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Today, Thursday, April 21, is the thirty-eighth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 38
 
Everything is done in mind. If nothing happens in mind, nothing is experienced. We must always use our creative power. There is conflict in the mind between what is true and what is nothing. For what is not true is nothing. You cannot “know” an untruth, but you can have “beliefs” about anything.
 
Do not judge another because it may be your vision that is imperfect. Let us get ourselves clear first. Let us free ourselves from human error and the belief in evil and then we will discover the fulfillment of God. Release is our Gethsemane.
 
Giving up the personality or the personal states of mind functioning outside of the Law or without knowledge or understanding of a higher power is the work of the ages, the assignment of all humanity.
 
The human mind wraps itself up in its own error thought based on the conclusion of the senses and the appearances. It is held by a darkness and a desolation that can be released only by an Inner Light!
 
No outer method would or could release man. Neither person nor condition can touch him. Only the light within, only illumination from Spirit can set him free. There is a struggle that takes place within the human being when he realizes the one power, God! The struggle is not in God or His goodness, but in man being able to believe and give up old ideas.
 
We want to be free, we aim to think right, but the pressure of ages of untrue thinking overwhelms us. We think we shall find God in prayer and worship – but there is a time when we must leave both and act!
 
No one can find God within but we ourselves. No one can even watch with us. When we reach the really spiritual issues of life we must go on alone; and we feel so alone. Yet we are not alone, for we are never alone, for God is in the midst of us.
 
Our sacrifice is our old ideas, what we have believed, what our fathers and mothers taught, and what others have believed. We are used to our old ideas; we have made some sort of peace with the physical condition, the family situation, life, business, and the terrible empty feeling within. The breaking up and passing away of old states of consciousness is a wrench for all of us.
 
The deepest place in human experience is when we give up our personal human beliefs. Yet it is the highest point for them – There is only God! Not my will – but Thy will be done.
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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