Chapter 12 - Catch Up With Your Good

Date:   12/27/2007 10:12:38 PM ( 17 y ago)

Chapter 12 - Catch Up With Your Good
"And it shall come to pass, that before they call,
I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I
will hear." --Isaiah 65:24
Catch up with your good! This is a new way of
saying, "Before they call, I will answer."
Your good precedes you; it gets there before you
do. But how to catch up with your good? For you
must have ears that hear, and eyes that see, or it
will escape you.
Some people never catch up with their good in
life; they will say, "My life has always been one
of hardship, no good luck ever comes to me." They
are the people who have been asleep to their
opportunities; or through laziness, haven't caught
up with their good.
A woman told a group of friends that she had not
eaten for three days. They dashed about asking
people to give her work; but she refused it. She
explained that she never got up until twelve
o'clock, she liked to lie in bed and read
magazines.
She just wanted people to support her while she
read "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar." We must be
careful not to slip into lazy states of mind.
Take the affirmation, "I am wide awake to my good,
I never miss a trick." Most people are only half
awake to their good.
A student said to me, "If I don't follow my
hunches, I always get into a jam."
I will tell the story of a woman, one of my
students, who followed her intuitive leads which
brought amazing results.
She had been asked to visit friends in a nearby
town. She had very little money. When she
arrived at her destination, she found the house
locked up. They had gone away. She was filled
with despair, then commenced to pray. She said,
"Infinite Intelligence, give me a definite lead,
let me know just what to do!"
The name of a certain hotel flashed into her
consciousness, it persisted, the name seemed to
stand out in big letters.
She had just enough money to get back to New York
and the hotel. As she was about to enter, an old
friend suddenly appeared, who greeted her warmly
and whom she hadn't seen in years.
She explained that she was living at the hotel but
was going away for several months, and added, "Why
don't you live in my suite while I am away, it
won't cost your a cent."
My friend accepted gratefully, and looked with
amazement on the working of Spiritual Law.
She had caught up with her good by following
intuition.
All going forward comes from desire. Science
today, is going back to Lamarck and his "wishing
theory." He claims that birds do not fly because
they have wings, but they have wings because they
wanted to fly; the result of the "push of the
emotional wish."
Think of the irresistible power of thought with
clear vision. Many people are in a fog most of
the time, making wrong decisions and going the
wrong way.
During the Christmas rush, my maid said to a
saleswoman at one of the big shops, "I suppose
this is your busiest day." She replied, "Oh no!
The day after Christmas is our busiest day, when
people bring most of the things back."
Hundreds of people choosing the wrong gifts
because they were not listening to their intuitive
leads.
No matter what you are doing, ask for guidance.
It saves time and energy and often a lifetime of
misery.
All suffering comes from the violation of
intuition. Unless intuition builds the house,
they labor in vain who build it.
Get the habit of hunching, then you will always be
on the magic path.
"And it shall come to pass, that before they call,
I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I
will hear."
Working with spiritual law, we are bringing to
pass that which already is. In the Universal Mind
it is there as an idea, but is crystallized on the
external, by a sincere desire.
The idea of a bird was a perfect picture in divine
mind, the fish caught the idea, and wished
themselves into birds.
Are your desires bringing you wings? We should
all be bringing some seemingly impossible thing to
pass.
One of my affirmations is, "The unexpected
happens, my seemingly impossible good now comes to
pass."
Do not magnify obstacles, magnify the Lord - that
means, magnify God's power.
The average person will dwell on all the obstacles
and hindrances which are there to prevent his good
coming to pass.
You "combine with what you notice," so if you give
obstacles and hindrances your undivided attention,
they grow worse and worse.
Give God your undivided attention. Keep saying
silently (in the face of obstacles), "Gods ways
are ingenious, His methods are sure."
God's power is invincible, (though invisible).
"Call unto me and I will answer you, and show you
great and mighty things which you know not."
In demonstrating our good, we must look away from
adverse appearances, "Judge not by appearances."
Get some statement which will give you a feeling
of assurance, "The long arm of God reaches out
over people and conditions, controlling the
situation and protecting my interests!"
I was asked to speak the word for a man who was to
have a business interview with a seemingly
unscrupulous person. I used the statement, and
rightness and justice came out of the situation,
at just the exact time I was speaking.
We have all heard the quotation from Proverbs,
"Hope deferred makes the heart grow sick, but when
the desire comes, it is a tree of life."
In desiring sincerely (without anxiety), we are
catching up with the thing desired and the desire
becomes crystallized on the external. "I will
give to you the righteous desire of your heart.
Selfish desires, desires which harm others, always
return to harm the sender.
The righteous desire might be called, an echo from
the Infinite. It is already a perfect idea in
divine mind.
All inventors catch up with the ideas of the
articles they invent. I say in my book, "The Game
of Life", the telephone was seeking Bell.
Often two people discover the same inventions at
the same time. They have tuned in with the same
idea.
The most important thing in life, is to bring the
divine plan to pass.
Just as the picture of the oak is in the acorn,
the divine design of your life is in your
superconscious mind, and you must work out the
perfect pattern in your affairs. You will then
lead a magic life, for in the divine design, all
conditions are permanently perfect.
People defy the divine design when they are asleep
to their good.
Perhaps the woman who liked to lie in bed most of
the day and read magazines should be writing for
magazines but her habits of laziness dulled all
desire to go forward.
The fishes who desired wings, were alert and
alive, they did not spend their days on the bed of
the ocean, reading "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar."
Awake you that sleeps and catch up with your good!
"Call on me and I will answer you, and show you
great and might things, which you know not."
"I now catch up with my good, for before I called
I was answered."

 

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