LET GOD SPEAK TO AND THROUGH US

"Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it." -- Psalm 127:1

"We can become highly polished acorns or grow into mighty oaks," a friend.

"If we have carefully followed directions...we have become God conscious." -- Anonymous

All of these quotes are simply telling us that our reasoning mind will not get us there...there being where we need to go, to 4th dimensional thinking, out of self and into God.

The more books we read, equations we work, tests we ace, the smarter we may or may not become, but we're going down that wrong road again if we're looking for still more spiritual growth. Since the promise is that all of our problems can be solved by spiritual principles, we'd do well to concentrate our efforts on spiritual growth.

Which takes nothing at all away from keeping our reasoning mind sharp and sharper...that's one of God's tools to use in order to speak to us, so we need it clean and clear. But if jacking our intellect higher and higher is our primary purpose in life, indeed is our source of feeling safe and secure, then we got problems.

The trouble with relying on our own mind for our sense of security is that it breaks so easily...it is, after all, driven by our ego whose primary goal is to keep us safe...according to its idea of safe and is self-centered in the extreme.

All of this comes to me because I'm arm-wrestling with God again. A person with whom I'm acquainted has lifted an original idea of mine (enough said), and, worse than the lifting, she's taking credit for it. And to top that even, some time back she held me up for ridicule in front of God and everybody knocking down my "original" idea.

So I'm talking to God about how I can set her straight in the kindest, most spiritual way possible, and God's crazy idea is to agree with her that it was HER idea to begin with. When it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't.

My job now is to not go ahead and do it God's way with my own resisting mind showing forth in a bad, bad attitude...lips saying good, attitude showing ugly. My job is to let God perfect this within me in whatever manner It chooses. I would need to go out of my way for this to even come up, so I get to stand still and listen, sit and wait on the Lord, open my mind and heart to let God flow out. In short, to clear the channel, my reasoning mind, for God to speak to and through me.

Thank You.