Thus
far nearly all teaching has limited the manifestation of infinite love to one
form--that of healing, Sickness, seemingly incurable disease, and suffering reigned
on every side, and every sufferer wanted to be free. We had not yet known that
there was willingness as there was power--aye, more, that there was intense
desire--on the part of our Father to give us something more than sweet, patient
submission to suffering.
Turn to the divine
presence within yourself. Seek Him. Be still before Him. Wait upon God quietly,
earnestly, but constantly and trustingly, for days--aye weeks, if need be! Let
Him work in you, and sooner or later you will spring up into a resurrected life
of newness and power that you never before dreamed of.
When
these transition periods come, in which God would lead us higher, should we get
frightened or discouraged, we only miss the lesson that He would teach, and so
postpone the day of receiving our own fullest, highest gift. In our ignorance
and fear, we are thus hanging on to the old grain of wheat that we can see, not
daring to let it go into the ground and die, lest there be no resurrection, no
newness of life, nothing bigger and grander to come out of it.
Oh, do
not let us longer fear our God, who is all good, and who longs only to make us
each one a giant instead of a pygmy!
What
we all need to do above everything else is to cultivate the acquaintance or
consciousness of Spirit within ourselves. We must take our attention off
results, and seek to live the life. Results will be "added unto" (Mt. 6:33)
us in greater measure when we turn our thoughts less to the "works"
and more to embodying the indwelling Christ in our entire being. We have come
to a time when there must be less talking about Truth and teaching others to do
so. There must be more incorporating of Truth in our very flesh and bone.
How are you to do this?
"I
am the way, and the truth, and the life" (Jn. 14:6), says the Christ at
the center of your being.
"I
am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth (consciously) in me, and I in
him (in His consciousness), the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me (or
severed from me in your consciousness) ye can do nothing. . .If ye abide in me,
and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto
you" (Jn.
15:5,7).
I do
assure you, as do all teachers, that you can bring good things of whatever kind
you desire into your life by holding to them as yours in the invisible until
they become manifest. But, beloved, do you not see that your highest, your
first--aye, your continual--thought should be to seek the abiding in Him, to
seek the knowing as a living reality, not as a finespun theory that He abides
in you? After that, ask what you will, be it power to heal, to cast out demons,
or even the "greater works" (Jn. 14:12), and "it shall
be done unto you" (Jn. 15:7).
You love to associate with many people sharing like the Apostles “all things in common.” So you ought to think this truth all the time: “There is no respect of persons with God.” Emma Curtis Hopkins
“There is a Light in this world, a healing Spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the Spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.” Mother Teresa
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