Try This Experiment
By Guest Author – Lowell Fillmore Son of Charles & Myrtle Fillmore, founders of Unity School of Christianity
REMEMBER that “the proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
REMEMBER that “the proof of the pudding is in the eating.” Here is a taste of metaphysical pudding that I suggest you sample. If you like it perhaps you will want it for a steady diet.
This spiritual food is designed to feed the inner or spiritual Self. This Self in each of us must be fed, and when it is well fed all is well in our world. We are surrounded at all times by a bountiful feast of spiritual food that has been prepared by our loving Father-God, but we just do not seem to know how to get up to the table and help ourselves.
One of the most essential nourishing items on God’s table is infinite love. Many of think of infinite love as something so far above us that we cannot possibly appropriate it as we do food and use it for our daily needs. As a matter of fact, God’s love is closer to every one of us than we realize. It is so close that we need only think about it earnestly to discern that it is already in our heart. Therefore we need often to remind ourselves of the reality and immanence of God’s love.
For this purpose, I am suggesting a simple Truth statement for you to use. I think it will help you to become aware of the presence of divine love in a more definite way. Here is the statement:
“Divine Love is now working in and through me to adjust all the details of my life.”
This is short statement and easy to memorize. If it does not appeal to you at first, try it out anyway just for fun. Sit quietly and think about the wonderful possibilities of divine love. Write the statement down in your own handwriting and put it where you can look at it occasionally. [You may also copy and print it out.] Carry it in memory with you during the day, and when you have a few moments to spare repeat it and think about its meaning. This will help you to get in step with the rhythm of God’s love.
As you say it over just imagine that the great healing, prospering love of the Father is enfolding and protecting you from all harm. Realize that not only is divine love enfolding you and protecting you, but that it is bubbling up within you and flowing forth from you in loving, friendly thoughts, emotions and energy to all people that you meet and to others at distance that you may know but do not see.
Divine love is not a static force. It is dynamic, and it will thrill you with its power. “Divine Love is now working in and through me to adjust all the details of my life.” Repeat this statement until it becomes a living, moving force in you and in your affairs.
Do not think of it as charm or as something whose efficacy depends upon many repetitions, but repeat it with the conviction that you are stating a spiritual truth. Concentrate your thought upon the meaning of it, and as you do so the literal words will seem to open and unfold before your inner eye, and your understanding of the magnitude of God’s love in you will increase and amaze you!
When thoughts of divine love begin moving in your mind their effect will be seen in your affairs, creating greater harmony and order in your relations with others.
As you develop the spirit of harmony and love within yourself others will unconsciously be affected and harmonized. Conditions will also seem to become more friendly and thoughts of worry and fear will drop away from you, because you will be so secure in the consciousness of God’s love that you will not be disturbed by outer conditions. You will understand how David felt when he sang: “I will fear no evil; for thou art with me.”
The trial Truth statement is meant to be a reminder to you of God’s love, which has always been and always will be with you and within you. By repeating the statement and thinking of it as a living truth you will become more and more conscious of God’s love as an ever-present reality.
By dwelling upon this idea, you will be able to quicken within you a warmth of divine love that will transform your life. Your affairs will move more smoothly than ever before, for love is a lubricant like oil and will make life’s machinery run more easily.
Keep your mind fixed upon the thought that God is of more importance than any earthly thing. That is, when you are meditating, do not think about the conditions that need to be improved, but fix your attention upon the perfect conditions in God’s kingdom. In this way you hold the reality of the true conditions before your mental vision. It is faith in this reality that really counts for a harmonious, happy life. First must come the vision of the truth, and then it will work out in your affairs according to law, naturally.
Why not take time to make a thorough test of this little experiment and prove the goodness of this divine pudding? Give it a fair trial, and I am sure you will find that it will open the way for many blessings to come into your life. Here then we have given you a definite, simple idea that anyone can work on.
All blessings have their source in Divine Mind. Go direct to Divine Mind and tap its resources. This will not be a difficult undertaking but a very simple one. We enter the kingdom of God by becoming as little children. Therefore, with childlike faith and simplicity let us enter the kingdom of God’s love. It’s already within you!
This statement is not the only way to find divine love, but since you must have something definite to use in bringing your mind into contact with the divine source of love, the statement will help you to realize God’ love in your very own heart.
“Divine Love is now working in and through me to adjust all the details of my life.”
By declaring this statement over and over, you set in motion great healing, harmonizing, and prospering energy. In so doing, you not only bless yourself, but those around you and throughout the world.