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Progress through Character Development

 




Progress through Character Development

28:6.14 (316.1)On Urantia you grotesquely attempt to fathom one's character and estimate one's specific abilities, but on Uversa we actually do this in perfection. These seconaphim weigh your trustworthiness on the living scales of flawless character assessment, and when they have looked at you, we need only look at them to know the limits of your ability to carry responsibility, perform the tasks entrusted to you and accomplish missions. Your assets to trustworthiness are clearly plotted against your liabilities to possible negligence or treachery.

28:6.15 (316.2)Your superiors plan to advance you by entrusting you with increasingly onerous tasks once your character has developed sufficiently to carry these greater responsibilities with grace, but putting too much on someone's shoulders only asks for mischief and is sure to end in disappointment. And the mistake of prematurely burdening a person or angel with responsibility can be avoided by employing the services of these angels who can unfailingly assess the ability of individual personalities in time and space to fulfill their entrusted tasks. These seconaphim always accompany the High Commanders, and these directors never appoint candidates until they have been weighed on the scales of these seconaphim and found to be “not too light.

28:6.16 (316.3)5. The Sanctity of Service. Immediately after a person is found to be trustworthy, the privilege of serving falls to him. Nothing can stand between you and the possibility of increased service but your own unreliability, your defective ability to appreciate the high seriousness of a task entrusted to you.

28:6.17 (316.4)Service - intentional service, not slavery - gives the highest satisfaction and is the expression of the most divine dignity. Service - increased service, increasing service, difficult service, adventurous service, and finally divine, perfect service - is the goal of time and the destination of space. But always the periods of service and progress in time will be alternated by periods of play. And after the service in time follows the super-service in eternity. During the play in time you should imagine the work in eternity, just as during the service in eternity you will think back to the play in time.

28:6.18 (316.5)The universal economy is based on absorption and production; throughout your eternal career you will encounter the monotony of inactivity or the stagnation of personality. Progress is made possible by inherent motion, progress springs from the divine capacity for acitvity, and achievement is the child of imaginative adventure. But inherent in this capacity for achievement is the responsibility of ethics, the need to recognize that the world and the universe are filled with a multitude of beings of different types. This entire magnificent creation, yourself included, was not made just for you. This is not a self-centered universe. The Gods have decreed, “It is more blissful to give than to receive,” and your Master-Son has said, “Whoever wishes to be the greatest among you, be all servants.

28:6.19 (316.6)The true nature of any service, whether rendered by man or angel, is fully revealed in the face of these secoraphimic designators of service, the Sanctities of Service. The full analysis of your true and hidden motives is clearly displayed. These angels are indeed the mind readers, the investigators of hearts, and the revelators of souls in the universe. Mortals may use words to hide their thoughts, but these high seconafines expose the deepest motives of the human heart and consciousness of angels.

A Thought for Consideration from The Urantia Book

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