Once and for all, I wish we might convince ourselves that it is as important to comply with the Law on the unseen side of life as it is to abide by law in the manifest world. If you were given a recipe for a cake that you had particularly enjoyed; and you prepared to bake one just like it, would you -- with all the ingredients before you and the recipe in your hand -- say, "I am not going to put in any flour. I do not like flour. I do not like to believe that flour should go into this cake?" Your own sanity would prevent that. You would know there were certain standards that you must live up to if you hoped to produce a cake of the kind and quality you had in mind.

If you drive your own automobile, you would not say: "Today, I am going to drive this car without gas. I do not like the smell of gas. I do not like to think this car requires gas in order to run." If you were in your car and attempting to operate it in this manner, you would probably be sent to the nearest psychopathic ward.

Yet, knowing that law is God's method of operation; that law obtains throughout all nature, governing both the seen and the unseen, we insist on doing things in our own way, simply