“If Thine Eye Be Single, Thy Whole Body Shall Be Full of Light.”

WHAT a tremendous relief and relaxation you would experience if you would cultivate this “single eye.”

With one deliberate act of the will, you could do it; you COULD cut loose all this burden of demands on you, and “duties,” and debt consciousness.

Jesus calls you to the feast, but you are in the position of the excuse makers of Bible days. And the terrible part of it is that you think you are acting in love by allowing the past to hang on to you.

Your “reasoning” runs something like this: You want to get clear of your debts, pay off the mortgage, educate the children, help all those who make demands on you; and then, when you have done all this, you tell yourself you will be “free,” and you will devote yourself to God.

So you postpone your dream, and you strive and worry, and try in your human strength to give to those who rely on you everything they should have.

Truthfully speaking, you are a part of the world consciousness, a world which is in the throes of a bitter struggle to give birth to a higher consciousness.

Even if you could retire to the hills somewhere in so-called peace and comfort, you could not escape the consciousness of the distress of others, so that the actual physical thing enjoyed by you personally would not give you what you believe you are struggling for.

What you need to do is to stop “pushing the train along.” Jesus, in His pre-knowledge, knew that the world would suffer from this debt-consciousness which is nothing but an accumulated memory of our past failures to express Love.

He also knew that the only thing that would enable us to accept our release would be the knowledge that He had voluntarily paid all our debts.

As soon as you can go face to face with Him, and accept your release, you will come into the knowledge that all that remains for you to do is to pass on this Loving Heart. Do not doubt your power to do it.

The old hideous conditions will stare you in the face and try to mock this inward consciousness, but it cannot resist you if you declare the truth and cling to it. The Truth is that your debts have been paid, that you are free, and that you need owe no man anything but to love one another.

This is the strong arm to which you will cling in the coming days, and your steady “word” shall be a lamp unto the feet and a light unto the path of your brothers.

You will rejoice to find that you are not speaking the word for yourself in isolation, but that you are speaking for mankind, and that your “word” is powerful.

But you will need to go quietly inward and pray. It will not be easy, but you will have a central idea to work from, your eye will be single, and the whole body shall be full of Light.

“Our bodies are built up from what we eat and drink; and as in the natural economy, so in the spiritual economy, it is what we meditate upon that will give tone and strength to our spiritual nature.”