Does your life ever seem disorganized and confused? Does it seem that although you are busy all the time, things are still out of order? Tune in to God. God’s perfect law of divine order is always operating in us and in our life. We need only tune in to it for our lives to be straightened out. Bring your life back to order and harmony by declaring that you are fulfilling God’s good purposes. Where God is, there is no discord or confusion—only a sense of serenity, peace, and divine order.
Instead of holding back, get started. Begin those projects you have needed or wanted to do. Exercise your creativity in doing whatever needs to be done by you today.
Refuse to wait any longer; make a beginning. Often the dread of doing certain things is a great deal worse than doing them. Plan to accomplish good today—then begin. Overrule any negative tendencies by reminding yourself that God is working with you—not only showing you what to do, but helping you do it.
Persistence toward your goals breaks up false attitudes of mind and leads to achievement. Your mind and body are strengthened and toned up through persistence.
Decide what you wish to achieve today. Initiate action by taking the first step—simply begin. Then keep on working to the completion of what you have begun. You will be pleased with the results.
May God bless your day with initiative and persistence.
Jesus, when asked if we should forgive as many as seven times, said that we ought to forgive seventy times seven. That is a lot of forgiveness!
As long as we keep remembering a hurt or a slight, we ought to forgive. Lack of forgiveness causes us to hold on to painful experiences. We tend to go over them in our minds and thus increase their power to interfere with our lives.
In order to be able to forgive effectively we should open our mind and heart to God’s forgiving love. Thus we can erase old hurts. Once they are erased they return to mind no more. We can forgive completely.
Thomas Carlyle wrote, “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” You can live only one day at a time. That is all we have; only today confronts us.
A certain philosophical clock would have benefited by living only one day at a time. This clock was worried about the future. It thought about all that was ahead. Its job was to tick twice every second. That would be 120 times every minute, which would be 7,200 times every hour. With 24 hours in the day, that would require 172,800 ticks—more than 63,000,000 times a year. The clock thought, “If I stayed on the job for only 10 years, that would be 630,000,000 ticks. At this it collapsed from nervous exhaustion.
This is what happens when we try to handle the future along with our life today. “The load of tomorrow added to yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter,” wrote William Osler.
Take your life as it comes. Refuse to be anxious about the future. As you do as well as you can on a day-by-day basis, the future has a remarkable way of taking care of itself.
While we do not like to wait or keep others waiting, it is sometimes good and necessary for us to be spiritually delayed. We need to wait in Spirit when the world is shouting to us to hop aboard or get left out. We can never be left out of anything that we truly belong to. If it is our duty and privilege to travel a certain route, then the caravan will not leave without us.
Don’t let outer hustle and bustle confuse and distort your thinking. Place yourself in the light of Divine Spirit and let the outer wait for you. You will arrive at the right time to be with the right people, for God’s delays often enable us to find our rightful place. God needs us in certain specific places, doing certain specific things. Even the smallest details will be taken care of as we allow God’s all-knowing power to work through us.
Let us pray, “Dear God, delay my feet when they are prone to go too fast, or too far, or when they would take me away from my highest good. Thank You. Amen.”