LIGHT AND SALVATION

Good Morning!!! LIGHT AND SALVATION Around the Year with Emmet Fox December 3 Read Psalm 27 The Twenty-seventh Psalm is one of the great meditations in the Bible. When trouble of any kind comes into our life it is because we have allowed our consciousness to fall to the level where fear and limitation can reach us. Any mental activity that enables us to raise the spiritual standard of the soul is a form of prayer, and the Bible abounds in such forms. The history of solving a problem is often this: An individual is worried about something, or he feels ill. As soon as he realizes his state, he declines to accept the condition and proceeds to bring about the necessary raising of his thought. He reads this psalm carefully, interprets it spiritually, allows his mind to dwell upon the principles enunciated, appropriates them to himself, thus, regaining his peace of mind. “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall, I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” This one verse is one of the most complete texts in the whole Bible. It might well be written over the portals of every church and school in the land, for within it is contained in embryo, the complete Jesus Christ message. It postulates not merely the existence of God but the living Presence of God in man. The Inner Light is no mere passive or static presence, but a dynamic power—light, salvation, and strength. “The Lord is the strength of my life.” Having promised us light, the psalm now goes on to promise strength or power. We are, in fact, to be “endued with power from on high” and need no longer trust to our own inadequate efforts. This wonderful verse then sums up its great message in the word “salvation,” and with the penetrating psychological skill, it obliges us to ask ourselves, point blank, what there is now to be afraid of.