“Make All Things New”

When Jesus was tempted to cast himself from the pinnacle, or to let go his high vision for a lower one, surely this temptation or these wrong inclinations did not spring from his own thinking? No, it was the voice of Satan speaking to him, Satan, meaning, specifically, the voice of the unenlightened, or what is termed today, “the race consciousness.” And you know how Jesus replied to that challenge.

So, dear Friend, do not feel that wrong thoughts come to you from yourself; but always consider yourself as Life, Truth and Love, – pure, holy and without guile. In the Apocrypha to the New Testament, we read as follows:

“Fear not the devil for he has no power over you. The devil doth indeed affright men: but his terror is vain. – Therefore fear him not, and he will flee from thee. They that are full of, faith resist the devil stoutly, and he departs from them, because he finds no place where to enter into them. Be not afraid in the least of his threatenings, for they are without force, as the nerves of a dead man. Work ye the works of God, being mindful both of His commands and His promises, and be assured that He will make them good unto you.”

Thus as we allow Jesus, our Master, to teach us through his words and examples, and as we permit the astonishing new revelation to break forth in all its glorious effulgence, we shall be following Jesus into that realm where we experience eternal dawn, and where “there shall be no night there … and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Behold, I make all things new.”

Lillian DeWaterss