We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view. We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people - was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight? Of course it was.
When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did. (AA, pg 52)
The "God Idea" never begins with man.
God was and is and always:
"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1: 1)
This statement, this truth, did not spring from within ourselves, but the need for God lives within every man.
For we come from God, and He wants us to return to Him.
For this reason, He sent His Son to bring us to Himself:
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." (2 Corinthians 5: 17-19)
We are called to believe on Him whom the Father has sent for us (John 6: 29)
We do not need help to deal with our lives.
We need a new life.
We do not need a source of emotional balance, but rather we need to renew our minds to a new identity in Christ, that we are a new creation, with a new Spirit living in us, and a new covenant cut for us:
"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)
This Covenant we receive as a matter of revelation, that Jesus Christ has done all the work, and we rest in Him and receive from Him.
Emotions are a mere trigger of what we are thinking. If we bring our minds in line with the Truth, the Word of God, then the fruit of the Spirit is released in our lives, no matter what.
God is not some idea, but the Person through whom all things are made, including ourselves.
We do not need emotional balance, but rather the truth which sets us free: Jesus!
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