The
American Mystic Ernest Holmes wrote that "we
have made a riddle out of simplicity" and this is never
more true than when we examine spiritual principles. Every
powerful spiritual principle is so simple that even a child can make
use of them and we can go even further to state that a child may even
be more successful in their use of them because they have not learned
to question their simplicity. Ernest Holmes tells us that "to
return to a sane simplicity is one of the first and most important
things to do." And in this I fully agree with him.
So many of us
have spent countless hours and spent so much money trying to
understand spiritual principles because we have believed that if it is
so simple, then it must be too good to be true. Nothing is too
good to be true is the truth. I remember reading many years ago
the book, "How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World" by Harry
Browne. I didn't get much further than the first two chapters
when I realized that the only "unfree world" is a creation
of our own thoughts and beliefs about life. Freedom isn't
complicated. It is simple. But most of us will not make
the decisions necessary to live in freedom because we have allowed the
idea of an "unfree world" to become impressed upon us to the
degree that we believe it is the truth. We have done the same
with the concepts of spiritual principles. We have believed that
we don't have a strong enough faith or we believe somehow we are
lacking in our understanding. And, these things are true for us
if we believe them to be so; not the truth, but true enough that they
bring a certain level of misery into our life experience.
Dr. Joseph Murphy, one of the
great teachers, authors and healers of the 20th Century, gave us this
suggestion to effect healing of whatever it is that we believe
requires healing in our life: "The
first step in healing is not to be afraid of the manifest condition --
from this very moment. The second step is to realize that the
condition is only the product of past thinking, which will have no
more power to continue its existence. The third step is mentally to
exalt the miraculous healing power of God within you."
This is written as simply as possible, but there is something more we
can add to it; something simple, yet powerful. I will explain
with the following testimonial sent to me by someone who is a
Subscriber to these Weekly Messages.
He wrote the
following: "I had always had an
uncanny ability to write out what it is that I wanted to receive and I
would receive it in the right timing. However, I began to see a
significant delay in receiving that which I was accepting and
expecting for myself. I sent you a message asking what you would
suggest that I do to resolve this delaying action. Your response
to me was the suggestion that I begin to use my imagination which is
part of the nature of God incarnated within mankind. You further
suggested that I follow the three steps of healing given to us by the
great Dr. Joseph Murphy but to modify the third step by adding one
simple change to it. This is how I merged your suggestion with
the steps of healing from Dr. Murphy. First, I reminded myself
that fear has no place in my consciousness; no fear of the condition,
no fear of failure and no fear of the future. Second, I accepted
that the condition or circumstance was the product of past thinking
and that these thoughts were now just so much dead energy with no
power to sustain them. Third, I mentally exalted the miraculous
healing power, intelligence and spirit of God within me. And to
impress my consciousness with that which I chose to accept for myself,
I looked up and away from the material world, held a steady gaze until
my mind was perfectly still and then I used my divine imagination to
see things mentally the way in which I desired them to be rather than
the way in which they were made manifest. I used this suggestion
of yours combined with the three steps of healing from Dr. Murphy for
money, for a new and better quality car and to move through a health
issue, all successfully without delay."
There is nothing
unusual about this testimonial or miraculous. It is the result
of realizing that the simplicity inherent within the universe is
omnipresent in all things everywhere. We just must meet it
where it is ... mentally, emotionally ... and know in Spirit, what one
can do, all can do.
AND
SO IT IS!
Keep
the
faith!
Rev.
Henry Bates
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