Changing from the Inside

From The Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox:

“If it were possible for us to affect externals directly without changing our thought, it would mean that we could think one thing and produce another; indeed, it is just this very notion which is the basic fallacy that lies at the root of all human trouble - all sickness and sin, all strife and poverty, and even death itself.”

I’m seeing more and more how impossible it is for me to create any lasting change in my life without first changing what goes on in my head and heart. The thoughts, feelings, and actions which I created yesterday have produced the life I have today. The thoughts, feelings, and actions I create today produce the life I will have tomorrow.

I spent a good two hours tonight worrying about a job that we sent out at work that I made some mistakes on. I’m off for the next couple of days, and there’s nothing I can do about it. So I started to sit around and contemplate it… I contemplated failure, I contemplated the loss of my job, I contemplated not moving into the new apartment with my wife because I’m suddenly unemployed.

Thank God I know the secret. And thank God even more that I am willing to use the knowledge that I have. I know that by entertaining these failure thoughts, I’m just attracting more of the same into my life. Although I’m working on freedom from standard employment, I haven’t developed the trust and understanding that would be required for me to leave my day job just yet. But it is interesting… my fear is based on losing the very thing that I’m working toward not needing.

I must still feel like I need it. I must not fully trust that the source of my financial abundance is not my job; it is God itself. The job, this blog, my marketing work, all of these things are just channels through which the financial support flows. If one of these channels closes, but my connection to my Higher Power stays intact, then another will open to replace it. And there will always be much to share and to spare.

As my consciousness grows, I can also see just how my life is absolutely reflected by my thought. If I assign an arbitrary percentage to my “positive” thoughts and my “negative” ones, I’m probably at about 65/35 right now. And that’s about where my positive/negative experiences are right now.

It really is going to be fantastic when I hit 100%.

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