AUTHENTIC SPIRITUALITY

 AUTHENTIC SPIRITUALITY

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

May 27

 

“Wherefore, if God so clothe

the grass of the field. . .

shall he not much more clothe you,

 0 ye of little faith?”

Matthew 6:30

Of course, Jesus did not mean that

you as a human being are to copy the lives

or the methods of the birds or flowers literally,

for you are infinitely higher

 in the scale of creation than they are.

The lesson is that you are to adapt yourself

as completely to your element as they do to theirs.

Your true element is the Presence of God.

When man accepts the Truth that

in God he lives and moves and has his being,

as completely and unquestioningly

as the birds and the flowers

accept the truth of their condition,

he will demonstrate as easily

and as thoroughly as they do.

One hears occasionally of curious cases

of people who claim to be so spiritual

that they do not feel called upon

to earn their own living.

Someone else who is not too spiritual to go to work,

is expected to keep them.

But this attitude of mind speaks for itself.

If your understanding is sufficient

to enable you to dispense with ordinary work,

you will find yourself automatically supplied

in an independent and self-respecting manner—

with a good living.

This cannot possibly apply to people

who are in debt or sponging upon others.

If you really wish to try the experiment of

"stepping out" upon the power of the Word,

be sure that your so doing is authentic.

The only way to make this experiment

 in a genuine manner

is to let it be "demonstrate or starve."

If you are secretly looking to someone else

to come to the rescue,

you are not really depending upon the Word.