Absolutely Yours

This excerpt is by Vivian May Williams from her book titled, Absolute Science Practice .

Christ Jesus said, “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before yeask Him.” Do you believe this? If so, why do you ask God to do more for you?If your Father knows what you need before you ask Him, why do you even attempt to tell Him your needs and desires?

The Christ, Truth, answers these questions by calling your attention to the very foundation of your Being. If you have a kind and loving so-called earthly father, do you have faith and confidence in him? Do you believe that he is constantly aware of your needs and desires and that it is his pleasure and satisfaction to carry out his ideas for your welfare and support? Knowing that he is at work for you, whether you are aware of all his moves or not, you just leave it to him to do whatever is best for all concerned. But how about your heavenly Father? You may declare that He is changeless Principle and is all Intelligence, and yet you pray to Him to alter His course of action if it does not suit your desires, and you attempt to dictate to this all Intelligence with limited human sense.

Your reason for deviating from the path of Christ is this: For eons of time man has been deceived into believing that the personal ego could do as it pleased and could direct God at will. It forgets that “God created all things for His own good pleasure” (Rev. 4:11) and that the world of creation is God’s playground where He enjoys Himself.

Man, in turn, will enjoy this same pleasure just as soon as he relinquishes all belief of himself as a separate selfhood and just lets God act. Why do you pray at all? The answer is simple. You pray because you cannot help it. Prayer is an acknowledgement of Truth. Truth is always turning to God in contemplation of Itself because Truth cannot contemplate anything contrary to its own nature-this appears as prayer. Your real Self is always thinking of God and heaven because your real Self is God.

Since God is all, He cannot think of anything outside of Himself. Error is outside the scope of Spirit because Spirit fills all space. Since there is no place for error to be or to go, then it is quite obvious that it does not exist. Then, in your prayers, why do you plead with God to remove that which is not there? Can you not see that you are wasting time that you might spend in acknowledging Him in all ways?

Again, you may say, “But I want more than anything else to be able to keep my mind stayed on Him-how can I accomplish this?”

First of all, you must be selfless. You must want to manifest perfection because you want to reflect God’s nature. You must do the right and proper things because that is according to Principle. You must not adopt the truth because you want to use it for selfish attainments. Your religion is dependent upon your understanding of God. If you do not understand your nature you cannot profess to know God, no matter how much you patronize or support a church.

The word “church” has been defined as “the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.”

Again I say, if all your words and actions do not proceed from divine Principle, then you have no church in the real sense of absolute Science. Christ, Truth, speaks from the basic Fact of Life called God; therefore every word that proceeds from the mouth of man must be a scientific fact, otherwise it has no place in the realm of Spirit called heaven.

Because man has believed that there are two of him (a material man to be de-materialized and a spiritual man in God’s image) his mind has fluctuated between beliefs and realities.

No wonder it takes so long to discover the truth about himself. There is but one way to freedom and that way is safe and sure and can be realized now. You are the only one who can de-materialize your own human beliefs because God cannot rid you of anything He knows nothing about.

Therefore, you can and must de-materialize your belief in a material man right at this moment by refusing to believe that there are two of you. Resolve right now to accept yourself as the man God created and refuse to ever associate anything with yourself that you cannot associate with God.

If, when you pray, you say, “Please, God give me more health, money, or whatever you desire,” you are really not praying at all. I have told you that prayer is an acknowledgment of facts.

How can you ask for more when God has already endowed you with His kingdom of ideas? Help yourselves as God’s heirs, but don’t become beggars. Jesus did say, “Ask and ye shall receive,” but he did not say to ask for things. When you recognize the fact that your body or manifest world stands in the same relationship to your Soul as your Soul stands to God, then you are in a position to demonstrate this fact. Then when you “ask” you are acknowledging at the same time. First you acknowledge the presence of your true identity or Soul and its relationship to God. Then you “ask” this presence and power to express or identify Itself as health, wealth, or whatever the human sense thinks it lacks thus you do not “ask amiss.”

But if you ask for conditions to be changed, or for things to be added, you “ask and receive not because ye ask amiss”? The Christ deals with God and nothing else because there is nothing else to deal with. When you recognize yourselves as potential Christs, you will be well on the way to ultimate fulfillment of these words spoken by Christ, Truth, through the man, Jesus: “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and bethou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe thatthose things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire when ye pray,believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”

If you have any complaints against the working out of your problems, it is because you have been “asking amiss” instead of coinciding your appeals with a changeless Principle.

You may say, “How can I be sure that I will receive the things I desire?” You can be assured because you already possess the “substance of all things hoped for.” Everything you desire is embraced within you-you must release it through the acknowledgment of its presence and fulfillment. If you believe you possess the Christ-power of God, you can move every mountain of false belief and cast it into the sea of oblivion. But if you doubt your Christ-Self you may as well close your books and your lips and remain silent until you have resurrected faith in yourselves.