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done in God; hence our speaking does not make any truth, but it expresses, or brings forth, the Truth that is, and that was, before we spoke.
This explains many verses in the Bible, as Gen. 2:4,
5, "In the day that the Lord God made every plant of
the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the
field, before it grew." And again, in Heb.4:3. "For we
which have believed do enter into rest. . . The works
were finished from the foundation of the world;" or Eph.
2:9, "Not of works lest any man should boast."
My Eternal Life is a finished fact.
My Health is a finished fact.
My Peace is a finished fact.
We can never in Truth assume that individually we
have done anything; not even can we claim by our understanding, to have accomplished aught. Divine Understanding enlightens our thought to see that which is eternally finished in Truth. And as soon as we see it, we begin to think it, and to declare it: this is to be our
work. Our part is to believe in finished eternal Truth of all
things in God.
The Truth that thus presents itself to us, is God's
Divine Idea; we have called it the Christ -- always Full
and Complete. We are to believe in this Fulness and
Completeness of all things, and this helps us to understand that, which Jesus declares to be the "work" which God requires of each soul. Jno. 6:29, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom He hath sent."
We are to believe on, and to be positive about the finished work of God -- the Divine that He hath sent into all.
Now, I desire to be good, where shall I begin? Shall
I try to make myself good by acting good? This would
be trying individually to make something, which is impossible. If I want a beautiful lilly, do I try to make
