The Spiritual Basis
One is on the Spiritual Basis or he is not, for there is no half-way house in this.
You are on the Spiritual Basis:
If you definitely give all power to God, in the most literal, practical, and matter-of-fact sense of the phrase.
If you really believe that prayer can do anything.
If you really believe that your happiness and well-being are vitally important in the eyes of God.
If you realize whatever ideas and beliefs you accept must be expressed in your surroundings, and in all your relationships and activities.
If you try to see the Presence of God everywhere.
If, in short, you understand that you are in a mental universe, that things are thoughts, and that one’s life history is fundamentally the expression of his belief about God.
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you (James 4:8)
Thoughts are things, and are more powerful than bullets or words. Everything created by mankind, wrought by mankind or caused by mankind was first a thought. God created everything that was created in the same way. As children of God, we can create no other way. Even our perception of reality is thought, as is our sensory experience of reality. Thoughts are more powerful than “reality” itself.
So, what we believe, see, realize and give power to, all arise from, and have their existence in, our thoughts. Understanding and living according to this reality is living in the spiritual basis. This is where we find our Edens that God created for us, and in which he waits for us. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
Drawing nigh,
Z gardener
This kind comment from a gardener. Z.
Great epilogue!! Good work, amigo.