Good Morning Garden

The Ninety-first Psalm is one of the greatest chapters in the Bible. Like the rest of Scripture, the underlying thought is developed through a series of symbols, and it is by the appreciation of the values lying behind these symbols that the power of this prayer is appropriated.

The way to get the most out of this psalm is to read it through quietly; pausing after each clause to consider the meaning and assenting to this mentally. If you are fearful you will find, after working through the prayer two or three times, that your fear will have gone and that you are now looking at things from a different point of view.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. (Psalm 91:1).

The Secret Place of the most High is your own consciousness, and this fact is the most important practical discovery in the science of religion. The error usually made is to suppose the Secret Place of the most High to be somewhere outside of yourself, an error fatal to our hopes, because our success in prayer depends upon getting some degree of contact with God; and since He is only to be contacted within, as long as we are looking without we must fail in our objective. Jesus emphasized this truth, The kingdom of God is within you. Again, he said that when we pray we are to enter into the closet and shut the door, meaning, to retire in thought within our own consciousness. In fact, this doctrine of the Secret Place and the wonders that can happen therein is taught throughout the Bible.

God speaks to us through our consciousness. God does not slip into our pockets at church, does not imbue us through our eyes by reading the Bible, nor does God fill us with the Holy Spirit through hearing the words of a sermon in our ears. It is through our consciousness, our thoughts and intuition, that God reveals the truths that creates the feelings and the faith that sustains us. So, if we are to be in communion with God, it must be in our minds through our consciousness. Communion is not a place, nor a group of words read or heard. It manifests itself from the conscious decision or invitation to attune our attention and thoughts to being with God. This can and does take place in Churches and can grow from words read and heard. But its source is our consciousness, and its path into our lives is mental assent. When we are looking for God, the place to search is our consciousness, the Secret Place of the Most High.

Seeking God from within,
Stan