If you say that you are unhappy, dissatisfied, perhaps ill or impoverished, a failure, this is simply another way of putting the fact that you are not allowing the will of God to have free play in your life—you are not doing the thing that He meant you to do.
Discontent is not necessarily a [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Your Own Place
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Self-Condemnation Keeps Us Back
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People who are honestly trying to follow the spiritual life often make the mistake of being too hard on themselves. Because they do not seem to be progressing as fast as they would naturally like, or because they find themselves repeating some old fault that they thought they had completely overcome, they feel discouraged, and [...]
All God’s Universe
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is nature? What we call nature is a small part of God’s universe that we are able to see at the present time,and much of which we see awry. All the wonderful things that are going on in the woods, all the marvelous happenings that take place in the depths of the ocean, the whole [...]
Raise the Shades
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on August 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We do not have to create good. We do not have to persuade God to be Love, or Life, or Truth, or Intelligence. We do not have to ask Him to remember us. We only need accept the undeniable power and truth of good. Fundamentally, evil is a false belief about the power and availability [...]
Ever Present Help
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Resignation in defeat is really a sin.
If an old problem continues to stick—pray for inspiration and intelligence. Stop struggling and thank God constantly for setting you free.
If nervous or frightened—throw the responsibility on God, and tell Him that you know you are safe in His hands.
If someone is being troublesome—see only the Presence of God [...]
Mental Assent
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When you give your mental assent to any idea, good or bad, you associate yourself with that idea and you incorporate it into your consciousness—to the extent that you realize it. When you read a passage of Scripture you will, if you assent to it mentally, incorporate it into your life to that extent.
This law, [...]
Common Sense Vocabulary
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on August 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When you apply a certain word to God, it must bear the same essential meaning as it does when you apply it to man—otherwise it has no meaning at all. When you say that God is Love or Intelligence, or that He is Just, these words must mean substantially what they mean when applied to [...]
Use That Broom
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A good housekeeper sees to it that dust and dirt do not accumulate in nooks and corners and on shelves. Periodically, the house is gone over and given a through cleaning. Too often in our spiritual lives, we allow negative things to accumulate in the corners of our minds. We tackle the obvious problems as [...]
Use What You Have
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many people say, “I want to get on faster. I want more understanding.” And as a rule they go on to ask for a list of books to read or some “advanced course” that they can take.
This attitude is quite mistaken. It implies that spiritual advancement is a question of intellectual activity—of the mere accretion [...]
This World Is A School
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pass a test in Spiritual understanding, and never again throughout eternity will that particular task have to be done. Your attitude should be:
I am going to live forever; in a thousand years from now I shall still be alive and active somewhere; in a hundred thousand years still alive and active somewhere; and so [...]
