1950 First Portland Series

Tape 5 Side 2

Questions and Answers:

Living by Grace, The Deep Things of God, More About Grace

By Joel Goldsmith

Part 2 of 4

Now, I brought that out in the point of being a beholder. To be a beholder really means to live by grace. So that, if you wake up in the morning and a demand comes or you go to visit somebody for some purpose, your function is to do the visiting, and do it to the best of your ability, and go on about your next task. If you are in business and your call is to go out and sell, you go out and sell, leaving the result with this principle—not to be concerned whether or not you make the sale. That is not your concern. Your concern is to go out, if the hour is to go out, and do your work. Always leaving the result to that principle and not being disturbed if it isn’t in accord with that which you have outlined.

Therefore, to bring about this living by grace, we stop watching the results and we watch only our activity, being sure to do that which we are called upon to do, and do it now—not leaving for tomorrow anything that can be done today—getting everything out of the way as rapidly as it comes to us to be done. Clearing the decks for an hour, for now or for tomorrow or for the day after tomorrow. In that way then, the responsibility is on Its shoulder and we find our harmony, our good, unfolding to us day by day without anxious thought or without concern.

I have got to train myself not to be looking out for demonstrations coming in to me but to be looking for opportunities to let life flow out through me. Therefore any time a temptation comes to think in terms of getting, achieving, accomplishing, that has to be immediately reversed with the realization, “Oh, no, I already am.” I mean, that is a conscious effort.

The temptation will continuously come, why doesn’t this get healed or why doesn’t this supply come, and it must immediately be met with, “It can’t heal and it can’t come.”I and the Father are one and I already am infinite—and now we have to change our base to the realization of that which I already am.

Of course, I am is really the basis of all spiritual teaching isn’t it? I am. Not I will be or ought to be or deserve to be or would like to be—the secret of it all is based on Jesus’ teaching: “I am the way… I am the truth… I am the bread… I am the wine… I am the water… I am the resurrection… I am life eternal.”  

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