YOUR COMPLAINT of not demonstrating the material things that your friends have gained for themselves and of your getting discouraged and feeling that you are getting nowhere, is the result of your having missed the whole purpose of life and God’s will for you. Do you not realize that having dedicated yourself to God that you must make Him and the finding of His Kingdom first in your life, and that not until you give up all desire for the material things that you are seeking and which seem so important to you—none of those things will be added unto you?

Jesus very definitely told a great truth in His Sermon on the Mount—that your Loving Father knoweth you have need of all these things. But unless you seek first the Kingdom, instead of these material things, all material possessions may have to be taken away from you until God alone remains. What is it that you really want—the things that your neighbors have, or what God is waiting to give you—all the blessings of His Kingdom?

IN VERY truth, those who write to you need to try to contact the Power of God within themselves, and we are glad that you see this and are helping them to find it; showing them that until they find it and call it forth, the real healing cannot occur. We often find that there are those who read it in the Lessons and the Magazine, time and time again, but not until they turn to a personal healer, or some one in whom they have great confidence who tells them the same thing, do they wake up and attempt to put these truths to use in their own individual case.

So many are still looking for someone else to push or lift them into the Kingdom, instead of making the strenuous effort necessary to earn their way there.

REGARDING the “forces” on the inner plane which you think are hindering your efforts to live the life pointed you in these truths, try to realize that they are but the forces of your lower animal nature, which, having dedicated yourself to the higher life, are now shown up to you for just what they are, by your Higher Self, so that you may face and handle them.

The only way you can go on is to control and subdue these forces and then show them that you are the master and that they must obey you, before you will be able to use them wholly in the Master’s Service. You will find that they are very wonderful forces when once you have tasted of the power they will give to you when they acknowledge you as their master.

Therefore, follow faithfully all the directions given you in the monthly Lessons and do not miss the noonday service, opening yourself wide to the Light of Divine Love being poured through you, so that Love’s Power will cleanse and transmute these forces and thus help you to make them into true servants of Christ.