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DEMONSTRATE THE MESSAGE OF GOD

Rev. Nicol C. Campbell
© The School of Truth
Reprinted with Permission.

People are distressed over man's inhumanity to man. They ask why, if God is All-power, All-presence and All-knowledge, He does not intervene in the conditions prevailing in the world. Humanity is like a facet of the many-faceted diamond which is God. He yearns for the facet to fulfil the glory of the whole, to be a window to its dazzling depths. But humanity has become opaque with ignorance, with lack of understanding. I do not blame people for tending to disbelieve in Omnipresence, for questioning His love.

But let us look more carefully at this thing. I said to my own children many years ago "This is the path of Truth to fulfilment. It will give you mental peace, emotional stability, security and, if you want it, prosperity. You are working with changeless Law. It is not a person with powers of choice. It must obey Its own terms which require that you, yes you, set It into operation." I never asked them to come to a lecture or read our literature. I have never tried in any way to thrust our teachings on them. I watched over them, loved them, cared for them, and still do, but I have never tried to do their homework for them. I do not walk the path of Truth for them. "You follow me" I have said "or you remain behind." I have observed their mistakes and know that they learn through their mistakes, but my wife and I have never and do not ever interfere in their lives at all. So too does God treat His children.

In an earlier lecture I speculated that there will be a split in the academic world, the political world, and the theological world because people, in any age, in any period of history, must think afresh. People do not remain for long like a herd of sheep. We are seeing all around us the results of worldwide spiritual ignorance--- hatred, discord, jealousy. I ask of myself "What are you doing about it? What is your example?" It may seem that we are called upon to make sacrifices but it is my experience that, if we put Truth first, last and all the time, we never have to make the sacrifice.

It is no good asking why God does not intervene. We must ask only if we are permitting separation for God to remain in our consciousness and in our lives.

I have many opportunities of practising what I teach. Orthodox churches claim that I am "anti-Christ". But the teachings I give you are the teachings of Jesus-Christ. Already as a young man I said to myself "There are millions and millions of people who believe in this person. Does he have a message for us and is this message workable and demonstrable. I shall go and prove it." I was a "born-again" Christian 65 years ago. I loved going to church morning and night with my father, whose father had been a minister. Yet I found there was something lacking, there was some inadequacy in myself. I am a very pragmatic man. Although I live with my head in the air, my feet are very much on the ground. I know what is going on around me. Is this world not governed by Law? And here is this man, this exemplar Jesus-Christ, who teaches Love, non-resistance, forgiveness. I resolved to put his principles into practise.

"Let me take everything I have and give it away - everything - and consecrate myself to my Father in heaven. I do not understand Him but I am going to accept Him by ordinary belief." The teachings of Jesus-Christ had persisted for two millenia. The prerequisite is a harmonious relationship between God (the unseen spiritual Essence or Omnipresence) and His human expressions, and harmonious relationships among them--- to love my neighbour as myself.

In the beginning for me there was much travail, lots of unhappiness, frustration and fearfulness. There was no light, no help, just dead silence. Like others I began to question, to cry out "Father, I have done everything that I should do. I love my neighbour, I am giving freely of my services" (I had not taken a salary from the people for whom I worked). "God, I am dependent entirely upon You, yet I am starving, and my wife with me. Where am I wrong? Or are the teachings wrong?" I was completely dedicated... and then there was just a glimmer of light! It was like a short blast of a foghorn or sweep from a lighthouse when visibility is poor. I experienced a small demonstration, right out of the blue.

I said to myself "Is this the first signpost? Is it working? It is working!" Now my ordinary belief was developing into reality within me. "It is working. It is small, and would seem unimportant to the average person, but it is important for me." And there was another demonstration, and then another, and another, and so it went on. I asked God "Tell me, if I am wrong about the teaching of Jesus-Christ, why are you bringing so much unasked good into my life?" I had not been praying for things, but giving my love and service, my compassion and forgiveness, particularly to the orthodox who denigrated me. And I was overwhelmed by deep conviction that I was indeed practising "Christianity", that I was a "practical" Christian. "Mine is a complete dependence on You, Father, for every single thing in my life, and You are unfailing. You pour out more and more Good."

You Cape Townians made my year last Sunday when I was here. It was an experience I will not forget. I was so overwhelmed that I forgot to thank you. In fact, good flowed into me and for me from every part of the world and, to crown it all, when I arrived back in Johannesburg there was a birthday card from a millionaire I know, thanking me for all the love and good I had brought into his life and his family's life, and enclosed were two tickets to London as his guest.

I had previously been offered a trip around the world on a ship but because of my lecture commitment I was forced to decline with gratitude. But prior to receiving these latest tickets I had said to God "If You really want me to have a vacation now, give me the tickets." Then came the two tickets! We leave on the 2nd of October and will be back here in Cape Town for the Sunday lecture. Now do you not think it extraordinary that God should be so beneficent if I am anti-Him, anti his exemplar Jesus-Christ? I have come to accept God's good, to expect it. I work with God and I work hard. My phone never stops ringing both at my office and at home. It rings through day and night. I give freely of myself and I receive.

Sitting next to me on the plane here was a man who seemed very inquisitive. He asked me all sorts of personal questions to which I gave very generalised answers. "You know it is going to be a rainy weekend for you" he said, to which I replied "We are going to have lovely weather." "But" he said "you have just heard the pilot say it is going to be raining?" I insisted "We are going to have lovely weather." He raised his eyebrows at me. But you see Nature is God, one aspect of God. Every human being is the temple of His life, His love, His intelligence, and we can use It or not use It. Every place and every time is His place and time, and is pure Good.

The chaos that appears about us is the reflection of ignorance but it need not touch us. As we perpetuate this ignorance we harm ourselves. Therefore it is my duty, to myself, to my family, to my colleagues, to my friends, to my country, to think and feel and speak and act and live constructively. The flicker of faith in each of us is the little leaven that can lift us up to God and each of us in turn can be the little leaven to uplift others. You and I, a few hundred here this morning, are a little leaven. If we are full of love others sense it, feel the warmth of our being. We do not have to put on cheesy smiles, pat others on the back and give cosmetic greetings like "Hi, you look marvelous, have a lovely day." Love must radiate silently from you like a light shining steadily. Others must sense and know you are glad to see them--- even your so-called enemies.

Some time ago the head of an orthodox Christian church wrote of me in their church magazine "Who is this little man, where does he come from?" Relatives of mine wrote saying that if he went to his central church he would find there a plaque in memory of certain prominent figures in the history of his church who were my ancestors. The church head then apologised. But I did not need apologies. I had always and only seen the good in this man. Jesus-Christ teaches us to see the good in people, not the "evil". If I am mistaken, the offended follower of Jesus-Christ should come to me and say "Brother, you are wrong. Let us learn again." I have ears to listen. I listen to the postman when he has information for me. My mind is always open and receptive.

You see, while you are green you are growing, ready always to absorb new nourishment, but when you decide you are ripe and know all the answers you quickly fall off the tree and rot. Pride comes before a fall, and spiritual pride is among the worst of "sins" for it separates us most abruptly from God our Father. Humility is the secret to finding God, realising that you are the microcosm, no matter how little unfolded, of the great Macrocosm, Which is unlimited, unbelievably unlimited, nearer than hands and feet, closer than breathing, and only It can give you growth and development. I cannot escape God and He never escapes me - because He is me - but only I, through my desire and effort, can draw us closer together.

When you leave here this morning do not go away bewildered by all the terrible things that seem to be happening in the world about you. Say to yourself "I am the little light. I will radiate to my fellowmen." It is infectious. Laugh genuinely and the world laughs with you. If you are miserable the world will cross the road to avoid you. You are the "little light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world" no matter how small your light may be. Start spreading love and harmony and understanding, and set your world free.

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