“If ye would know God, if ye would know His Glory, DO GOOD unto thy fellow man! Give expression of that love as the Son gave in His ministry among men; who went about doing good, giving praise and Glory. Not to self, not to a period, not to an ideal, but to God. For, as He gave, ‘Of myself I can do nothing, but that the Glory of God may be manifested among men – for this cause, for this purpose came I into the world.’
Then, if ye would make this Glad Season of effect in thine own experience, show forth THAT LOVE in thy dealings, in thy relationships, in thine words, in thine acts.
For as He gave, ‘As ye do it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye do it unto me.’ Not, then, that self may be well-spoken of. Not that there may be this or that of thine own convenience, of thine own satisfaction. But that the Glory of God may be manifested among the sons of men! In this manner, then, ye may know the Glory of the Father, of the Son, at this Glad Christmas Time.
For, As ye abide in me and I in the Father, so may the Glory of the Father through thee be made manifest in the experience of thy brethren. For as ye behold the face of thy friend, of thy neighbor, of thy foe, yea thine enemy, ye behold the image of thy Savior. For ye are all His, bought not only with the birth of the God-Child into flesh but with the death – that ye might know that He, thy Brother, thy Savior, thy Christ, has been and is the Way to the Father in this material plane.
For as He chose to enter, so YE have entered. As He chose to live, so may ye live. And as these changes come and as ye make known that as has been the raising of that consciousness of His Presence in THINE experience, by thy dealings with, by thy conversation with, by thy life with thy fellow man, so may ye hasten the day when HE, CHRIST, may come into thine own heart, unto His OWN peoples, to reign; yes, in the hearts and lives!
Then indeed should each of you at this Glad Season make the hearts of others Merry by thine own happiness in the birth, the life, the death of thy Jesus, thy Christ! Then what are ye doing about it in thy daily life, thy daily conversation, in the still small voice that speaks within, ye may know as He hath given so oft – ‘Peace – it is I! Be not afraid, it is I, thy Savior, thy Christ;’ yea, THYSELF meeting that BABE in thine own inner self that may grow even as He to be a channel of blessings to others!
‘For as ye do it unto others ye do it unto Him.’ (Matthew 25:40)
May the Peace, the Joy of His Consciousness, His Presence, His Joy be thine this day; yea, all thy days in the earth! For He is nigh unto thee, He is in thy midst!
Praise ye the Lord that gave, then, His Son; that ye might know Him!”
Reading # 262-91, 10-14, # 262-103, 17 – 26.
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