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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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Today, Friday, March 25, is the fifteenth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 

Assignment 15
 
Every human being has the power to say, “No, thank you, this is not for me.” Every human being is evolving in the outer, but more important there is an evolving that is an inner change which demands inner integrity, freedom of soul, and full action of Spirit.
 
Many experiences and conditions in our modern world that we call social problems are but the struggle of the soul for inner integrity and outer alignment.
 
Man has lived on the surface and outer shell of his true self. He has lived by an outer code which has not been his own God-direction. This code was set up by religious laws that long ago had an ulterior motive, the desire for a few to control the masses.
 
These outer laws of behavior and obedience are the last fragments of a time when the ruler of the land was the religious head of the people. Religion was a tool in the hand of the often greedy and unscrupulous, and church laws were not all Divinely revealed. Religion was a forced action instead of the activity of God in the heart of man.
 
We can then understand the many splinters of religion as man has slowly built the courage to be true to himself, to find his own indwelling Father, “which to know aright is life eternal.”
 
We come to bless and to know the strength of those who in the evolutionary pattern of man’s soul have walked with God and found their freedom.
 
When we look at the warped lives of men striving to live by rules that snuff out the very movement of God and then to know that if they stepped out to answer the call of the heart or believed something that their very soul demanded, they must stand the scorn of their fellowman. Sometimes those who could no longer follow the teachings were prey to their own sense of guilt for not being able to believe.
 
Jesus was one who followed the voice of Spirit within. Hearsay and blasphemy were his daily companions and the scoffers snapped at his heels like vicious dogs. Evolution of the soul of man goes on, as the great Presence of God involved in his innermost being evolves until man’s soul is free. As Paul puts it, “I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed.”
 
 
(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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