Here is a favourite of mine: “Commit thy
works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established” (Prov. 16:3).
This passage reminds me of an inspiration I had some years ago with Gen. 1:26
and 27 (in part):
God gives us the idea – “God said, Let us make man…”God gives us the method of accomplishing the idea – “So God created man….”
We are
inclined to say, on receiving an idea from God (divine Mind) for some activity,
“Thank you, God. I will carry that out”, whereas we must wait for God’s
direction on how to accomplish the fulfilment of the idea and not go off
“half-cocked” with our own will. (“Half-cocked”
is very apt, as I found by definition: “To act prematurely or without
reflection or too soon.”)
I reckoned that there are two parts to every
activity – 1. Receiving the inspiration from God; 2. Waiting on God to tell us
how to go about the doing of it.
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We may be inclined to misquote Prov. 16:18 as
“Pride goes before a fall.” The proverb actually reads: “Pride
goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” – something
to be aware of. My thought recalled William McKenzie's letter quoted by Robert Peel in Mary Baker
Eddy: Years of Authority (Note 40 on page 398):
On January 21, 1896, William P McKenzie wrote Mrs. Eddy in regard to the
“awakening” she had brought to him:
I used to be very indignant when accused of being a theosophist for I
was not even latterly acquainted with the doctrines of theosophy; but I have learned
how my whole human mentality with its poetic idealism, aesthetic love, hero
worship, pride of seeing hidden things, glory in mental power, had been a
subtle spiritualising of matter—a putting of divine wisdom into human mind. The uncovering was terrible & for a time I
seemed to lose my consciousness of Good. Then the intricacies of personality have been
revealed as never before & after a long agony I seem to find myself alone
with God. I never had any idea before
what was unconsciously in mind.
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