Chapter 12
Contentment
1. Inspiration, enthusiasm, strength, joy, and outer supply come to you in ever-increasing measure as you depend upon the only Source there is for your sufficiency. As you establish divine order in your thought world within, as you find your home in Christ, the Truth, you are bound to find your right environment—the place that the Father has prepared for you, in which to serve Him and develop your soul.
2. The only place to find contentment and health is in the place or state of consciousness that Christ, the Truth, has prepared for you. These inner riches do not depend upon outer conditions and we must not bind ourselves by believing that they do. “According to your faith be it done unto you.” All of us must hitch our faith to the divine ideas that make for abundance of manifest good. Then we have a foundation upon which to build our castle of health, happiness, and prosperity. The eternal realities upon which to build are discerned by the eyes of faith and spiritual understanding.
3. So, by finding the all-providing love of God within your own soul, you become a magnet to attract manifest supply to yourself. You become a magnet to attract divine ideas, and your innate wisdom reveals to you how to use these ideas to the best advantage. Your steps are being guided to whatever environment is best for you at this time.
4. As we bring all our desires into subjection to our wisdom, discrimination, and good judgment, we are not led into detours by blind desires. So, the first thing to do is to bring every desire of the heart into the light of wisdom, to see that what we desire is practical and conducive to our highest good. Thus we are able to go straight to our goal.
“And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good.” (Rom. 8:28)
