LIFE AND THE LAW - DOUBTS

DOUBTS:

We are all familiar with the quote from Jesus, "If you have as much faith as a mustard seed, you can move mountains." A mustard seed is one of the tiniest seeds of any plant; yet the plant itself can be huge; sometimes over 6 feet tall. A seed, any seed, doesn't wonder what to grow into. It has no room for doubt. It can't say, "Maybe I should grow into a turnip instead."

But we are more complex, and have freedom of choice, and so we doubt. We're not sure that we can be happy, prosperous or content. We fret and we worry whether we'll get that job, pay those bills, whether we'll be loved, and the more we fret and worry, the more we signal to the Universe in general, "Don't send love, I'm not sure I can have that. Don't make me prosperous, I'm not sure I can handle it. Don't send joy, because I'm not sure I really deserve it."

Most of us have trouble with doubt. We are not always conscious of it. Usually it takes the place of subconscious thoughts and feelings which block our conscious thinking. This is where personal surrender comes in. We can use it to circumvent our doubts, by simply saying this:"

I know the One Universal Power is a force for good. I know it presses forth to express good in all its forms. Only my misguided thought acts to block this good from my experience. Therefore I now surrender all my fear, all my doubt, all my concerns, to allow the true nature of the Ultimate Reality to take over, and let me now be granted what this Universal Power wants for me."

Ernest Holmes main message is this: Thoughts are things. They create forms into which Universal Mind pours its energy- provided they are accompanied by the force of an emotion- that faith or conviction that causes us to cry "Enough! I am willing now, to have what is mine, by right of having the proper consciousness."