Sermon - The Delight of Useful Service: How the Lord Regenerates the Natural Person
At this point in the story of the children of Jacob, we learn what our final steps are to cooperate with the Lord in our rebirth as angels. Earlier we learned of the work required to earn the basic ability to learn our role in our salvation. Then we learned what we can do to move out of a state of mind where selfish and worldly delights dominate. Now, we learn how we can move into a state of mind where heavenly delights reign. The key is to perform works of useful service knowing that the Lord will attach delights and happiness to those actions; that doing things for other people feels nice. And while we practice that, the Lord reorders our natural self to correspond to our spiritual self. When this is finished, our two minds are united into one mind ruled by the delights derived from the good things of heaven.
