Love

Question: Rayson, you said that God loves us very much. Does He love all of us equally, or does He love
those who are good or trying to be good more than He loves those which are iniquitous?

Answer: He loves all equally. Why would He give you the opportunity of choice? Even the iniquitous among you are given a final chance to choose the ascension career once they have emerged from material life. That is how great Father's love is. Could your love be so great if it were your progeny?

Love is of higher mind, part of personality expression. Love is necessary for survival of all beings in the
universe. Not only must they receive love, but must also impart love to others. Love is one of the highest
accomplishments that any creature can aspire to.

It sometimes is said that love is illusive, perhaps because it is not a material thing, so that when it is
sought as a material thing would be sought, you lose the grasp - and yet it is most readily accessible to
all who would have it. And it is so easy to have love. The having of love, the getting of love is a
 function of the giving of love, which may seem paradoxical, but it is not. Like other God-given qualities
 goodness and truth and beauty - love is not something that the material creature creates, but rather is
 something that is passed on through the material creature to others. It is truly a gift from God, given
 freely, to be experienced freely and freely passed on.

And that is what love is. Not something that can be stored, or even really calibrated in the usual sense of
your thinking, yet how truly one knows when it is present, how truly one knows when there is love in
the interaction between individuals.

And one of the wonderful things about love is the fact that the practice of it, the striving to be loving, to
impart love to others, not only increases one's ability to give love, but also increases the amount of love
that is in turn received. The more you give, the more you in turn receive. The FATHERFather gives us only
 what we can use. There is no waste in the universe of any energy form.
Yesterday

It is useful, perhaps, to conceive of love as one might think of sunshine, the light that strikes your planet
 and your nearby stars. Without the light of the sun all life on UrantiaEarth would perish. Even a small feeble
 ray of light can sustain some sort of life form. And the sun streams forth its light at no cost, freely given
 and freely received. How much better, then, is the love of The FATHERFather streaming forth over all the
 universes. Unlike the light of the star, though, there can never be too much. You could never get
 sunburn from the love of The FATHER.
Father.

There could never be any danger in the receipt of love, or any danger in the giving of love. The love of
 The FATHERFather is freely given and is there - even in individuals who not only do not ask, but also have
 deluded themselves into believing that they do not want love, that they shun love. It is a fallacy to
 believe thus, for if the love of The FATHERFather were not there, they would perish. But not to worry, it -
 that never will stop. The shame for such individuals is that in a misguided desire to have what might be
 called control they may stubbornly attempt to refrain from passing The FATHER'Father's love on to others and,
 in so doing, impoverish their own lives and - at least temporarily - slow their own spiritual growth.
(T/R)

 Some worry about protection when giving out love or goodness or truth and beauty, and yet it is not
these qualities of God that leave one vulnerable, contrary to her belief.vulnerable. Rather it is the negative qualities
 of fear and pride and so on that make mortals vulnerable. By working on love, by finding that which you
 can love in everyone and everything, you can exercise this muscle, develop it to a fuller potential, and
 thereby help to further your own spiritual growth.

So go forth gladly and shed love on your fellows and watch the results. Some will be immediate, others
 will be delayed, and many, many of the results coming from the love that you send will never be seen
 directly by you during your mortal lifetimes. But if you look into your own hearts and consult with your
 own inner self to find the truth, you will receive every assurance that the love you give causes growth
 and enhances the universe wherever it may fall,
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Love (S) to be the conduit for healing in the area?]
A:
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say for now. But while waiting for this person there are things that all can do to help one another. Love
is not just an emotion, and not just a spiritual quality; it is a force of energy. It changes the way the body
 works.
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Like love, prayer never falls without engendering positive
 results. It always yields benefits and growth - not the instant gratification desired or even required by
 some - but be assured that the benefit is always there.
 How healing it is to receive the love of another. Like a drink of cool water on a dry hot day. How
 healing it is to behold beauty. How healing to experience goodness or to know truth.

Lesson II on Love:
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In keeping with the symbolic celebration on Urantia of the coming of the Christ to your planet your
lesson today will be on love.
Love is the gift of the Universal FATHER,Father, and is manifested in the Eternal Son. In the life of
MICHAEL Jesus on Urantiathis planet we have witness to applied love, mercy. The gift of the father - love - and applied
 love - mercy - of the Son is ministered to mortals and other low-level creatures by the bestowal of the
 Infinite Spirit who down-steps through angels to minister the combination of love and mercy to you.
Children,

Love is a constant, which can be seen from the most infinite level down through the most
 finite. On the greatest level, which you cannot conceive of, the love of God The FATHERFather is so
 boundless that He loves every one of His creatures whether they are aware of His love or not, and still
can manifest Divine and Perfect (?will?) in and of Himself as the creator of all.not. His love is so limitless
 that He loves both sinners and perfected beings alike. He is no respecter of persons, but loves each
 creation individually and limitlessly.

His greatest acts of love to you, mortal creatures of animal origin, are the divine fragments of His Spirit which each
 of you possess. The FATHER'Father's love is extended through the ministry of mercy, always - first love,
second mercy, and always ends injustice. He loves His individual children and His created worlds and
 systems through the Universal Eternal Son. Their down-step incarnations are the tangible proof of The FATHER'Father's love and should serve as an inspiration to this confused and sin-ridden world of the
 existence of divine love and a divine pattern to all creation.

The life of MICHAELMichael here - as JESUSJesus - is on a spiritual level, the perfection standard to which you
 should all strive. The message of JESUSJesus was “Love your brother as yourself.” For the skeptic, cynical of
 heart, or pure materialist, one can argue without self-love primitive species would not survive, without
 sex-love the species would not have propagated, without mother-love there would be no family home
 life, without neighbor-love survival would be limited, without tribal-love the elements and animals
 would have overcome the frail mortal, without nation-love there would be no great advances, without
 brother-love - the highest concept of love - we would not be aware of the existence of God.

Love your neighbor as yourself. This simple concept is what will take your world into the spiritual light
 of the new advanced revelatory religion. Simple, but very hard to achieve.
 Love one another. This involves a self-forgetfulness. Love is the desire to do good to others. And what's
 in that is to put another's needs before one's own selfish needs for ego aggrandizement. It means that
 dogma must be put aside. It means that in order to love one's fellows, tolerance must be consciously
 exercised every day. JESUSJesus asks of you, learn to love one fellow more.

To understand your fellows is to love them. It is a reflection of your capacity on a spiritual level if you
 love and understand more of your fellows. It is not a measure of lack of divine love or spirit potential. If
 you do not consciously set out to know and love others you cannot truly know God, for God is not
 merely intellectual or philosophical, but is involved in actions in terms of service to your brothers and
 sisters. Service is not “done,” it is merely duty without love. You may do good works with a bad heart.
God

God is love, but love is not God. If one merely performs worthy acts without
 God consciousness, you are not entering the kingdom of God, but you are entering the kingdom of good.
 There is a huge difference. Mere humanism or idealism or political-social motivation is not Godliness,
 although God-knowing people encompass it. Love is the difference, love of God so strong that you
 would do anything to know Him and be like Him. And if one love's God and thirsts for God, to that
 degree how can you not love God's creations? Recognize the fragment of God in your fellows and love
 that.

One can only love personality. One cannot love concepts. God is a personality in that he is your parent
 creator FATHER.Father. Your word love is so inadequate. It means such base emotions on your world that we
 wish there was antheranother way to describe what spiritual love is.

Love acts without thought of reward. And love - spiritual love - is not defined by results. Plant the seeds
 of love and the harvest will be truth, beauty and goodness. Of that I can assure you. As to when the
 harvest comes, that is unknown. But love is contagious and will always be more infectious than fear,
 anger, hatred or sin. If you are truly illuminated from within by divine love and overflowing love for
 your fellow ascenders - and indeed all creation - then others cannot help but respond in kind. It is the
 benign virus of love. And you can be sure that you are doing the will of The FATHER.
Father.

Why, then are you not more filled with love? Why are you - like greedy animals - so often wanting to
 take rather than to give? John said, “children, love one another.” Why do you spend so much time
 staring at your own image in an antique glass when you but could lift your eyes upward and see the
 beauty and majesty of the universe. You will be so enlightened that you could not help but reflect
 divinity outward. And like a walk to the light, you will be surrounded by the multitudes as JESUSJesus was.

JESUSJesus did not talk down, or preach morality, or fear, or judgment, or (? - iness?).judgment. No. He simply was
applied love and mercy, and lived that way. And people loved Him instantly.
 You, too, may be Christ-like. It is not enough, children,enough to celebrate the Christ. You must be the Christ.
Urantia

Your planet is surely a backward and dark planet, which is why MICHAELMichael chose this planet, the better to
 contrast the light of his love against such a confused and dark, suffering world. Shine your light so that
 the planet may be uplifted. You to whom so much has been given should not sit and bask in The
FATHER' Father's generosity without in turn reflecting that generosity to others. It is not enough for you to
 rationalize that you do not like this person or that person, thesesuch pettypettyness (??) comecomes with ego. TheyIt will
 someday be an embarrassment to you.

You must begin to live the law of JESUSJesus of Nazareth by loving more and more of your fellows the
 longer you live. The more you grow in the spirit, the more humans you will be tolerant and loving of.
 This is what the life of the master reflected: trusting in the love of The FATHERFather to such extent that
 even when one looks at this world and sees chaos, and despair, and destruction, and starvation, and
 conflicts, and hatred, and fear, and ignorance, and rigidity, and immoral belief systems, you can know
 that the outcome of the divine plan is benevolent, and enlightened, and loving and peaceful, and
 joy-filled, and spiritual; that when one looks at (?ones?)one's own life through the valleys of confusion and
 doubt that your faith will know that God loves you so much that the outcome of your life will be
 ultimately good, goodness; that The FATHERFather has created you as you are - in love, and see the outcome
 of who you would be in love, and that your place is assured but for your choices. You have been created
 to conquer doubt and fear, anger and hatred, all the demons of the human condition. And though love
 you will.

God's love is not finite. The more you faithfully believe this, the more love you will open yourself up to
 seeing. It is always there. It is your inability to take it that is the flaw.
 You cannot see justice or even fairness, but you can feel the love of The FATHERFather if you would but try,
 and once having felt and become full of divine love, and so moved by the spirit you could not help but
 to give it away, for you would realize that the more you love the more ability you have to love. Do not
(?deny?) this,deny children, withyourself this giftgift. Love freely and unselfishly and unconditionally. Love each other
 with the highest divine love that you can imagine.

A father often must take the long view on a child's growth, and so we sometimes - as children - do not
 feel we understand His ways. That is natural, but his love is constant. A parent's love never wavers, and
 your world would be so much more evolved if you each understood that you are secure in the divine
 love of your father. That fact does not ebb and flow, but is a constant and ever-giving replete well of
 strength for you to draw from. You cannot simply run out of love.
(T/R)

Remember, to enter the kingdom of God one must love one’s fellows and God. That is the ticket. So I
 pray that you will be more loving, kinder, tolerant, and understanding toward each other. As God is so
 generous in His love to you, you also will be generous in God's love to others, through you.