Read Acts 19:1-41.
This is an extremely colorful and dramatic chapter even for the Bible, which is so full of color and drama. Every problem has a solution. Some problems last a long time, some a short time, but always there is a solution, and always the solution is to turn from the outer to the inner. When you admire some outer, passing thing too much, and thus give power to the manifestation, you are saying, “Great is Diana.” When you fear some outer thing or condition or person, then you are also saying, “Great is Diana.” And when you sa y, “Great is Diana,” then your troubles really begin.
The First Commandment is, “I am the Lord thy God”—God, spirit, nothing outside. There is not a single trouble or heartache that has ever come to us, that has not come directly through saying, “Great is Diana,” and forgetting God.
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite (Psalm 147:5).
Whether worshipping the moon goddess or fearing the tax man, mankind fails to put God first when we act in ways that leaves him out of the picture. This is the source of all our woes.
In our greatest triumphs or our deepest sorrows, it is the inner self, from and of God, that holds the key to Eden. When we live in His consciousness, obey His will and express His holy spirit in all we think, say and do, we are putting Him first. Therein lies the solution to all problems and the path to limitless joy.
In His spirit,
Z Gardener
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