April 2011

TRUE SPIRITUAL HEROISM
     Have you been practicing that exercise lately of watching your mind operate and separating between the useless and the useful? You know what’s useful. You have to turn on the coffee tap in order for it to come out, and you reach for the sugar or whatever. Anything that serves you rightly is practical thought. But how about being overwhelmed by something running wild within you, which you just don’t know how to stop? You know there’s no point at all working in the wrong way, no point working on it with thought, because that is thought itself.
     OK, here’s the challenge. I’m going to summarize it right now. Just drop the storm. You’re both the driver in it and the storm itself. Regardless of the consequences of what you think will happen to you, you’re never going to be petty again about anything; you’re never going to attack any other human being with words in writing, in thought, in feeling, in attitude. You’re never again ever going to believe in enemies. You’ve got to have opposition the way you are now in order to keep the way you are going, and that’s what you want. Oh what true spiritual heroism it is to take God at His word; to not just read what He says in print and on tape, but to do it! Now, the light says if you’ll simply give up everything sour and negative and wrong inside of you, you’ll have eternal life.

ASK GOD TO WAKE YOU UP
     A religious hypocrite who tells you he has found God, has peace of mind and all that — he might even at one time had a glimpse of what we are talking about, but he didn’t stay awake. He didn’t remain in a constant request to heaven to “guide my step,” not every fifth step, not every other step. He forgot that, and I don’t want you to forget it. I want you to know that every single step must be in a state of knowing where you are. That’s an open door, at least. It’s not the whole thing. You get up from your chair. Someone’s in your way and you notice a little annoyance. At every moment you’re asking heaven itself to keep you awake and not fall asleep into irritation or into thinking about what to do. When Truth is guiding every step it knows what to do. Ask God to wake you up!