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Today, Friday, April 22, is Good Friday, the thirty-ninth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 39 – Good Friday
 
Every individual must become king or ruler of his own being. He must come into wisdom and understanding, listen to his own inner counsel and feel his own power and might. The only way man can become king and ruler of his life is to step forth and prove his power and his own inner Spiritual authority to himself. We must never feel we are proving anything to another, but only for our own inner integrity.
 
We prove God and ourselves when we do what lies before us, although we may tremble with dread or fear. Never try to get out of or avoid an experience, always walk straight through. It is by moving through experiences that we cross out in consciousness the error beliefs of mind that have become fixed.
 
This sometimes means giving up the whole personality of what “we think we are” to become what we truly are. There comes a time when we must let go of everything that holds us in bondage. Fear, hate, resentment, unhappiness, bitterness, human judgment, and the belief that we are something of ourselves must be released.
 
We must release our puffed up opinions about outer gains or acclaim, for it leads nowhere. We must be free from the tomb of our mind so that the living life and freedom of God can come forth. We can never prove our power over all things that hold us to what “we think we are.”
 
Every human being experiences humiliation, fear, unhappiness, frustration that he may rise up triumphant. Crucifixion is to cross out, to subdue completely all alien states of mind. These do not belong to us, for we are sons of God, creatures of love and devotion, and not slaves to a belief of a being “we think we are.” This being “we think we are” is wholly different in nature to our true self.
 
It is incongruous for man to assume the nothingness, the powerlessness he has demonstrated. We do not conform to our true pattern. We must come to a place where even death shall be overcome, but it will only be when man has completely changed the vibration of his being by the crucifixion or the crossing out of all that is untrue and unreal of a God being.
 
God in us has known always, we must know! God’s work was completed from the beginning to bring us to this day!
 
 
 (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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CRUCIFIXION

39th Day, Good Friday. Read John 19:1-42.

Jesus’ crucifixion on Calvary was a final step in a work that had been going on in Him for thirty-three years, and when He arose He was entirely free from the carnal mind with all its limitations. He had overcome all the carnal tendencies which He had taken on that He might free the race from its bondage.

The word crucifixion means the crossing out in consciousness of certain errors that have become fixed states of mind; it is the enactment by a master of the final extinction of carnal mind, the giving up of the whole personality in order that the Christ Mind may be expressed in all its fullness. This is represented by the crucifixion of Jesus.

Calvary means “the place of a skull.” The carnal mind has appropriated the brain and its skull and it is here that the final battle is fought. Every time we give up error there is a crucifixion.

The three days Jesus was in the tomb represent the three steps in overcoming error. First, nonresistance; second, the taking on of divine activity, or receiving the will of God; third, the assimilation and fulfillment of the divine will.

I deny the self that I may unite with the selfless. I give up the mortal that I may attain the immortal. I dissolve the thought of the physical body that I may realize the spiritual body. This is a mental process with a physical effect.

I affirm: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.”

Questions:

1. What was the final step of Jesus’ work?

2. What does the word “crucifixion” mean?

3. What does “calvary” mean?

4. What do the three days Jesus was in the tomb represent?

God’s spirit in me is invincible and indestructible. Thank You, Father, for Your spirit in me that gives me victory over death itself.

Remember, God is Blessing You, Right Now!

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