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Almost
all religions and spiritual teachings state that our lives will
become richer and fuller as we focus on G-d and live
according to religious and/or spiritual principles.
Moses, in the ancient scriptures, was charged with leading the
journey to the Promised Land and ever since then, most of us
have embraced the hope that was within Moses and assumed that
there is
"Good for me and I ought to have it."
Both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible are filled with
promises of Good and these same promises are contained in the
literature of all legitimate spiritual/religious teachings.
However, we must do the work to reveal the Good, and for most of
us this has been challenging and confusing work to accomplish.
Our challenge and confusion can start to be
resolved by understanding that the world that we live in is what
we see, hear, taste, touch and smell. For many of us, if we
can't see it, hear it, taste it, touch it or smell it - it
doesn't exist. This is not the Truth.
All spiritual
principles are based on the "unseen" and until we cultivate a
faith in the "unseen" we will not gain the "effective use" of
spiritual principles.
We can compare the "unseen" to gravity. We cannot see, hear,
taste, touch or smell gravity, but we know it exists and most of
us know how it works. Just like the Great Unseen, we
cannot draw a picture of gravity. Gravity works all the time
for everybody, just like spiritual principles.
The greatest spiritual principle that has been
revealed is,
"it is done unto you as you believe."
This is the Law of Correspondence. The Master Mind Jesus restated this principle
from the Old Testament and Torah wisdom, and
demonstrated its effectiveness. We can't see, hear, taste,
touch or smell our "beliefs" - but we all have them and we all
understand them to a certain measure. Our beliefs are stored in
our subconscious and even though we may not always be aware of
their power, they are working constantly to "do unto us as we
believe." They never stop, just like gravity. They work when
we are awake and they work when we are asleep. The problems
that we experience are "caused" by our beliefs and the joys that
we experience are "caused" by our beliefs. Our beliefs will do
unto us as we believe. If we believe we are "born
lucky" we will experience luck. If we believe that "the world
is against us" we will experience this belief.
Most of the beliefs that do not serve us are based
on a belief in what we see and hear. Most of us have accepted
and believed in the world that we see. Unfortunately, the world
that we see is a result of the belief in "good and evil," and
this is a false belief. There is only Good. Not Good and something else, only Good. Just like gravity,
there is not gravity and something else that is a natural force
of attraction - only gravity is - it doesn't need anyone's help
to do its work - it just does it, naturally and automatically
without any assistance. The Life Principle works in the same way.
The Power of Life works
naturally and automatically giving us everything we ask for
according to our beliefs. The nature of the universe is to give and so
it does without opinion or judgment of right and wrong, good and
evil.
Now that we understand the nature of
the Power of Life, we can
move towards the Promised Land and know that we can "live"
there, not just journey there as did Moses. As we make the
decision to believe in the "unseen" ideas and thoughts of love,
peace, harmony, success, prosperity and happiness, and keep our
mind off the "externals," our beliefs will demonstrate for us
greater love, peace, harmony, success, prosperity and happiness
- naturally and automatically. As we cultivate the belief that
we are divinely guided and protected, sustained and maintained,
we will soon forget the old beliefs that gave us confusing and
sometimes disturbing experiences. These old beliefs lose their
power quickly as we fill our consciousness with Good.
Believe in Good and Good must happen. We don't have to make it
happen or even understand how it happens, it will just happen,
naturally and automatically. Our beliefs in the Good
create our Promised Land.
Affirm this for
yourself, believe it is the truth about you: "I am that which is
supreme." Know with me that you get to use your power to choose
to enliven the idea of a Promised Land in your mind. It is there
waiting for us....... always has been...... but we must believe
it - in order to live it!
Keep the Faith!
Rev-Bates
(Reverend Dr. Henry Lee Bates)
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