The things of God are the things that last.

Go on in faith, in certainty, and in perfect confidence, for the things of God are the things that last. When using the tools of the Spirit, even though they build in common clay, yet, by the miracle of God's Love, that will be turned into a thing of such spiritual beauty that it can be carried intact to the High Place where it belongs.

Garlic plant | Reinhold Möller | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

The Strength of God

A thing that is hard to accomplish sets our will on the strength, which is of God, knowing that by faith, we shall carry it through.

The Strength of God | Gabriel Vanslette | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

DON'T EVEN THINK TO SOW THE SEED.

People often sow a seed in conversations. I'll give you an example,

The other day, at the Doctors', who I thought was a nurse, took a minute to allow me to commiserate the ills of a selfish community, the conversation ended with the good doctor saying, And don't think friends are there in times of need. I interrupted and quipped DON'T EVEN THINK TO SOW THE SEED. I remember her smiling.

The writer urges you never to forget that what is sown in the mind produces its harvest in the mind of the spirit.

Even as we know that what goes up must come down, what we sow in the mind produces its harvest in the mind of the spirit.

Remember that what is sown in the mind produces its harvest in the mind of the spirit.

Mangrove seedling (Rhizophora sp.), Cairns' Beach, Australia | Guillaume Blanchard | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic

The ways of the ONE ESSENCE are wonderful.

The ways of the ONE ESSENCE are wonderful, and, most of all, wonderful is His understanding of our needs and the desires within.

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You are greater than you know.

You are greater than you know.

Buzz Aldrin's bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon on 20 July 1969 | NASA

Speak to the God within

Speak to the God within, and that Divinity will show itself stronger than all the world beside.

Rock formations and the Dedo de Deus (God's Finger) peak in the background, at the Serra dos Órgãos, National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Carlos Perez Couto | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

The Call of God

Don't underestimate the goodness that is within; remember there is God there—beneath the trivial, petty, careless guise—there is God there, and that which is of God waits for the voice to call.

Cemitério da Consolação, São Paulo, User  Wilfredor from Wikimedia Commons

As A Man Thinketh

As a Man Thinketh

No one has ever sown the seed of one good thought in the mind of another that has not produced a beauty of a definite kind in their own.

Eleanor Roosevelt holding a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,  Lake Success, New York, November 1949 | FDR Presidential Library & Museum | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

Plenteous Harvest

The Harvest is Plentiful

Never think that your effort and care and watchfulness have produced only poor results. That is wrong. Effort and care and watchfulness produce the highest and the best results, and if those results are hidden from you now, yet in God's time, you will see and rejoice at the plenteousness of the harvest so generously provided by the Father.

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) | Harvest at Arles in the Provence, Arles, June 1888 | Israel Museum 

The Garden in the Wilderness

We are toilers in life's garden, and the mere fact that it is a garden, and not a wilderness, should give us courage and hope.

360-degree panoramic view of the Gergeti Trinity Church, Mount Kazbek, and Mount Shani in Georgia | Philipp Weigell | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

It is but a test and I will take it in the right way.

You must realise that the very word test implies a strain—it implies a strain even to the breaking point—but because God is in command, the breaking point is never reached. At that stage, the Shepherd steps in, and, gathering His little flock into the safety of His Arms, bids them forget.

Apply this, if you can, to the details of your daily life—to those important happenings, which have a way of going wrong in spite of your best endeavours. Detach yourself sufficiently from these incidents to say—It is but a test, and I will take it in the right way.

A U.S. Air Force firefighter sprays water at the fire of a simulated C-130 Hercules plane crash during an operational readiness exercise, Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, on 23 July 2012. The exercise tests the ability of personnel to defend the base and conduct daily operations during a heightened state of readiness | Staff Sgt Craig Cisek, U.S. Air Force

The Manifestation of Spiritual Characteristics

It is impossible to give an impression of such things as faith, hope, joy, truth, sincerity, and the other qualities, which belong to the Spirit—it is impossible for us to understand how they are manifested.

What do these attributes look like in their spiritual manifestation? To us, they are characteristics; to dwellers in the Spirit Lands, they are living forces with separate individualities, colours, expression, expansion, outline—everything denotes something that exists in a definite form. 

We miss all the beauties in which we are enfolded—all that exquisite beauty of details of everything—by reason of physical sight and the restrictions of the physical mind.

—The Spirit of May Crane

Bijoy Krishna Goswami | Gosaigon | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

Rest in the Thought of Unity with the Divine.

Rest in the thought of unity with the Divine. Put aside all cares, all worries, all misgivings of the future, and rest in the thought that we are as children gathered into the enveloping folds of Perfect Love, and there, we can remain, serene and confident that nothing can separate us from that which is our own.

Alexander Cherkov, Humanity Bouquet, Ceramic | User Art202020 from Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

GOD BE OUR ANCHOR

Knit your thoughts to the things which are of God; bind yourself to that strong anchor which never gives—

The Anchor of Faith and Trust in God.

Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, Gauteng, on 13 May 2008 | South Africa The Good News www.sagoodnews.co.za South Africa The Good News

We are more precious than we can understand.

And so God's will is being done, and we—like instruments—are, in His sight, far more precious than we can understand, but that too will be made good in the happy days to come.

Ottan Thullal is a recite-and-dance art-form of Kerala, India. This is the face art of Ottan Thullal. Kerala School Kalolsavam 2017 | Shagil Kannur | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Fix your heart's desire on finding God—Finding God!

Fix your heart's desire on finding God—Finding God! If only we could realise for an instant, the possession, the power, and the sacred opportunities held out by trying to find God. 

Procession during Easter Friday in Santa Ana Guanajuato, Mexico | © Tomas Castelazo, www.tomascastelazo.com | Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

At the Feet of the Saviour

Grasp the need—the desperate need—for humanity, as a whole, to lay self at the Feet of the Saviour, and to give itself wholly into His sacred care.

Christ the Redeemer, Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Donatas Dabravolskas | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

Make a stand for the God that is within you.

Take a definite step, make a stand for the God that is within you.

Allegory of communist press censorship | Jacek Halicki | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Remember the quiet call of The Spirit.

Remember that the quiet call of The Spirit is away and beyond all the world's side. It is, as it were, a single golden coin against a mass of coppers.

Wall painting of a fragment of the figure of Saint Anne | GLAM-WIKI partnership project between the National Museum in Warsaw and Wikimedia Polska

The Voice of God

Here, on the earth side, we get the bulk, we get what seems to our physical mind overwhelmingly important and tangible and real. 

And on the other, just faith, faith within, that we have heard the Voice of God.

Sand dunes in the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Older dunes are reddish and larger, newer dunes are yellow-brown.