The real Self of you is the Christ, one with the Father. You are not a mortal, sickly, weak, and foolish being, as it would seem you are. In reality you are all that is everlastingly divine and perfect. This is the truth about yourself.
It is not enough to listen to these teachings only, they must be practiced. These truths must be used in order that they may be proven good and desirable.
We know that with music, one will not be proficient who only listens to the
theories, but does not apply them. So it is with the Life. We must live its principles every day—every hour, every moment thinking some good thought, some God-thought.
If one hears, that is, listens carefully and obediently to these lessons, and then practices them all he can, he has built his house upon a rock, and no matter how he may be assailed by sickness or trouble, it can get no hold upon him, but he will stand, and the more the storm beats about his house the more secure he will feel himself within.
But he that hears, be he ever so attentive and pleased with the doctrine, but does not do may know why some problems seem too hard for him, and sickness and disaster undermine him.
Build upon rock by continual practice of the Word. Jesus called this “praying always.”
In the interim between the study of this lesson and the next hold this statement in mind, often silently repeating it: Only the Good is true.
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