WE WILL NOT FEAR, BECAUSE GOD IS OUR REFUGE

What is it that restores the lost years of the locusts? I. What is it that resurrects our body, businesses, home, strength, health, and vitality? I. There is only one Divine Presence and Power and It is all embodied in that which secretly, and secretly is called I. The master had great difficulty in imparting this idea to the Hebrews who had observed ceremonies, rituals, and holy days, but who had been given little or no spiritual enlightenment. All the instructions had been in the realm of the mind, and the observance of outward rites, and that is not sufficient. Spiritual teaching must enter the heart. It must be in the soul. It must be felt, rather than reasoned or thought.

In an attempt to understand the mystery of God, to explain what can never be explained, and to comprehend what can never be comprehended, man has used words. But words can never explain God. There can never be a word that is God. Not even the word God is God, nor the words Mind, Soul, Spirit, or Truth, for all these are effects objective to the person voicing them. There are no synonyms for God in absolute truth. Those that we have used are only attributes descriptive of God. Soul is an attribute of the purity of God; Spirit describes God’s immateriality; love, mine, principle, and law are facets, of God’s being. But none of these is God. Regardless of what word we utter. Even the word God, there is an I that utters it and, an it to be altered.

The Kingdom of God is within our consciousness, and when we turn in meditation to this infinite Consciousness to let it flow, we will show forth. More of the Limitlessness, which we are and always have been, and next year a greater degree, and a year after, still a greater degree. In other words, we are expressing as much infinite Consciousness as we can at the moment comprehend. Let us begin with the realization that we are not form. We are consciousness. By our devotions to meditation, we bring forth a greater degree and deeper awareness of God's consciousness. Consciousness forever express Itself as an individual form of intelligence.

Everything visible first had to have an invisible something to send it into form, and that invisible Something is consciousness, which sends Itself into expression as a seed, and all that comes forth from the seed. Were it not for Consciousness, there would be nothing expressed as form. Regardless of how beautiful a thing may seem to be, how wonderful, or how abundant, we must look behind it and realize that it could not exist but for the Consciousness that formed it. There is something about us greater than what we appear to be. Eventually, we will discover that that something is our consciousness.

To sow to the Spirit, does not mean that we have to avoid physical pleasure. It does not mean giving up our work, our profession, our home, or our family. It has nothing to do with what we do externally; It has to do with what is going on in our consciousness while our mind and body are performing their functions on the outer plane. What is going on in our consciousness determines whether we are sowing to the flesh, or whether we are sowing to the spirit, and whether we are setting in motion the karmic law of good order, comic law of evil. We do not always reap what we sow immediately or quickly. The mills of the gods grind slowly, yet they are exceeding fine. Sometimes a person may indeed live for many years in a measure of spiritual realization before the overcoming overturning comes, and He comes who's right it is. Then there are also those persons who indulge in every manner of evil and seem to be able to do it for a long period of years before their karma begins to operate.

With each meditation, there must be this surrender of ourselves to the Spirit within, together with a realization that God’s grace is our sufficiency and that we are in meditation for the express purpose of receiving the comfort of His Presence. The person who is one with God is merely the transparency through which God is living His life. His body is the temple of God, and his mind is the instrument of God, the mind which was also in Christ Jesus. That mind can be attained only in silence, not with words or with thoughts, although words and thoughts may be used as a preliminary step which we know as meditation, which plays a vitally important part in the development of our spiritual life. It is the meditation that makes teaching come alive because meditation is the connecting link between our outer life and our inner self.

The human race as we know it, is composed of men and women, living completely shut off from Divine Aid, Divine Substance, and Divine Providence. From the most ancient of times up to modern days, man has not only lived by the sweat of his brow but has engaged in conflict to gain his ends, whether in the case of individuals or companies under the name of competition or as a nation under the name of war. However,  most human beings are born and brought up in ignorance of their true identity. In ignorance of that indwelling Something, and, uninstructed by the Divine Master. This is the human race as we know it. These are the people we read about in the newspapers, those in prison, in the prison of lack, sin, and disease. The prison of political slavery and Ignorance. These are unenlightened and earthbound. However, from the beginning of all revelation, it has been pointed out that this need not be. That anytime we can turn within and begin our accent out of the tomb of our darkness, out of the prison, and into the light. Out of ignorance, into understanding

If we are willfully disobedient to the laws of God, we must correct ourselves and bring ourselves into attunement, and alignment with His laws. In so doing, the finger of God will touch us to His will and His grace. We must learn to relax, and stop trying to bring God to our mind or body. In that moment we would find that God has always been there. God has made a covenant with his image and likeness. We cannot make God do our will. But that does not leave us hopeless. Instead, it gives us added courage and strength, because we know there is no way, to sway, influence, or persuade Him. When we learn that, we will realize that instead of releasing God, we have released ourselves from finite concepts of God. Also, from our ignorance of skeptical beliefs about prayer. And from the belief that we knew more than God and have more love than God.

Jesus was wise in the world's ways and heavenly wisdom. He advised his followers against attempting to help people when they wished no help. He said "When you come into the house, salute it. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it: if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you." People do not always receive their message. When this happens, there should be no controversy, no argument, and no sense of disturbance. However, as we abide in the conviction of the ultimate acceptance of truth by all, we should let our peace return unto ourselves and go calmly on our way.

The Universe holds nothing against us. No matter how many mistakes we have made; we are still perfect beings within, and the within may become the without, if we will carefully train ourselves to listen to the inner voice of truth which speaks to us in our moments of quietness. There is nothing in the Universe that wishes evil to anyone. Indeed, it is only as we experience good that God is expressed through us. The more completely we realize good, happiness, and success, the more perfectly we express God, and the more of God we become, that is the more God becomes personified through us.