rat race and do what they want to do.” We spend the majority of our lives trying to get through something in the belief that once that is done we will get the reward at the end whereas in reality that reward that we are seeking does not come. But when we stop to look at our lives and how we are constantly striving the whole way we live changes.

400. Lee this is so beautiful. As I was reading I felt my whole being shift and as I sit here now have a deep feeling of purpose filling my body. It makes so much sense. The simplicity in the way you have presented truth is so accessible and takes off all the pressures of the expectations of society that most, if not all of us buy into at a tender and young age. It’s almost head-shakingly, unbelievably simple, but I know that it is true for I feel every cell in my body nodding. Thank you.

401. For many years I chased wealth and abundance at the expense of my body, not realising true abundance is not in the chasing but just allowing and looking after my body. As I let go of the need for wealth, and started to focus on myself and my health, my perspective of wealth and abundance changed, it is no longer about money, but now about the true wealth which is love and health. With true health and love I have for myself and humanity, I have an abundance of wealth.

     1. How lovely, fresh and re-affirming Amita. The true meaning of wealth and it’s origin is in our own loving connection with ourselves and sharing this with humanity. What is needed to support this will come, we don’t have to try, push and manipulate. The difference between magnetic pull and law of attraction, is a science worth studying.

402. Beautiful Lee, thank you for sharing.
     I am saying yes, yes in full.

403. It just comes back to trust for me and when I trust God and open myself up to our true purpose which is working with God time stands still everything falls into place life is simple and I am presented with everything I need. I’ve gotta wonder why I would sabotage that.

404. Lee, I love this blog, thank you for sharing it. I also have come to realise that “we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know”. And from that all that I need is to BE just who I truly am, a Son of God. I too used to believe that security was what I needed, but now my emphasis is to serve in what is needed for myself and especially others at the time. As you say, “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone”.

405. From a young age it seems our only real directive is to get on and do well at school: get a good job, buy a house and get married, build a family and go on holidays, eat out, and generally succumb to life.”
     This pretty much summed up my life before Universal Medicine. I got to the stage of generally succumbing to life and the emptiness that it brought. It has been an absolute joy to understand that we are all part of a grand plan, that there is a purpose and that each and every one of us has our own wonderful unique equal part to play and that each and every one of us is required to complete that plan.

406. I recently came to a very deep realisation that much of my work up until that moment was mainly driven by a self motivation. There was no two ways about it, I was working for myself even though I thought I wasn’t. It is so easy to convince ourselves otherwise of the truth we perhaps do not always want to see.

407. So many people are discontented with the way of life, chasing the money as you describe Lee, showing it’s not true because it’s not fulfilling at all. I ask every morning to be put where I need to be in service and that feels so beautiful to be working in this way, wherever I am in work.

408. To live in a way ‘by being simply who we truly are’ does take the pressure away particularly of the ‘trying’ to be something we are not. If money is at the bottom of that trying it is a continuous striving and a constant pressure can be felt. I’ve jumped between both examples and the one that I can shine too has a natural flow and feels amazing and the ‘me’ becomes ‘us’. As you share so beautifully Lee “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone” Thank you.

409. Absolutely beautiful Lee, something I also have considered, and my heart sings with joy when I feel the truth of it . It brings a whole new meaning to work.

410. I love reading your blog Lee. Today I take this sentence with me: ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.’

411. We all work for God, and the payment we get from him is his love,
     and his help when ever we talk to him.

412. “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know”. What a powerful observation, Lee. To find the beauty and simplicity of life in this materialistic world is an amazing gift from God for us all. I struggle to appreciate this at times.

     1. For me this beauty and simplicity that is so clearly visible when I am myself and am showing this with no calibration, is just amazing beyond words.

413. I am still challenged by refining my diet and cutting out certain foods that make me feel bad. I try to remember that I am in this body for this life and it’s on loan to me so that I can work for God – so I better look after it as best as I can.

     1. I can relate to that, Jinya.

     2. that is an excellent way of saying it Jinya! yes my body is essentially on loan to me for life so i can work for God- what a way to see things. so yes absolutely , like loaning the boss’s car, better put the right fuel in it and look after it really well…. the boss will want it to be reliable for the places i have to do this life, and when my work is done i have to trade it in and get a new one!

414. Lee your comment “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know” is incredibly powerful. If we feel all that you offer here, it is huge……to bring the presence of God to ALL that we do and EVERYONE we know…is very different to how I, at least, for a long time had been living. Thank you.

415. It is a beautiful reminder. Material wealth can offer us temporary relief, however it can never truly offer us fulfilment.

416. Amazing Doug and we could get rid of the bankers and the insurance companies as well.

417. Who do we work for and why do we work? Is it just for the money or is there another purpose? The beauty and simplicity of being ourselves first in all that we do means that it doesn’t matter what we do, we can bring ourselves to our work. A lovely blog Lee that has brought much reflection.

418. Definitely Elizabeth – and when we re-connect to this true purpose, life changes around us… Tasks that we first thought were hard or a struggle are made so much easier when we open up to seeing how they truly serve (and that they are not just for self!).

     1. Yes, Elizabeth, reading this again is great reminder of our sole/soul purpose and as you say, Susie, by doing so life changes around us. It brings such a more expansive perspective and understanding for living, which makes life worthwhile and so much bigger than just the world of self.

419. I love all that is written with so many one liner ‘gems’. So many beliefs and ideals in life are dismantled and/or cut with the simplicity of “working for God not Self”. Thank you deeply, Lee.

420. Beautiful Elizabeth. It changes our whole perspective on life and the way we live.

421. ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.’ It’s been liberating to clock this after decades of pursuing treadmill ideals and beliefs that never delivered anything but a need to keep the machine of distraction going full-time in order to replenish the empty void it all never filled. It is true that ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.’ I’ve proved that life unfolds with a simplicity, an ease and a flow when I take away the need for control and let go of the belief that it has to be hard-won.

422. Very inspiring Lee – I must admit, that I’m still struggling sometimes and in these moments I loose myself and then everything is just about me and not, what is really needed in this moment. Thank you for all your amazing reflections on such a blog what life is really about.

423. How freeing to let go of the material abundance. Now my intention behind buying something is to support myself or others, no need for recognition, showing others what I got, very freeing indeed.

424. I agree with what you offer here Lee…the relentless striving for more money never satisfies or fills that gap we feel. In the times when I have wished I had more money something is always presented to me that makes me stop and take a look around me at what is already in my life and right in front of me – this brings great appreciation for all that my life has been to that point and the joy of what my life is in that moment – and that is very fulfilling, nothing else matters in that moment. The more I appreciate, the more full my life naturally feels.

425. There is a script so many run with that goes like this: get a good education , get a good job, get married, have kids, get them on same path, retire with lots of spare cash….
     This is supposed to be the formula of a happy life, yet we see so much marital discord and relationship breakdown and our nursing homes are full of elderly people who followed this formula and yet are succumbing to dementia and debilitating conditions in their old age.
     Somehow something in that script is so lacking.
     With UM I have learned that I need to make life about people, love and about how I live each day. I have learned that so many choices I make every moment of the day create so much of how my life feels.
     I now know that I don’t need to worry about how my life will turn out, I simply need to keep choosing love and all will take care of itself.

     1. I agree, Felicity, as I read what you describe as the formula for a happy life it feels so empty and pointless, an end gaining to nothing in the end, and so many of us have found it to be untrue and started to break out of that model and seek something deeper and far more worthwhile. It is the quality of how we live our lives that matters and makes it possible to live with ourselves and others in harmony. As you say, making life about “people, love, and how I live each day”, and then letting go of any attachment to the outcome brings a deeper knowing of how to work with God as we give more time and space to ourselves, everyone and everything around us.

426. It is wonderful to be reminded that my first job is to be me. I cannot pretend I am not well equipped for it and I cannot doubt my ability. I just have to say yes.

     1. Well said Leonne…exactly it…my first job is to be me…all of me.

     2. I love it Leonne, my first job is to be me and as the essence of me is eternal I am surely qualified for the job.

427. Gosh what a relief: ‘I work for God’ – not for me, money, recognition or what ever. Now I can focus on what is really imported, be free of identification or judgments.
     We have all the same purpose – to re-union with God and our doings can support or sabotage that. That apply for all professions equal.

     1. Sandra this is so spot on. Working for God takes the head chatter and the doing out of the way. Making a clear path for feeling what’s needed and simply getting on with the task at hand.

     2. Absolutely Sandra – when you work for God the cleaner, the secretary the teacher, the Prime Minister and the CEO are all serve humanity equally.

     3. “We have all the same purpose – to re-union with God and our doings can support or sabotage that. That apply for all professions equal.” That reunion seems very important to me Sandra, as there was a time in my life when I dedicated my work to God and ended with burn out because I was putting God entirely outside of me. That re-union, or re connection, and knowing that God is inside of us to be connected with, is the first step and vital step to living in the world without the old need for recognition, lots of money, or fame, all ways of controlling our environment, and so be able to serve in any walk of life because it is from the innermost heart and not an ideal in the head.

428. It brings new meaning to life if you go to work for humanity and yes, we need the pay to live but it doesn’t become the main focus and the amount of money we are paid does not define our worth.

429. I love this line, “Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.” We tend to keep ourselves hidden away and small, not wanting to reveal ourselves in full. Saying ‘Yes’ feels like a big leap but when it is said and committed to, it feels the most natural thing in the world, and something the world very much needs.

430. Security is a word that has become synonymous with money, a word filled with walls of safety and protection. It seems this tireless seeking of financial security keeps us away from ourselves and each other. If we were to first seek security within, build a strong loving foundation through greater self regard and awareness then the we would know a richness far grander than any pay cheque.

     1. This is beautiful licindag.

     2. It is funny how we think money gives us security. We long to feel safe but we don’t realize that feeling safe comes from knowing who we are and living our natural way to the best of our abilility.

     3. Beautifully shared Lucinda about security and the drive for money when really by building security within first with a strong loving foundation of self love ,awareness and appreciation it brings the fullness to everything we are and do. This is the true richness, power and living with God we all seek but the world we have created does not honour this.The reflection from Serge Benhayon his family and Universal Medicine are inspiring humanity with the truth again for us to reconnect with for ourselves.

431. I agree Lee our real work here on earth is to reflect back to humanity that they too are equal Sons of God and that nature and other people are all here to support and guide us back to our reconnection with self and God

     1. Well said Mary-Louise.

        Society, business and media tell us that we need to ‘get ahead’, ‘look after number one’, ‘stay ahead of the game…’ All messages that are subliminally encouraging us to succeed at the expense of others. But is that really why we are here on earth? To push our fellow men out the way on our way to personal success?

        When you say yes to working for god, as Lee describes it here, it couldn’t be clearer that we are here to build bonds of brotherhood, love and equality with our fellow men, not to seek personal gain at the expense of others.

        1. Lovely Kate, so simple, ‘we are here to build bonds of brotherhood, love and equality with our fellow men, not to seek personal gain at the expense of others.’ how gorgeous this feels compared to competing against each other, it feels so empty when it is all about ourselves with no care for humanity.

432. “The first job is about being with us with no expectations what so ever.” This is something I have been committed to for a while and the benefits of feeling and knowing me and loving me for who I actually am, not for who I think I should be far out weighs anything money can buy.

     1. Well said, marylouisemyers, what you describe is more precious than anything in the world – without love for ourselves we have nothing, but when we live in love we are rich beyond measure.

     2. I have been working with this myself, and it is a work in progress, but the importance of it is crystal clear to me, as I have found in numerous ways and different times in my life that there is absolutely nothing outside of us that can fill the void that is there if we are not deeply loving within ourselves. Yet when we do have this relationship everything else comes from it, and abundance awaits us.

     3. I love what you have written here Mary Louise and it supports me no end to feel that this is a loving process that we commit to and dedicate ourselves to.

433. You pose such great questions Lee. And a big yes to feeling like I have replaced my missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ I own, in order to fill the gap! The material possessions have temporarily eased the pain of separation, but at the end of the day I have still been lonely and disconnected. The only way I have been able to ease the tension and the pain I have felt has been to work on connecting back to me, through massage, healing sessions, walking, gentle breath meditation, yoga. The separation, loneliness, tension is much less now and I have felt how much by doing these modalilies I am living in a more harmonious and accepting way with myself. Not as much beating myself up and allowing myself the space and the grace to simply be me in the world. With this acceptance, I feel this is where the opportunity to walk in true representation and true energetic quality of god comes in. With full openness, acceptance and grace I have found there is another way forward, out of the ‘rat race’ one that is harmonious with everything and everyone.

434. “I appreciate the ever-deepening relationship with my Self and our Father.” I am finding that the more I appreciate my relationship with myself my relationship with our father deepens and I appreciate this on a whole new level.

435. ‘Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.’ This is such a beautiful quote Lee and the truth of life! So why are we starting to say NO, why is there a struggle, when we all know it all.

436. I Love your phrase “I work for God”. If what you have written above Lee was how we raised our children, the word responsibility would probably not exist as it would be so much a part of us we would not need a word to define it. This blog is simply beautiful.

     1. Very true Toni, we definitely need to be bringing up our children teaching them that when they walk, talk and work they are doing it for the ALL and affecting everyone around them. It would bring the meaning of responsibility to a whole new level.

     2. That is so true, responsibility doesn’t need a word when everyone is living and working in service of all.

        1. And while we can’t force anyone else to be in service and consider others, it is a wonderful thing that we can as individuals choose to live this way with the purpose of serving other people and giving out that reflection of care and responsibility.

        2. Beautiful Toni and Stephen, holding this in our conscious awareness that ‘I work for God’, that I am here for all, not for self, and as Stephen reminds us here, that it is not about what others are choosing but that we are ever deepening our own understanding and living of this – with no imposition. I have come to feel recently that a life without imposition or expectation, is a life of love lived, and I life I am dedicated to living.

     3. This is spot on Toni and absolute. Responsibility is a living away and once lived speaks for it self to all others.

437. ” without judgment.” I really appreciate this line, the fact that God never judges, yes we may take a few times to make a true choice, but never once are we being judged. For me this is absolute love. I feel the same love from Serge Benhayon. Something to reflect on with myself and others, allowing space, compassion and understanding.

438. Imagine how little misery and struggle there would be, if any, if we all approached life and work in this way. Every moment would be a joy, in harmony – and us all working together, for the same purpose – under the same ‘boss, God.

439. I have been caught up in self of late, so I deeply appreciate reading this.

440. ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle’. This is such a powerful statement Lee.

     1. A very poignant sentence Rebecca and one that shows true equality is something we have always been able to have as it but a choice. Something to reflect on deeply.

        1. Agree David and Rebecca… I can feel the absolute truth of this statement and how much humanity has wounded itself as we choose to walk away from it. Life lived in joy and love is there for everyone, but what many of us have done is substitute this with short-lived pleasure and entertainment or so-called fun from stimulating activities, but not from the inner richness of life. In doing so, we say yes to a constant tension and struggle because we’ve effectively sold out our own connection with ourselves. That is our connection with god, with our soul, and there is nothing more joyful than to reconnect back to us.

        2. Cool David and something we forget often – it is always a choice and true equality can be chosen at any time.

     2. And so true!!

441. The difference between trying to achieve wealth so that we cannot ‘want’ for anything materially, and opening ourselves up to our true purpose, working with God, and the abundance and simplicity that brings, is totally inspiring and remarkable. The choice of which to align to is in our hands every moment of every day.

442. The simplicity of working with God was initially clouded by layers of ideals. The choice is simple. To live with God in my life is not what I originally thought it was, but dealing and clearing the rediculous ideals was at times a challenge but always well worth it.

     1. Yes. The quagmire of garbage that needs to be cleared out to enable us to see and feel the simplicity of it all. That is what handicapped me for a while. The simplicity. After half a life of complications, ideals, ambitions, dreams, expectations, problems, issues whatever, whatever, it took me a long time to accept the naked simplicity of it all. It was right here, all the time, sitting right under my nose….the simplicity of working with God….and that stuff can still creep back in, absolutely it does. But now, I don’t get lost, I don’t disappear into the complications and distractions. I have tasted the purpose of that simplicity and it is divinely delicious.

443. The constant struggle I’ve found in the past with working for self, is that it’s never ending drain of energy and I was pretty exhausted. Working for God, feeling the flow of being in the place I need to be each day in service feels a much nicer way to work, and I’ve so much more energy, it’s wonderful.

444. Lee this is a great blog, it gives a whole different perspective on life and work. I used to struggle most of the time to make ends meet, the teachings of Serge Benhayon have given me a deeper awareness of life and living. Not focussing on the struggle but on God and my relationship with God in myself and others, the struggle is no longer there.

445. Truly great Blog Lee, it a great thing to know God is always there to connect to if we should choose and how much more life can be if we make that choice.

446. Thankfully off the ‘treadmill’ Lee.
     In my experience, when we ” bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we meet” it is then reflected back to us with an abundance of love.
     Wealth is transient, true love is forever.

     1. ‘Wealth is transient’ – in a nutshell this exposes the futility of chasing our tails to fill our financial coffers – thank you, wendyvera188.

447. Brilliant Lee, you make the beauty of stepping away from self and towards God so relatable to everyday life when you say, “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever. The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose”

448. I am interested in your image of the rats, Lee. It gives a very good picture of what human beings do, but not rats. Rats are sociable creatures actually living in harmony. An example of this was told me by a farmer friend of mine; they could not understand how rats were stealing the hens eggs without breaking the shells. They discovered that one rat lay on its back, the others tipped an egg onto its stomach, and then they dragged it to their nest, where I imagine they all shared it together. This demonstrates a team work and equalness we human beings would do well to take notice of. With attachment to our individuality out of the way the opportunity is there for us to choose to be connected to where we meet — in God.

449. I remember that I also was seeking for wealthiness in the past and got aware how much I tried to reach security and recognition through this. This neediness left me back empty, sad and dull. Working for God instead for myself changes the whole purpose and brings such a freedom.

450. To let go of the huge burden of needing forever more material goods and money to provide some short-lived sense of achievement must be truly liberating – and who would want to swap your present employer (God) for anyone or anything else anyway?

451. “I work for God not myself”
     Such simple words Lee but oh so powerful and wise.
     What you have written is truly inspirational and supportive of us all to do just that; work for God.

452. I have just re-read your article Lee and found it awesome once again. This time in particular I could relate to the rat race feeling of what life can be like when we are being controlled by life rather than feeling like we take things into our own hands. It is an awful feeling when you feel that life is ‘doing’ you rather than you being the one ‘doing life’…And this re-claiming of life lived, in my experience thus far, does seem to come from surrendering to myself on a deep level and from there making the choices that support me, rather than feeling like I am governed by the things that are ‘happening’ to me.

     1. Thank Henrietta, to add to your awesome comment about how we can be caught in life ‘doing us’ I think that as a society we can take a strange sense of comfort identifying as victims of our circumstance. We seem to champion complaining about ‘the weather’
        “the man” and engage in false bonding over life’s hardships. I don’t think that we always truly feel that hard done by but are so afraid of arousing jealousy in others that we often hold back expressing when we are doing really well out of fear of other peoples reactions. Going deeper within ourselves and working for God is something that I aspire to do.

453. If I am completely honest I still feel uncomfortable about the word God, it always seems to remind me of a Catholic or Christian thing. When reading your blog I tried looking past the bastardised meaning of the word and feel that you are simply talking about re connection with self and the universal activity of love, that feeds you back if you align to the rhythm that pulses everywhere there is a constant opportunity for all equally to serve something that is bigger than self and that is simply GOD!! Oh my god, I just used the word ‘god ‘ and further more I actually feel like using the word ‘god’, it feels good and it also feels there is no other word that describes what I am trying to express. Thanks Lee, your practical use of the word god seems to have helped me let go of an old belief I was carrying about the word. Amazing, I really appreciate your blog.

     1. Love this comment Sarah it made me laugh as it was pure joy following your process here. . Oh my god there is a GOD!

     2. Love this. “Oh my god, I used the word GOD”. I totally appreciate the huge hurdle that the word can be. Which exposes the evil behind the bastardisation of the word. It is a tragedy that the word that we all crave in our lives is the word that so many of us are so uncomfortable to use. Hardly surprising when you consider the plethora of wars, the zillions of deaths, the thousands of raped boys and girls, the suicides, the assassinations, the decapitations, the poverty, the excess, the corruption and the greed…all of which have been conducted under the banner of that word. A much longer discussion about organised religion….save to say Thank GOD for Universal Medicine and the teachings of the Way of the Livingness. They have re-introducced me to my true self and to the true God.

        1. Thank Otto,
           When I wrote that comment I was a little embarrassed that l still carried issue with the word God or I should say the bastardisation of the word god. I honestly discovered whilst writing that comment how much power the true meaning of this word reintroduced by the amazing people of Universal Medicine actually has. Your comment assisted me to realise the depth of the hurdle, after all that has been done in the false name of GOD. I agree definitely safe to say Thank God for Universal Medicine and the teachings of the Way of the Livingness!! Thats too good I have to second that…

        2. I’m fascinated by the very physical reaction that you had to writing the word God and the palpable healing you received in writing your comment. This is amazing and fascinating to me. Because it has made me ponder more deeply what kind of hold, cap, contraction there is over me in relation to the word GOD. I use it quite freely and openly. It is definitely part of my vocabulary. But have I truly appreciated the full power in using the word? Your honest description has woken me up to an even deeper level of responsibility and claiming that I can go to in my use of the word. And then there is the wondrous science of a single word and how just it’s utterance can totally re-align someone – a science, the study of which I am only at kindergarten level, but I’m beginning to see and feel has immense power.

454. Thank you Lee, I can really feel the tenderness in your expression and a lovely reminder that when I work for God all I need to do is to focus on the quality of my beingness and then everything else gets taken care of ,so the more I learn to trust and let go of the old way of drive, control and struggle the more abundance there is in my life.

455. How easy it is to join the masses, get pulled downstream and forget who we are. Universal Medicine has created a true stop, a bright and shining mirror that points upstream, back to the source of where we came. As we connect to this source, to God within us we begin to see the true emptiness of the downstream current that humanity has so readily accepted.

     1. I love what you have written here and the analogy of upstream back to the source or downstream back to the misery.

456. This line is so true “inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES”. We actually know what we are saying yes to but still we say NO! Worth pondering on why we avoid bringing all of us to the ALL.

     1. The simplicity of the YES and the honesty required to consider why we resist it. This morning I say ‘YES’ to God and all the learning and expansion that that relationship brings. Thank you, Elizabeth.

457. Beautiful blog Lee Green. I grew up with issues with God. My father died when I was young and I blamed God. I studied at a private high school catholic college and we had brothers who took care of us. Some of them treated me with no care or integrity, even though they seemed “good” and ticked the boxes – there was no love.
     I was never taught that life was about energy and how to discern from my family or at school. Thank “God” for Universal Medicine and the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom. I am in service now and work with God every step of the way.

458. This is so worth reading for anyone who is stuck on that treadmill. If we can’t enjoy each moment what are we living for?

459. Hey Lee – we have the same employer – I work for God too – the pay is great and there’s no need for holiday leave because everyday is exactly what it needs to be – the rewards are constant and the other staff are awesome too!

     1. And you don’t need to ask for promotions or pay rises…just keep committing to the job, yourself, love, truth and brotherhood and you race up the ladder and the pay checks get bigger and bigger.

        1. That is so true.

460. Getting self out of the way and working in service is something I’m developing Lee, and your description with this blog expands this understanding, ‘we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know simply by being who we truly are’.

     1. I love this too gillrandall and it is a lovely reminder to start my day with.

461. A great blog Lee; have experienced what you have written about and to have a deeper connection to myself and god has made working such a different experience. I like that saying ” I work for God ” when understood by its true meaning .

462. Thank you Lee I love this article so much and agree with it all .The purpose of working for God is amazing and ends the emptiness and struggle and simply allows the joy and love inside us all to be our purpose and reflection.

463. I can really relate to the inner struggle to get wealthy looking at the outside to fulfil this wealth, yet I would at the same time deliberately sabotage earning money as I felt a lack of worth about being successful. What I’ve now come to understand is that perhaps that sabotage came because I didn’t first develop the true wealth of my connection with me – with that the material side is not what defines but something that supports.

464. Such words of wisdom Lee, and fundamental to evolving is realising we are part of something bigger. We may have our individual job titles and own job description but within that we all have the opportunity to claim God in every moment of our lives. The grandness of working for God is huge, it is like having your manager as your best friend who is always there to support love and guide you.

465. Great picture, Lee – the ‘rat queue’ not even the ‘rat race’! A very apt description of what’s dished up about how life should be. I agree that the ‘on the job training’ when saying yes to working for God is second to none!

466. By rereading your blog, the fact that we come unclothed and unhindered by the material goods touched my heart. This openess, rawness, love and dedication we are born with is our true quality. God’s blessing.

     1. So true Kerstin and it is so beautiful to experience that we can rediscover of that, as it has always been with us and we just choose to mask it.

467. I totally agree with you Lee; ‘we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know simply by being who we truly are’.

468. I remember always trying to fullfill myself with more material things but never finding any true satisfaction or joy in it. I started to realise that money is definitely not everything and I can now see that this constant aquiring of things is a continual drain on my body.

469. I love the concept of “working-for-god-not-self”. When I forget to include God in the equation I seem to be convinced that it is just me struggling to make life happen. Yet when I do include God, life becomes effortless and I feel I am not so much working ‘for’ God but more ‘with’ God as an equal, and there is far more fun, understanding and enjoyment in my every day.

470. “We come unclothed and unhindered by the material goods that we then quickly learn to engage with. Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?”

     Lee I love the powerful reminder here that we do come into this world naked and unencumbered, full of love and joy and held as such by those around us. So what does happen to the love? This is such a needed question for all of us? Followed by what are we replacing the love with? Money and things are definitely gap fillers.

471. I definitely enjoy work far more and find it an enriching experience when I get myself out of the way and just do what needs to be done, as opposed to labouring away at what I need to do for my own recognition. The two are very different and by the end of the day I can tell which one I have been in by how tired or inspired I feel.

472. Lee, I love your angle on who we are really working for, and I love how you have written about this. We’re here to bring all of who we are to each other every day. Having studied with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for many years now myself, I get that same feeling, where before it was all about me, myself and I.

473. Your blog Lee gives a new meaning to being ‘self employed’…if we aren’t working for God then we are ‘self employed’.

     1. that’s true Sandra – being ‘self employed’ no longer holds the same appeal once we re-connect to our divinity and know that working for God and for humanity is the only way to go.

     2. Great point Sandra!

     3. !! Love this Sandra. For years I was entirely self employed. Now I am working for God. Sometimes I slip back to my old employer and the difference is huge. My old employer is a thankless, egotistical, materialistic, secretive, competitive and lazy man who has no concept of the bigger picture and working for him leaves me feeling exhausted, totally unappreciated and devoid of passion, joy, vision, creativity and love. My other boss???….well I could talk about him for ages….the simplest thing to say is that it isn’t ‘work’. It is a 24/7 way of life. He is the best boss I could ever, ever ask for. I have worked for him before, but I forgot how awesome it was so I walked out on his company. But he hasn’t judged me, and has held my old position open for me for all these aeons. This time round, I have contracted myself in (although there are no contracts) for lifetimes. There is no boss like him, his company is called Life and I am deeply proud to be an employee.

        1. Amazing ottobathurst … there is a separate blog right here in your comments. We all work for the same company called Life…that is Gold!!!

     4. Haha, I like that Sandra. You can feel the real difference in working for God rather than being ‘self employed’. What a beautiful way to wake up in the morning, knowing that everything you say or do will be representing the love that you come from.

        1. We can have so much fun with this janetwilliams06….our KPI is simple – Love.

        2. GOLD, GOD, L for Life….There is a super cool company logo in there somewhere…

474. If we live our life craving constantly for more material wealth then we can never truly be satisfied, for there will always be more money to earn and more goods to obtain. Its seems wise to strike a balance and word hard, but not push and drive ourselves to get richer and richer. i have found more and more that if I work with the right intention, to be of service to others then I have everything that I need to live.

     1. Agree with you, Stephen. All that we need is provided for.

     2. Yes Stephen, that is my experience also. If I am true to myself, work with God in co-creation, then I am wealthy in every way..

475. Hi Lee, this makes work so much more simple and so much more inspiring. In service there is never ‘too much’ or ‘too little’ because if you are truly walking your walk with all the grace of that then the next move becomes apparent, it naturally expands and unfolds.

     1. Well said Rebecca, the next step becomes more apparent when we work in service.

     2. I agree Rebecca and Lee, this puts working in a whole new perspective and gives space to the true purpose and joy about working together. We all simply love to work for God.

476. Lee I was brought to a stop when you said “I work for God, not myself”. From here I could feel the extraordinariness in what you are sharing, but how everyday and ordinary it is at the same time. It brings up sadness for me that I have worked so hard at not claiming this for myself even though I know that I know this to my core. Thank you Lee for this beautiful and loving reminder that God walks with us always and all we have to do is make the choice.

     1. Me to Jennifer – It was a True stop – true Joy to read ‘I work for God, not myself’. It’s beautiful. I wouldn’t have it any other way.. Everything you do actually means something.

477. Lee you pose some great question and yes I found that I did try and ‘full’ myself up with material ‘stuff’ and never content with what I had and always looking at what I needed to be who I was. Once returning and re-connecting to my inner knowing with the support of Universal Medicine I can see and feel how far away to the truth it really was.

478. Thank you Lee Green for a great blog! The lines that grabbed me were………”The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose”…… So by working for God we are actually working for us in as much as, we are a beneficiary of our choice.

479. Lee the clarity of the statement “I work for God, not myself’ is impossible to go past without feeling the depth of this truth. It changes everything around the purpose of living.

     1. Beautifully said, Sandra, what else is life about? Universal Medicine has ceaselessly supported me to nominate the ideals and beliefs that have obscured this simple living truth.

480. YES! Thank you Lee, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I am feeling inspired to detach from all the materialistic things I have attached to, distracted myself with, or believe it as being super important. Love is the most important thing, so I feel to no longer let these outside issues and stimulations take me away. Serge has taught us all so much. And from this we have been able to express more of us! Things that otherwise in life I would have been unaware of, but underneath searching for. Lee you speak directly to me – an amazing article.

481. When we embrace the truth that “we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know”, life becomes simple, joyful and full of purpose. Thank you, Lee, for being a living inspiration.

482. That’s a lovely way to put it Lee, we ‘work for God’ not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are’. But it’s not so easy if we are not first attending to our own needs and being lovingly supportive to ourselves. If we are, then we can do ‘God’s work’ willingly and joyfully because our self is not needing our attention or recognition from others. How simple it is then to just naturally be ourselves and respond to what needs doing without attachment to an outcome.

483. “We are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” Hear, hear Lee. This feels true to me and the most natural way to be.

484. I can really relate to the need to gain more as such a draining way to live. I notice this in many more subtle ways like when I want to control outcomes and being upset when things don’t turn out how I like.

     I’m learning to clock when I’m invested in outcomes and pouring energy into situations. This feels so stressful and is opposite to the grace I feel when stepping back and appreciating what’s being offered for me to learn from.

     1. This is such a key thing to clock with oneself, investment in outcomes is so very common with us all. To bring more awareness to when I do this, is something I am working on. Because when you are invested in an outcome, with that does come expectations, complication and the like. Being able to step back and observe, stay with yourself or find ways to come back to your own connection, I find certainly helps if I have started to get too invested in a situation, or person.

     2. Karin, the words in your comment that stood out for me to be more aware of today were “…when I want to control outcomes…” and until I learned that I actually had an investment in the outcome of almost with every situation, I had no idea that I had ‘control’ issues for, until recent years I had the belief that this behaviour provided some sort of sense of security. From attending the presentations of Serge Benhayon at Universal Medicine and listening to the Ageless Wisdom I have re-membered my connection to God and my re-connection to trust.

485. I love it Lee, such a beautifully relatable blog. You bring something normal to ‘working for God’ that before I knew Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, would have been a turn of phrase that would see me running for the hills. To give this phrase a relatable and deeply felt meaning is quite something these days, after centuries of false-worship to the concept of an all-powerful God, thank you!

     1. I agree Jenny, I too would have interpreted ” Working for God” in a very negative, ‘Pulpit thumping’ sort of way if I had stumbled upon it in pre-universal medicine days!

        1. I am reminded of a friend of mine who referred to such things as ‘God bothering’ and people who engage it is as ‘God botherers’. Today I realise that God loves nothing more than being ‘bothered’ by his Sons, supporting them and indeed ’employing’ them. In the words of the song, ‘there is Love to be done’. How very true.

     2. I agree with you Jenny, I think I would have overtaken you when running for the hills on hearing the expression, ‘working for God’. Growing up I couldn’t escape the false concepts and went through life metaphysically keeping my hands over my ears because deep down I knew the teachings presented about God in the church did not feel right to me. Universal Medicine has allowed me to understand something that intrinsically I always knew but couldn’t articulate. Lee’s blog and Universal Medicine’s presentations do bring normalcy to God and working with him… and because its so normal it feels so natural and not a big deal.

        1. Yes agree rachelmurtagh1 and Jenny, …. because ‘working for God’ (for me) (and pre-Universal Medicine) came littered with the extreme confines of an organised secular faith and with religious fever or sanctity. But when the truth about God and true religion is re-felt, there is nothing more rewarding in it, heavenly sent. Because working for God is being ourselves. This is the normalcy of religion. This is what is sacred, divine, and belongs with God.

        2. I can really relate to this Rachel and I too did not have much to say about god when growing up, it is however a very personal relationship and now knowing again that I can live life in full connection with god is profound and life changing.

     3. Good point, in the past I would have seen working for God as being subservient, now I see it as an equality; although if I am really honest I still have a bit of an issue with the word God which I think comes from old ideals and beliefs and not really connecting to me and the truth I know, but instead coming from what was outside of me rather than within me.

        1. Love what you say Zofia. The normalcy of God. What a million miles that is from my former perception of God; guilt, blind faith, dogma, fear, arrogance, secrecy, separation…all supported by the corruption and evil that is so rife in organised religion. If you’d have bet me a million pounds that I would never ‘work for God’ I would have taken the bet straight off, no question!! Yet here I am, ten years later, my life filled with joy, purpose, truth and,most importantly, normalcy because as you say working for God is nothing more complicated than just being ourselves….Someone should have taken that bet!

     4. Absolutely Jenny – in the past I would have turned my back and walked away too. Thank God (!) for Serge Benhayon who has made God relatable and available for ALL.

        1. Hear Hear Eva I too would have stayed in my given up state from trying many different avenues to God but not one being true. It is Gods work in having Serge here to teach us all that we are the one and that our connection with God in all that we do is what matters in life.

     5. Like you Jenny, pre-Universal Medicine I would have been “running for the hills” very fast, if someone had suggested I worked for God. It has taken me a while, and the letting go of a huge amount of resistance, to finally feel the truth of this – that I do work for God in each and every moment, and will do so until my last breath in this life. It’s the best job ever!

486. I just love reading this blog Lee again and again. Inspirational, confirming and something for all mankind to reconnect to — our true purpose and all the joy and humility that comes with it.

     1. I’ve been a bit the same with this blog – it can be read several times easily, for each reading is as you said Katerina, inspirational and confirming.

        1. I am with you Oliver, it is very much like that for me also. There will be a day where we are all working in this way.

        2. Me too and it is a great reminder for me to take to work, who am I really working for? And what am I trying to achieve?

     2. I feel the same too Katerina, each reading I find more deeply inspirational.

     3. Beautiful Katerina – I couldn’t agree more. The depth in this blog keeps unfolding.

487. I really agree with what you have said here ‘From a young age it seems our only real directive is to get on and do well at school: get a good job, buy a house and get married, build a family and go on holidays, eat out, and generally succumb to life.’ Only now those prospects of getting a good job and home (especially in the UK) are harder than ever before. What we really should be learning from a young age is how to honour what we feel, self-love, self-care and understand everything we do builds towards the life we lead. This is what Universal Medicine teaches and what so many young people (and adults) today could do with knowing and learning; then it will become less about struggle and more about true purpose.

     1. Very true Vicky – I agree with your words, and I can only imagine how inspirational it would be if all the young people today (and to echo your words) “could do with knowing and learning; then it will become less about struggle and more about true purpose.” – and the emphasis being on the word ‘true’.

     2. I love and of course completely agree with what you have said Vicky : “What we really should be learning from a young age is how to honour what we feel, self-love, self-care and understand everything we do builds towards the life we lead.” After years of not being aware of that I feel blessed that I came across Universal Medicine which supported me to start to live in this way. Society would turn around and the phrase ‘working for God’ would not be a big deal, it would be a normal every day fact.

        1. Golnaz, it’s true it would be no big deal but really a normal everyday fact: working for God. For those who may struggle with the word ‘God’, we may also use for all humanity, for us as equal brothers on earth, for the harmony in us and nature. For us here on earth and our constellation within the universe. For us and for all. For our neighbour and our family. You see working for God is quite all encompassing.

        2. I agree with all you have said here, Golnaz and Vicky, and it is such a shame that young people are not taught to honour what they feel and practice self-love and self-care. Then so many of them would not suffer from such a lack of self-worth.

     3. Beautifully shared Vicky, it is about true purpose what we are here for than the struggle to make it in life, which is what we are brought up with. But as we start to make the changes in our lives and share that life is about self care, self love. Then through our reflection we can share with everyone we meet.

488. This is a beautiful blog with so much to capture and truth in it, of what we know and the love and tenderness expressed, of who we are and what we represent and how we live is simply glorious and nothing less. Working for God our absolute and real purpose and brings the real joy we search for. Thank you

     1. Yes tricianicholson having true purpose changes the game (in your favor), and your a guaranteed winner !

489. Having revisited this blog again the song ‘what if god was one of us’ came to me… are we all not working for the sons of god? So with that; jobs, homes and churches are all the same, the doors are always open but it is still our choice to enter.

     1. This is so true sjmatson, it’s easy to forget that we are ALL sons of God, without exception.

        1. Jonathan it is so easy to forget we are all the sons of God and so go about living in a way which is basically all about us. It brings a whole different perspective and outlook towards life when we consider the picture.

490. ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.’
     What you have said here offers everyone an opportunity to reconsider that age old adage about life needing to be a struggle. I recall my parents telling me it was and somehow it just didn’t feel right. It has been because I have made it such and am learning now through connection and simplicity that life can be a joy, not a struggle.

491. Thank you Lee for the clarity and reminder of what we are here to bring, and reflect to all we meet… not the badge of monetary wealth or showing how many material possessions we own. I feel the same drain you speak off, when I’m focused on money and not feeling I have enough.

492. This time reading the blog I detected more deeply that I also have this treadmill of survival and needing enough money for this. Taking this as the purpose to work is indeed very draining and doesn’t let me enjoy what I do and see what I bring. As such I am not able to appreciate.

493. Wow Lee there are many aspects to this blog that require deeper pondering.
     Could it be that if I live naturally with myself I do not need to use prejudice or arrogance to defend myself against the people I share the planet with? If I treat everyone with the same dignity and respect as I treat myself, is that working for god? I thought I had to be doing something. I remember a priest I got to know that did not have a day job but went around to the schools and hospitals and held mass 3 times on the weekend. I thought he was the only one who worked for god. A child came into our work place yesterday and was so joyful she brightened up everybody out of their mundane disposition. Everyone was touched and the effect lasted long after she left. I have no doubt whatsoever that this little girl works for God.

494. Lee the truth of what you share couldn’t be simpler. ‘Reflecting God from our own true way of being’. I love this job description and yes to a commitment to bring this to everyone and everything.

495. I enjoyed reading this again. The key message being that I don’t have to struggle to keep doing, or try to be anything but that I am here to be me. Being all of me and sharing that with others is choosing a life of true abundance.

     1. I agree Annie, this blog is great to re-read. Bring all of me in life first took a little practice because I was so use to not living all of me. The more I choose to be me and to look at what stops me from bringing this quality to my life the more simple, full of love and joyful life is. Being me and knowing I am enough is everything and this foundation then supports true service.

496. ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.’ And it is our only job to reflect who we are where ever we go.

497. Wow, this is a very different way of seeing life but actually makes a lot of sense and feels so great and purposeful as well. The mundane capitalist society grind is left for dead here!

498. Thank you Lee for the great reminder that life does not have to be a struggle.. not just about money, but about everything. It has so often felt to be stressful and burdensome, but now I realise that I was just making it that way.. All that is needed is to re-orient to be living who we truly are and live and serve from that grandness,… and if this were to happen the world will change completely.

499. When I feel very connected to living within God in this realm, I feel held by a parentage that is so holding I cannot help but feel my delicateness. Then what I do is no longer work but play.

     1. Exactly Jinya, the more we connect to living within God, the more we will realize how much work there is to do, yet at the same time this is pure joy, as there will be no difference between work and leisure time anymore

500. Thank you Lee, your blog is a very timely reminder to not get caught up in the working rat race mentality.

501. I love this blog. Brilliant writing Lee. Thank you. What you are offering is gigantic. I can feel the release in my body, in my shoulders, as I read your words. This change is something that I can absolutely relate to at the moment. I still oscillate between the two – working for me (££, recognition, self-validation) and working for God (service, brotherhood, purpose). The difference is too huge to even be able to compare them. What I love though is that the job itself remains the same – but what is so radically different is me in it and therefore the people around me and therefore the quality of the end product. And what is also so amazing is, as you say, the difference in the pay packet. When I work for me, I get paid a very healthy amount of ££. When I work for God I get paid in joy, glory, brotherhood and eternal love and support….and a very healthy amount of ££. Its a no-brainer!

502. This line definitely resonates with me, Lee, “From a young age it seems our only real directive is to get on and do well at school: get a good job, buy a house and get married, build a family and go on holidays, eat out, and generally succumb to life.” It certainly describes how I was brought up a long long while ago. Not the eating out, my parents did not do that, and in those days there wasn’t the choice that there now is, and it would have been thought to be completely wasteful to pay for a meal when a good meal could be provided at home much more cheaply. The big emphasis was on security for oneself and one’s family. And I admit my late husband and I followed the same line to a ‘t’ with our family. I must admit that I did begin to question this at times, but did not argue with my husband.

     But since I have met Serge Benhayon and been attending Universal Medicine presentations and workshops, I have come to feel more strongly what I had already begun to question before. What you have described here, Lee, is what I have now come to realise. My true purpose in being here is to work for and with God in his plan, and not for myself. I know now that if I really connect with the Divine Purpose, I will be looked after anyway. The main thing now is for me to trust in my true self.

503. “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.
     The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose.” Beautifully expressed Lee. Just being our natural selves, as we were when young ones. Learning how to undo all that I have acquired in my life – ‘the what is not me’ – is a constant unfolding back to who I truly am..

504. How extraordinary it is that we join the rat race in order to work hard to leave it!

505. Thankyou Lee. I too can say that life becomes so much clearer and more amazing once you align to the impulses of who you are, and the expanding glory that we are from.

506. What greater and better employer can we have, “The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose”.

507. ‘The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support’. What a shift from needing the security of so many noughts in a bank account. What an inspiration to take responsibility for myself and then let go into the grand plan. Thank you, Lee

508. Beautifull Lee with every word resonating the truth.

509. How would we rather live – as a rat fighting to get to some kind of position close to the ” front of the happiness cue” or as a part of a brotherhood of equality where each feels whole and full and shares from their heart all of who they are never at the expense of another. This is very clear to me from your blog Lee. And you are right – life feels very different after stepping out of the Rat Race!

     1. That is a great choice to make simplesimon888, I want to live in a world of brotherhood so I am finding ways to live it wherever I go.

     2. I agree simplesimon888, it feels completely different and changes the entire focus of life, working with, and for humanity rather than trying to ‘succeed’ on your own, above or at the expense of others.

510. “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” Yes, Lee, this is very possible. I have been having a clear out and it is very revealing how I have replaced the missing feelings of love with ‘stuff to own’.

     1. I know this one: to replace the missing feeling of love with food, actions or other material stuff as well. It is very freeing to get this exposed in my life.

     2. Yes, I can relate to this too Natalie. Having a clear out is a wonderful place to start and then looking at why the feeling to buy something comes up when it does. “What am I trying to avoid feeling or trying to make up for?” Is a question I ask myself in this situation.

511. “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” – so simple and so true. This is presenting something huge – it is not one or the chosen few who bring the presence of God to the world, nor those who we think because of their job this is what they do, as a minister, a rabbi or a priest for example – but we all, every single one of us from a child, a bus driver, cleaner, doctor, wife, teacher, lawyer, mum or dad have the opportunity to bring the presence of God to this world, if we so choose – in every little thing we do, be it walking, typing, cooking, eating, standing, driving, just being ourselves. This completely changes the purpose of eveything and work itself.

512. ” who I came here to be” these simple six words offer so much – I came here to be a Son of God and serve.

513. “And how many have we trodden on?” this is something well worth considering and made me stop. Just how many people have we trodden on in life, when we make life about self. Probably too many to even count.

     1. I feel it is hard to be truly honest about this fact, that I have trodden many in my way to improve my life. I try to defend myself like “I did not know any better at that time”, and “I was not aware that I was doing this” and especially the last argument I feel is not true. I have always felt that I was missing out somewhere. I can now feel that because I had chosen to be part of this ‘rat race’ on earth I was not able and allowed to find out why I was missing out something but still I could feel the tension inside that something was not ok. I had chosen a way of life with the only purpose of advancing myself and I was not truly concerned about other people. Working for God is so different and something I am just starting to explore, but I feel that is so different from where I come from. Working for God takes all of us into account, all encompassing, no one to be left out.

        1. You are right. Being truly honest about those that we have trodden on in the pursuit of our career goals is an alarming revelation. The rat race that we all align to is an active destroyer of brotherhood.

514. I love coming back to read this blog, it’s so lovely to say to myself that I work for God, and the pay cheque of overflowing love (and no tax) is the best ever pay cheque around!

515. “I work for God, not myself.”
     – we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.
     Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.”
     -I love this Lee; a more loving and purposeful approach to living, without needing to please or control others.

516. What I find quite compelling is how as children we are born knowing the essence of who we are and that to be ‘with God’ is a natural connection to oneself, yet by the time we are picking our school exam subjects and deciding our careers, we have gone into ‘what will serve me best’. I’ve noticed this emphasis on ‘what will make the most money’ is so much stronger these days than before. There is less emphasis on vocation or blossoming a natural talent than there is on engineering a course of study that despite the disregard in getting there, will reap for oneself and one’s family the biggest material return. It is a work in progress to change the meaning of ‘working for oneself’ back to the one-self we came into the world to be.

     1. Gret point rosannabianchini and well said.

517. This is a great blog Lee! A line that resonates for me is…..”Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?”….now that I have discovered Universal medicine, I find myself wanting to start shedding some ‘stuff ‘ which just no longer seems to be part of me or my life.

518. Wow, Lee. This made me stop. My relationship with work has definitely changed over the past few years, but this has made me realise that although I have taken more responsibility for work, I have still been working for me and my own gain, a kind of “what can I get out of this” attitude. Even if it is not about how much money I can make but about what I can learn, or what can I bring to the workplace so I feel better about myself and feel I’m doing something good? All of this would explain my recent feelings of lack of enthusiasm at work. Thank you for this opportunity to stop and take stock.

     1. I could also find myself in that situation Naren, although I enjoy working and love to see others do well, I do wonder if sometimes I still get too caught up in the outcomes that I would like to see, rather than just present me and allow what will unfold to do so.

519. It is said that if you love your job, you will never work again. Working for god makes you ready for work everyday but so does loving yourself and taking that to your day job…life.

     1. I love that sjmatsonuk; my day job is Life

     2. I love that too sjmatsonuk…you’ve summed it up beautifully … life is our day job (and our night job 🙂 ).

     3. ….and I’m never going to retire!

        1. Neither am I, I love my job… my life.

        2. I agree with you Ottobathurst, my retirement is all planned…its a pine box!

     4. So what is your job? My job is life. I love it.

520. Reading your blog, Lee, brought tears to my eyes, on being reminded that we are ‘on the job trainees’ embraced with no judgement, just acceptance of who we are being for ourselves and others. Thank you

     1. Indeed Janneprice and Lee. And the letting go of the expectations takes away so much pressure from our lives. Suddenly we do not have to live up to something, but are just free to live and be.

521. So refreshing to hear a blog about God, i have a close relationship with God and you have brought another dimension to that, when i really look at what i need in life i have always been provided for very generously. The persute of more and more, really took me away from myself. I love working for God and yes the rewards are better than i could have imaged.

522. The ease and flow that is available when we say yes to who we are, is effortless to enjoy, as it requires nothing but us. To me, we are a speck of God, one and the same.
     With all the experiences I have of this ease and flow, I still find myself complicating things by rushing, not being present, chasing outcomes, etc. I am able to laugh at myself more quickly lately and once I get back on track, the support which is always returns to my awareness and I am back being that speck of God. Beautiful, thanks Lee.

523. Lee; this is a great depiction of the rat race, everyone is yearning for more purpose in their lives but instead go for the things that reward them as an individual. I feel that if you work honestly and earnestly you are not in competition with anyone, and so nobody is lesser. Working at a natural sustainable pace is supporting for self in an out of control world. Working together for the benefit of all is doing gods work.

     1. Thank you Bernard for putting expressing this in a way that I can easily relate to, and no doubt many others will also be able to easily relate to. As I read what you have said I can feel that competition and striving, which is the way in so many workplaces, and indeed in schools, is not our natural way. Really, we all crave that sense of working together, even if in practice we find it hard.

524. Thank you Lee for this log. Working for God not myself is something I am letting in more and more as my truth. I still feel caught up in the temporal self stuff, but I am re-discovering what my purpose in life truly is. Being me to the best of my ability and reflecting that into the world.

525. Gosh, yes, doesn’t it! And if we marry this with the understanding (as a wise accountant who understands money told me recently) that the trick to money is watching what goes out rather than what comes in, we should be totally sorted in terms of job satisfaction and pay.

526. I love this blog! I too work for God but I’d never articulated it as such. Thank you Lee!

527. “I work for God, not myself.” This puts a whole new perspective on what it means to go to work and our motivations for working. Also puts a whole new perspective on key performance indicators. Thank you for sharing this Lee.

528. I love this blog! Lee, I too feel I work for God but I’d never articulated it as such. Thank you!

529. As God is ever loving and truthful it means to work in a very truthful way, having a loving way to be with one’s colleagues, customers and clients.

530. Beautifully written Lee, Living each day with Gods impulse, in constant communication. I could not imagine another way to live.

531. You are so right Jane about our ideals and beliefs about pay and reward at work.
     I wrote a blog recently called “God is my Employer” and I talk about being a “Custodian” of my company. I don’t own it and I put people before profit. I don’t have to spend a penny on marketing or advertising as I understand that those who are ready will come and they do. This is not airy fairy or new agey talk – it is real and I have tried and tested it out.
     In the past I have spent over £45,000 on marketing and it got me nowhere other than in debt which is really crazy.
     Today my job is to stay open and TRUST that all is taken care of.
     Working for God means there is a quality and that is to remain consistent in my Commitment to Truth. Truth is God.
     If my company had shares I would buy it simply because it is guaranteed by God.

     1. …and all products have an eternal warranty. Thank you for sharing this Bina, very inspiring.

532. Beautiful blog Lee. Working for God in the Livingness means I’ll never work a day in my life.

     1. Awesomely said Karen, and a great expansion of the ‘do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’ adage.

        1. I could not agree more Victoria and this is coming from someone who has always truly loved what they do and could not wait to get on with working each and everyday. And now Universal Medicine have simply taken it to another level and shown me that the joy of work can be expended and can be brought into every part of your day.

     2. ‘Working for God in the Livingness means I’ll never work a day in y life’ – WOW – what a great car sticker! Work: the gift to serve not the chore to endure.

        1. I would gladly pop one of those stickers on my car matildaclark. Brilliant thank you.

        2. Awesome way to look at it Matildaclark and so very true!!

        3. I love this matildaclark – Work: the gift to serve not the chore to endure. There is much joy when we live in this way.

533. “From a young age it seems our only real directive is to get on and do well at school: get a good job, buy a house and get married, build a family and go on holidays, eat out, and generally succumb to life.”
     This pretty much summed up my life before Universal Medicine. I got to the stage of generally succumbing to life and the emptiness that it brought. It has been an absolute joy to understand that we are all part of a grand plan, that there is a purpose and that each and every one of us has our own wonderful unique equal part to play and that each and every one of us is required to complete that plan.

     1. It’s such a wonderful comment to read deborahmckay. Simple, yet for those like myself who sometimes disconnect to the grand plan, the reminder is priceless. For without purpose, we’re rather aimlessly wandering a planet that is designed specifically for healing.

534. ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.’ This is a revelation. I have created struggle in my life and thinking that life was this, but to know, feel and connect to the opposite; that there is abundance and life is simple, it is truly life changing.

     1. Me too re the struggle. A former PM here in Australia famously said ‘Life wasn’t meant to be easy’. I remember hearing that when I was much younger and taking it in – if this important man said it, it must hold weight. Even though a part of me knew it wasn’t true, when I looked around at others, I decided he might be right. Now I have a different example, set so beautifully by Serge Benhayon and many others who have trained with Universal Medicine. Life will always have it’s challenges, that is a given. But it doesn’t have to be a struggle and there is enough!

        1. Victoria it’s an interesting point you make about taking on beliefs about what we perceive life to be. Being born in England I grew up with common sayings that people use when asked ‘how are you?’ such as ‘mustn’t grumble’, ‘it could be worse’. These well worn sayings kind of set the scene of an expected life that is really very dreary, apart from yearly holidays abroad. They don’t encourage anyone to open to the possibility that life can be an extraordinary love filled experience.

     2. The abundance thing intrigues me, I think about it often, and often understand it in the context of water. Living here in Australia, even on the most fertile, coastal edges, we hear a lot about drought (and often experience it ourselves). From time to time we also hear a lot about floods (and experience these too) though overall, we have far, far more arid zones than lush ones. Then I go to a country like England, or a tropical Asian country, and see crazy amounts of water falling from the sky. So in truth when I am back home, I find it hard to believe the messages we get urging us to be cautious with water usage because I know that for some reason, the truth is Australia – or rather its people – have an issue with abundance because there is PLENTY of water in the world: just less of it is distributed here. The same parallel can be used with money and its distribution; or love – or anything we feel a lack of.

        1. With regards to abundance and lack, how can it be that in one moment you feel drained and struggling and life is complicated and difficult, and later the same day or after a few days, you feel full of joy and you have everything you need and feel the love that is your essence and that gives you the bases to have a simple and fulfilling life, without any of the outer circumstances change?

           Could it be that when I am contracted, all my thoughts and actions come from that energy and I create that strain and that struggle? And is it possible that when I allow myself first to relax, then to trust, and then to position myself in the truth that is within, my thoughts and actions support that reality and life becomes full and simple? And then service becomes the unavoidable natural?

     3. And on top of the struggle I have created comfort to ease the struggle rather than clearing both out of the way to come to the humility and appreciation of knowing my place in the bigger picture and allowing myself to be truly supported and impulsed by God and the Divine Plan.

        1. Beautifully expressed matildaclark, I too can feel how developing comfort happens in my life to minimise or delay the truth that I can clear both by taking responsibility for the love that I can feel and bring to every aspect of my life. When I choose not to do this, another layer of comfort descends which has nothing to do with the being ‘impulsed by God and the Divine Plan’.

        2. So well said Matildaclark, We set up a so called comfortable life where struggle is expected and perceived as normal, whereas it is actually anything but that. We can absolutely live struggle free, in joy and in union with God every day when we live with true purpose.

        3. Absolutely Matildaclark, it is so easy to make life intense and complicated, and get lost in that struggle, and in the ways of escaping the struggle… when all that is needed is to tune back into ourselves, and holding that foundation allow the plan to unfold from within. When I remember this, everything shifts.

        4. Ah matildaclark, struggle with a dollop of comfort on top and you have life as most have come to know it !

535. I can relate to what you say: … how much the need of gaining more has been such a drain, not only on my physical body, but also on my energy levels – feeling the never-ending wells that have literally drained me of who I am and who I came here to be. This is what I have recently experienced, the drain of focusing on not gaining enough and losing the focus on what I bring and the joy of just allowing it to come out, freely, with no worries, with the certainty that I am supported, positioned in my purpose, and how much more energy and strength I have when I do.

     1. I agree juliamanbos when we focus on not being enough and needing more there is a drain to the body. When we live with a knowing that we are already everything and returning to living from this space with each loving choice we make there is vitality and energy to serve.

     2. Yes juliamanbos, having a relationship with God through the relationship with love of self, comes with the lessons needed to not fall for the seed of self-gain which forever keeps you less, stuck, constantly seeking more. God is within and the abundance of energy / light or love is there always, as this is who we are and where we are from.

536. Thank you Lee for opening up our understanding of work and what life is about. There is so much more to life than we allow ourselves to see.

537. This is a blog that I will keep coming back to, as a reminder of what life is really about. Thank you, Lee, for sharing your depth of awareness and appreciation of God’s love.

     1. Me too.. I have just re-read this blog and will do so many times. This is God speaking Lee. Having connected to the true purpose of the job we are really here to do, God can speak right through you as he has done here.

     2. Yes janetwilliams06, this is definitely a read and re-read blog… very profound, very normal and very relate-able.

538. You describe here Lee how we can go from self interest -we have been down that route and it doesn’t work- to working to a different plan that serves others; and in doing so, serves us too. I get it, and there’s no retirement planned.

     1. Retirement, certainly NOT! Being a Servant of God is definitely something that we can take to the very end, and love every minute, every challenge and every joy-full moment.
        WOW how many people can say THAT when they go into old age, as love is always there, it never fades away it just gets stronger.

539. I love the thought of working for a bigger purpose, we spend so much of our lives working and living entirely for ourselves, but what if there is something bigger we could be working for?

     1. Me too Meg, I love the bigger purpose and devote myself to that. I have also seen this notion taken to an extreme in my work with nonprofit people and organisations (and acknowledge this tendency in myself). In this setting, people will often leave themselves (and their staff, if they’re managers) out of the equation altogether and work themselves to the bone for a ‘higher purpose’. It is therefore about balance. Never should we leave our bodies and being behind, in the pursuit of good works.

        1. No – absolutely, I find if I stop caring for my body everything else stops working, it’s like a carpenter sacrificing his tools – you don’t get far!

540. I am learning that working with God is a full-time job. We would be in illusion if we believe we are doing so on a 9-5 basis. Every moment, even whilst we sleep, we have the potential to be in commune with God’s love, the love that holds us in equal depth in this realm of expression we call the Universe.

     1. I like this Jinya! Though I suspect God is more than happy to employ part-timers too, knowing in time, with the right training, experience, skills and support, they will transition to a full-time role.

541. I relate to this blog in coming to an understanding of my own work for God and my description of this came to me one day in words similar to, “no matter where you are and what you are doing you can ground the Glory of God on this planet through your connection to your body”. I have always felt the importance of expressing from my body and this has brought a great challenge, because it is in shutting my body down by making it racy, excessively stimulated or hard, that keeps myself in service of self and not of God. Treating my body with amazing tenderness connects me with all of life. It is so simple.

     1. Simon, when I began to feel the hardness and holding I had lived in my body for most of my life, I realised it was because of all the old belief systems and behaviours I had accumulated and was holding onto. Releasing these I could feel my body becoming gentler and more open, and I was able to connect to the deep essence inside of myself where I find the Glory of God and my connection to all others and the whole universe. There is still much to let go of, but having experienced this I know it is always there, and as you say ” Treating my body with amazing tenderness connects me with all of life. It is so simple.” It is a way in, not a way out — searching outside ourselves for God, we know it in our bodies if we just take time to listen and feel.

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     2. Beautifully said Simon – I totally agree.

542. I like the idea of working for God.

543. Contrasting the analogy of the treadmill to that of being connected to our essence, people and God, it really is the only true way forward.

     1. I agree Tracy. Though how funny that we think our treadmills are taking us forward! I use one at the gym. It seems like I’m moving forward, but really it, and I, are just going ’round and ’round.

544. It’s very normal in a work day to move towards a certain outcome: I mean it wouldn’t be fair to oil only 9 out of 10 decking boards at a work site, just because it hit a certain time of day? I feel pressure from the weather, time limits and all sorts of things in my work – but the more surrendered I am and the less invested I become in life happening the way I ‘think it should’ happen, the more I am allowing myself to be.

545. I felt the honouring of truth in your blog Lee, and the expressing of all that is so entrenched in our belief systems about how to survive and to create protection in our lives during our working years. It would be so awesome if ones I know, would choose to dig a little deeper, read your blog and be inspired by what is there to be bodily embraced – could have the affect of all that is opposite to concern, worry, fretting and despondency, perhaps even gleaning the possibility that we are here to serve God, not man alone. How truly freeing that would be.

546. I love your blog Lee. I love its simplicity and how life can be simple if I make it so. Your blog spells things out so clearly, like, ‘I work for God, not myself.’

     After years of looking out for no.1 -aka me, I know that living just for what I think will fulfil me is never actually fulfilling. Instead I’ve felt desperately empty despite any momentary relief that may be obtained before I’m on to the next quest to bring meaning to my existence. Take away the relief, and years of working for myself has only ever brought an underlying constant level of mild depression – and this is at the best of times.

     Working for myself for years means I’ve got many years of investments and pride in the struggles I’ve created and muddled through. A complete falsehood really as I created the struggles in the first place and already knew how to navigate my way back or make it harder.

     So I’m working on letting go this deceit knowing there is a fair bit of attachment to working for me still. I am beginning to appreciate and accept that there is everything I ever truly wanted working for God, all the love, joy, harmony, awareness, truth, fun, brotherhood, family. I would have no need to distract myself with making life a struggle. I could just accept how bountiful the world is for us all if we choose it. Working for myself just isn’t adding up anymore!

547. “The pay is amazing”. Love it!

548. When we are chasing the almighty dollar what we have never seems enough, we set a goal, reach it but are still not content so we raise the goal a little higher and so on and so on. Money is great but if it is our main focus it can be dangerous.

549. The fear of not getting enough can be such a distraction. Once we look behind it and let go of it, we realize that in truth there is an abundance of all that is needed. We only have to trust, take responsibility and commit to a life that is not just about us, but about everyone.

550. I enjoy re-reading this blog Lee – there is always more to be reflected from it. I have recently felt a Glorious and amazing experience where I have felt not only working for God, but also working with God.
     A deepening in my relationship with God for sure. Thank you for your inspiration.

551. Every day I have to remind myself to not make life about seeking comfort for myself and instead to live in a way that truly loves, respects and honors everyone equally. Doing life for myself has been a difficult pattern to break, because it’s what the world revolves on, even without people realizing this is in fact what is playing out in their lives.

552. Being myself is worth so much more than money, wealth, lifestyle. This is a good thing to recognise Lee because I know I was always very sure that if I had money everything would be alright. It is a societal belief that I took on too, only to realise that love is what is really important, love for myself and others. Feeling comfortable in my own skin. Knowing who I am. This is the real gold.

553. We all have our part to play – “our first job is being us”- that is so powerful, what you say here. If we wouldn´t compare and just live and do, what our nature and strength is, everything would flow in this world- no better or more successful than you.

554. When I bring all of me to whatever it is that I am doing I am bringing God to it. In that way it is easy to see that I work for God.

     1. Yes, when we bring God to all we do, really we’re self-employed.

555. ‘Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?’ YES …. this is exactly what we do. Hence when we give ourselves permission to re-connect and to appreciate our awesomeness, it feels amazing.

556. ” bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” There’s a job description worthy of us all. Great blog Lee, thank you.

557. Lee What you say is so true, that “the abundance of life is there truly for everyone”. This is a huge statement to hear and take on board when we have based life on struggle – to get ourselves to a place and a position that we have decided signifies we are good enough or that we have ‘made it’ (whatever ‘good enough’ or ‘it’ may be). However with the teachings and example of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I am learning how to say ‘Yes’ to the abundance this is of Our Father.

     1. Rosanna when reading your comment and ‘Yes to the abundance of our Father’, I could feel in me a big ‘Yes’ this is allowing co-creation, letting go of the doing and trying.

        1. God as our co-worker perhaps!

558. Lee What you say is so true, that “the abundance of life is there truly for everyone”. This is a huge statement to hear and take on board when we have based life on struggle – to get ourselves to a place and a position that we have decided signifies we are good enough or that we have ‘made it’ (whatever ‘good enough’ or ‘it’ may be). However with the teachings and example of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I too am learning how to say ‘Yes’ to what is constantly provided for us all.

559. This is the best ‘job’ that I have ever had. To be committed to being me 24-7 and allowing God in and through me feels incredible.

560. Lee as I was reading your blog I was certainly feeling into how much of the way I went about working and my later years resembled the feeling I had when I was a baby or toddler? The answer was very little and life went from enjoying the magic of god all around me to learning and working to ensure security out of a fear of not having enough. But that enough is, as you shared, enough material security and possessions and in the trade off we give up the true wealth with is our connection to our self and our soul. In that we were already working for God as a baby and I can fully relate to starting to come back around to working for God again and the gift that blesses us with.

     1. God has no problem hiring minors! But as us minors get major, we forget the perqs we once enjoyed and go off chasing all sorts of distractions. When we work for God, he actually wants us to have a reverse CV – to get back to where we started – though a bit of acquired wisdom and experience is also considered OK : ))

561. A really beautiful sharing Lee, exactly what I feel so many of us have fallen for, getting caught in the never ending seeking of bettering ourselves (financially or otherwise) despite the consequences. I like the fact that you brought it back to us working for and with God, the ever patient one, who ultimately just wants us to see that we are and have all we ever need, we just need to see and choose it.

562. This feels very true for me, when I let go of ‘trying’ and struggling to make things work and focus on how I am, on my quality and trust that from there life will flow then things feel great, my work flows as do my relationships, if I go into the trying and thinking about money and security then life becomes a battle and a struggle. ‘The abundance of life is there for everyone, there need not be a struggle’

563. There is such joy in knowing we work for God … it’s the best job I could ever have, best pay, super supportive boss, there are no work politics, the only KPI is to be myself which I’ll always meet if I stay connected to myself and a ‘promotion’ of greater awareness is guaranteed, and God knows I’m not after their job 🙂

     1. Love this awesome and playful job description Sandra. I am looking forward to going into work this morning and the simplicity of just being me and the grandness of sharing that with everyone.

     2. Actually I think God wants us to role-share!

        1. And we work 24/7 when we work for God – there is no clocking on and off, my time/work time … it’s all one and the same.

564. In re-reading your awesome blog today Lee as you share with us “we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know” – through the many years of searching for something, something that felt true, this I feel is just that – the ‘pot of gold’ at the end of the rainbow.

565. Working for God is what my life is coming to more each day. It brings all the purpose to life I have ever wanted, it is the truest way to live for me making myself and my body feel alive and fiery.

566. How long is it going to be before mankind wakes up to the fact that money and material things don’t buy or equal joy and love. There is enough wealth on this beautiful planet for us all, not a single person excluded, to have a slice and have true education. Working for God is our only way forward and is where nobody is the loser

567. Despite letting go of many old ideas and beliefs that I carried around regarding money and wealth, I am still finding myself getting caught up in the fear of going backwards financially and so ending up in poverty. The impact on me physically and mentally is quite draining so your blog is a great reminder to focus just on being my natural self and allow the rest to unfold in a truly purposeful way.

     1. Great sharing, I can also get caught up in not having enough money which puts a lot of pressure and a constant tension. With moving the focus on being your natural self and also knowing that everything we need is here, in this moment, and that we are taken care off, really brings in a deeper trust and surrendering to life.

568. And what a lie we are sold that one profession is more important than another…
     When we work for God- we all hold equal value – being ourselves, we are all equally needed (no matter what profession we choose to express within)

     1. This is so true Kylie. And the inequality is accentuated by the difference in salaries for people even though a cleaner is doing just as essential work as the law executive but one is less valued than another because of what they are perceived to be doing is of less value. Working for God allows us to feel each other as equals which of course is the truth.

     2. Working for God is the most beautiful and natural way for us to live. We only have to put ourselves, the ones that need recognition, safety, status etc., to the side and let God work through us. ‘What is next to do?’ shall be our everyday question in our communication with God.

     3. Yes Kylie I was totally hooked into thinking one is better than the other but it is not possible when first of all we are all equal and then what ever the job is it is done from this equalness. Then dropping any expectations for ourselves and for others and just being us in what we do, what ever that maybe is working with and for God. Understanding this is the true way of living I feel the most joyous I have ever felt and love going to work.

569. Thank you for sharing this blog Lee -so much wisdom and power in this. There are some beautiful gems here to quote and remind us of the truth, I especially liked this one – “The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose.” – Love this and will take this into my day!

     1. Fully agreed Anna. There is so much here in this blog that we can implement into our daily lives!

     2. Absolutely. What more could we ask for?

     3. I agree Anna and love the line as well, no amount of money can ever equate to the love and grandness that can be felt within our inner-heart.

570. Working for God – ‘our first job to be ourself’ – I’m in. Maybe you should open a Divine Recruitment business Lee.

     1. I’d submit my CV, but I’m already flat-out being myself 🙂

571. The ‘gap’ you talk about is a great tension within many. Our body does not like this gap and the tension it brings, hence we try our very best to not feel this and numb it. How it is avoided or not felt is in many ways, using food, work, drugs or chasing money as you well said Lee. Whatever it is, the gap needs numbing or another way can be chosen and that is to Self Care, which is simply living in connection, with ourselves… With God.

572. It seems most of us have a checklist of how to accomplish things in life, to achieve our so called sense of success, but after that what next? There may be a fleeting sense of achievement but after that I have often felt there was something missing. I have been so busy finishing off the list that I left me behind so it always feels incomplete.

573. This is perfectly timed and spaced for me, Lee! I do intimately know how I can be of service to the all, just by being me in all I do. It is as simple as that and working for God is the best job I could ever imagine. Letting go of the ideals and expectations about what I should be doing allows whatever is presented to be said YES to. Letting go of Creating work and being instead a Co-Creator in the work I already do has made my life so much warmer as my relationships deepen within my family, with friends and ‘at work’, also. Just stopping to appreciate this makes it all the more meaningful. Thank you.

574. Working for God is so much more, and really when you consider it, we come in having it all and when we give up on that knowing we all have, it becomes about life and things. Lee’s comment on succumbing to life is telling, it’s what we all often do to greater and lesser degrees. But when we step back and consider there is more, and reconnect to the fact that my first job is to be me, and in doing so I am being of God, as I am of God, then things take a different slant. Definitely one for me to explore more in my work; I know that when I’m myself things are simple and flow, it’s when I make it about being seen to do the right thing, that it gets complicated, and stressful. And the thing is working with that wider picture is never boring, you really don’t always know what to expect which is the fun, and when that happens, if I stay me, it works somehow.

575. Lee thank you for the wonderful sharing and reminder that we are all here to work for God, not to become rich and famous leaving a legacy behind of money or accomplishments to be remembered by.

576. Lee, I love it, we work for God. Letting go of self, identification and all the material gains is tricky but the more I do and am at work for others the more content with myself and true success I feel.

577. Thanks Lee for reminding me – ‘I am here to work for God, just by being myself’. Very powerful and very simple.

578. ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever’. This is so simple and yet we live in a world where this is the last thing that we are encouraged to be. How beautiful therefore is it when we can allow ourselves, and each other, space to be just that.

     1. Rachel, thank you for picking up on this. To celebrate ourselves for the utter uniqueness we bring is so vital for the health of humanity. The spaciousness this creates offers a harmony and brotherhood that we simply haven’t experienced as a one humanity. Instead our experience is of comparison, jealousy, competition, fighting, aggression etc in the belief that someone else has what we want and that we don’t have it. This is a very narrow, painful and constricted way to live life stemming from the fact that we do not know how amazing we truly are as individuals and what we bring to the greater whole.

579. The more I let go of self, as in ‘what I want’, the more I can see that it does not matter at all what kind of work you do. At the end of the day it is about being of service and doing what is needed. We all matter, regardless of what work we do. The person doing management is just as equally needed as the person serving lunch. The same work, different expression, that’s all.

     1. I used to compartmentalise and write off some aspects of my life as being of far less value than others. I too have come to realise that everything has equal importance – taking out the rubbish has equal importance to me supporting a student at work, caring for my home is as equal as me caring for my children. Everything we do comes with an energetic quality. The way the universe is ordered leaves nothing less – a blade of grass is just as magnificent or as grand as the stars or the sea. It all has its purpose and it needs to play its part in the harmony of nature – one cannot work without the other. Working with God requires attention to the smallest detail.

        1. Thank you Michelle for taking this deeper and showing that everything we do matters, not only at work, but in every moment. A lovely reminder that I will bring into my day.

        2. “a blade of grass is just as magnificent or as grand as the stars or the sea” – michelle819, I love the analogy you use here.

     2. Beautiful, Mariette. I love how you have put this, as it brings such equality and values everyone’s contribution to expressing God’s love in our unique way.

     3. Yes Marietta, I have been thinking about this too of late. When we can put aside our identification with what we do and focus on how we do it, we can truly be of service.

     4. I totally agree, Mariette. Realizing that every job has it’s value and importance, no matter how menial it may be not only helps dissolve ridiculous hierarchy and feelings of being less important or less valued than others, but for me it has also helped me understand and appreciate what a positive impact I can have in helping others and I don’t have to be doing some advanced, complex job to do it. When you sweep the floor with real gentleness and care while being present in yourself doing it, other people can feel the love in that later on. Also, I like to remember how honey bees have all types of different tasks and roles (Queen, worker bees, scouts, drones, etc. ) and the whole hive could not function without every one of them doing their part. A good lesson for us all, I feel.

580. I know so many people who hate to work, simply feeling caught in the daily grind of life. And yet how refreshing would it be to actually have purpose to the work you did, to feel the affect you can have on others by providing the service you do with all that you are.

     1. Yep for many people work equates to the drudgery of life something you have to do, however as you have said what if we flip this on its side shake it up a bit and see it from a completely different angle of our purpose in the Universe, there is so very much more to life than we are currently allowing ourselves to see.

        1. I agree Vicky – And then life is no longer planned from the point of view of money, security and retirement, but from how much we can do and leave behind for other people.

     2. Me too Rebecca, and in the past this has definitely included myself… Recently I made the commitment to be fully, 100% focused at work – I haven’t yet exercised this enough times to say that it absolutely works, but from the few days I have been doing it I’ve come home feeling revitalised and ready for the rest of my day, rather than exhausted… It also totally changes the quality of my work.. I do intend to keep going!

        1. Sounds awesome Susie, how amazing would it be if as a society we committed to that and were revitalised by work rather than drained – I wonder how quickly sick days and illness and disease rates would fall?

     3. I agree, I used to get super anxious at work, but slowly I developed a confidence in my ability to do my job, and in what I bring for every customer. When you begin to bring a focus to this way of living and working, it completely changes your approach to what career path you wish to follow.

     4. This totally changes the purpose and feeling in work. As a result it feels like much more space is created as the self is taken out of it. The work itself is still very productive but the investment in outcomes is gone taking away any tension in the push to get things done.

581. I never did join the ‘rat race’ as you express here Lee, although I was perhaps in the same energy at the other end of the stick.
     More and more as I choose to live the future NOW, in every day, every thing is flowing beautifully and I feel totally at ease with the knowing that the future is coming to me. My work in the world is to bring all of me to what I do. This is my practice.

     1. I do fully agree with you Mary-Lou and this is super important in so many ways. Keeping focus and being very honest with ourselves really builds a strong foundation in life to do all that we are to do.

582. I love, ‘The abundance of life is there truly for everyone…’ This is the opposite of survival of the fittest that I can live in life. Eg. I used to get stressed at buffets because I was scared there wouldn’t be enough for me. This comment has really shown me we are all equally loved and are all equally love so how could God have created a world where there isn’t enough for us all? It doesn’t make sense.

     If I’m honest and step back and look at those times where I thought I was short on things- money, work, loving relationships, it’s been me that’s created a life where I didn’t have enough, my unloving choices I’ve tried to blame God for!!! I can see clearly how chasing what I thought I needed for me created the shortages.

     Now I’m beginning to appreciate whatever I’m given is to support myself and in this, others too. So when I feel another’s true success I feel how it is not just for them but for them to also pass on for others to share too.

     This also allows me to accept and be supported rather than going alone for the recognition I can give myself for being a martyr! I am not a failure for accepting support but allowing us all to grow together.

     So this line reminds me what this world is really about- us all working together to express our true purpose which is us living the loving people that we are.

583. This is the motto in Heavens Classroom Elizabeth!

584. Being me without expectations or judgement on myself has been a big struggle, that is turning into a most beautiful new way of living every day more.

     1. I can relate and find that it has been a process of accepting what I am and who I am in all aspects of life – sounds good but it takes a lot of hard work to undo all the things I have taken on thinking that, that was how I was supposed to do life.

        1. Yes, it does take time to take away all the things that we have taken on and break all the patterns and illusions of how life should be and look like. It sometimes feel we are swimming against the river, trying so hard and doing our best, while there is only way to swim to, which is with the flow of the river, moving back home.

585. A beautiful sharing Lee – I was instantly reminded of all the people who want to make millions via the lottery or just earn a million before they are forty so that they could retire. What does that change? Bringing in material goods and as you share with us “stuff to own in order to fill the gap” How much lighter and joyful to simply be the amazingness of ‘who we truly are’.

     1. Focussing on acquiring wealth is our way of obtaining security in life. When we allow ourselves to be, surrendering to life, trusting ourselves, God and life we will never focus on wealth but on being love first and foremost.

     2. It’s very liberating to go beyond those so called ultimate life achievements – like making millions of dollars – and find that true freedom lays in connecting deeply with ourselves and finding true God.

        1. I agree Dean, liberating indeed.

     3. Yes good comment Marion. While this has been a pipe dream of mine in the past, these days I know that there is no amount of money or any material goods that can equal or be greater than connecting to who I truly am and feeling amazingly gorgeous every day.

     4. I agree. Being wealthy with the richness of our heart allows us then to go out in the world, express and commit in full and in many cases that means material wealth as well and that material wealth, coupled with the richness of our heart, allows us to work at a bigger scale and so it continues.

586. “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know. Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.” Such a huge contrast to the running on the treadmill and trying to win in life at the expense of yourself and or other people. Thank you for shedding light on this discrepancy in what we deeply crave and what we have tended to settle for in life.

     1. Well said Golnaz, it is so simple but so huge to accept that we are enough.

     2. Living in a way that naturally brings the presences of God is without question a powerful way to live and feeling deeper into this allows space to feel that there is no other way. Life in many ways reflects back to us that God is all around us and then it is up to us to choose to see, feel, hear and communicate it.

     3. The contrast between ‘preaching’ and ‘Being’ is so stark here. Being who we truly are has so much integrity and true power that preaching become unnecessary. The Livingness of it is everything.

587. I have started to truly understand this process of working for God, getting myself out of the equation and to allow God to work in and through me is completely different. There is a constant reminder to get myself out of the way. At such a young age and my whole life I have been completely focused on myself so it is great to start to get this out of the way and allow myself to be what I am naturally designed to be.

     1. Yes getting myself out of the way and allowing ‘God to work in and through me is completely different’ and that’s when magic happens.

588. Lee, I am so inspired by your writing, as it re-connects me to a fundamental truth – that we are in relationship with God all of the time, and by connecting to the divine essence within us through our bodies, we have His eternal support on tap, as you say. What could be more glorious?

589. I’ve always had a drive to ‘help’ everyone and have spent most of my life interfering in other people’s problems, offering ‘advice’ and telling people what they ‘should’ do. Since finding Universal Medicine and having sessions with truly caring therapists, I have begun to understand just how imposing and selfish my helping has been. Now I am learning that all I need to do is to live and express who I am in full and that will serve God, not self, and the ‘on the job training’ from nature and other people is the best way to help me do that.

590. When I was in my 20’s I used to think life was like a treadmill also. Life became about going to work to earn money to then spend it and go on holidays. We think this is life but somewhere deep down we know that it is nowhere near living, it is existing. Once we see and feel it for what it is the treadmill is no more.

     1. Yes the treadmill wasn’t much fun. I always knew deep down there was more, but it wasn’t until Universal Medicine that I was able to connect deeply with that. Now I have stepped off the treadmill and it feels amazing to walk beside God rather than walk alone.

        1. Beautifully said Donna. I used to think I was alone in all of that too but I now know it was me not living the true me and that was what was lonely.

591. ‘I am shown things about life constantly if I stay open and keep saying YES to the work that is constantly provided.’
     This is profoundly inspiring Lee, thank you for sharing your awareness and that everything we need is always shown – we just need to look.

592. Note to self – get self out of the way! There is a far greater purpose at play.

593. Thanks Lee, your opening statement is so true. We are shown through life that there is an ideal way to be, something to strive to be and to have, that has nothing to do with an inner connection to yourself that allows you to be deeply connected to another and to God. To follow that sends you on a path of looking outside where what you have, is never enough and will never be enough because you will always be missing you.

594. You know it’s easy, for me to be drawn into the old conundrum style conversation with others about doing what we love and enjoy – and how that changes how we feel about life.

     I must say Lee, you’ve brought to the fore what I’ve known, yet dipped in and out of: “..we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.”

     It’s really this that everyone, including myself is missing. We’re all desperately wanting fulfilment, yet we’re constantly choosing not to be present. Absolutely, in some forms of work expression over another we may find more enjoyment, or greater service, or perhaps even a more sustainable or pleasant life style – but no matter where we’re constellated to earn-a-crust, we may choose “to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know”.

     Love your work 😉

595. This is lovely Lee. So lose the shackles of material gain and understand our true purpose and true role – I love this new job I’ve just started – be myself – and the more I’m myself the greater the promotion prospects. Fabulous!

596. I realised recently that the money I earn is not for me personally and that I had this knowing for quite some time. I take care of myself first, as I work long hours, which I do not really consider to be work, as it is simply what I love doing, and feel I deserve the best without it being too extravagant. Taking care of myself is important as I need to be well looked after to be able to serve the plan to the best of my ability. All the extra money is put back into what ever is needed to support God’s plan. When I was considering this it made sense why I always have an abundance of money, even when paid work has been slow.

597. There is marathon run, where I live, every year in the corporate world which is aptly named “the rat race”, a big event that many participate. What is interesting is I have observed that even some children want to participate in this “race”, which in certain ways appears appealing to many.
     What you have shared Lee is the truth of how the abundance of life can be felt, when we feel and trust our own Love.

598. I work for God too, not for myself!! That’s such a great claim. Truly big!!!!

     1. Thank you Lee, Rachel And Serge Benhayon, I agree, when we are with our true self, then being with God makes every-thing we do a true joy!

599. I recently heard someone ask a young child what they wanted to ‘be’ when they grew up and now understand the confusion children feel when asked this question because the natural response is ‘I want to be ME when I grow up’.

     1. Ha! I Love this Sandra – such a simple way to see life – when I was young, I wanted to be a nun, a ballerina or a scientist. Now I am in a religion called the Way of the Livingness, I am still fascinated by Engineering and Science, and I love dancing with True Movement. So that was me back then and it still is me today. I am me.

     2. Ha, love this and how you have shared this Sandra highlights how ridiculous that question really is.

     3. Of course Sandra, it really is such a ‘silly’ question and yet very revealing of how we sell out on that knowing we had as children, just to become something.

     4. And actually, I remember not really knowing what I wanted to ‘be’ (that’s what was asked of me) when I left school, but all the jobs I considered were about people – nursing, beauty therapy, teaching, journalism. How different it would be if we were to guide children as they consider what career path to take so they know that it’s always about just them being themselves, and then whatever job they take will be an expression of them in it … always the same boss…. God.

600. This is gorgeous Lee. Thank you. I have recently come to realise that we are held by the energy of God throughout our lives and at every turn we are given an opportunity to take a step closer to the glory we once lived. All is divinely calculated towards this. It is just for us to say YES to.

601. Well said Lee. I used to live in the struggle of life, but now feel that life has a beautiful flow, ease and simplicity ~ it is actually like magic ~ when I make life about everyone equally and not just about my self.

602. I love this Lee, it brings a whole different perspective and meaning to why we are here and what our purpose is – and from that it feels like it does not matter what we do as a job, we are all here to bring the presence of God in all that we do.

603. Money and self worth are so tightly interwoven; I have realised only very recently that what I spend my money on must have a purpose and that if I have low self worth, what I choose to spend money on is of low quality. When I feel a purpose to what I spend money on, invariably God is there, and the quality of the purchase is top shelf. A fascinating revelation for me how we can really get to know ourselves, and therefore God, by looking deeply at our spending habits.

     1. I agree Suzanne. I used to spend a lot of money on what I would now call ‘rubbish’ and wonder why I didn’t have any money. Now, I spend money on what truly supports and nurtures me and always have what I need. Quite often these days, I don’t spend any money during my working week as I don’t buy the coffees/drinks, lunches, sweets, magazines, etc that I used to in an attempt to fill me up because my self worth was low.

604. I loved this simple and strong reminder of what we are all here for – I’m definitely on your page,thanks so much Lee. I often say to myself I have the best gig in the world, all I have to do is just be myself and I am definitely the most suited for that job. There is joy in every day, my body is vital and light and my boss is eternally loving and understanding without an ounce of judgement , who is always there for me. Life is full and just gets fuller.

605. I really like this question “is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap? I would say that it is entirely possible and in fact true. The more I learn to love myself and therefore everyone else the less I want to fill my life with stuff that does not serve the purpose of bringing more love.

606. Thank you Lee. I’m currently redoing my budget and including items I wouldn’t normally think to include. I’m becoming more aware of what I spend my money on. Yet I can’t include everything as my wage cannot cover it all. I have a good job that pays well yet I’m thinking I need more money. The truth is I need to purchase items within my price range and not what satisfies my wants.

607. I know this has been said before, and said by many, but I love the title of this blog ” Working for God not for self ” – this is why I am here. I may not always get this right, but that’s cool, I am learning and I know in my heart, my body and within that every single cell that I am a Son of God and this is why I am here.

608. The rat race of life starts so young, and there is a constant pressure, ever increasing because of the influence of media, celebrities and our ideas of what happiness it, to have as much money as possible and spend it on the latest trends. But what is the quality of life you have when you live like this? They say money can’t buy happiness, and perhaps nothing can give you a life you love except the way you live it.

     1. I agree – the same way we can get super involved in movies and books to the point we feel part of it, we can do the same with life. However if we take the time to step back and see it from a distance it can all seem less overwhelming.

609. If our drive, our directive is for self then life looks very lineal, functional, it’s the momentary rewards, the pay cheques, holidays, new cars – these are the perks with which we justify the treadmill . If we understood the bigger picture, and realised the true impact our livingness has on everyone & everything then the magic of working with God begins to unfold. Step off the treadmill and realise that life can be spherical, spacious in every moment.

610. To finally discover that the endless treadmills that we have pounded on, and have fallen off many times, were just a way to keep us from knowing our true purpose in life was so freeing and life changing. And to finally know from deep inside that, that true purpose is to work for “God not self’, comes with the wonderful realisation that, as you write so wisely: “We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose”. I definitely so choose!

611. When I work for me (money, self-confidence,..), I am looking on the clock and counting the hours. I am looking forward to the weekends and holidays. So I live a life in parts.
     If I work for god, I am connecting more with my colleagues and customers, see and appreciate relationships. If I am working for God I want to make a good job! I may stay longer to complete things without charging. And my payment is my the joy of taking responsibility. My payment is Integrity.

612. Wow absolute golden words Lee Green, I love what you share here, when we say yes to life and yes to God everything takes on a greater meaning. I am only just grasping that life does not need to be a struggle but the more I surrender to this possibility the more abundance naturally comes my way.

     1. I agree samanthaengland that I am ‘only just grasping that life does not need to be a struggle, but the more I surrender to this possibility the more abundance naturally comes my way’. The unfolding that we allow when we surrender is beautiful and it doesn’t feel like work any more. What I do in my work has not changed but the way I am with it has been transformed and I don’t find it draining because my focus is being of service and not about recognition and reward for self.

     2. Life most definitely doesn’t need to be a struggle samanthaengland, and for me, if something does feel difficult, a great reminder is in nature where rivers don’t ‘try’ and flow the other way, or leaves don’t fight against the wind…simple but for me there is a surrender with nature’s reflection.

613. I can feel how easy it is easy to get caught up in the daily struggle and to forget our true purpose, we can spend our whole lives worrying about money, work, relationships and forget that we are the sons of God and that there is much more than earning money to have a comfortable life.

614. “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.” This is gold and so true. Our education systems teach us all to get ahead, to strive to be something – not accept who we really are – sons of God and thus build on the quality we all innately have. When we are connected, life flows and there is no ‘trying’. Out in the big world it seems that every man is for himself – deepening their separation from everyone else. I love watching bees and ants as they build their colonies as a team – true group work.

615. This is really beautiful Lee. As I read your blog I could just feel how we are set up from young to make sure we have enough money in our life. I can feel how this can be a life-long quest to get more money and with that maybe not realising the true beauty of the moment. Working for God simply does not have that drive and it is beautiful to feel that.

     1. Or not have enough money – both are the same, either having lots or having none – keeps us in a constant struggle, or state of separation.

616. ‘Reflections and guidance through nature and other people are the on the job training that is such a learning and deepening.’ Well said Lee, life is the training room.

617. I know I when I have felt that my purpose is to simply be me and to allow myself to shine, l I can feel this connection with myself and God and feel a flow and ease as the day goes on. Thank you Lee and will take this line into my day “I work for God, not myself.”.

618. Loved reading what you have shared, Lee. ‘The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose.’ As soon as I was able to see life as being about US and not just about ME, it felt so different. I feel I now understand what this life is really about.

     1. There is a clear sense of purpose when we realise there is a bigger picture, Alison. I completely agree with you.

     2. Wow, I keep getting deeper into this blog: “As soon as I was able to see life as being about US and not just about ME” – this Alison is a wonderfully inspirational sentence. For how many of us truly leave our door step each morning, heading-out to consciously serve, willingly, unselfishly, practically. I’m inspired to be more present and let-in the whole today. Thank you.

619. When we work for self there is never enough, the more we get the more we want, bigger house luxury car etc but if we work for god and evolution there maybe no material rewards but as you say Lee the rewards are eternal

     1. “the rewards are eternal” – this makes me smile as I know it’s true, I have known and will know God for a very long time.

     2. Yes, it can be a never ending striving to have more money, more security, more protection, like winning the lottery but not knowing what to do with all the money, what we actually crave in life is purpose and serving others is for me the greatest purpose there is, far more fulfilling than endless amounts of cash. My most enjoyable moments are the ones where I have stepped out of my comfort zone and away from this protection.

620. It is said that wisdom comes with age. Or, we could just say there is very little on the list we have not messed up at least once or twice, I fit that bill. I have spent this lifetime being everything but who I am. Many others, and I, as you Lee like our new job. The only requirement is ‘being – simply who we truly are’. How simple is that.

621. What a beautiful job description, I work for God. Us bringing our own quality of ourselves and our expression for everyone to feel who we meet on a daily basis, without struggle, reflects to others that they can do the same too, if they choose to.

622. Yes these words are so simple and takes us out of ‘self’.

623. Wow Lee this is a stunning blog ~ love it! “we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know. Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.” So well said – I agree in full. It is when we come from our being-ness that people get to feel their own being-ness confirmed and the connection and equality that exists between us all.

     1. Agree Bianca, in order to inspire others we actually have to drop all ideals of how we think we ‘should’ be living, and just be – this will then encourage others to do the same, even though eventually our day to day actions and the way we are could end up being totally different and gorgeously unique.

624. Awesome blog Lee… I have also fallen prey to the allure of leaving the rat race to carve out the dream lifestyle (so called) to then eventually discover that it’s a big fat lie. Like you I came to see that the ‘quality’ of what I bring to what I do is what truly matters and is in fact the overarching key to ‘true success’ and fulfillment. The question I’ve learned to ask more and more of myself is… Am I bringing my essence (God) to my work or am I bringing my ‘need’ for material and financial success?

625. So true Lee, we have all been sold such a lie with the whole concept of working to make more money to buy our comfort and security. To be taught through reflection that our connection to God ,ourselves and therefore everyone and thing is definetly where we are destined to go. It changes everything to learn to live with true purpose with connection to ones innermost ,inner heart or God.

     1. It certainly does Greg! What a simple lesson too. Life is about more than what we can see. Life does have a purpose and there is a way to connect to this purpose, through our connection with our inner-heart. It seems we have lost our purpose and have settled that making money is it. Is this because we have lost our connection with our true selves?

626. We work for God, not ourselves – Lee I love this – it changes how we view everything – our jobs, our every interaction with people and every aspect of our lives. It casts a much bigger perspective and brings joy into every task. Thank you for this inspiring reminder.

     1. I agree hartanne60, bringing joy into every task whatever the job may be. Beautifully inspiring.

     2. I agree hartanne60 – it changes life.

     3. It certainly does change how we view everything, hartanne60. Life takes on a whole other meaning when we are able to feel this.

     4. It does change everything when we see ourselves working for God. For me, this has nothing to do with ‘work’, it’s in every moment whether we are at home or out in the world shopping or travelling from A to B…we have an opportunity to represent God in every moment.

627. There are so many ruthless acts in the world in the pursuit of recognition, material and financial gain. The cost to humanity is huge. As you say in your blog Lee “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.” Abundance is offered when we-reconnect to our authentic selves and bring the presence of Goth through our connection.

     1. Margaret, I am sure it is just a spelling mistake but the presence of Goth conjures up all sorts of images!! What you say is so true – we champion competition in the business world but the cost of the ‘ruthless’ ‘pursuit of recognition, material and financial gain’ does much to harm humanity. How might it be if we all truly shared one common purpose and worked together under the impulse of one true ‘Boss’?!

628. Love your style Lee – and the imagery you paint of the rat trotting on the top of others – which couldn’t contrast more from the everydayness you bring to the fact of the divinity you realise you are to be offering when you are just you – from working for money, security and a fixed 2D picture to strive and push for at all costs, to what feels like life lived with steadier depth, no push, and a broader more encompasing purpose. I love how ‘every day’ it is when you talk about your relationship with God, like divinity is your ultimate CEO or similar – a subject that can be so loaded with all sorts of layers of stuff – brought into an every day ease and familiarity – certainly feels like no more stomping on others for personal gain.

     1. This is a great subject Kate and Lee,one that I feel is not aired enough. Money and the way with think about money along with how we are with money has been a huge factor in life for aeons. Whether it be you strive to have much or don’t see it as important are all measures from the same coin. And yet the purpose you talk of Lee and what is means to works in connection to ourselves and thus with God reveals that we are not here to separate from people but to work together as one family feeling our necessary steps along the way.

        1. What you say here Amina is a huge revelation yet to be fully comprehended: ‘Whether it be you strive to have much or don’t see it as important are all measures from the same coin.’ (and I love your sweet pun too). There is a whole blog possible from just this line. It’s like you’re saying (and do correct me if I’ve got hold of the wrong end of the stick), that we use money in comparison to others, having less or more, placing ourselves on a sliding scale of how we relate to money, but while we see if from that angle, its actually all the same, a stepping off that scale maybe there is actually an entirely different way, where purpose and service and people come first and we bring regard to money as part of self care, and as a responsibility as part of a greater whole. I’d love to read an expanded version of your comment above Amina, there’s so much in it.

     2. Love this Kate – divinity is your ultimate CEO.

629. I love this line Lee “The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose.” Sometimes I still struggle to trust this process but I know when I do the feeling is amazing. What I need to ponder on is why I sabotage it and don’t choose to live in my grandness and glory 24/7 .

630. Exactly Lee, I agree, the pleasure of devotion to God can only come when we truly make the choice to claim our-self first as a son of God and then choose the Livingness as a way of life! Thank you Lee Green and Serge Benhayon.

     1. Thank you gregbarnes888.

631. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” Lee you have summed up so much about what life is for everyone – centred around work, money and survival, and getting just ahead on the treadmill to begin to eek out some enjoyment. Many don’t live fully at all, as they are waiting for that lotto win, perfect partner or other fantasy to eventuate so that life can feel good. Meanwhile the true gold we seek is sitting right inside us the whole time, unseen or turned away from. Life really lights up when we live from our essence and nothing outer is “needed” to make our life good because we are filled with our true self.

     1. Melinda I love your comment – the abundance of life is there truly for everone. This is so true, yet for many we can’t see the forest through the trees.

        1. Knowing that we are already everything and that all that is needed is to allow and accept this and bring all of us to all that we do has not only been a revelation but a totally different way of living life as I once knew. Life is not a struggle as you point out Melinda and Lee has really bought to the forth how simple life truly is when we just listen to what we feel and develop that connection.

     2. Indeed Melinda – we have the gold within us, we just need to stop searching outside of ourselves.

632. This subject should be an interest point to discuss worldwide. Who are we working for , and is the work we bring for self or humanity. As we all know that work is actual an activity that is for people services. It should make actual sense to work with and for people from a place where we get support to do all that we need to do: God. With self , in a place that asks from us to work with and from people – self sits in the way. When self is out of the way there is so much space for people, and guess what – that includes you !

     1. Absolutely Danna, it makes sense that employees all around the world of any trade, be it carpentry, medicine, law, teaching etc. should make their jobs and make their focus about PEOPLE. Even jobs like waste disposal are still ways of supporting humanity.

633. Lee, your blog was such a joy to read. I can have a little chuckle at the visual of the rat being at the back of the queue trying to jump over all the other rats to get to the front … Oh yes, there I am with you in that …haha! For me it wasn’t so much about the money, there has been a mix up in my mind that has caused the struggle as I have had to contend with this overriding desire to be recognised and acknowledged, be seen and heard when deep within me I knew this way of expressing was not coming from who I truly am and what I was here for. This became a deep struggle within myself until a wonderful teacher came along and started to present another way, one that revealed that there are two energetic forces at play and that there is in fact a difference between spirit and soul, both very powerful points to recognise and observe in oneself. I feel I now know how to walk with God and in that I see his reflections and guidance from nature and people a plenty … In that moment of connection to it all my heart is full and songs of joy vibrate in every cell of my body!

     1. At Level 4 last weekend in the UK Serge Benhayon was talking about Joy. What I got to understand was that joy is pure confirmation..confirms that which is at that moment. Evil has no where to go and it is the end of creation when you are in joy. There is absolutely no elevation in Joy only divinity confirming itself.

     2. Suzanne, I think I may have met that ‘teacher’ to whom you refer for the points you make seem in some part a little familiar to me also – its’ almost like this teacher reflects an ageless wisdom that runs deep within each one of us. Interesting that!

634. Now that’s an occupation worth jumping out of bed for every day!
     Just beautiful Lee…

     1. Very true, Marika! No sick days necessary for this job.

        1. …nor any annual leave Robyn! Who needs it?

        2. True Richard and who would want it anyway. Working for God is the best job in the world!

635. A great reminder thanks Lee. When I lose purpose in my work, it all becomes terribly pointless and mundane. To reconnect with myself and work purposefully and service oriented in-cohorts with God, makes everything worth doing without an eye on the clock the whole time.

     1. This is a very good point Oliver. When we lose purpose our lives and jobs become mundane and pointless. It is amazing that when we connect to purpose the things we do practically are no different but the way we feel doing them changes profoundly.

     2. I can resonate ‘without an eye on the clock ‘ – I know when I am doing this, there is something else going on, I am not myself. As when I feel me – I feel joy and very present in whatever it is I am doing – there is not even an awareness or thought about time, just an abundance of space to get whatever needs done. Maybe that just goes to show that time doesn’t exist – unless we make it.

        1. I know this one too Gyl. It feels awful when I have my eye on the clock – it’s as if I want to escape something horrible. In contrast, when I am totally with myself and enjoying every moment in full I don’t notice the time at all, and it does not matter if I run over or spend more time completing something. it’s a totally different way of working.

        2. Absolutely Rebecca I agree – joy.

     3. So true Oliver, when connected with ourselves, with God and with purpose, any job can be done without that feeling of it being a burden or struggle – and, sometimes it can even be FUN! 😉

     4. This is a great point Oliver, with out purpose I can waste many, many hours doing nothing, when I am connected to purpose nothing gets in the way and no time is wasted.

        1. So true marylouisemyers. And if I do something that has no purpose and is just say a ‘nice activity’, I feel tired afterwards as it drains my energy. Whereas when I work or do everything with purpose, I seem to have all the energy I need without feeling drained.

     5. Very true Oliver I agree. When one brings focus to working with God throughout the day, ordinary chores take on a new life and there is no need to clock watch through the day, or long for Friday afternoon. I used to live my life that way, but since coming home to the fact of who I am and who I can, if I choose work for, everyday is full of worth.

     6. I must say Oliver that each time I glance at the clock it is so scary that so much time has passed! Life just flies by at a truly alarming rate as you get older.

     7. This is so true Oliver. Whenever I am watching the clock or ‘counting down the hours’ I always need to ask myself ‘why’? The glory and amazingness we are is available in any moment so instead of trying or waiting to get somewhere to have it, I now know I can choose it every moment.

636. As soon as we have unwrapped ourselves from the multiple adopted layers of trying to be or do somehow special being with God is just natural because that is who we are in truth – his equal children. With that, there is the simple purpose to help each other unwrap and then expand everything that follows.

     1. Yes, Alex, with the realisation that we are not here for ourselves, seeking to be special in some way from everyone else, we can get on with the job of returning to our true nature which is all encompassing and about everyone as a whole and not just the individual.

        1. Yes Alex and Robyn, it is about evolving and moving on together, not about just ourselves and leaving others behind. When we connect to this, it feels very true and gives purpose to life.

        2. I agree with the realisation that we are not here for ourselves allows us to get on with the job of returning to our true nature. Knowing it is not about being an individual but about everyone as a whole puts a whole new spin on achievement in life.

     2. This is beautiful Alex, this is who we are, God’s equal children. We all have everything we need living inside of us we simply need to re-connect to our essence and making loving choices to live this every day. A very simple tool I use regularly to support this reconnection is the Gentle Breath Meditation – see link below
        http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free/meditation-for-beginners/reconnecting-gentle-breath-meditation.html

     3. Beautifully expressed Alex Braun -we are already what we are looking for and this is what wraps us in the layers. Is it because we don’t dare truly want to feel our grandness and equality with God? Let’s keep reminding each other of this truth – you are the living evidence!

     4. Thank you for highlighting the pressure bandages (layers).
        And it is but a simple process of undressing the layers, even if they may sting.

     5. Beautifully put Alex! Unwrapping and expanding is just such a visual description!

     6. Beautifully said Alex – so simply put.

     7. Beautiful Alex, yes, it is very natural… And we are in this together.

     8. That’s lovely.

     9. I love this Alex. A true gift worth unwrapping and sharing with others.

     10. The imagination that humanity will act like this in future gives me such a relaxed, still feeling. The equality that is felt is amazing and I get a deeper sense of, how nothing has to be done in a “doing”, everyone just plays their part and everyone is appreciated in the same way. How beautiful.

637. I totally get how you said Lee that we bring divinity to anything and everything we do by being who we truly are, not by preaching something but being connected with our essence and from there expressing with all that it is as we go about our day.

638. Thank you Lee, having a re-read, this blog really speaks to me, especially the part ‘Every step of the way God has been there waiting for all of us, patiently, and without judgement’ – how blessed are we. I am starting to realise that if we embrace how grand we really are, others will be able to feel they can be grand also and that we don’t have to do anything, just be ourselves.

639. “What is interesting to note is that this agenda isn’t there when we first arrive, born back into the world. Landing as we do, we come unclothed and unhindered by the material goods that we then quickly learn to engage with.” – “unclothed and unhindered by material goods” – feels so freeing Lee.

     1. And it really is amazing what we burden ourselves with.

640. My life certainly has a different flavour or feeling to it since I have been learning that it is not all about ‘me’. My joy, appreciation, steadiness and satisfaction has all developed deeply because I now do not make it about myself. What I do in life has begun to have true purpose to support all in equality and through doing this I feel a true joy.

641. Working for God brings a particular playfulness which I enjoy. He is a very funny boss.

642. When connecting to humanity becomes your job there is no time off only endless opportunities.

643. The pay check for working for God: who we truly are.

644. Thank you for this gorgeous reminder of who we are really working for. I was reflecting today on myself in my 20’s and how it was all about me and the accumulation of comforts was so important. Life is so different, lighter and more joyful without the struggle to acquire and fill the empty pockets inside.

645. It is very helpful to remember what we brought with us when we came into this world. And then consequently ask ourselves what do we want to take with us when we leave…

646. It’s interesting to feel how much I struggle hearing the word god used in this way. I can appreciate that when you talk about god Lee, you are not talking about giving your power away to a giant man with beard/religion that’s been designed to control you. It is my own ingrained beliefs around the use of the word that leaves me feeling uncomfortable about it, and I know that if you were to replace the word god with light or universe for example, everything makes sense and falls into place. I’m re-learning what the true meaning of god actually is, however the old belief system has been a tough one to break.

     1. Elodie, this is a great point. Lee also brought up for me new awareness of God, I don’t even feel that is the right word for me anymore either because it denotes a mysterious identity that we can never be like. But what if God is like the full blooming rose and we the new buds, therefore we are part of something that is not only greater but that we are also equal to.

647. Thanks Lee, Previously I have reacted to a lot of bosses and with some I have told them where to you know what. These days, even though I have Managers, it is God who is my ultimate boss and I find that working with him I have more understanding of my own reactions and what I observe with others in the workplace. I am appreciative of my everyday learning that comes from working with people and I love my job.

648. I love the way you make it clear Lee, that most of us “succumb” to life in research of more wealth and success, yet the wealth and success is already inside us waiting to be lived. Reflecting on those who have “worked for God” under the auspices of Religious Institutions, I realise it carries the same quality as the seeking wealth in the temporal sense. We can seek the wealth of God outside us in just the same way, and depend on it for our spiritual survival. whereas allowing the God inside us, and every one else, to be felt supports us more in living life free of the rat race you mention.

649. I love this statement of truth, Lee: “The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support.” So true – why would we work for anyone else knowing that support is there eternally and then, getting a sense of the quality of that support: wow!

650. Thanks Lee for bringing it back to that immutable truth. Whether we like it or not, or whether we know it or not, we ALL work for God.

651. A noticeable load lifts off my shoulders when I read your words about working for God.It is so true. I remember as a teenager and young adult being very resistant with my parents about getting caught on the money wheel but alas, you end up getting stuck .
     Lots has changed for me around money since meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I agree , God is a great boss and I love it that the most important focus in the day is being yourself and offering your all, to the best of your ability.

652. Beautiful writing Lee, connected to the deeper purpose of how we live and what it is that really matters. There can’t be many people who wouldn’t accept that the rat race is not what it is really about, yet it can be very easy to get caught in the need for more, just as it can be easy to check out or give up and not make any commitment to living. I am finding more and more that where it is at, is actually where I am, and that any belief otherwise is an unrealistic expectation. Everyday can be beautiful when it is not a search for more.

653. It makes it so much more simple and easy when working for God becomes our natural way of being.

     1. How true Alexandre. The simplicity, ease and joy are enormous.

     2. Natural way of being – totally the point Alexandre.

654. Great description of how we choose to fill the gap on the inside with accumulated wealth, career moves and material goods from the outside. I relate to the choice to make life about struggle. It’s an illusion that keeps you in a game, an unmerry-go-round. When I have dropped the many deep-rooted societal expectations about how life should be and just been me, it is quite mind blowing how life flows more easily and things just come my way. And the great thing is, I have all that energy that is no longer involved in the struggle to enjoy life with and apply to my purpose.

     1. This is such a simple clear explanation of what is going Cathy, the changes you have made sound like a true miracle to me. Surely this is the way that we should all be working towards living, rather than working towards making life a struggle!?

     2. Cathy that flow and ease that you talk of is right there isn’t it – for us all and yes it can certainly be mid blowing once you jump on board.

655. Great stuff Lee! Thing about working for God is that it comes built-in with a very strong sense of responsibility as well, which is pretty amazing. It tends to bring in the big picture pretty quickly, and gives us a great opportunity, as you say, t let go of just looking after “number one.”

     1. Love the R word Chris James – and yet it is certainly not onerous or over bearing – rather a joy to work with such levels of responsibility and integrity.

656. I love that our on-the-job training is to constantly deepen our connection to ourselves, nature and to God in order to bring forth everything that we are as a reflection for others. Thank you for inspiring me with your blogs, Lee.

     1. I love the reference to the on the job training, too, janetwilliams06: it had me laughing out loud!

     2. This is so cool Janet – and we get so many lessons and moments in the day where this is possible – the choice is ours.

657. When I read this about rats, I get the impression of fighting for scraps and the worry that there is not going to be enough – hence the struggle always for more. When you flip that into working for God, quite the opposite…. there is plenty and the more you ‘spend’ the return in Love is guaranteed plus some. Lets face it… God definitely pays better, and the currency is much more real!

     1. Yes Simon – it’s as if we are brought up to struggle. Rich or poor there is always something going on to make us seek another way. This struggle holds nothing for anyone – it drains you, you feel exhausted and life becomes – well more of the same – more struggle. Not worth it – I choose a different truer way – I choose to walk with God.

658. There are some gems in this awesome blog. ”The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” While I have struggled and made things hard and difficult for myself in the past and still do I know within me that this way of being is not true to me. I constantly remind myself it doesn’t have to be this way, that there is another way and all I have to do is trust.

659. Lee, this is a blog I will enjoy re-visiting frequently. Every line is a great inspiration and beautiful reflection of the bigger picture that we, humanity, are ALL part of. Today’s gem for me –
     “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.
     Inside we know intimately what we can bring to the All. We just have to say YES.”

660. Love this blog Lee ….we work for God not for ourselves……very powerful and humbling.

661. I can really feel how I have been in survival mode in the past Lee, ‘How many of us have run on this treadmill? And how many have we trodden on?’ I can feel how I used to think I was in competition with everyone, it did feel like a ‘rat race’ and was a very unloving, unsupportive way to live, where it was all about my needs being met, it felt like a real struggle. Life now feels much more simple, I can feel how I am here to be me and to reflect to others the beauty and love that we are.

662. Working for God is the best job ever; you’re never tired, late for work, don’t need a holiday, the pay you receive you give to others and really love going to work. Why would you choose to work anywhere else?

     1. It certainly is the best job ever sjmatsonuk – amazing to get a job like this.

663. Thanks Lee for sharing your insight , To be the love we are and walk in that love is be hand in hand with God.

     1. ‘Hand in hand with God’ now that is beautiful to feel.

664. It is very rare to hear these words about working for God told in such a way. Often ‘Gods work’ can be seen as being to do with imposing one’s own ideals on to another. That there is only one way and any other way is wrong and therefore must be corrected – sometimes by whatever means, such as war.

     1. Excellent point Shami – and that is the point we are all parts of the same puzzle. Some of us have felt the inspiration of others and connected with true purpose. Others are not so clear on this a set and need those that have felt the call to reflect back the truth – that we are all here as one.

665. Absolutely true Lee, if we accept God being our boss and employer asking nothing of us as being ourselves and responding to the call or our inner impulses, we are able to achieve much more than working just for us and in the same time we feel amazing.

     1. What an amazing boss/employer – our only job to reflect to our fellow beings that it is all about love.

666. God sure does sound like an amazing employer. Employed to be Love now that is a powerful position alright! All we need to do is claim it, for God is actually with each and every single one of us.

     1. Very beautifully expressed. Also there is no better to be employed than the ‘big chief’.

     2. Yes – there’s such a light hearted feel and truth with this blog. Love it, Lee and Joshua 🙂

     3. Yes Joshua, God can be our full employer from within.

     4. It sure is a powerful position and yes, what an amazing employer! It’s all there for us if we so choose…

667. The layers I have built up over the years to hide me are slowly being removed as I replace those layers with love and acceptance of who I am and what I have to bring to everything I do. It feels so right that life is not about self but about all.

     1. Gorgeous Christine – amazing how such ingrained layers of hiding and protection can be replaced so simply with love and acceptance. And yes – it is about the ALL.

668. I agree Lee. Often we get so caught up pursuing and attaining the outer riches that we neglect to notice the wealth on offer from within. When this wealth is felt and lived, the outer environment changes accordingly. This doesn’t mean you instantly become a millionaire or that this is the remedy to feeling miserable. It’s not and if it was then our celebrities would not be making half the headlines they currently do. We know that ‘money can’t buy happiness’ but as a society it seems we are very quick to blame the outer cause for the poverty we feel within rather than take responsibility for the richness or lack thereof that we feel deep down and reflected all around. When we accept our grandness and see ourselves ‘working for God and not ourselves’, we are given everything that we need to get the job done. Now for the hard part – trust.

669. For me, when I connect to the fact that God is within me (and that this is simply about connecting to who I truly am) it doesn’t feel like work at all in the sense there is no trying, or push or drive or a ‘to do’ list, although it is certainly wth the understanding that there ‘is’ work and a job to get on with (which for me, is getting on with being me and reflecting this to all orhers)! When i connect to my inner heart and my inner essense and live from this connection, everything I do reflects that connection and the expression of God through me… and I feel I am working ‘with’ God and therefore with the rest of humanity.

670. thankyou for the reminder Lee

671. I love the playfulness I can feel this was written with, yet a very serious matter indeed, because it amazes me constantly how much I try to find ways to complicate my life in so many ways to avoid the simplicity of being of service to God by just being me and holding the connection to the stillness within that allows me to be who I am, an equal Son of God.

     1. I agree Greg, and continuation of surrendering to this simple fact is something that I am working on as I see clearly that there is no complexity to GOD and and his movements.

        1. Yes, I resonate with this aminatumi and Greg, simplicity is the way, and a lovely way at that –I see that complexity always costs time and spaciousness.

     2. Infinitely playful as God is…which means we are – for we are one and the same.

672. Lee your words and indeed what you are saying is sublimely simple but what you are undoing is the very platform that the world is currently built on. I would add a little detail however and say that our world is based on self gain and identification of self. I say that because even though there has been much of my life that has not been about getting ahead and the pursuit of money it has none the less been about me, even though I imagined that it was actually about helping others. It’s a sneaky one as I truly thought that there was no self/self gain and yet so much of what I did was about who I perceived myself to be.

     1. Great Alexis – this a good call – so much of what we want from the world is about our own recognition – even earning lots is tied to this or earning little. Whatever the self is always seeking the right look, the right words to confirm it in it’s own arrogant state of being. Serving God in full is the only antidote to that.

673. I so agree Lee, the pay is amazing! Everything that we put out is what comes back in return. Although we might see dollars in hard work, if it is draining us, we just get more of the same. Yet hard work with the intention of serving the all by bringing our all gives us a much richer return that builds and supports rather than stripping us bare. For me, there is no question which path I now choose.

     1. The path is clear and as you say Sara Harris more nurturing and nourishing if the intention is to truly serve all.

674. Beautiful Lee, that puts the ‘rat-race’ into perspective! After all are we humans being, or rats running? Connecting to our being in whatever we may do, with bonuses of magic, there is no reason to call for any time off or holidays – not a want to be anywhere else.

     1. Love it Giselle, with ‘bonuses of magic’! I agree, the more we work for God the less time off we need, because the bonuses more than make up for the holidays so desperately sought when stuck in the rat race.

     2. Thank you Giselle, your words have been exactly what I needed as an inspiration this morning :o)

675. I love Lee how you illustrate that this pursuit of financial wealth, is really a substitute for the wealth of living full of love. But contra to the monk-like scarcity I have associated with living a loving life, I feel in your words there’s the fact that when we live in harmony with God’s purpose, every coin we accumulate also comes to serve. I have observed this about many who have chosen to say YES as you have here, that they enjoy abundance in every way, because really – this is the natural way.

     1. Well said Joseph! Yesterday when shopping I had a profound experience of realising on a deeper level that everything I do is ‘work’ and yet nothing is ‘work’ when I am doing what is needed and being in partnership with God. As you express ‘this is the natural way’. Thank you!

     2. ‘…every coin we accumulate also comes to serve’. This is spot on Joseph – we can feel with what you have written that absolutely everything we choose can serve or not.

676. I like your expression, ‘working for God’ Lee, to me this has a quality of spaciousness and presence, nowhere to get to or to go, just living our being in all that we do. So much more fulfilling than the ‘rat race’ to some imagined goal, absolutely no comparison.

     1. Thank you josephinebe2012 for a deeply resonating and confirming, “nowhere to get to or to go”. It feels like a wave has washed over me ~ Just to be. I’ve had enough running in the rat wheel. Only if we stop can we step out.

        1. Life definitely is way more joyous when one is ‘working for God’ and not from the push of one’s ‘self’-centred and ‘self’-driven needs, so it’s no wonder life can feel like we are going round and round in circles on a ‘rat wheel’ and that life’s a ‘rat race’ if we live disconnected from the true purpose of life.

        2. Love this Ariannekasi and josephinebe2012 – ‘nowhere to get to or go to’ ‘…like a wave has washed over me’. Super confirming and lovely words from you both.

677. ‘The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support. We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose.’ I love this line. It breaks down everything we have been taught in relations to work, pay and pay off. We not only feel these things for ourselves but we bring this reflection to all so that they too can know their grandness and glory.

     1. I would willingly take that sort of pay, grandness and glory for being me over being paid for getting things done.

678. Life makes so much sense when we connect to love and our true purpose, working for God, bringing our love tenderness and expression to all that we do.
     Not in the bible bashing, preaching, holy-than-thou approach that many religions are imposing on people.

     1. Beautifully said Thomas. Life does make so much sense when we connect to our true purpose. Everything just falls into place.

679. True Lee, if we have ‘missing feelings of love’ it means we have left ourselves and by ‘simply [being] who we are’ we reconnect to that love and we are then able ‘to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know’.
     How crazy that we tend to look out there for something to replace this and what a pale reflection that is of real love which needs nothing.

     1. Beautifully expressed Sandra, ‘we tend to look out there for something to replace this and what a pale reflection that is of real love which needs nothing.’ When I connect with this truth you have shared, my whole body expands and I once again realise that I too am that love. Thank you

680. ‘And how many have we trodden on?’ Lee, this is such a good question and one many of us would do well to ponder. In our desire to be wealthy what is the cost to others and ourselves?

     1. the cost is huge Fiona, as I become more connected to myself the less material things matter. Everyday is so full and worth appreciating that it becomes the focus not things.

     2. Yes very ugly indeed, just so we can get our own way! This is a great blog reminding us of the bigger picture.

681. Thank you Lee, beautiful to read your blog. Bringing a new meaning and relationship to the area of work is so very crucial for all of us, as we do work most of our life. To understand that working is not only a matter of earning money but that there is a great purpose in that: “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever” this is what I am learning more and more and the beauty that it brings. Life makes only sense when we allow ourselves to express who we are – our divine essence.

682. Thank you Lee, beautiful to read your blog. Bringing a new meaning and relationship to the area of work is so very crucial for all of us, as working time is what we do most of our lives. To understand that working is not only a matter of earning money but that there is a great purpose in that: “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever,” this is what I am learning more and more and the beauty that it brings. Life only makes sense when we allow ourselves to express who we are; our divine essence.

     1. Purpose in all the work we do – if we all lived with that true purpose at the fore we would see such difference in our societies today.

683. Beautiful Lee and very timely. I have recently become acutely aware of the pressure I have allowed in my life in relation to career, relationships, parenting…etc. I have allowed society’s expectations to dictate instead of allowing my own truths. I have been living with this intense pressure for my entire adult life. I’m sure it was there as a child but I haven’t begun to explore that part yet. By allowing this external pressure I have made it all about me. But in reality, it is about humanity and I am working for God as you have so beautifully expressed.

684. ‘Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?’
     Yes this is so common. No wonder the world is full of ‘stuff’.

     Today Lee, like every day, I choose to work with God. I wake with this purpose and all that unfolds does so because of my commitment. What a job. No need for RDOs and holidays. True service with a smile.

     Thank you for writing with such clarity and love. Gods office is alive. ✨✨✨✨

685. Wow Lee, what an amazing reflection you have offered us all – who are we really working for?

     1. If we just made the choice to check in and consider this Eva – that would be evolution.

686. This is beautiful Lee, “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.” I’ve spent my working life working for everything but being who I truly am, to do what ever is needed to support and serve a greater picture. Instead it’s often been about what I can do to feel better about myself (get recognition or make money to be comfortable). The funny thing is that I am only trying to feel better about myself because it is so devastating not being myself and not bringing the presence of God into all that I do. It seems quite obvious what the answer to this one is!

687. ‘It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.’ Yes simple really when you put it like this Lee, this has no, ‘ preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.’ Wow, what a beautiful job.

688. Thanks Lee. I have been on the treadmill you speak of and gosh my life has been full on drive which led to utter exhaustion. That money stuff is big and for the past 6 years I can honestly say that “God is my Employer”. I wrote a blog about it recently and it is my template of how I run my business. I no longer need to market me and get out there and tell the world what I do and who I am.
     All I know and claim is that if I was a product, I would most definately invest in me. Why?
     because I come with a guarantee and that is God.

     1. Bina this is so cool – we are all absolutely guaranteed by God.

689. Lee I was just pondering on how hard we work to achieve all these so called social graces and other would be life skills when as you point out we have what we really need, we were born with it….’Being – simply who we truly are’

     1. Yes Kathiefreedom – all the effort we make to be whatever we think we need to be – what a waste.

690. I love this! I work for God- same here…I have never felt more satisfied. And there is even more space to connect to the best “boss” ever 😉

     1. He’s pretty good at HR given the size of his organisation, and the job satisfaction is off the ‘richter scale’

        1. Nice one Simon – the biggest business in the world and many don’t even know that the job is available right now.

691. Unemployed… does it really exist or is just a choice

692. Hi Lee, I cannot think of anything better to do than being myself! And the pay’s great because when I am myself I am fully present, rather than empty and looking wistfully around for something to be or do..

     1. Hi Kathleen I know that feeling – ‘what’s next?’ like a bored teenager unsure of the next move. We are none of that and when we claim it, working with God is powerful and inspiring.

693. Through the Ageless Wisdom Teachings as presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I now bring a very different purpose to my job. I enjoy it and am very thorough and pay great attention to detail. I get on and do the seemingly difficult things as the teachings have inspired me to know that everything matters and any part of a job left undone or given less attention to doesn’t honour the service provided, doesn’t honour the client and equally does not honour God.

     1. Beautiful Shevon, every little part matters – everything is important because in the end it is all about people.

694. Time stops when I work for God. The most beautiful feeling I’ve ever had. As if I was suddenly able to hear the sound of eternity, stars burning through space – all this whilst I’m working on my tax report or try a shirt in a busy shopping mall. And of course, the moment I loose this awareness, I’m back in the rat race.

     1. Great observation Felix – I love that line ‘As if I was suddenly able to hear the sound of eternity, stars burning through space’.

695. I love this Lee – I can feel that there are no breaks and no ‘clock off time’. When we work for god we need to choose it, every moment, even in our sleep.

     1. No ‘clock off time’ indeed Leonne – why would you when God is with us all the way. He never takes a break of that I am sure.

        1. This is a great point Lee – it is bit silly to ‘need a break’ when the job description is simply to be love and Evolve.

696. Lee, if everyone was to read your blog, wouldn’t it change how we all relate to our work and how we relate to money. So much emphasis is put on money in this world – it literally is the commodity that makes the world go around. However, when the main commodity becomes love, well that’s the world that I want to live in.

697. A very succinct and poignant piece of literature. When we are able to stop and feel what we are graced with….that “the pay is amazing, for we get eternal support.” What more could we truly ask for? “We get to step into the grandness and glory of US in every moment, if we so choose.” To actually feel all of this in one moment is spectacular. To know that we can live like this is awe inspiring and soon takes away the need to enjoin the rat race that we know.

698. Awesome Lee. ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.’ I love that. Nothing to do then just to be.

     1. So simple isn’t it. But yet so many times I resist the simplicity.

        1. Don’t we all!

     2. Yes Emily and we are the only ones qualified to be ourselves.

     3. Imagine if that’s what we were taught in school or at Uni when all the people come out to talk abut careers. If we were told that the most important part of any job is to just be you. Hmmm…I may have approached things a little differently as I definitely needed some support at that age.

699. What a great CEO. I love this company!

700. “By Being simply who we truly are” perfectly sums up all we need do to work with God in every moment.

701. As a rule we spend the first 5 years knowing who we are, the next 5 years trying to work out why the world doesn’t see who we are, the following 7 years resenting the fact that the world does not see who we are, the next 10 years trying to work out who we need to be, the following 10 years trying really hard to make that work in the real world, the following 10 years either resigned to the fact of who we have chosen to become, or depressed about the fact that it does not work, and another 20 years regretting the fact we were not ourselves the rest of the time. Surely that should make us question things just a little….

     1. Funny and true Adam. And the greatest regret on the death bed has been recorded as – not being myself, not living what I felt was true.

     2. What a ripper of a comment Adam. So true and I am smiling because it really is like that for practically everyone and it is satisfying to call things as they are. There is quite bit of undoing for us all to get back to what was already there at the beginning, but of course it hasn’t gone anywhere – just buried under all these other ventures accumulated through the years.

     3. Adam – this is such a gem you share…. and that is pretty much how it was shaping up for me. So I asked the question to myself …”there has to be more to living than the existence everyone is etching out”. ‘He who has the most toys wins’ can’t really be the purpose we are born in the first place, or to die in misery and ill health. This is when I started to feel that the universe was part of the picture and since then embracing working for God brings so much sense to what is actually going on with humanity.

     4. It’s fascinating Adam that it doesn’t for most. I have always wondered why most people lurch through their working weeks, counting down the days until the weekend. At the weekend they ‘come alive’ and then spend Monday feeling mildly depressed. This then gets repeated for a lifetime with temporary relief when we have public holidays and of course the Christmas break. All the while we have our sights set on getting out of it permanently either by retiring and getting a Winnebago or the ultimate dream of winning lotto ! This is the life we have settled for !

     5. very powerful set of figures Adam…so true in so many cases.

     6. Very engaging comment Adam – could not help but calculate where I have got to… resigned to the fact of who I have chosen to become or depressed about the fact it does not work. Certainly I’ve had those feelings, but also aware there is a totally different way to be and that one has a completely different formula.

     7. Wow, I just did the math, it’s so true! Lucky we have the next however many lifetimes to stop wasting time!

     8. Absolutely Adam well said – this version of life sits like a cheap suit, poorly made and terribly fitted – we all just want to take it off yet we’ve forgotten how.

702. This is so true, Lee. There is no greater reward than working every day with God in mind rather than money. I can feel this but living it is a work in progress for me.

703. “Working for God”, definitely who I want to work for and with.

704. Wonderful blog Lee. It exposes our attachment (as a society) to money which can be used as a way of gaining recognition as well as a way of measuring how ‘successful’ someone has is. This attachment often holds us back however, from living in true joy and harmony, and from realising that, “… we are all here to bring the presense of God to all that we do and everyone we know.”

705. I find this blog deeply inspiring. The line that I connect with most on this reading is, “I am shown things about life constantly if I stay open and keep saying YES to the work that is constantly provided” as it has initiated a deeper appreciation and acceptance of whatever it is I need to do in life. Instead of the jobs being things I have to do, or have chosen because I wanted to do them, they are in fact being provide as lessons and opportunities to evolve.

     1. Thank you Jonathan, looking on jobs as providing lessons and opportunities to evolve turns our working life around and gives me so much more gratitude and appreciation for what I have experienced through my varied employment life so far, and more still to come.

     2. Jonathan this is exactly as it is for many of us now who through the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have discovered that all of life is an amazing opportunity – constantly going deeper and seeing more and more the truth of the grandness we actually are and inspiring all others.

706. This blog brings a new meaning to the world of recruitment! Anyone else want to sign up? 😉

     1. I’m in Rebecca.

        1. Rebecca just imagine for a moment when we return to the point when every single person is working for the same company ! Man that’s going to be a pretty wild office party !

     2. Love it yes what are we working for? For Love, Truth and Purpose or the rat race? I know what one I am choosing 😄💕

     3. Sign me up too Rebecca. Who wouldn’t want to be employed by the majesty that is God.

     4. Me too Rebecca.

707. Thank you, Lee, this was a good stop for me this morning. I’m at the end of my career and now in a simple job that supplements my pension, and sometimes there is a feeling of judgment – did I do enough? I was not ever promoted, did not earn a lot of money, but I had a lot of fun on the way. Recently I have been asking myself ‘Why am I not earning more money? Should I be doing a different job?’ But I know that it doesn’t matter what I do because I have enough to live on and, as you say, ‘we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know. Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.’

     1. Yes Carmel, and simply being who we truly are is the best job one could have!

     2. Yes agreed Carmel when we realise it’s enough being all we truly are then the Glory really starts to flow.

708. Replacing our missing feelings of love with stuff, I love it Lee, it is revelatory and it stands to reason that if we lose the love we are born with then something comes in and takes its place. That something is never going to be as fulfilling as being loving. I can easily be drained by worrying about money yet we come here with no money and we leave with none, what we do in the middle bit, life, is always going to be more fulfilling when money is not the driving force and we stay as close to our innate feelings, not influenced by outer expectations.

     1. I agree Stephen, it is exhausting worrying about money. I have moments where I go into the fear of not having enough but I am learning to let the thoughts go as I know this fear is something which I have introduced into my body and not who I am.

     2. I agree Stephen, money is a poor substitute for love, yet many of us put security ahead of love. It makes no sense.

     3. So true Stephen. It is so obvious to see and feel in the beginning and end of our lives – looking at children and elderly people – that the sense in life cannot be to strive for money and status.

     4. Stephen what came to mind when I read your comment about how we are born without money is the fact that we are also born without fear. We are then taught to fear not having enough money, we are taught to fear what happens at the end of our lives if we don’t have enough money, we are taught to fear standing out because we don’t have the same amount of money as others, basically we are taught to fear and money is just one of the many things that is associated with fear. We are the ones who are perpetuating the made made illusion about money. We must be the ones to replace fear with love.

     5. Love this Stephen G – we come in with none – we leave with none – yet in the middle bit called life we can absolutely destroy ourselves and each other for recognition and approval often through the accumulation or lack of $$.

     6. I appreciate your wise words Stephen: “…if we lose the love we are born with then something comes in and takes its place.”
        How desperately we can seek to fill this void, and endlessly distract ourselves from the love that remains within us, always – for in truth it can never be lost, it is only we ourselves who design and imbed our own blockades to feeling this love in all its Greatness. And my how complicated we can make it, in our vain attempts to deny what is our very birthright… phew…

709. Love the simplicity of why we are here, when we make it about God and not self.

     1. Me too Loretta. It makes me feel very differently about the choices I make moment to moment.

710. Lee, you’ve nailed the mentality that the majority are inundated with – I know I most certainly grew up and have lived so many years of my life under its limitation – and that is the make your money and then ‘get out’ (of life) goal, the ‘prize’ that so many seek, and most of the rest wish for…
     The thing is, as I’ve found also, and profoundly so since coming to the work of Universal Medicine, the desire to ‘get out’ of life isn’t it – the deepest joy is found in truly committing to a way of being that includes work and purpose, along with a sense of community. For me, take me out when my time comes while I’m ‘on the job’ thank-you very much. I have seen all too up close, the effects of withdrawing oneself from a commitment to a real lived and loving quality of life, and it ain’t pretty (with all due respect to those spending so many of their latter years not really here at all).

     1. You are describing a good litmus test – if the way you feel about work is that you want to get out, can’t wait to retire, the end of the day never comes soon enough, then you are working for the wrong boss and seriously need to review how you are living life.

        1. Love it simonwilliams8. And by ‘wrong boss’ I take it you refer to what beliefs and ideals we are allowing to run our lives? Sometimes staying exactly where we are, doing what we are doing is the best ever ‘medicine’, along with making it truly about what ‘I’ can bring to my work, my colleagues, my clients, my job… rather than ‘it’s never giving ‘me’ enough’….

        2. This is solid God simonwilliams8 – working for the wrong boss, easily spotted if you have no true joy at ‘work’.

     2. I love what you have presented Victoria. True community trumps all, for it is in brotherhood that we get to see and feel the depth of God in essence within all.

        1. Agreed Lee. And yet this takes diligence, a consistent commitment to oneself and others, and well, much, much work – for how rarely we may experience true ‘Brotherhood’, an absolute equalness and working together as one…
           We have a long way to go with this. Exposing our attitudes towards work and how much we may be there purely to secure our ‘own patch’ is one great step, of the many that are needed. For in what other areas of our lives have we made it all about ‘self’? In what other areas are we given up on truly committing and giving our all in life. If the emptiness exists in our working life, it will lace everything…

711. This is a great reflection that I can see myself in too. In chasing the mirage that is security in a good life, I have exhausted myself and paid little attention to who I am. I’m learning to live with me and express me to the fullest. This is the big learning curve and the fact that the truth of who I am is already here has been made clear by many inspiring people in my life. To walk the talk is the only way.

     1. Jinya the mirage is one that I likewise choose to go after – never finding any actual resolve and simply draining myself to the point of debilitating illness. As i continue the re-building and re-connecting with myself and in that with God the true meaning of working for God starts to unfold for me.

712. This is such a great contribution, Lee and opens up a lot of what I feel I need to look at. When you talk about the drain on your energy levels and physical body from striving for everything that we think we need, it does make sense that working for God is then an enormous expansion and true liberation. Thank you again.

713. Lee thank you for sharing this, it brings a moment to truly stop and reflect on what is driving us through life. As you’ve shared, from being taught about the need for security to now understanding the difference, that what is truly needed first and foremost is the presence with ourselves and in that we reflect a simplicity of God in ourselves, and all those we meet.

     1. David Nicholson you have chosen an interesting term – driving us through life. How many of us mistakenly drive along a line in the vain hope of getting somewhere – only to arrive and realise that there really was not a stopping point but ahead there is always somewhere else to get to. We drive and push ourselves to this point and we don’t stop to feel that life is one big cycle – no flash $$$Car will get us to where we are going, which is essentially back to the love we separated from all that time ago.

714. Lovely blog Lee. In the world sometimes it does definitely feel like there is like a huge, massive signpost almost everywhere you look saying that $$$ = 🙂 …. But as you say that is totally not the case, and actually money is a trap to separate ourselves from true quality of living which comes from joy and connection.

     1. Making it all the more important to let people see, read and experience the fact that true joy and connection with ourselves, God and each other, can truly be lived Susie and Lee, yes…

        1. Totally with you on this Victoria, let everyone see that work is really all about ‘connection with ourselves, God and with each other.’

        2. Absolutely. And important to note is how our bodies respond to such commitment and intent in regards to work. In my experience, I have far more energy, complete far more tasks, and apply so much more of all that I have to give today. When I was caught in work being a drudgery, a ‘means to an end’, I felt nothing but fatigued and seeking ‘time out’…
           This fundamental change has only come about through the direct inspiration of the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine – truly remarkable, and, people notice (all the time), how consistent, joyful and full of energy I am 🙂

715. Working for and with God is the best job in the world anyone can have – the ‘pay’ is amazing and supports us to live life fully. Thank you Lee for your words and inspiring blog.

716. Lee this has really allowed me to appreciate what I have been feeling for a while and the slightly puzzling thought (when compared to the average perception) that’s been with me; that working ‘to make money’ is not a focus, it is something that happens but it is not the reason for working. I love how you’ve helped redefine ‘work’ as working for God.

     1. Yes, there’s no start and no end to this working day – just a continual love to be lived.

        1. Wow this is so cool Kylie, the truth about our lives, our every days are that they are cyclical – and our working day is continual as you say in that in every moment we get to walk with God or not, either way in the next moment we will be given that opportunity again. This cycle never ends…

     2. rosannabianchini, perception is a great word, we alter our perception to suit our ill or good. Work then can be ‘true service’ or it can be ‘drudgery’. How we choose to perceive the activity is derived from our living moments up unto that point. I choose ‘true service’.

717. Love this blog Lee and the simplicity of ‘we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.’ This cuts through all the striving for material success that is so draining.

718. Dear Lee wow so lovely to read your blog and so true 🙂 thank You. With love Nadine

719. I enjoyed reading your blog Lee. Once I realised I was working for God I realised I was supported at every turn and I let go of worrying about the future because my future is now, it is what I make of life in every moment that counts. Sometimes I get caught out by my mind wanting to race ahead, but generally the contentment I feel when I am living in the present outweighs any thoughts I have about my pre-conceived future and how I am going to support myself. After all life isn’t just about me, it is about all of us, I am important but so are we all and thank-you for the reminder that working for God is the true work we are here to do.

720. Learning to ‘be’ myself and live that ‘being’ in life has been illuminating, concerning interactions with other people. I do not attempt to push my opinions onto others, or have them heard or accepted. I am learning to allow for understanding and do not feel I have something to prove.

721. Thank you, Lee, I love how your blogs stop me in my tracks. Working for God is a complete re-orientation of life and brings true purpose, joy and responsibility but at the same time a feeling of absolute support on all sides with every step I take.

     1. Spinning around as we do day to day I can feel in your words janetwilliams06 that we relish that stop moment. It is the space we need to re-assess and choose a different way. We all have these moments presented day in day out – isn’t it truly amazing though to know that God is aware of every single one of us and is right there with us whatever we choose. I get this re-orientation of life – a new path is lit and a way forward quite clear.

722. Lee, I love what you have expressed here in your blog. We have all fallen for the ‘directive is to get on and do well at school: get a good job, buy a house and get married, build a family and go on holidays, eat out, and generally succumb to life.’ The treadmill is relentless but to know there is so much more than this is liberating. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.”

     1. Great words rachelmurtagh1… the difference between an unending treadmill of hard work and grind, as opposed to the gift of endless opportunities to be more, to feel more and live more.

        1. Love this simonwilliams8…’the gift of endless opportunities to be more, to feel more and live more.’

723. The attachment to things outside of us is a strong one, be it money, food, possessions or even other people. But what this blog confirms is what I have started to feel for myself in that when I allow myself to just be me, none of those outer things matter because I have what I have been craving, needing and looking for in those other things. It’s taking time to let go of the fact that everything I could ever truly need is already within me but the more that the choice is made to feel this fact my relationship with myself, God, my feelings and my body is going from unwariness to mistrust to actually saying “I’ll follow you because last time I did it felt great”. There is less of a discounting and a building of that acceptance that working for God is the way to go in life over and above the game of gather as much as you can. Thank you Lee for sharing 🙂

724. I love this line Lee, ‘It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know’. No amount of money can have more value that that.

725. This security thing is huge and something I know I have wrestled with most of my adult life. The trouble is whenever I have put security first it has usually meant some kind of compromise or sell out that has meant I am not being true to myself completely. We think the word security makes us secure and safe but I would say its other meaning is being a prison and that is what putting security first in life actually feels like – a prison of our own making. I am still learning to be completely true to myself and put love before everything else, but already it has been incredibly liberating to live like this.

     1. Andrew this is a wonderful observation – the perceived security has had me held too in that ‘get to this and then things will be fine’ mentality. The difficulty arises when people become comfortable with the choices they make and fight to stay with them regardless of what is actually occurring. We tend to get completely hoodwinked by this material security as it shows in our bodies as illness and disease and we don’t stop to find out why – just chase more security…

726. “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” A great question Lee, truly exposing where many are at. I love your sentence “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.” Working for God, not for self – amen to that.

727. This blog works to break down so well the mis-conceptions about what money actually brings.

728. A beautiful sharing with us all Lee – The ‘trying’ and the ‘doing’ in life is very wearing and energy sapping and if the gain at the end of the day is money and what it can buy us – it feels like an illusion a ‘dangling carrot’ to distract us away from the real reason we are gifted life.

     1. True Marion there is that but what I have learned from Universal Medicine also is that it is okay to be wealthy if that supports you to serve, expose the rot and inspire each and everyone to re-connect with their heart.

729. ‘I work for God’ – I love it!

730. A great sharing Lee and a great reminder of our ‘true’ purpose in the workplace. Although it may seem we work for a certain company, we are actually part of a much larger organisation and have a purpose in expressing ourselves in our true essence in all that we do.

731. Working for God – this really shifts everything Lee. How my body sank into that affirmation with such ease! It is my mind that thinks up other reasons for doing anything, and it becomes complicated. I love the simplicity and power in these words, thank you.

     1. Simple and easy – no complication and a joy and a blessing for the whole world – doesn’t really get any better than this.

732. The history of Lotto winners is interesting, what happens to people that win all the money they will ever need… only for it to destroy their lives. There is truth in “money is the root of all evil’. Looking outside of ourselves for something to complete us… is the real evil.

     1. I agree that looking outside ourselves for something to complete us is a bad idea! But money is not the root of all evil. The root lies elsewhere. Money can be incredibly supportive if we choose for it to be.

     2. Great point sjmatsonuk – millions squandered but nothing changes – and absolutely agree the real evil is the constant search for the answers on the outside.

733. Great observation Lee. The rat race gets us nowhere but saying ‘yes’ to working for God brings us back to love and working with and not against everyone around us.

734. I love living my life in service to My Father, feeling him in and beside me, knowing that there is no greater joy than to stop making my life about me and the small circle around me, but making it about the Whole in everything I do, say or think.

     1. Thank you Katinkadelannoy – truly beautiful.

        1. I am very grateful for the blog you wrote Lee, as it gave me the opportunity to feel that it has always been very natural for me to live my life in service, which really just is living the love that I am. I have not been consciously aware of this, maybe because it has not been confirmed to me much by the outside world until I met Serge Benhayon.

735. Love it Lee! This is a great reminder of something, I sometimes lose sight of if things get tough. God is the best possible employer one could hope for and the benefits are endless.

     1. We do that Kevmchardy, we lose sight and turn away from the brightest most supportive source of all. I feel that too some days and then at some point you get a jolt, a push, a nudge to say what are you doing – get to work for me not you – it’s very simple.

736. Our connection to God and our Inner Heart is the great richness we can have. However, there is nothing wrong in the inner richness being reflected with outer wealth. Money can be put to much true good and is certainly something I welcome. The problem happens when we try to make money on the outside to fill the emptiness on the inside.

     1. Very clearly and simply said Nicola. Truth is always simple.

     2. I agree. Money is not the problem. It is the way we can attach ourselves to it and pin our self worth to it. For me, the drain has come from the expectations I have had around what it is to be successful and that having money would make me successful. I can be all of that with or without money. It is my approach to it that needs tweaking and whether I make the focus about me or humanity. And whether I bring all of me to the work I do.

     3. Great words of wisdom from you three women. Thank you.

     4. Spot on Nicola – the moment the outside becomes the focus all else is tainted and will not support the truth.

737. At the end of the day it does not matter at all what kind of work you do. When you work for God, it is not about the career, the money, the recognition, the suit, the status or job function, it is about being at service and doing what is needed.

     1. So beautifully said Mariette. “When you work for God, ……. it is about being at service and doing what is needed.”

738. Lee, so true what you have written. Money is such a trap and it brings us completely into survival mode instead of enjoying what we do, when we are not aware.

     1. When we live separate from who we truly are and take on the roles we believe we have to fulfil we can get so caught up in them that we fail to see the bigger picture. I know that many men carry the burden of being the “bread winner” and all that that entails, especially if that man is a father. Compounding this can be the search for recognition through work and then running down that linear line of earning as much as you can, whilst judging your own worth by the amount of money in the bank and how well you are providing for your family. In the push to get to where you want to get others are indeed trampled on, but also as you say Lee, running yourself ragged in the chase! To let go and know that we are here for a different purpose – as points of light to express the Will of God – changes everything.

     2. The difference Kerstinsalzer15 is that when you make a choice to work for truth – in co-creation with God then money flows to you – so that your expression can be more widely felt. Not to be feared, it can be used to inspire others – every one needs to know there is a true way.

739. You are so right Lee Green, when we stop living for ourselves and start to live and work for God, how much joy and inner wealth will that bring for everybody equally. No more struggle and competition, but all working in brotherhood to establish heaven on earth.

     1. How true that is and how important then for us to enjoy our connection once established so we can work in this way.

740. I remember a colleague at work telling me I was naive when I said that it should not be normal to trample on people to get ahead. I said then and I say again… I will stay naive as I do not believe that is the way to treat others. I have no doubt I will work to my last breath and love it as much then as I do now.

     1. I fully agree Lucy, for ‘trampling’ on people to ‘get ahead’ in truth only really takes us further back. For how can we get ahead when it is at the expense of another. Working together is the way and when working in this way, the opportunities which open become quite extraordinary in my experience.

     2. ‘I have no doubt I will work to my last breath, and love it as much then as i do now’ Me too Lucy,it may not be the same job, but whatever job God sends me, it will be the same work.

     3. I love what you have expressed here Lucy, it is much more fun to love what you do rather than be forever projecting where you want to be.

     4. I love what you share here Lucy. I suspect that many people feel that it is not right to trample on people to get ahead, and have no desire to do so. The thing is, many if not most also believe that ‘the system’ is constructed so that you do have to trample on others, that that is just the way it is. We need more people like you to be honest, and to say no, so that the majority also feel able to say no, I know that this is not normal, and not the way that people truly are.

     5. Lucy absolutely – as more of us claim this – the so called norm will eventually fall.

741. This blog is awesome Lee! And, it came to me in such perfect timing this morning confirming exactly as I have felt the last couple of days. We have just sold one unit and moved into a small, modest house in a cheaper, country suburb and I feel Sooo amazing! I love walking and driving where I now live…and I love, love, love connecting with the people here including at our daughters new primary school. We owned both the places and were trying to keep them as it was a good financial decision…however we were crammed and driving long distances daily. We have now taken steps to simplify our lives and we are letting go of the striving for outside recognition.
     I have always felt and known God through nature and life’s simple pleasures. I am enjoying exploring and learning to live life for me and finding that in truth that means I am also living a life equally for others as I now bring an ever increasingly vital, vibrant and joy-full being to the people I connect with. Working with God for the purpose of Love by simply living ourselves and doing what we choose and life (Lovingly so) is so fulfilling. Much more so than making rewards, money or recognition our goal!
     Thanks again for sharing and working for team Love (aka God 😊)!

742. There are not different wealths that are described in the above blog. The wealth that comes from your heart and the normal wealth that is called money.

     If I was to go to a currency exchange and buy wealth from my heart I wouldn’t be able to buy a cent however there is much more value in the wealth, knowledge and wisdom that comes from one’s own heart.

743. It is very interesting what you state here Lee about all we need to do is say yes and that there is no struggle. I am reminded of words from a Michael Benhayon song about how after all the struggle, do we want to see that getting there is so easy? It seems we can keep ourselves in the struggle to not feel past choices and the momentum of struggle we have created – thus keeping that momentum going – hence the rat wheel (i.e. hamster wheel) we call life. It is awesome to read your blog and be reminded how wonderful and simple life can be.

     1. Stepping off is really very simple Simon – we all have the capacity to do this and yet how many of us choose this ease and simplicity? What you present is so important – if we can say no to struggle then we have to get used to and face up to everything we have chosen and this is what is called responsibility.

744. Money is a funny thing. Imagine we are good at making money and we can reach more people, be more effective, express to more people and have a deeper positive impact when we make more money.

     How to pervert this true impulse? Get us to make a huge struggle out of making money so we feel hurt by it and therefore can’t express our true strength.

     I have observed that a lot – people have a natural ability or talent but express it in such a way that it feels hurtful and eventually they will say ‘enough’, feel liberated but are, quite possibly, a little diminished.

     The alternative is to find ways to express yourself that are in harmony with your true strengths and that you enjoy. Of course it will mean that you become very visible and a role model for others and you may attract just a tiny bit of jealousy every once in a while.

     1. I love what you have shared here Christoph. Making money has indeed been sold as a struggle and when someone makes money with ease, ‘hell hath no fury’ like the jealousy unleashed upon them. No wonder we are so scared to live our truth and share with the world our very natural abilities…it requires great courage to stand so exposed with all our riches laid bare.

     2. Wow this is so cool Christoph – I absolutely get this and can see how we have manufactured a world to completely distance ourselves from this true impulse.

745. Thank you Lee, this article has brought tears to my eyes, as I surrender to the truth that you are presenting. I feel very supported and confirmed in “who I am and who I came here to be.”

746. This is a super exposing blog Lee, for me it exposes the attachment I have held between money and my own self-worth; whereas I can also feel the truth to the fact that money is not something external to me but in fact a part of my life, my choices (my service) and my rhythm. Just as God is. Thank you.

     1. Wow super powerful cheriseholt. Money is a part of that order – the choices and rhythm we choose in every moment – all truly balanced.

747. This really made me stop Lee: “I work for God, not myself”. And the following words came to me: “I am myself, to work with God”. When we work, and get rid of all the drive, gaining, striving, push, competition…to ‘be someone’, ‘make something of ourselves’, or accelerate in life through the acquisition of material wealth, then the passage is clear, and your words here, embodied. That the greatest office to work in is (indeed) The Office of Christ.

     1. God’s a business man – he is in the business of love and people. And yes Zofia there is nothing more amazing than serving that office.

748. Lee, what a gorgeous blog. Reading it was such a joy for me as I can feel how I can feel and see how God is a part of my life and that is not something I would have said a few years back. Your line ‘I work for God and not myself’ puts it all in context and reminds me there is a bigger picture of which I am very much a part and that there is more going on than perhaps we know in any given moment, we are all a part of a going back to a greatness we all know is us.

     1. Monicag2 I love that word context, we can so easily magnify or shrink situations and realities in order to make them how we need them to be. The truth is the context here is we are Sons of God, magnificent, universal beings that have gotten lost. Time to stop the ride and get off and start walking home.

        1. Beautifully said Lee, it’s definitely past time for us to get off that ride and go home. And best of all once we decide to, the support is always there for us to walk back.

749. I also wanted to say Lee that your expression brings so much joy and light into this day. Such a precious gift – thank you.

750. So I thought I would work for God today, keep testing the waters so to speak. Before I said yes though I told God I had a few conditions. I told him I might not get everything done and this will have to do. I told him I didn’t want to be rushed or pushed, that I get hurt easily and sometimes stop work when this happens to cry and feel I am sad. I told him I am not so sure about other people because I don’t like feeling hurt or being told by them I am not good enough even though he tells me I am. I told him I have to look after my body and I was practicing making this more important than pleasing anyone and this might not go down so well with the other staff. I told him I am really stubborn and will sometimes insist I can’t read his memo’s as I never learnt to read even though I did (he said yes he knows). I told him I also might come up with more conditions throughout the day and I tend to throw tantrums and forget the task at hand is to simply be me. I also told him I still listen to the devil speak and often believe what the devil says and will probably continue to work for him too. I told him I have to pay to work for the devil and it is not unusual for me to ask for an advance from God in order to pay the devil. God sighed and said he knows this too and these conditions are not new to him, his staff demand them all the time. I also told him most of the time I am going to do what I wanted but I agree to do some stuff but mostly because it doesn’t sit right with me not to do it. So since God seems to be pretty cool about all of this, at least for now, I have agreed to work for him today. I said I would read his office memo’s and ask him if they didn’t make sense to me to explain it another way. He rolled his eyes to suggest this is what he always does anyway and then smiled and said the first memo is to stop and feel my body. I did this and found I had a big lump in my throat. I didn’t need to ask why so asked ‘now what?’. he said ‘do whatever you want’. ‘Gee, really?’ I said. So I sat up straighter. I looked at the time. I looked in my diary at what was needed today and felt what to do first. But God sent me a memo to do something else – darn it – he really persisted with this memo. I started to cry as I felt scared. So he sent me another memo, and another and another and another. They don’t seem to stop actually but this seems right as I have relaxed a little and stopped crying. So,so far it seems working for God might not be so hard after all. Especially if I keep reading the memo’s.

     1. ha ha Deanne how patient your employer and he didn’t even comment to tell you that there is no devil!

     2. So many memo’s – at some point we have to read them and accept.

751. SO SO timely as I read your word Lee Green. Thank you for the reminder of who I truly work for here on earth.

     1. Just takes a moment to bring us back.

752. Hi Lee, thank you… Yes working for God is the ultimate gig as a musician. We don’t have to be perfect, we just have to connect with our hearts, our inner hearts, and allow the music of love to flow through us. Is really the best gig on earth.

     1. Watching, hearing and singing-a-long with you cjames2012 I can certainly attest to that connection and how much love flows through each and every one of us when we say Yes.

753. I love what you have seen, pondered and expressed. You just sumed up life and how nearly all of humanity live! Forgetting the bigger picture, forgetting there is far far more to us in this Universe than just us! I can really relate with what you have said, for a big part of my life I have been in that rat race, counting down every day .. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and waiting for the weekend or next pay day, what can I afford, what can I treat myself to to make me feel good. Universal Medicine Practitioners and Universal Medicine are an inspiration in what they both present and reflect. I have connected back to my purpose and what I felt to do years ago (but never acted on) and since then am no longer in that rat race but growing and growing everyday, each new step I take back to Love and purpose another amazing opportunity is given to me. You are right it is not about self but the bigger plan that is here and we all need to wake up and see this.

     1. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that it is all about walking with God, for we are the plan – God’s plan – inspiring each and everyone back to the truth of who we all are.

754. Lee this is a sensational blog. I love every single part of it. Working for God and not self in our everyday normal lived is indeed what life is about, you have summed it up perfectly with ‘ that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.’
     Thank you Lee.

     1. Life working and walking with God is so very simple – this simple is everyday living – supportive of all and not draining on society but inspiring it.

755. Working for God. The role – Be Yourself. Job description – co-create. Apply within.

     1. Love this Helen simkins!

     2. love that Helen, that’s my type of job

     3. Helen that is perfect and oh so simple. Be Yourself and work with God – I feel the support that is enormous and the ease that comes with this. A simple choice.

     4. Ha ha – love it Helen – apply within…what a cracker & all so true!

     5. Count me in, my application has just been accepted.

     6. I love that Helen – Apply Within – simple but says a lot.

     7. I love this Helen.

     8. Lovely Helen.

     9. Gorgeous Helen . Our soul purpose is to bring ourselves to everything we do and that sounds pretty amazing to me. Working for God is an absolute delight, the best boss ever.

     10. Haha yes.
         Responsibilities:
         To love yourself to no end
         To express everything you feel

         1. And best of all we’re all fully qualified.

     11. Love it Helen. Guaranteed job satisfaction 😊

     12. Fantastic Helen love it, Job description – Co-create.

     13. This is a T-Shirt Helen Simkins. Absolute Gold.

756. I love what you share: “I work for God, not myself”. It changes the whole focus of work and also reminds us that there is no ‘down time’ from being love – love should be the focus of everything we do, think or say. Thanks you Lee.

     1. If I work for God I am working for myself for there is nothing greater than working in co-creation.

        1. Beautiful Nicola and so true ✨

     2. Good point Carmin, I agree. Being love, when truly realised is a 24/7 career, no holidays, no down time. The more one connects to and embodies this reality, the more delicious the career becomes. Never without its challenges, it’s a job that comes highly recommended.

        1. So true Rowena, a 24/7 job for life. But a job that is not exhausting at all and so much more rewarded than anything money can buy can give to us.

     3. Great point Carmin, no holiday needed, no exhaustion after a day’s work. By working with God I am spending the entire day in the magnificence of myself as well as God and I don’t need a break from that!

     4. Well written Carmin – there is ‘no downtime for love’ – we are on all the time.

     5. Love the whole focus of our every moment – It is possible and wow how would the world feel if we all made a choice to be that.

757. Working for God sounds like 100% job satisfaction to me Lee.

     1. Hah I would go so far as saying 110% – simply amazing.

758. Working for God is a wonderful feeling Lee, not the words I have used, but the feeling sure is familiar. It makes the bigger picture all that more clear and also takes the self out of the equation. Love your expression very much.

     1. Absolutely Jo – self knocked out of the equation – makes it easy to spot when self wants to get back up and stop you working for God.

759. Thank you Lee what an amazing revelation to feel your sense of purpose and belonging is not reliant on how many figures you get paid, but by just Being. It is something that has taken me many years to fully appreciate, understand and finally experience. Being is working for God. While we all need to earn money and pay our way, bringing the essence of God to all we do is our job. Thank you for sharing what has evidently been a very significant shift in awareness for you.

     1. ‘Being is working for God. While we all need to earn money and pay our way, bringing the essence of God to all we do is our job’ I love the simplicity with which you have expressed this Rowenakstewart and a lovely reminder not to differentiate between paid and unpaid work.

        1. Agree Helen, the quality of what we do should always be the same, whether paid or not paid,

     2. Well said Rowena – “Being is working for God’.

     3. I love how you say this Rowena, bringing the essence of God is our one purpose.

760. I am sure many could relate to your question here Lee, “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” Since re-connecting to the fact that the deep love I was looking for out there was in fact inside my very being, the desire for so many of the outer pleasures to fill a void have lost there taste and simply dropped away.

     1. Yes Victoria the hold of the outer influences and surface desires drifts away when we fall in love with ourselves again.

761. Thank you Lee, your blog is inspiring to read and contemplate.I have slowly come to the realisation that my true purpose in life is to work for God and not myself.No need to struggle anymore,as you write “the abundance of life is there truly for everyone.”. I also loved the reminder “not by preaching but by Being simply who we truly are”.

     1. On the mark Sue – no preaching needed for God has never uttered a word about what he wants us to be – in truth he knows we know and just have to feel our way.

762. “We are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know” This is beautiful Lee and I thank you for the reminder. I have not been a very competitive person in my life but I am sure I have wanted to do better than others in some of the things that I have done and perhaps trodden on some in the climb. Not something that I like the thought of. To just be all of who we are is where its at and all else will follow.

     1. Exactly Roslyn – “To just be all of who we are is where its at..”.

763. I am very familiar with the treadmill that you mention Lee. When I am on the treadmill it is difficult to do anything but keep up with life. The struggle. Thankfully I now know the difference between being on that treadmill or not and can choose. Do I stay in the struggle or do I allow me to be me and share my life with other people, not be in competition with them and feel the presence of god within me?

     1. bjpiper1958 this is so true, it’s like we are out of step with life and always have that feeling of being behind. This unenviable struggle is constant so we build our proverbial ‘picket fenced house’ to make us feel safe.

764. Lee, i love what you’ve written. The question you pose — do we perhaps keep seeking ‘stuff’ in our lives because we’re missing love, we’re missing the read lead, is so pertinent and key. And letting ourselves really feel that our PURPOSE is not to go to work to make money per se, our purpose is much grander and bigger than making sure we have all the material boxes of success ticked. There is so much pressure that leaves us when we let ourselves realise that we are here to do God’s work in our offices and workplaces and in all that we do — first and foremost in being ourselves and bringing the grace and beauty of that into all that we deliver, produce and serve with. The dividends from that are beyond anything that $$$ can buy.

     1. This perfectly relates back to “everything is energy and everything is because of energy” as written by Serge Benhayon – where have gotten to that we have stopped feeling and now have to tangibly smother ourselves with things in order to get a sense of belonging, feeling like we’ve made it in a world that says you still haven’t made it unless – X or Y. Coming back to purpose allows to really start to connect with the truth that everything is energy first – so what have we all chosen?

765. When we are working for God we are working for each and everyone of us, for we are all part of God in expression when we are connected to the oneness we share. Beautiful blog Lee.

     1. This is so beautiful Victoria ‘we are all part of God in expression when we are connected to the oneness we share.” Thank you.

766. Awesome blog Lee. I loved the line “our first job is about being us with no expectations whatsoever. The pay is amazing for we get eternal support.” So simple and its so great to let go of any struggle and know that.

     1. The ‘struggle’ would account for a large portion of our days – hence getting those elated ‘happy’ moments every so often helps us get through the next phase of the struggle for another ‘happy’ point is just around the corner – right? What we ultimately miss is that we don’t have to live in this way – we can connect to our purpose and drop the struggle and let the joy of life rise.

767. Thank you Lee, my body really appreciated and enjoyed connecting to what you write here.

     1. So very simple Lisa, connect with our bodies.

768. Awesome blog to wake up to. Thank you, Lee. Working for God – wow, this feels amazing. It throws away a very narrow definition of ‘abundance’ that I have fallen for – gaining and accumulating personal monetary possessions, which inevitably leads to comparison and competition, and how I work. Working for God – he is the most reliable, loving boss and there’s a Universal purpose instead of goals and targets, and “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever” – what more could I ask for?

     1. Fumiyo – it’s awesome to wake up FullStop. Accumulating things is tantamount to saying I don’t want to really know what is happening – a distraction at best. This affects our every movement through life, how can we carry so much and still be light and serve? If we just put everything aside we can connect back to our purpose and work steadily with our own bodies – that is so enough.

769. Love your blog Lee, so simple but so profound.-
     ” It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know. Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.”
     This is so, so simple, we just have to be who we truly are. Still a work in progress with me, but such a wonderful journey. And the returns are so amazing in working for God. How our lives change so much when we let go of the need for security.

     1. Beverly Croft – I too love the simplicity of this – “we just have to be who we truly are.” Well said.

770. Lee that resonates so true for me “working for a God not my self”, this is what we do, we just have to be and know its for God, everything else becomes simple and clear.

     1. It’s like the path becomes well lit and spacious when we commit to working for God – we get to see everything and anything in order to make more loving choices to support the next phase – to support the plan.

771. Working with God is saying I can always trust to be in the moment, because there is nothing missing.

     1. Awesome Delorme2013 absolute trust in the source – in God.

772. Working becomes so different: effortless because there is no strive or drive to gain something, like money or appreciation.

     1. So well said, instead of struggle there is grace and joy that characterises every day.

     2. Exactly working is the natural rhythm of the body expressed in a task that can serve and support the plan.

773. Yes, it is as simply as saying ‘YES’ to God. This blog has re-connected me to the simple foundations that are there in working with God. I loved your comment – ‘The pay is amazing, for we get eternal support’. Thanks Lee for grounding the ‘Truth’ once again.

     1. I have just learned that when I am in it for self I am on a stage because no matter how many people are looking at me I am getting some recognition for what I am doing and am not helping anyone to evolve or go deeper. I have made it all about me. However when I am working with God I am on a platform and whilst on this platform no recognition is needed. The quality is all the reward. This beautiful stillness and connection does not change no matter what the task. I could be cleaning my house alone (but am not in distraction), or standing up in front of a class teaching, but my quality stays steady. When on my platform I am reflecting to others the possibility of living life more deeply, the essence of co-creation, the essence of working with God.

        1. The difference beautifully highlighted between stage and platform. The platform suggests that there are many levels and the stage itself really just a pinnacle of that clamoring for recognition.

     2. As simple as saying Yes, in everything that we are and we do. The way we move, talk, walk, eat, work, play everything essentially says yes or no. I know which I am working on to ch1956 – the truth once again.

774. Thanks Lee for a heart warming blog, not the emotional kind of heart warming but the sort that makes my shoulders drop as my body responds to the truth and wisdom shared here. God is always employing too – my letter box is full of job offer letters, from time to time I open them and they always read ‘congratulations – you have everything you already need to do this job so naturally you’re the best person for it- would you come work for me?’ I turned up for work a few times too and could not believe the abundant pay and ceaseless support available. I struggled to believe I was being given so much and there were no KPI’s and absolute job security- so thanks Lee for sharing how the job is working out for you – its very reassuring.

     1. I love this Deanne your words so light and playful – a big heartfelt smile from me.

775. Lee I really love what you share here: “Working for God”. This makes so much sense it puts true purpose into the practical side of doing the task … shifting the doing to being with the task. Yah! That feels so much more connected in my body by just nominating this. Thank you

     1. Yes its all about the body Sandra; a wise man I know, Serge Benhayon, has been showing us this for a long while – direct from the source – from God – and isn’t it interesting that more of us are finding this the case for ourselves.

776. Lee, I love how you have transformed the ‘working for self’ to ‘working for God’ – from what I hear He is a pretty cool employer – he is always there to support you in your work, always there to teach you more, holds immense understanding for when things are not going that well for you, holds you by the hand as much as is needed and offers endless amounts of energy (symbolic of money) for us to use to complete all the tasks required and more. Amazing superannuation package too…and working for God transforms the way you work and the way you relate to your family etc. I would be lining up for the job interview instantly if I was not already employed by Him. And make sure you read the fine print (only really awesome stuff like deep self care and honouring and respect etc) and the job perks (can’t wait to get out of bed to get started!)…in fact I am thinking of lining up a second time and getting another job with Him because of how awesome this is. And by the way he treats you like an equal, as if you were the boss as well!

     1. Really great to read this Henrietta and feel how much we have laden the word work with emotions and heaviness or drive and nervousness rather than the absolute grace and power that it actually is – as testified by your loving words.

777. Super blog Lee, and a great analogy of the ‘rat race’ we find ourselves in as we make our way in the world. I too subscribed to the beliefs that I had to work hard to succeed and feather my nest in order to be comfortable and happy. All this led to was an accumulation of deeply buried anxiety stemming from living in a constant fight or flight state. Material comfort was achieved but at a serious cost to my health and well-being.
     Thankfully, through being introduced to Universal Medicine and The Way of the Livingness, I have jumped off that familiar draining treadmill and now have a deeper understanding that my life is not about comfort and reward anymore, but about simply serving a bigger picture and returning to the love that we so innately are. Thank you for describing so beautifully the joys of not working for self, but for God…and humanity.

     1. Heather how true and what a great observation – the body is constantly pushed into a fight or flight mode to survive, ludicrously enough in order to control the body we shove it with food, medications, drugs and alcohol along with short lived entertainment and distractions. This never stems the tide of anxiety or desperate clamouring within the world, rather buries it deeper and deeper. The way back from this is the Way of the Livingness.

778. “I work for God, not myself” “Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are”. There is real purpose in this way of life.

     1. For me this is the only way to live now. The ever development and unfolding of God within me for all eternity.

     2. Powerful words Deidre, I too work for God by being simply who I truly am.

     3. Yes Deidre, true purpose if we just flick the switch and walk with God.

779. This is a beautiful reminder Lee of where we are from and what we are here to do, being our true self, and through this bring the presence of god everywhere we go.

     1. I agree Benkt, and if being our ‘true self’ for all is what we are here to be then there can be nothing that is only for ‘ones self’, self ceases to exist in the big picture of brotherhood and oneness.

        1. This is great Cherise – – I can almost see the ‘self’ shrinking before me as we tap into the big picture of brotherhood and oneness.

     2. Exactly Benkt – having the presence of God in every thing we do or every where we go is how others connect so easily to their own relationship with God.

780. Hello Lee Green I can relate to what you are saying and it almost seems as though I had the same program running for life. From an early age the focus on life for me was financial security, get a secure job, buy a house and save for retirement. Then at a point in my early twenties once I had the job security, get married and have children. Within age brackets came a ‘to do’ list and for me it was important to have as many of these things done in the age bracket to set up the next one. All of them lead to retirement. No matter where I turned the big focus was on money which equalled security. I am not critical of anyone but that was the focus of my life and it was like I was a failure or similar if I didn’t hit that mark. While all this partly made sense, together it all didn’t make sense and there was always a question in me like, “Why I am truly here?” Then came along Universal Medicine and my focus (that didn’t make sense anyway) was challenged. As you ask Lee Green this was not only possible but true for me, “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” The security was the ‘gap filler’ and ‘missing love’ made a whole lot more sense. Universal Medicine made sense to a life I was living that didn’t make sense. Thank you Lee Green and Universal Medicine.

     1. Ray what you are expressing here is so typical of the expectations that we place on ourselves. So strong is the belief that we have to provide and secure our castle in the world we will do anything to attain it. This struggle is ever present and erodes our connection not only with our families, colleagues, friends etc but devastatingly with ourselves first and foremost. Universal Medicine has afforded many people to stop and realise what is actually playing out – this space has allowed us to connect back to the love that we are – the love we naturally are from – and isn’t it wondrous now to see that life is about nurturing and nourishing that connection no matter what.

781. Dear Lee what a gorgeous blog and so beautifully exposing the crazy treadmill we have made life to be. Your question ‘how many have we trodden on’ highlights for me the fact that being on and enjoining in this treadmill does not only hurt ourselves but every single one of us. The realization of who I am and what I am here to be (note: not do) has been an absolute game changer for me.

     1. The differentiation is huge that you make Carolien – “The realization of who I am and what I am here to be (note: not do)” – we often get caught in the doing for this is how we are currently seen in the world. And yet it is the magnificence of our being that has instant access to God.

        1. that is gorgeous Lee “the magnificence of our being that has instant access to God” It really is that simple and what a gorgeous wall poster that would make to remind us of the fact that our relationship with God comes from the surrendering to all that we are and the expression of that, and never from what we do.

782. Lee this is gorgeous and I love the line that the pay is amazing! It sure is, feeling God in your body does not get better than that.

     1. Absolutely Vanessa walking with God – there is nothing better than that.

783. Cost and worth are two different ways of valuing life. Do we want the dollars? That lust that is never satisfied or do we just want a good life? What security can you really buy with money anyway?
     I love your words “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle”. A great blog Lee.

     1. Nicholas Bason the drive for dollars is ever present – yet truly it represents a distraction from knowing ourselves deeply and then applying what we need to bring to the world.

784. I just re read this blog as I love it… and I just love the question… How many have we trodden on? How many others do we hurt or stand on to get to where we want to go??

     1. Me too Rosie, this made me stop.

     2. When we stop to count it can make you shudder – for all through life we are told to compete and get ahead, this way and that – as if the race is written by everyone around us. Right from young at first school we get put into a competitive loop that keeps on running until we stop it.

785. This is awesoe Lee! I have spent most of my life in a struggle, not realising that I was the one creating that struggle. I did prefer to blame my circumstances rather than take responsibility.

     1. Rosie I know the struggle inside and out – it was often worn – less so these days to fit in, to stay small and to be part of everyday life. How dreadfully sad that we all choose this rather than the glory of being who we truly are – a son of God.

786. Lee, I can say I’m still run by the rat race on and off. And feel how much energy I can waste when I choose to run that race. I also feel how this will lessen as I choose to work for God more and more. Just as the rats wheel never gets you anywhere so does the search for love in material objects.

     1. So true kimweston2 the race exhausts us – even this represents a choice to avoid feeling how much we miss being ourselves.

787. I like your blog. I appreciate that you open a space that gives the possibility to get a new vision, a new understanding about the word Work.
     These 2 statements are like an open window to the future that’s already now.

     “Our first job is about being us”
     “I work for God, not for myself”

     They offer the opportunity to ponder on the beliefs like working hard to merit the money we get for it and having to accept and deal with whatever happens because anyway, its something we must do to cover our daily living!
     Thank you Lee.

     1. Awesome Nadia, work has so many levels – we can use it to big ourselves up, distract ourselves, pull us into misery e.g. “I hate my job” etc. All are mere distractions from the truth that is absolutely known to all – we come from God and therefore are here to represent him on Earth.

788. I love what you’ve shared Lee “I work for God, not myself.” * “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever.” If we lived every moment in that knowing, then all that will be presented to us in life, we will be able to handle as in being who we are, we will not be trying and if it’s not for any self gain but for the work of God, then it will just naturally flow through us what is needed at that time! It doesn’t matter what we are doing or who we are interacting with, be it work, home, friends, family etc.. in our true connection with us without trying we can be constantly doing God’s work.

     1. So beautifully expressed pinkylight, true connection allows us to work for God constantly.

789. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle.” Beautifully said Lee. I can feel the abundance is there always.

     1. I can also feel that the ‘struggle’ is fabricated, coming from choices made to not take responsibility. What a freedom there is and will continue to be as more and more people free themselves from their struggles through the support and holding that comes from the lived experience and lived wisdom such as in these blogs; and from making new choices knowing how deserving they really are of such a freedom, beauty and loving way of living.

        1. Wow Cherise – totally fabricated to avoid responsibility – this is so true the world over; we make choices to perpetuate the misery to justify not stepping into what we truly are and what our potential truly is.

     2. Absolutely Lieke – the abundance of living with God, with truth is always there waiting for us to say yes.

790. Thank you Lee for reminding me of the abundance of life and that struggle is pointless. Life is a lot simpler for me and less anxious since my encounter with Universal Medicine.

     1. Ah the struggle – it just needs to be kicked away and permission for the abundance of life to flow is a simple yes.

791. One way, working for self, is ever more contracting while the other way, with God, continues to expand doesn’t it – and speaks of heartfelt joy, not just moments of being happy.

     1. This is so true Debra S – we can get smaller and more insular or we can expand and encompass All.

792. If we are all one, then it is a logical consequence that the more there is of self, the less there is of god. Or call it the all if “god” doesn’t please you. Working for the self only will always leave the all behind…

     1. Yes Christina every space has to be filled with Love or not – very simple. Self or not self.

793. Inspired by a couple of amazing ladies, in the mornings either out loud or to myself I say ” hey good morning God, okay I’m here ready for work where am I needed today?” We can have so much fun and playfulness with work and God and everything along the way.

     1. I love your comment gylrae. What a great way to start the day!

     2. This is lovely gylrae, it reminds us of the true purpose we are here for and all part of.

     3. I love this gylrae. I say words similar from time to time, but you’ve just offered it at a new level, to say this to myself as part of my morning ritual in such an ordinary way, just like having a morning stretch.

     4. Love this and now working this in to my rhythm – thank you Gyl for the inspiration.

     5. This is so beautiful Gyl, I have it as a reminder on my desktop at work -I love saying it out loud to myself and really feeling the power of surrender and commitment.

794. What an awesome blog Lee. The joy we can experience when we work for a greater purpose, for the people and for God. It is amazing to read about your shift from where you were, to now working with this powerful and inspiring connection to God. What you have shared is absolutely true and an incredible way to be and to view work life. I am truly inspired by your experience Lee. Thank you.

795. “Not by preaching, but by Being ” this line stood out for me too, I know I’ve done my fair share of preaching, but in all honesty being on the receiving end of someone preaching/telling you what to do/how to be, feels awful and quite frankly I can be a bit like, stuff you, I’m not listening. When I am met with someone just being themselves, completely unimposing, and not judging, this feels AMAZING! And this is when I notice people and say hey, wait a minute there is something different here, I open up to them and myself, and am inspired to make changes to my life, simply by watching them.

     1. I love this Gyl, so true. To feel someone bringing all of themselves with no agenda or outcome needed has a feeling and an intrigue that stands alone. It feels do different to so much of what we encounter in this world.

     2. Gyl well clocked – the imposing, forceful nature of some and their delivery of things is interesting to feel and observe, I have often reeled and contracted at the tones and body posturing not realising at the time. As my awareness has developed I can feel the energy that pushes through the person to control, manipulate and hold another – it’s not true and once named you feel in yourself the steadiness back and you just observe.
        Conversely when a person presents who they are and is with themselves it feels so clear like a breathe from God as you connect and start to feel the loveliness of another. Amazing and heavenly we are.

     3. Knowing the difference comes with building awareness too I have found – willing to see and feel all that a person is first and then what they are choosing to present – the difference in just taking everything at face value is enormous. Trusting that we can all feel everything has been a revelation for me thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

796. ‘Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever’ is brilliant. No expectations on myself feels revelatory. I’ve spent my life caught up in the rat race of bettering myself. This has taken many forms.

     Today, on a beautiful walk, I felt the difference between walking to exercise my body and be with myself in the beauty of the countryside, and feeling the urge to walk at a fast pace in order to satisfy a need to better myself with fitness -a never ending end goal rather than an appreciation of already being 100% ok with exercise to keep my body healthy.

     1. Karin this is such a simple revelation – we get so caught on things to do and tick off we forget the simplicity of being with our bodies and nurturing them fully because we can and it is actually integral to the way we live. This different approach to life stands out and shines bright for all others to see and be inspired by.

797. Love it, the title says it all, thank you

798. What a relief to step out of the rat race and discover true purpose to life Lee. And yes, if we choose to walk with God “the pay is amazing”!

     1. True purpose – it gathers momentum as we keep making that choice.

799. Thank you Lee, this is such an awesome expose of the beliefs that can have us measuring our self worth which in fact is priceless.

     1. Priceless self worth – this is so true Clare and yet this is barely fostered in the world today.

800. “Is it possible that at some point we start to replace our missing feelings of love with ‘stuff’ to own, in order to fill the gap?” I can put my hand up for reacting to the treadmill I thought I have to run on, to how much I protected myself from everyone, to how hard I had made my body so I could not feel, to not thinking I was worthy of God. Most of us have similar responses to our life.
     What a blessing to become aware of the lie in which we hold ourself and see more clearly that we have a fundamental connection with God, regardless of our past choices. I get moved to tears whenever I consider and truly feel how much we are loved, without ever any judgement. When we are open we are constantly receiving guidance through nature which includes our own body and people. I find we are forever being guided to deepening our relationship with ourself, with humanity and with God – and what a blessing when we find gems like Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that provide profound support for this.

     1. Golnaz you nailed this – “guidance through nature which includes our own body and people…” We just have to choose to be open.

801. Ditto Elaine, I love this blog and the same sentence ‘I work for God, not myself’

802. Thank you for pointing out that there is an abundance of life for everyone and that we simply have to say yes to it. It does though take a bit of practice with this yes, but once the yes is established and is more lived there is indeed less and less struggle, if any struggle at all. Life is not complicated and hard we learn it that way and then make it so.

     1. How we all search and call for a simple life – sea changes and tree changes in Australia are the physical outplay of that – get me out of the rat race syndrome. What is hilarious is that the complication also gets packed inside the suitcase and travels right along with you. Life is about true choices not changes of scenery.

803. What sound words Lee. I’ve always been struck by the farcical way our culture champions the drive to earn more so you can have more – be it stuff, power, time. People tread on each other in their frenzy to get to the top of the tree but when they get there all they find is nothing. We do arrive with nothing and we leave with nothing so why the mad scramble to have it all for ourselves – why not share? As you say it’s not about having any thing but about being our true selves, in that simple understanding the abundance really is there for everyone. Once we’re living our true purpose and working for God we find meaning and joy. Simple.

     1. Fiona an interesting point you make about the stuff – it can sometimes be viewed solely as material chattels but power and time are also controls that are used to define people in different stations and hierarchy. All false and all another way to further cement the separation we have created for ourselves over aeons. God watches on and waits…

804. Great blog Lee. It is really time to stop the treadmill of human bettering and accumulation of wealth and start to work for God, as you beautifully describe.

     1. Hear hear Rachel – it’s pretty obvious that the accumulation of material wealth isn’t working all that well. We should probably mention that its also time to stop pretending to work for God in the many ways that institutions identifying as religions do – also not working out to well on the whole.

        1. Helen this is a great point we have been misled the world over – it is time to turn the tide.

     2. Yes Yes Rachel. Right with you on this.

805. Lee – the way you talk about bringing God through our work – simply by being – really resonated with me.
     Yes I have always felt the pressure of the rat race too. Make money so we can buy things and be happy or make others happy.
     But plentiful money leads to material goods, perceived power, and possibly donating lots to charity to be a good person.
     But what is it to work for God? To work for a higher purpose from who we truly are.
     And when I say God it is very far from the Christian kind, but for God who is within, who is presenting moments for us to say yes too at every turn.

     1. I agree hvmorden – you raise a great point – we earn so much and so much then we start to donate as if to say see how great I am – when really it is I trod on all of you to get this so now I am giving it back but you know that I got here – right!

        1. its a vicious cycle indeed fuelled with money, power and authority. Is that really the type of world we want to live in? It is sad that we don’t give a second thought to our actions sometimes – the world is a testament to that.

806. Lee, by this article you have put into words what I have often felt. That as young children, we are about the All. Then going into school, we learn to compete with each other for ‘gain’ which we are taught to do because it is not innately within us. We are taught to gain for security, and I am still unravelling this for myself. All I can say at this point, is that when I am for All and working with God, I feel far richer from the depth of my connection to myself and others, than any bank balance I could have. And I have noticed, the more I work for All, more opens up to allow me to increase my bank balance if that is what is required.

     1. So spot on Michelle – commit to love and whatever is needed will be provided.

807. I love your sentence: ” I work for God, not myself. “If i really surrender to this sentence- i feel like a burden has taken away from me.
     Brilliant- ” the pay is amazing, we get eternal support.” Feels like home to be hold in that love.

     1. Wonderful Claudia – we are home when we surrender to the fact that we are from God and know him absolutely.

808. Great blog Lee – there’s equality for all right there…we all have the same boss and the same job 🙂

     1. Spot on Sandra Dallimore – Absolute equality.

809. You are right Lee, knowledge is just stored information that we have acquired, like and as useful as dust bunny’s under the bed. Being and living is a game changer.
     I have found that people that had the money to leave the rat race… can just leave you watching the Rats.

     1. Love this Steve Matson – we think we can shift out of the race once we have built a certain pile – is it true then or is it then a different race – protecting the pile to ensure a level of comfort? There is still a lack of quality in this movement left so to speak and yet is deemed as better. “Being and living is a game changer” so well written.

        1. What better way to protect your pile of money than expensive health care, so you can do a Mr Burns from the Simpsons ‘with enough money and good health care you can live for ever’ but what is the quality of life?

810. Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever – Imagine if we were raised with this as our foundation? To be able to stay connected with our essence and develop it from a young age, would result in very solid humans.

     1. This is awesome Nicole – remember when we were young and you have to start saying what you want to be – a fireman, a doctor – always so young when this starts too – what if that was not even discussed and we just focussed on being US. What you have presented is huge – we can start heading the rat race of here.

        1. Yes spot on Lee, we are from a very early age groomed to think about what we want to be and do, and what I have learnt on my journey of return is that what we do is secondary to the intention and the energy behind what we do.

811. Ah yes, that line of rat, clawing over each other to get closer to the front. Thanks Lee for reminding me that there is a bigger purpose we can work for, not through preaching just through our quality.

     1. You said the word Joel – quality. Our quality of relationships, our quality in our expression, our quality in how we walk, talk, eat… All about the quality that we are in every moment – not where we are in the race.

812. Living this way feels very simple and natural the way you describe it, in complete contrast to the rat race so many of us are stuck on. I feel like I know this way of living too, yet am still a little stuck in the race so letting go and saying yes are great reminders for me, thank you Lee.

     1. Isn’t it interesting Laura that we call it the rat race and no one ever wins – people may think they do but there is always something else not quite right – I too have been stuck right in the race and always need to remind myself that $$$ do not get me through heavens door – it really is that simple.

        1. The rat race leaves you feeling racy, which is not a nice feeling in the body and since no one ever wins, you never get to a space to rest.

813. Hi Lee
     I’ve grown up being part of one of the established religions and I walked away from it because it just seemed to be so shallow, lots of talk but no substance, no day to day of this is God and how God is in my daily life.
     So when you write: “It dawned on me that we are all here to bring the presence of God to all that we do and everyone we know.
     Not by preaching, but by Being – simply who we truly are.” it reminds me of how I now have God in my daily life for me and everyone I interact with, and I love that!

     1. Beautifully said Joost it is so natural for us to walk with that loving relationship with God.

814. Thank you Lee. I loved reading your article and would say yes… I agree. Is it possible that we are here for another reason than to just go through the motions of life, making money and buying nice things, eating and partying? For me, connecting to myself and therefore beginning to develop a relationship with thy Father brings a purpose and love that makes sense to all things.

     1. So beautifully expressed Donna Harris 🙂 and I agree with all of me.

     2. I love this Donna – connecting to ourselves is so vital – our relationship with us will help us to navigate through all of the other stuff.

815. I know the man who wrote this blog. He walks his talk and is a deeply religious man in the absolute true sense of the word. And you are right Lee we are here to work for God by being ourselves unabashedly.

     1. As you do Dean.

816. I love the realness you have brought to this blog Lee. All of the first points you have made about what we make life about; “get on and do well at school; get a good job, buy a house and get married, build a family and go on holidays, eat out, and generally succumb to life.” is really a reality for so many people!- and it’s even been a process for me trying to get out of that mind set and just do what I feel to do in whatever time it is in my life.

     1. Thanks Ariel, “just do what I feel to do in whatever time it is in my life”. A line that just created sparked me.

     2. Ariel well said – calling out the comfort that holds us in a pattern that perpetuates accumulation of material wealth in it’s many forms – not least to give us a lift up but also to carve out that castle that will protect us from life. Hiding if you like behind our big TVs and cars… Walking free of this cookie cutter lifestyle the western world seems completely obsessed by is a bit tricky – but not when you can meet with your employer – God – at any time and get his support.

817. The title said it all for me – Working for God or Self – I love it.

     1. Sally imagine if everyday we made that commitment – I want to work for God today or myself – this is essentially what we do with our choices and with our thoughts all of the time – let’s make that choice with our whole bodies to work only for God.

818. I loved what you shared Lee. When I was at university one of the lecturers mentioned an interesting concept called relative poverty. Effectively it means that regardless of someone’s standard of living they can still feel a sense of poverty by comparing to those around them in a more lucrative position. It’s no wonder so many of us are all scurrying for more, more and more as the world focuses primarily on physical possessions to mark worth or social standing. Letting go of the rat race and bringing focus to the quality of our life is definitely a true move forward.

     1. Great point Heidi, we are constantly looking outside of ourselves to see where we stand in the ‘scheme of things’ rather than living a true quality from within.

819. “The abundance of life is there truly for everyone – there need not be a struggle”
     This brings greater appreciation to me of the choice to feel God in every moment. God and our Soul is always there with a Love so great and ready to infuse should we give it the go-ahead.

     1. I agree Amelia. I know God is with me all the time but how often I choose to connect to God in every moment is at this point in my life not a constant. To have consistency and continue connection to myself and God is something I am learning to bring into my everyday life. Reading this blog and the comments are an awesome inspiration and reminder for me. I know I am on the path of truth and returning to God when I choose to be connected.

     2. So powerful are your words Amelia and Lee. Absolute light.

     3. Absolutely Amelia the choice to truly connect to our love, God, soul and with each other is all that matters.

     4. Amelia I so get this – we just have to give God the heads up that we are ready and back and he says get on with it.

820. I love this Lee, “our first job is about being us”, our most worthwhile and satisfying job of all with riches far greater than any amount of money.

     1. So very true Victoria. The only thing we have to do is to sign the contract for this job.

        1. yes Michael… and then it is signed, sealed and truly delivered. 🙂

        2. The key here Michael is that there is nothing to be signed just a shift in the way we move and express our bodies and everything has changed. Nothing to sign for God feels it all.

     2. Absolutely Victoria – Isn’t interesting as we look down the ages that we have always had some currency jewels, salt etc to distract us from just being who we are. And as you say we are worth so much more.

821. God is the most extraordinary employer Lee. Dedicated, eternally hard working, and never looks over our shoulder to make sure we are toeing the line. He actually lets us make mistakes, and never holds them against us. And the pay and conditions are the best – they are as good as we choose to make them, and that choice is made with the love we let in and let out, and it is returned in full, and then some.

     1. Ha ha love it Dr Rachel Mascord, and then some! – I agree.

     2. This is so true, I love your comment. Absolutely spot on, beautifully expressed.

     3. Awesome comment, Rachel, I couldn’t have said it better and so true! The love God has for us is beyond words. He is definitely the most extraordinary employer ever. I love working with him.

     4. So gorgeously said Rachel and I wholeheartedly agree, the pay and the conditions are ‘out of this world’ 🙂

     5. Absolutely beautiful comment, Rachel, love it. I so agree with all you say.

     6. Love it, Rachel. And there is no redundancy.

     7. Awesome Rachel you know this for you work for God without a doubt.

     8. And the superannuation carries over lifetimes!

        1. So true Helen, the riches of the inner heart keep building and building eternally.

     9. Best employer EVER!

     10. You say it so beautifully Rachel – the most Extraordinary employer.

822. Lee I too have got off the treadmill of trying to make it in life to realise that my only true purpose is to make life about people. And in making it about people has meant making it about God’s work.

     1. Awesome Sharon everything in this world is about people.

823. “Our first job is about being us, with no expectations whatsoever” this is brilliant Lee, and I loved your blog. “How many of us have run on this treadmill? And how many have we trodden on”, you can say that again. It doesn’t feel great to realise we have trodden on people to get what we want, big or small.

     1. I agree harryjwhite, it would feel awful to tread on others to get what we want. This is something I have never been able to do and I dislike the feeling of when someone is being left behind or excluded. Learning and hearing the teachings of Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness makes so much sense to me because in every thing that we do and choose it isn’t just about us it’s about everyone. We cannot leave ourselves or anyone feeling less. We are all equal and connected.

        1. Absolutely Chan Ly – all equal and connected. Even the way we share ourselves has to be about this equality and openess first.

     2. That self motivation that we all go into not necessarily to earn huge money or gain fame but in more subtle ways leads to this constant need to get control over my space, what I deserve, what my needs need…very insular and separative and how many of us truly consider the impact of our actions on others?

824. I felt the power and call in the title of this piece Lee Green, before I read a work. The truth you share here went straight to my core. I will read and re read this piece and observe the ‘rat’ like behaviour when it pokes it’s nose out.

     1. Haha That’s cool Bernadette, we all have that rat like character sniffing it’s next opportunity to get ahead, I certainly have and what a mess it can make out of relationships with all around us if we allow it to constantly be the lead.

        1. And it is exhausting because we are so focused on self interest that our awareness not on our divine design, one we share with all others – we work for the rat race or for expansion of our divinity….our choice.

825. Thank you Lee. I love this statement “I work for God, not myself”

     1. Hello Elaine, we place so much emphasis in this day and age on our occupation and what that brings us – security, reputation, safety et al we forget first and foremost that we are sons of god – here to inspire others that their job is exactly the same. Working for God is an absolute joy.

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