PASSIVE BEFORE GOD

Good Morning!!! PASSIVE BEFORE GOD Around the Year with Emmet Fox November 29 To be sensitive is good, because sensitive people are aware of a thousand interesting or beautiful things where the obtuse person gets nothing. To do any creative work you have to be sensitive; because the creative worker is a “receiving set” for divine Mind. A world-famous tenor, who was literally fretting himself to death over unimportant matters, broke down in my office, and said that God was cruel to make him so sensitive. I replied, “If you had the hide of a rhinoceros you might be a happier man, but you would not be at the Metropolitan.” In an electric circuit any given point is said to be positive to any point below it, and negative to any point above it. Current passes always from the positive to the negative, and never the other way. Now, if you are positive in this sense to everything but the action of God, no negative things can come back at you. On the other hand, you are receptive (or “negative” in the purely electrical sense of this ambiguous word) to all good— the direct inspiration of God, the prayers of other people, and all the beautiful and interesting vibrations in the universe. Here is an affirmation that, intelligently used, will save you much unnecessary bombardment by negative thoughts: I am positive about everything but the action of God. “For it is God which worketh in you both to do His will and to do of his good pleasure” Philippians 2:13