It is not wrong to own and enjoy the best things of this earth. It is a necessity and a benefit that all your finer tastes should have what they demand. But there are just methods and unjust methods of getting the goods of earth.

 

In other words, there are wise methods and unwise methods of  getting what we need. Injustice is but another word for ignorance , or lack of wisdom. You will not walk off a precipice in broad daylight; you are very likely to walk off one in the dark. Neither will you commit any act, when you see more and more clearly it is going to harm you, or be unprofitable in some way. 

 

It is no benefit, but an injury to you, to live in a hovel, or wear seedy clothes, or eat inferior food, or be compelled to live among coarse  or vulgar people. The Christ never preached that it was a duty to live poorly. He did preach going without purse or scrip, and selling goods and giving to the poor; and in the very doing of this, he was inferring that perfect faith in the cultivation of that state of mind or order of thought which would bring all things as they were needed.

 

He did in substance say, "Seek ye first to put your mind, so far as you may, in the line of correspondence and rapport with God, or the infinite force of good; and when you do this, there will come to you your share, and an ever increasing one, of spiritual powers, which will bring you house and lands."

 

And I see no reason why there should not be included houses and carriages and vestments, and all that can best please eye or ear, or any of the senses. Splendor does not degrade. If it did, it would injure us to look on a gorgeous sunset. 

 

If you are one with God, or with the infinite and never to be comprehended power which governs endless universe, you are then in the line of the highest spiritual power. You cannot then be a pauper in any sense, no more than God is a pauper. And this infinite power, when diligently sough, gives "good gifts" to those who seek; and "good gifts" are neither mouldy bread, nor mouldy clothes, nor rotten houses.

 

 

~ Prentice Mulford ~

   (Your Forces and How to Use Them)

   

 

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