THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE In the eleventh chapter of Deuteronomy we find these words, "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; a blessing, if ye obey the commandments . . . and a curse, if ye will not obey the reading superficial blesses us when we please Him but will curse us if we displease Him. This, however, is not the meaning blesses nor curses. God is always God, always Good, always Goodness. But God is always Law and the law must forever remain neutral and impersonal. If we contact it in mercy, it will show mercy, if we contact it in judgment it will judge. The law corresponds to our attitudes and actions. Every law of nature is either a blessing or a curse according to the way in which it is contacted. Moses is repeating himself. He is telling the story of Eden pointing to the fact of individuality, which is free choice, and the law which is retro-active. The statement could not be put more plainly. Life returns to the thinker that which he thinks. Jesus says that those who live by the sword shall perish by it; that it is done unto us as we believe. Moses is saying the same thing, is teaching the same lesson. We must accept life —either as good or as evil. We must worship life in the symbolic form Heaven and hell are ideas in our own minds, peopled with our own thoughts. The man who loves will be loved, the man who hates cannot be happy. Automatically the law becomes a thing of freedom or a taskmaster of bondage. There is no apartness from the Spirit and when one is assumed only sorrow and follow. God Is, and the sooner we realize this truth the better for ourselves. In no way can we disrupt the harmony of the Divine Being, but we do disrupt our own harmony when we are out of line with Truth. Life is always a blessing or a curse, according to the way we contact it. The choice is up to the individual who, himself,—for his own thoughts and acts. The twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy is with filled one naturally follows those who live in accord with divine law. We are told that blessings shall overtake us on the way; that we shall (page 29) be blessed when we go in and when we come out, and that all the works of our hands shall be blessed. Here is hope, reason and justification for our faith, for "faith without works is dead."
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