1953 FIRST PORTLAND CLASS

Joel S. Goldsmith
tape 38A – Temple Meditation (3/5)

The He that performeth the work that is given me to do is the same He that giveth the work to me, and how do we know when He has given it to me? When He brings it to me, when I do not have to go out and search for it, when I do not have to go out and seek and strive and struggle for it. When it comes to me, then I know that He has brought it, and when He has brought it, He likewise performeth it.

And so, in every wise, remember our illustration of this tree—John 15. Read that, the entire chapter and gain this vision of the branch and its connection with the tree.

But when you are doing that, remember this—that your concern for your neighbor, for your family, for the world, at large, is taking on a responsibility that does not belong to you, and that may interfere with your own demonstration.

Why? Every branch is connected with the same vine. There is only one Godhead. There is only one vine, and ye are the branches. But for one branch to assume responsibility for another branch? No, not responsibility—cooperation? Yes. Sharing? Yes. Mutual-ness? Yes. And even then remember that it is not of you.

Even if you share of your goods with them, it is not of you. If you share of your goods with your neighbor, with your friend, with your patient, with your student, it is not of you—it is of the Father.

Let me illustrate that. If we were to judge by appearances, I am sharing this truth that the Father is giving me with you. That’s what the appearances would say—that somewhere invisible there is the Father and the vine, and that they are pouring this marvelous truth into me and through me, and I am sharing it or giving it to you. That’s the appearance, but it isn’t the truth.

No, that’s not the truth. That is where we must not judge by appearances. This truth is from the Godhead. It is flowing through the invisible vine, the Christ, and it is flowing into your consciousness and mine, and I’m receiving it at the same moment that you’re receiving it, because I’m receiving it from the same source from which you are receiving it, and so this is nothing of mine that I’m giving you. I’m not even sharing with you something that God gave me. No, no, no.

God is, this moment, through the Christ, imparting this truth to all of us here in this room, and no one is receiving it from another. Only through appearance does it seem that it’s coming out of my mouth into your ear.

But you want to know something? Mouth or ear—ear or mouth. There’s only one mind in this room. There’s only one consciousness in this room, only one soul, and this whole activity of truth is taking place in that one mind.

And so appearance may say it comes through one to another. Don’t believe it. It’s coming directly from the Christ to us, and the proof of it is that if I were to close my mouth, and sit back here and rest, before the evening’s over, you still would have this truth.

It is God’s plan that this truth be voiced. No man or woman has the power to perform it or to prevent its operation, and its appearance in your consciousness. Neither the presence or absence of anyone can bring it to you or keep it from you. It is God’s will that this truth reach your consciousness, and it will reach it if we all sit here in silence.

Please believe me that the activity of God cannot be impeded. It cannot be hastened, it cannot be hurried, but it cannot be impeded. If anyone entrusted with the word, should, for any reason fail, the word wouldn’t fail. The message wouldn’t fail. It would keep right on moving and appearing as someone else, but the word would go right on.

Emerson tells us there is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come, and it’s true. The time for this revelation of the infinite nature of individual being is come. The time is here when it shall be revealed that we are self-complete in God. The time is here when every individual must know that they draw on the Christ for their good, they do not draw on each other. And because the time has come, and because human consciousness is ready to receive it, and because God is the author and the finisher of our works, be assured, that in this age this message will reach human consciousness.

If, at this moment, Joel seems to be the avenue or instrument through which it is reaching it—fine. That’s just one of those things. That’s all. If, for any reason, Joel took himself away from the scene, the message would go marching right on.

It might go marching right on in these books or through this teaching, but if not, another Joel would appear, or John or Bill or Mary. There is no way to damn up the activity of truth.

There is no way to damn up the activity of the Christ, nor is there any way to prevent the individual’s receiving it who is ready for it. None.

Your readiness for it is the production of it in your consciousness, and it just so happens that I’m here to voice it to you, but if I weren’t, some other way would be found for it to reach your consciousness, because the time has come in your evolving life when it had to appear, and here it is.

Now, in the same way, tomorrow is another day. And perhaps tomorrow there may be another message or there may be another mission for you. There may be another work, another activity. There is no power to prevent it coming to you.

The fact that you may be a prisoner in prison or a prisoner in a hospital or the fact that you may be so busy supporting your family or doing housework for a big family, do you think, for a moment, that that could prevent the activity of God reaching you?

No, God has a way to wipe all those things aside. God’s way would wipe aside every obstruction. Never believe that the activity of the Christ can be impaired, impeded, delayed, hindered. There’s a word in the Bible for that—let—who could let it, who could hinder it, who could prevent it—nothing, nothing.

And so, as you realize that God really is the author of your life, that God is the creative principle of your being, that God is your very wisdom and strength and health and wholeness and immortality, you’d know right now that nothing could prevent that abundance appearing in you.

Oh, probably for a day or two or a week or year you might brush it aside with “I’m too busy or I haven’t got time or the inclination,” but that is only while you are being readied inside.

When the moment has come, you would have no more opportunity for preventing it than the unborn child has of being born when it’s moment arrives to appear on the scene.

No, there are forces of nature which would throw it right out into expression if there weren’t a doctor around, forces of nature that would bring it forth into manifestation, and nothing could prevent it when its time has come. And so nothing can prevent the fruitage appearing in your life when its time has come.

And so, I bring you this word. There is no responsibility on your shoulder. You need have no concern as to whether you are doing what is right or what is necessary to bring this into expression, because you have nothing to do with bringing it into expression, and you have nothing to do with preventing Its coming into expression. The government is on Its shoulder. Let It have Its way with you.

Yes, because now it has been revealed to you from the depths of your being that there is an I there that has come that you might have life, and that you might have it more abundantly.