Chapter 6 - The Fork in the Road

Date:   12/27/2007 10:40:55 PM ( 17 y ago)

Chapter 6 - The Fork in the Road
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve."
--Josh. 24:15
Every day there is a necessity of choice (a fork
in the road).
"Shall I do this, or shall I do that? Shall I go,
or shall I stay?" Many people do not know what to
do. They rush about letting other people make
decisions for them, then regret having taken their
advice.
There are others who carefully reason things out.
They weigh and measure the situation like dealing
in groceries, and are surprised when they fail to
obtain their goal.
There are still other people who follow the magic
path of intuition and find themselves in their
Promised Land in the twinkling of an eye.
Intuition is a spiritual faculty high above the
reasoning mind, but on the path is all that you
desire or require.
In my book "The Game of Life and How to Play It,"
I give many examples of success attained through
using this marvelous faculty. I say also that
prayer is telephoning to God and intuition is God
telephoning to you. (Correspondence Course.)
So choose ye this day to follow the magic path of
intuition.
In my question and answer classes I tell you how
to cultivate intuition.
In most people it is a faculty which has remained
dormant. So we say, "Awake though that sleeps.
Wake up to your leads and hunches. Wake up to the
divinity within!"
Claude Bragdon said, "To live intuitively is to
live fourth dimensionally."
Now it is necessary for your to make a decision,
you face a fork in the road. Ask for a definite
unmistakable lead, and you will receive it.
We find many events to interpret metaphysically in
the Book of Joshua. "After the death of Moses,
the divine command came to Joshua, 'Now therefore,
arise, go over the Jordan, you and all your
people, unto the land which I do give to them.
Every place the sole of your feet shall tread
upon; to you have I given it'.
The feet are the symbol of understanding, so it
means metaphysically all that we understand stands
under us in consciousness, and what is rooted
there can never be taken from us.
For, the bible goes on to say: "there shall not
any man be able to stand before you all the days
of your life... I will not fail you, nor forsake
you. Only be strong and very courageous, that you
may observe to do according to all the law, which
Moses my servant commanded you: "turn not from it
to the right hand or to the left, that you may
prosper wherever you go."
So we find we have success through being strong
and very courageous in following spiritual law.
We are back again to the "fork in the road" - the
necessity of choice.
"Choose you this day whom you shall serve," the
intellect or divine guidance.
A well-known man, who has become a great power in
the financial world, said to a friend, "I always
follow intuition and I am luck incarnate."
Inspiration (which is divine guidance) is the most
important thing in life. People come to Truth
meetings for inspiration. I find the right word
will start divine activity operating in their
affairs.
A woman came to me with a complication of affairs.
I said to her, "Let God juggle the situation." It
clicked. She took the affirmation, "I now let God
juggle this situation." Almost immediately she
rented a house, which had been vacant for a long
time.
Let God juggle every situation, for when you try
to juggle the situation, you drop all the balls.
In my question and answer classes, I would be
asked, "how do you let God juggle a situation, and
what do you mean when you say I should not juggle
it?"
You juggle with the intellect. The intellect
would say, "Times are hard, no activity in real
estate. Don't expect anything until the Fall of
1958."
With spiritual law there is only the now. Before
you call you are answered, for "time and space are
but a dream," and your blessing is there waiting
for you to release it by faith and the word.
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve," fear or
faith.
In every act prompted by fear lies the germ of its
own defeat.
It takes much strength and courage to trust God.
We often trust him in little things, but when it
comes to a big situation we feel we had better
attend to it ourselves; then comes defeat and
failure.
The following extract from a letter which I
received from a woman in the West shows how
conditions can change in the twinkling of an eye.
"I've had the pleasure of reading your wonderful
book, 'The Game of Life and How to Play It.' I
have four boys, ten, thirteen, fifteen and
seventeen, and thought how wonderful for them to
grasp it, in their early life, and be able to get
things which are theirs by Divine Right.
"The lady who let me read her copy gave me other
things to read, but it seemed when I picked this
book up it was magnetic and I could not let go of
it. After reading it I realized, I was trying to
live Divinely but did not understand the law, or I
would have been much further advanced.
"At first I thought it quite hard to find a place
in the business world, after so many years of
being a mother. But I got this statement, 'God
makes a way where there is no way.' And He did
that very thing for me.
"I am grateful for my position, and smile when
people say, 'How do you do it, manage four growing
boys, a home, after all the times you have been
hospitalized with such major operations and none
of your relatives near you?'"
I have that statement in my book, "God makes a way
where there is no way."
God made a way for her in business when all her
friends said it couldn't be done.
The average person will tell you almost anything
can't be done.
I had an example of this the other day. In a shop
I found a delightful little silver dripolator
which would make just one cup of anything. I
showed it to some of friends with enthusiasm,
thinking it so very cute, and one said, "It will
never work." The other said, "If it belonged to
me, I'd throw it away." I stood up for the little
dripolator and said I knew it would work, which it
did.
My friends were simply typical of the average
person who says, "It can't be done."
All big ideas meet with opposition.
Do not let other people rock your boat.
Follow the path of wisdom and understanding, "and
turn not from it to the right hand or to the left,
that you may prosper wherever you go."
In the thirteenth verse of the twenty-fourth
chapter of Joshua, we read a remarkable statement:
"And I have given you a land for which you did not
labour, and cities which you built not, and you
dwell in them; of the vineyards and olive-yards
which you planted not, do you eat."
This shows that man cannot earn anything, his
blessings come as gifts. (Gifts lest any man
shall boast.)
With the realization of wealth, we receive the
gift of wealth.
With the realization of success, we receive the
gift of success, for success and abundance are
states of mind.
"For it is the Lord our God, he it is, that
brought us up, and our fathers out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
The land of Egypt stands for darkness - the house
of bondage, where man is a slave to his doubts and
fears, and beliefs in lack and limitation, the
result of having followed the wrong fork in the
road.
Misfortune is due to failure to stick to the
things which spirit has revealed through
intuition.
All big things have been accomplished by men who
stuck to their big ideas.
Henry Ford was past middle age when the idea of
the Ford car came to him. He had great difficulty
in raising the money. His friends thought it was
a crazy idea. His father said to him, tearfully,
"Henry, why do you give up a good twenty-five
dollar a week job in order to chase a crazy idea?"
But no one could rock Henry Ford's boat.
So in order to come out of the land of Egypt, out
of the land of bondage, we must make the right
decisions.
Follow the right fork in the road. "Only be you
strong and very courageous, that you may observe
to do according to the law, which Moses my servant
commanded you: turn not from it to the right hand
nor to the left, that you may prosper wherever you
go."
So, as we reach the fork in the road today, let us
fearlessly follow the voice of intuition.
The bible calls it "the still small voice".
"There came a voice behind me, saying, 'This is
the way, walk ye in it'."
On this path is the good, already prepared for
you.
You will find the "land for which you did not
labour, and cities which you built not, and you
dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards
which you planted not, do you eat."
I am divinely led, I follow the right fork in the
road. God makes a way where there is no way.


 

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