Authority

"If we were to ask a modern scientist what authority he has for believing in a certain principle in nature, his only answer would be: “Because I can do something with it, it must exist. Since it reacts to the use I make of it, there must be something real about it.” This is equally true of our faith in God. Because something does react to our faith, there must be something real that can react. Even after Jesus had demonstrated the authority of his faith in God through so many wonderful acts, one of his disciples asked him to show them the Father. He told them to believe him “for the very works’ sake. If Jesus was the first or only person to multiply loaves and fishes and make the wind and wave obey his will, it was not because God or the Supreme Creative Cause had withheld this same power from others. It was merely because Jesus was the first, and perhaps the only one, who completely accepted his oneness with the Spirit and then acted on that basis. When we make our affirmation in the silence of our own consciousness, we are facing the Divine Reality, dealing with It directly, using Its power consciously. Today I affirm my faith in God’s Presence dwelling within me. And I ask no one for any justification of my conviction. Boldly I proclaim this Presence and humbly I accept Its authority in my life. The Divine, governing everything out of Itself, knows how to guide my life toward happiness, toward peace, toward perfect fulfillment. There is no barrier or bar to the possibilities of Its expression, no restriction to Its dynamic creativeness because It is Self-existent in all things. This is the secret I hold with the Invisible. Alone with God I make my claim, and, in the integrity of my own soul, I fear no opposition to it."   "Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. —JOHN 14:11

Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes