VI.
PEACE AND BLISS

Let our meditation be the closing words of Psalm 19.

There is no better book of the Bible, wherein to find leading, spiritual thoughts that are good for meditation, than the Book of Psalms. These words were studied by the old Hebrews with the understanding that they had spiritual powers which would ward off trouble and deliver from any predicament in which they might find themselves.

The words Jesus Christ spoke on the cross were almost every one to be found in the Psalms. His closing words, “Into thy hands 1 commend my spirit are in the 31st Psalm; My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” the first verse of the 22nd Psalm was the word that loosened up his interior from his exterior body, Death is always the ultimate expression of the sense of separation, and Jesus expressed a sense of separation from his Source and the result was death, hut he entered into death only to conquer it by repudiating that thdught of separation in his heart, and he rose triumphant over death.

The words which we will take today are affirmations, three-fold. “Thou wilt shew me the path of life. In thy presence is fullness of joy. At thy right hand are pleasures forever more.” The spirit within us is showing us the path of life; that in this great omnipresence is the fullness of joy; on the right hand or power of the Spirit are pleasures, eternal and unlimited. This was the inspiration of the Psalmist. Let us take it for ourselves.

We Make Our World

WE live in a great world of our own creating, for what we meditate upon determines first of all our mental world, and this determines our outer world.

Therefore it is exceedingly important what we meditate upon, since meditations upon peace and bliss determine whether we shall walk in

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