Circle of Christhood

FAITH

 

Millions of fine people all over the world "believe" in God, have "faith" that God will heal, save, reform, enrich - as the case may be.  Most of these earnest ones go through an entire life span, believing, having faith - yet witnessing little or no fruitage from their faith.

 

Actually it has rarely been revealed to the world that faith is not an activity of the mind, is not an act or concept of the intellect and therefore, such believing or faith is without "signs following."

 

Faith is a transcendental quality, an act of the Soul.  Faith is a spiritual perception entirely apart from conscious thought or human reason.

 

Faith is achieved only as one refuses to "believe" or "have faith" and retires into the Withinness of themselves and asks for Light and spiritual realization.

 

Faith is the ability to see the invisible, hear the inaudible, know the unknowable - and this is possible only through inner vision or spiritual perception.

 

The question naturally arises:  Can the person living the normal human life engaged in family and business pursuits, achieve the faith which moves mountains, heals the sick, comforts the weary?  And the answer is a quick "Yes!"

 

Let any interested person agree to drop his or her present "belief" or "faith" and retire each day to some quiet place for contemplation or meditation, and surrender himself or herself in the sense of "Let Faith be established in me; let Faith be revealed within me, may that which is God fill me with His Faith (not mine).  In this quietness and confidence I await the unfolding within me of the true Faith - that which God will impart to me in some understandable way."

 

This, of course, will not be a formula for your use; you will take this theme and let it formulate itself in your own words or thoughts.

 

Above all, remember in that quietness and confidence that you await the establishment within you of God's faith and of His vision.

 

Faith is not something generated in us toward God, but a quality and an activity of God, imparted by Him to us.  Await with confident assurance His grace.

 

It will not require many days or weeks of inner contemplation before you literally "feel" faith being revealed and established in you. 

 

Never again will you ignorantly worship or blindly believe - but now you will know and understand Faith, and you will witness "signs following."

 

Along with faith will come love - a love of God which passeth understanding.

 

Heretofore we may have given lip service to love of God, but with the first warm glow of faith comes a love which embraces God and all Its creation.

 

Until the faith of God is established in one, faith is weak and faltering and love of God is but a phrase.

 

Touched by His faith, love enters the soul with Its healing ministry, and the sick are healed, the hungry fed, the naked clothed, and His kingdom is established within you.

 

You cannot have faith in God, but God can and will establish His faith in you, only approach God in the inner stillness with confidence that it is God's will that we know His faith, His will, His love, and be receptive to Him.

 

    September 14th, 1955, 5:30 a.m., London

    Joel S. Goldsmith

 

 

Originally Published in the Science of Thought Review

London, England