|
by Leslie Householder
Does life sometimes seem so unfair? Maybe you've dealt with more
than your fair share of financial
struggles. Perhaps you've had the
feeling that your big break is just around the corner, but that
corner never comes. Learn the seven laws that govern the flow of
blessings you receive. The laws are like a kite string... and we are
the kite. Without the string, we are tossed in the wind, and
struggle to soar. But with an understanding of the laws, we can rise
to remarkable heights.
As we learn the laws and live by them, we come to realize how
much God's hand is in everything around us. He is a God of order;
this is an orderly universe. All that seems so random is not random
at all. Learn the laws, live by them, and watch your life take
dramatic turns towards greater prosperity.
Introduction
Have you ever violated a traffic law? How many times? How many
times have you been caught? When we talk about law, it is natural to
immediately think of the kind of laws with which we are most
familiar. In our everyday life, we are more likely to chat with our
spouse or a friend about the guy who cut us off to make an illegal
lane change, or the new tax bracket that we just qualified for.
These are kind of mushy laws, though. I mean, these laws are
supposed to be strictly observed, but when they are not, sometimes
the violator suffers a civil consequence; sometimes it seems to go
unpunished.
So when someone tries to tell you that there are natural laws of
success, there is a tendency to think, "I wouldn't bank on it.
Sounds like a 'get rich quick' scheme. They are only after my money.
There is no such thing as 'one formula fits all' to making
money."
Let me explain something… when you think of law, don't think of
man-made laws. They are not absolute enough to compare with the
ideas I will be presenting here. When I say "law", rather
think of something like gravity. Gravity is a natural law (a law of
nature) that is dependable and constant. You don't have to believe
in it, you don't have to like it, you don't even have to understand
it. You are still subject to it. Everything is subject to it. When
we seem to "defy" it, it is because we are using other
laws that are dependable and constant as well. We can use our
knowledge of laws to our advantage. Ignorance of the laws leaves us
limited in our abilities.
One thing I like to point out at this stage of the game is the
following idea. With reference to the fact that you don't have to
believe in a law to be subject to it, picture this: Suppose that you
have firm belief in "mind over matter." You choose not to
believe in the law of gravity. You decide that you don't want to be
subject to it any more. So you go to the edge of a cliff, and with
all of the positive thinking you can muster, you step off. It is no
surprise that, once again, gravity proves true and your "mind
over matter" turns into a "mind all~a~smatter."
"Mind over matter" is a true principle, don't get me
wrong. But it only works when we apply it in harmony to natural
laws. Remember that as you read on; because, if you find that you
are having a hard time believing any of the laws that I will
present, so be it. Just remember that it will save you from a lot of
pain if you choose to believe them anyway.
More about LAW
I think that traffic laws should rather be called "traffic
codes of conduct". Tax laws should be called "tax
rules". We need them, but they aren't as dependable as the term
"law" would indicate. For sake of this course, it is
important that when we say law, we are talking about something
absolute, something unbreakable, something that just "is".
You cannot break a law, you can only break yourself against it. If
you violate the law, you will most definitely be sorry you did, and
unfortunately there is no mercy if you are ignorant. The
consequences will come regardless of your understanding of the law.
Spiritual laws can be conditional. Sin is when you transgress a
spiritual law after you have been given the law and are capable of
understanding it. Suppose a 1 year-old snatches a toy from his 3
year-old brother. The spiritual law, had he completely understood it
would have instructed him "thou shalt not steal". If he
knew better and did it anyway, that would have been sin. Of course,
a 1 year-old is incapable of understanding such a principle, so he
is innocent. John 9:41 says, "Jesus said unto them, If ye were
blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your
sin remaineth."
Think again about the baby. He doesn't understand the spiritual
law, so he will not suffer the consequences typically attached to
violation of that spiritual law. However, the natural law of Cause
and Effect is an absolute law. No allowance is made for ignorance.
The baby stealing the toy from his brother will discover the effects
of this law when his older brother begins screaming and perhaps
inflicting pain on the poor child!
Understand that God did not apply the consequence. The
consequence was spontaneous and natural. I believe that God would
prefer his children suffer no pain, but we live in a natural world
that is governed by natural laws. Natural laws are laws that even
God will not alter. He does not control the outcome of abiding or
violating them. Yet he does understand them perfectly, and tries to
teach us through the scriptures and His prophets how to live in
harmony with them. The beautiful thing about understanding them is
that if we choose to live in harmony with them, we will also be
following God's spiritual laws because they are in harmony with each
other. We will find that we can enjoy happiness and peace and
abundance now, and eternal joy in the hereafter. What more could God
want for His children?
Are we supposed to be poor? What about Matthew 10:25? "It is
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." I have heard it
said that in the days of Jesus, the eye of a needle represented an
entryway to a city. It was small enough for a camel to enter, only
if the camel crawled through on its knees. Humility, and a
willingness to remove all extra baggage.
Whenever riches are obtained in an "unlawful" manner,
specifically, in violation of natural laws, the prosperity is
temporary. Many get rich on a competitive plane. Picture a pie,
divided into 4 parts. If your piece of the pie represents the
prosperity or wealth you enjoy, then to get more, someone must get
less. But you will see that to obtain wealth on, rather, a creative
plane, what you are doing is adding some pie to the outer rim of
your piece, increasing the diameter of the pie, and thus creating a
bigger pie for everyone. This is in harmony with natural law, and
spiritual law.
So ultimate success = happiness and abundance here and now, and a
heavenly reward in the hereafter. It is a worthy thing to desire,
and you can have it.
"Ask, and it shall be given you," Matthew 7:7. The
problem is, we don't really believe it, because we don't know that
there are absolute laws that we can depend on. If you lack faith in
God, then you can trust the laws and it will strengthen your faith
in God. Isn't that wonderful?! Laws should not be viewed as
'restrictive' any more than a kite should see its string as
'restrictive'.
Law 1: Perpetual Transmutation
That's just a fancy way of saying that everything is either
coming into physical form or going out of it. Namely, going from
invisible to visible or back. Like water going from invisible
humidity in the air, to visible clouds, to tangible rain, to
something even as solid as ice. The difference is in the rate of
vibration of the water molecules. You don't have to see the
vibrations to know they are happening. The state of the water
depends on the rates of vibrations.
So now think about an idea of prosperity. Perhaps a family
picture could represent the idea as you are posed in front of the
Egyptian Pyramids. You see yourself and your family members with
you, huddled together, smiling, with the pyramids in the background.
Now put yourself in the picture, and see the photographer taking it.
You feel the sun beating down on you, and the dust blowing by in the
mild, whistling breeze. There is laughter from your child or
grandchild. You hear the photographer tell your group to hold still
and say, "Mummy!" And then you can picture the group
disassembling, and walking back to the tour bus. Or camel. Are you
thirsty? What would you like?
This situation may be compared to the invisible humidity, or
water in an invisible state, or vapor. The situation has not
manifested itself in the physical world yet, but for a moment, the
circumstances required to make that situation a reality were
actually beginning to gather. If you were to hold on to that idea,
and not throw it out with disbelief or apathy, then eventually, it
would happen in real life. Just like the water changing from
invisible to visible, so would that idea transmute itself into
reality.
This law states that everything, every object, every
circumstance, is constantly developing into or dissipating out of
form. When you decide to discard an idea, it ceases to develop and
begins to dissipate.
Another way to look at this law is to consider anything living.
It is either growing or disintegrating. We started out invisible,
but ask any pregnant woman if the baby is coming or going. Ask any
old man if his body is coming or going. He will tell you that his
eyesight is going, and that his ability to remember may already be
gone. In short, he is disintegrating. We all are, once we have
reached our prime. We are on our way back to an invisible state.
An acorn in your hand is disintegrating, because it isn't in the
right environment for growth. An acorn in the ground may one day be
an oak tree.
Ideas are things, too. An idea in its beginning state is
invisible in the physical world. The right environment for an idea
is our mind. Held there long enough, it begins to move from the
invisible to the visible world. Rooted out of our mind by doubt or
apathy, the idea is drawn back into an etheric state, to remain
invisible.
How many times do you have an idea of prosperity, and for a
moment you can picture yourself living abundantly, and then the idea
goes away? So long as you held the thought in your mind, it was, by
law, beginning to be drawn to you. You let go of the idea, and it
was drawn away from you. You never saw evidence of it, so you had no
idea that what you desired was being affected by your thoughts.
These kinds of situations and things are "Perpetually
Transmuting." They are constantly coming or going from or
toward the physical plane, but we just don't see it happening, so it
is easy to doubt. You must believe this law, and you will be able to
have the faith you need to hold the idea in your mind until you see
fruition.
An idea held in the right environment (your mind) will begin to
take form. It is only in the last stage of the process that you will
"see" it. Do not reverse the process with doubt or fear.
Belief and faith bring it into form; doubt and fear return it to the
invisible.
Although it can be tough to comprehend it, since all we can
really see is our physical world, it is important at this point that
you accept the more abstract ideas as fact. Just as we cannot
"see" the vibrating molecules in a rock, we have learned
to accept the fact that there are molecules, and that they do
vibrate. So trust me on this one, and from here we'll be able to
build some very powerful ideas to explain the mystery behind
prosperity.
Fact: All things were first an idea in God's mind. There is an
original formless substance or "matter" from which all
things are created, and it exists throughout the universe. As
Wallace D. Wattles states it in his book, The Science of Getting
Rich, "There is a thinking stuff from which all things are
made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and
fills the interspaces of the universe." The moment a thought is
held in the mind, the formless substance obediently organizes itself
to reflect the thought. It goes from formless to having a spirit
form. All things that are physical were first created spiritually
this way. Held in the mind long enough with the unwavering belief
that it will manifest itself in physical form, by law, it is created
spiritually and eventually it comes to us physically. By law it
must.
Belief is an emotion that speeds the creative process while doubt
returns it to the formless original substance. So if you desire
something or a circumstance that is good and in harmony with God's
desires for you, hold the idea of it in your mind, believing that it
is being created spiritually and is on its way. The original
substance is obedient to the Law of Perpetual Transmutation and the
influences of belief and doubt. God understands this law perfectly
and uses it to accomplish His purposes as well.
Some may say that He established the laws; some say the laws have
always existed and He uses them for His purposes. It does not matter
which way we believe, these laws can be utilized regardless.
"Ask in faith, nothing wavering." (James 1:6)
"Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the
desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in
him; and he shall bring it to pass." (Psalms 37:4-5)
"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing,
ye shall receive." (Matthew 21:22)
When we pray for something, do we use vain repetitions? Or do we
humbly and sincerely think about and visualize what we are asking
for? Do we allow ourselves to really feel gratitude for what we
need, even before it is with us? That, my friends, is faith. We
learn throughout the scriptures how destructive the emotions of
doubt and fear can be. Knowledge of this law helps us with our
faith. We learn that "believing is seeing," not the other
way around.
|
