God's View:
Isa. 26:3 ,
40:6-7;
Matt. 12:50 ; 13:22 ;
Rom. 8:5-6 ; 12:2 ;
1 Cor. 2:1-16 ;
2 Cor. 4:18 ;
2 Cor. 6:17-18 :
1 Pet. 4:1 :Develop
a single eye that concentrates upon the Center, the Presence of
God with your soul. From this Center, the eye of Time looks at
nature through the eye of Eternity. Resign yourself to the Eye
of God in your spirit, then you can labor with your hands or head
and allow your heart to rest in God. God is a Spirit, dwell in
the Spirit, work in the Spirit, pray in the Spirit, do all things
in the Spirit. Remember you are a spirit, created in the image
of God, present yourself as a naked spirit before God in simplicity
and purity. In this position the world , flesh and the devil,
the temptations of life, and the fashions and customs of this
world will not be able to draw you out. Mind them not. They can't
hurt you if you choose to abide in His will.
Hope:
Rom. 8:29 ;
2 Cor. 3:18 ;
2 Cor. 4:17-18 ;
2 Pet. 3:10-14 ;
1 John 4:16-17 :
The world of naked matter, of corruption and decay, the lusts
thereof, lead to frustration and anger and darkens the root of
our being. . Do not let the things of the world even enter into
your imagination. Your hope lies in beholding and seeing God's
Light in your soul being divinely illuminated.
Let not your eye enter into matter or fret yourself with any thing whatsoever either in heaven or earth. But let it enter by naked faith into the light of His Majesty and so receive by pure love the Light Of God and attract the divine power into itself, putting-on the Divine Body, and growing up in it to the full maturity of the Humanity of Christ, Eph. 4:24 .
Ps. 37:7 , 91:15-16; Phil. 2:12-13 ; 4:13 ; James 4:6-7 ; 1Pet. 5:6-7 :Nothing is required of us but let our will be in the will of God. We are to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. If you have followed so far you have nothing to care for, nothing to desire in this life, nothing to imagine or attract. All you need to do is cast your care upon the Lord Who cares for you and let him do with you as He wills according to His good pleasure. God knows what is best for us if we but trust Him.
Matt. 26:39 ; Lu. 11:2 ; John 4:34 ; 5:20 ; John 10:10 ; Rom. 6:13 ; Col. 3:1-3 : When you imagine after anything, then it enters in to you, in time it will take over your will, overcome it, and lead to darkness. But when the will imagines or lusts after nothing, then it enters into nothing where it receives the will of God into itself and there dwells in Light and begins to work the works of God.
Change:
John 5:30 ;
Acts 17:25 , 28 ;
Gal. 6:14 :The
resigned will of a truly contrite spirit which is crucified to
the world, the center of this will is impenetrable to the world
, flesh and the devil. Nothing in the world can enter or adhere
to it because the will is dead with Christ unto the world. The
will is alive and quickened with Christ in the center of this
life. When the love of self is banished, there dwells the love
of God. For as so much of the soul's own will is dead unto itself,
even so much room has the will of God to take over.
Matt. 13:36-46 ; John 4:34 ; John 5:30 ; Rom. 6:11-23 ; Gal. 2:20 : You cannot enter the spiritual realm by comprehending it but only by a complete surrender and the yielding up the will, then the love of God becomes the Life of your nature. You live now by God's will forasmuch as your will has become His will. It is no longer your will but the will of God; no longer the love of self, but the love of God which moves and operates you. You will become dead to self but alive unto God. So being dead, you live rather God lives in you by His Spirit. This love therefore apprehends and comprehends you, and there the Treasure of Treasures is found.
John 16:33 ;
Rom. 5:3-5 ;
Rom. 12:9-23 ;
James 1:2-4 ;
2 Pet. 1:3-10 ;
l John 1:7 :It
is the love of God as it penetrates into the dead self that burns
and purifies the ego, the greed and envy, the deceit and vanities
and the false and treacherous ways. In the world you must have
trouble and your flesh will be disturbed. In this anxiety of the
soul arising from the world or the flesh, the love of God will
enkindle itself and its conquering fire is but made to blaze forth
with greater strength for the destruction of that evil. For the
way to the love of God is folly to the world but it is wisdom
to the children of God. Whosoever obtains it is richer than any
on earth. He who gets it is nobler than any Emperor can be, and
more potent and absolute than all power and authority.