Lessons in Truth

...of God, and reveals. One may be true; the other always is true. Spirit does not give opinions about truth; it is truth, and reveals itself.

Someone has truly said that the simplest child who has learned from the depth of his soul to say “Our Father” is infinitely greater than the most intellectual man who has not yet learned it. Paul was a man of gigantic intellect, learned in all the law, a "Pharisee of Pharisees"; but after he was spiritually enlightened, he wrote, “The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” 1 Corinthians 1:25

Now, it does make a great difference in our daily lives what we, as “mortal minds,” think about God, about ourselves, and about our neighbors. Previously, through ignorance of our real selves and of the results of our thinking, we have let our thoughts flow out at random. Our minds have been focused on the external aspects of our being, and nearly all our information has been gathered through the five senses. We have thought incorrectly because we were misinformed by these senses, and our troubles and sorrows are the results of our wrong thinking.

“But,” someone says, “I do not see how my thinking evil or wrong thoughts about God, or about

anyone, can make me sick or make my husband lose his position.”

Well, I will not try to explain all the mental machinery right now by which bad results follow false thinking, but I will simply ask you to try thinking true, right thoughts for a while and see what the result will be.

Take the thought: “God loves me, and approves of what I do.” Think these words over and over continually for a few days, trying to realize that they are true, and see what the effect will be on your body and your circumstances.

First, you will gain a new exhilaration of mind, along with a great desire and a sense of power to please God; then you will experience a quicker, better circulation of blood, with a sense of pleasant warmth in the body, followed by better digestion, and so on. Later, as the truth flows out through your being into your surroundings, everyone will begin to show a new love for you without your knowing why; and finally, circumstances will begin to change and align with your desires instead of being against them.

Everyone knows how intense thoughts of fear or grief have turned hair white in a few hours; or how great fear makes the heart beat so rapidly it seems about to “jump out of the body.” This result is not...