Please understand that being unselfish doesn’t mean you are to overlook your self. It doesn’t mean that you decide everyone comes before you, and you are to be last on your list. Christ did not give up his peace and happiness in service to Me. He did not put his needs aside. He did not erase himself. He went to sleep at night, and he ate. He rested. He did not overdo. He never thought of himself as giving. He simply came from the state of consciousness that was his. He enjoyed his life. He enjoyed the people he met. He enjoyed his own service. He served, not to prove anything to himself nor anyone, but simply to serve. He came from a high place. He did not condescend to any creature, including himself. He saw no one lower, and so he was not in a place where he saw that it was his to sacrifice. He did not see himself as necessary to individuals. He knew only what he was to do for Me, and so he did, for to not serve Me would have been sacrifice for him, greater than he could bear.
That you serve doesn’t mean that you are to sacrifice. Get rid of the idea that sacrifice is a good thing. One day you will come to the state of consciousness where you will give your all without thought of sacrifice. You will give because it is yours to give, and it is natural to you. It is what you want to do, not in order to feel good, not for glory, but simply because it is the thing for you to do.
Beloveds, when you give beyond the means of your consciousness, then you start to regret and resent. You do no favor to make anyone the recipient of your regret or resentment.
Christ did not sacrifice. He gave his all, yet he was no one’s fool. He didn’t tell himself what he was supposed to be, or do, or feel. There was no separation from his thought and his act. He did not coach himself to be a giver, nor did he feel he owed his givingness. He merely gave what was his to give. Mortal eyes see that he gave a lot. Christ didn’t know that. He gave what he had to give. He just did what came next.
Christ was good at letting go. From his perception, there was nothing he owned, and there was nothing he needed. Therefore he gave, and therefore he served Me in the world. He served Me with grace, and so, he served humanity with grace. It may be dramatic to perform an act of sacrifice, but do you think it is graceful?
Christ did not do everything the world asked of him. He did not kowtow. He served but he was not subservient. He was humble, yet he didn’t aspire to be humble. He washed another’s feet as an equal. It was no showy thing to him. He didn’t decide to be humble. He didn’t decide to be anything at all. He walked the world and did what was his to do.
You may say that he sacrificed his physical life. He saw differently. He didn’t see that it was his life to give, nor was his life anyone’s to take. He saw his worldly existence correctly as Mine, as Mine to give and Mine to take. He saw his life not as his body. He saw his body for what it was. He did not have to die to know Eternal Life. Christ knew who he was, and he knew his being could never be taken from him. You love him precisely because he did not sacrifice. He gave freely, and he did not obligate you, and so now your heart would love to oblige his.