JUNE 4         

I RISE OUT OF THE OLD TO WALK WITH GOD IN THE NEW   

“Religion in the mind is not credulity, and in practice is not form.  It is a life.  It is the order and soundness of a man.  It is not something else to be got, to be added, but is a new life of those faculties you have.  It is to do right.” 

Emerson

The world would have me tarry in the old, the traditional and the past.  But, the Infinite urges me forward, bidding me to keep pace with the fresh ideas emerging from the Divine Mind.  The truth is ever new to me.  Today’s inspiration is God’s action urging me to do a creative work.  Within me now is the order and soundness of God’s man.  I need add nothing more to my wisdom, for His Mind is mine, and I now produce good works.  I practice my knowledge of God.  I give factual evidence of my faith.  Whoever sees me this day sees the Spirit at work through me.  I do the right and loving thing.

The years ahead are bright with promise.  They will be to me what I cause them to be.  I can repeat the past, or I can create new and better experiences.  God wants me to do the latter, and I now resolve to do it.  If God is forever making all things new, the He is forever making me a new person.  This constant improvement is now the basis of my thinking.  I think and act today in accordance with my plan for the future.  My present faith in Good brings that Good upon my pathway.  Today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow will be heaven on earth.  No longer chained by the past, I freely create a new heaven and a new earth.

My religion is of today, for my God is present today.  I acknowledge Him in all my ways, and follow His mind to direct my paths. Right now I am a spiritual being, and I never shall be less.  New Ideas are the foundation of my life today, and I am their living today representative.  God walks as man through the affairs of my world, and I am that man of God.  All power is mine to use.  All blessings are mine to share.  I am victorious over the past, and I am radiant with the possibilities of the now.  I open my whole being to the next great Good that is even now appearing in my experience. 

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

JUNE 3   

TODAY IS UNCONDITIONED BY THE PAST   

“Teach men that each generation begins the world afresh, in perfect freedom; that the present is not the prisoner of the past, but that today holds captive all the yesterdays, to judge, to accept, to reject their teachings, as they are shown by its own morning sun.” 

Emerson

The Infinite Mind being eternal is not concerned with past, present nor future.  It knows me as a timeless being.  It offers to me all that It is, and never frowns at my lack of acceptance.  In a timeless God I allow my human thinking to become aged by experience, and then my complaints are many, and my excuses are profuse.  I use the past to explain the limitations of the present, and I fail to realize that only my acceptance of the past gives it power.  I now free my thinking from all past patterns and step forth this day as a new creature in Christ.  Too long have my alibis ensnared me.  They are as nothing when I declare the Truth.

I am of God’s generation.  My habitation is eternity, and my continuity is beyond question.  Time is my own measurement, and God knows only the Now.  I accept myself as free from the past, creative in the present and rejoicing in the future.  I inherit the ideas of God, and I dispense them with order and efficiency.  Fresh impulses come to me, and new experiences unfold before me.  God’s man is never of the past, for God knows no past.  God’s man is the man of the hour, the moment, the split second.  I am that man now.  Unconditioned by disease, I am health.  The world does not determine my prosperity, I alone determine it.  God is all that I am.

The sun of Truth shines in my world and reveals the good that is at hand.  Gone are all false leanings on family, heritage and background.  I am today what I am because of my consciousness.  Background is merely a record, it is never a fact.  Born of the Spirit, I am the Spirit and no man can convince me otherwise.  I rejoice in the Now and live in the present, finding God in every moment.     

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

JUNE 2        

I AM GOD’S MIND MADE VISIBLE

“The life of the soul in conscious union with the infinite shall be for thee the only real existence.” 

Emerson

I live in God, the one Mind, the one Principle and the one Truth.  Body, world and material conditions are secondary to my consciousness, which is forever active in God’s Mind.  I am a mental being in a universe of mind-action, and the Law of Mind is mine to use in ways of righteousness and in ways of peace.  One with the Infinite I walk the pavements of time untouched by error and upheld by the Spirit.  From me proceeds the good, and to me comes the divine.  All of Life is now offering Itself to me, and I drink deeply of its healing waters.  My thirst for Truth is quenched, as I realize the Truth of myself as God made visible. 

The material world is not my prison, and my work is not my supply. I am the conscious director of my life, and destiny depends upon me for its fulfillment.  I am the creator of circumstances, not their victim.  I sow the good and reap the plenty.  I give out that which is of God and take in that which is of good report.  One with His perfect mind I rejoice in thinking the ever-expanding Idea of Truth.  Time and space are my tools, and thought is my only creative power.  Unbound and free, I live with ease in my knowledge of God and of His eternal presence in my fellowman.  Duality erased is unity made manifest.  My one good is God, and my one action is Good.

I walk as a person of Power.  I act as a person of Love.  I speak as the Voice of Truth.  I live as an example of what God can do in man.  Within me there is peace and around me there is right action.  The Almighty is my strength and I never fail my highest ideal.  True to all that God expects me to be, I live in right relationships with all whom I meet.  I am a blessed experience to my friends, co-workers and family.  God is visible in all that I do, say or think.  Today is my opportunity to reveal my real Self. 

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

JUNE 1     

I AM TRUE TO MY HIGHEST PRINCIPLES   

“Thou shalt not profess that which thou dost not believe.  Thou shalt not heed the voice of man when it agrees not with the voice of God in thine own soul.” 

Emerson

To profess is easy, to practice is not easy.  All people proclaim their belief in God, but they rely on material help in every problem and pray as a last resort.  I now take my stand with myself.  I have no one other with whom to deal.  I am in my own world, and I now place God at the center and know that good appears at the circumference.  I refuse to declare my faith in God and still continue in my old material patterns of behavior. Today, the Lord becomes my physician, my lawyer, my counselor and my co-worker.  I lean not on my own understanding; I depend on Him who projected me as His own.  I shout from the housetops my own divinity.  I cry out to all, my dependence on the indwelling Spirit.

I am not a metaphysician in name only, I practice when I believe.  I pray my way out of every problem, and prove God in every experience.  The confines of my thinking extend to include the good of all.  I truly practice the Brotherhood of Man.  I see each soul as God sees him, and declare that his place in my life is one of blessing.  I am not under the material influence of nations, economic levels, nor world conditions.  I am an independent creation of a perfect Mind living in the atmosphere of my own consciousness.  What I decree in mind is my experience in the world.  I know but one Standard and one Principle – the Truth.  To these I dedicate my thought, my motives and my responses.

Within me is the true Mind of the Spirit.  It invites me to partake of Its ideas, and to prosper in all my ways.  It whispers thoughts that are contrary to human opinions and worldly wisdom.  But, I listen to the inner Wisdom and act in accordance with It.  No man can dissuade me, no group can alarm me.  I know the right, and I do the right.  I am true to my highest knowledge of God and to my greatest vision of Spiritual Man.  I am undaunted by others; I am true to my belief.   

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

MAY 31   

TODAY I ENTER INTO MY KINGDOM OF JOY, INTO MY INHERITANCE OF HAPPINESS

Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy: at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. 

Psalm 16:11

James Whitcomb Riley said: “As it’s give me to perceive, I most certainly believe, when a man’s glad plumb through, God’s pleased with him, same as you.”  Jesus said that he came that we might have more life, not less.  There is nothing in the thought of God that should produce sadness or depression; rather, it should be quite the reverse, because faith, conviction and love should give us such confidence and such a sense of security and faith in the good that our lives should run over with joy and we should indeed be able to sing: “Joy to the world, the Lord has come.”

Realizing that the Lord who is not far off but an inward, intimate Presence, closer to me than my very breath, I affirm that there is nothing in me that can doubt this Presence or limit the Power of Good.  There is nothing in me that can separate myself from the love of God, the joy of living, and the Law of Good.

I affirm that this Divine Presence is leading me on the pathway of peace.  It is directing my thoughts, my words and my actions into constructive channels of self-expression.  It is uniting me with others in love, in kindness and in consideration.  Therefore, today I accept the joy of life.  In gladness I recognize the Kingdom of God that is within me.  I know that today the Law of Good is bringing into my experience everything necessary to my happiness.  And knowing there can be no good to myself alone, for God is in all people, I affirm for others that which I accept for myself.

Taken from “Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker 

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MAY 30  

NOTHING CAN GO FORTH FROM ME BUT GOODNESS, TRUTH, LOVE AND KINDNESS; THEREFORE NOTHING LESS THAN GOODNESS CAN COME BACK TO ME.

… If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 

I John 4:12

Every heart responds to the warmth of love.  Every mind yearns for its embrace and no life is complete without it.  Love really is the fulfillment of the Law of Good.  Love alone can heal the world and cause people to live together in unity and in peace.  Believing that love is the great lodestone of life and that love alone fulfills the Law of Good, quietly I say to myself:

I believe that God is Love.  I believe that Love is at the center of everything.  Therefore I accept Love as the healing power of life.  I permit Love to reach out from me to every person I meet.  I trust the guidance of Love because I believe It is the Power of Good in the universe.  I feel that Love is flowing through me to heal every situation I meet, to help every person I contact.  Love opens the way before me and makes it perfect, straight and glad.

Love forgives everything unlike itself; It purifies everything.  Love converts everything that seems commonplace into that which is wonderful.  Love converts weakness into strength, fear into faith.  Love is the all-conquering power of Spirit.  As a child walks in confidence with its parents, so I walk in confidence with Life.  As a child, through love, trusts its parents, so I put my whole trust in that Love which I feel to be everywhere present, within, around and through me – within, around and through all people.  

Taken from “Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

MAY 29   

TODAY I FEEL THE ACTIVE POWER OF GOD IN EVERYTHING

One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 

Ephesians 4:6

The key thought for our meditation today is the idea that there is an active Presence of the creative Spirit in all our affairs – not something passive, but something that is moving in and through everything we do.  We should affirm that this Divine Presence is everywhere, that It is always active in, around and through us.

Believing that the Divine Spirit is at the center of everything and at the very center of my own physical being, I recognize this Presence harmoniously acting in every cell, every organ and every function of my physical body.  I praise It and bless It and recognize that It is doing Its work well and in harmony with Divine Love and Divine Life.  Recognizing this same Presence in everyone I meet, I salute the God in people and I know that as surely as I do this, the God in them will respond to the same Divine presence that is within me.  Therefore I love others and act in unison with them.

Recognizing the One Mind that governs everything, consciously I affirm that this same Intelligence is governing my affairs.  It is within me and around me at all times, directing, guiding, governing, controlling and leading me happily to the fulfillment of all good purposes.  Recognizing all nature as the handiwork of God, I see beauty in everything.  I am one with the wind and the wave, with sunshine and cloud, with everything that God has created.

Taken from “Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker