THE DAILY LESSON - MAY 20, 2012
"God is a reality. Christ is as much of a reality this second here where
we are as the sun is shining in the sky, or the waters are wet in the sea.
Actually Christ is a reality but one which very few people ever experience, and
that is because they function either as body or as mind, and they do not
transcend these to reach the Spirit.
'We do not live by bread alone' - either physical bread or mental bread. We do
not live by things or by thoughts, but 'by every word that proceedeth out of
the mouth of God.' Who said that your words and mine proceeded out of the mouth
of God? Why God says, 'your thoughts are not my thoughts and my thoughts are
not your thoughts,' why think any then?
Why not wait and let God's thoughts come to you? That's where the difficulty
comes in, in this work at first. You've got to wait until God's thoughts reach
you. And that isn't easy because there is a million layers, a million years of
layers, of humanness, of the human mind, which is, in itself, a sense a
separation from God. All these barriers of antiquity exist as barriers through
which God seems unable to break, to get into our individual awareness.
We are the ones who have to open out that way, and we do it by refraining from
taking thought. We do it by taking no thought for your life, or his life or her
life, but waiting, waiting until God's thought comes through. Do you know that
if, if the voice of God ever came through and said, "Let's have water from
these plants," water would flow? Now I can't make it happen and neither
can you. None of us are gifted in that way. But if it ever came through, you
would see that it would happen just as in healing work." ~Joel
Mark 10:25-27
25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich
man to enter into the kingdom of God.
26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then
can be saved?
27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with
God: for with God all things are possible.
(God is Omnipotent. Not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of God shall
we enter the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Al)
