THE SCHOOL OF TRUTH
LECTURE

SPEAK AS A CHILD TO GOD

Nicol C. Campbell
© The School of Truth
Lecture given in December, 1985, Durban, South Africa
Source p. 325, Dec 2003 / Jan 2004 - The Path of Truth

Do you feel weary and heavy laden? Has this last year given you more courage, greater understanding, or do you feel burdened by personal problems and the world's problems?

I look at my life every year at this time, Christmas time, and check myself with a questionnaire: Has my faith in God grown, do I feel free and untrammeled, can I say meaningfully "My heart is right with God therefore all is right with me, or do I feel the pressure of extraneous conditions?"

The School of Truth, as you know, gets hundreds of letters from all over the world, and we see that not only in South Africa is there pressure, fear, but everywhere. I wonder why. I wonder especially why those who accept the teachings of the Master are so troubled. When you are afraid of a thing you are worshipping it, for fear is a form of faith, faith in negation. You are bowing down before the fatted calf, worshipping mammon, giving its presence reality and therewith the power to dominate you, your body, your affairs. Countless human beings think they worship God, even love Him, but do not trust Him. They place their faith, often expectation of bad, in mankind, and man never fails to let them down. Their fear of the future outpictures in their minds, emotions, bodies and affairs. They wonder why things have gone wrong in their lives and question God.

I am the sort of person that cannot have two powers in my life. There must be one Power that I can worship freely, a Power upon Which I can depend, a Power that I allow to hold sway in my life. Now, nearly in my 80th year, I am not negatively concerned about people, circumstances and conditions. I am lighter in spirit, happier and more secure than ever before, in spite of what I observe around me. I try to the best of my ability to practice the Presence of God in my daily life, in all the departments of my life, and I can look into the future and know that I will receive then in terms of good what I receive today.

As you face problems so do I face problems. I am constituted in precisely the same way as you - by the same Spirit, with the same mental equipment, the same emotional makeup, the same physicality. As you, I observe what is going on in the world around me, but I do not cognise negation as a reality. There is only one Presence and Power in the universe, and that is God the Good. Just as darkness cannot penetrate light so cannot any problem of a negative nature intrude into our consciousness if our minds are full of light, full of understanding, full of inner security.

Think on this past year. Go right back to January and see if you can identify all the good things that have happened to you, the love you have received, the health that has been bestowed on you, the tranquillity of mind. Whatsoever things are good and true and beautiful, seek and think on them. And I find that I am more secure today than I have ever been before, that although my body is older, faith never gets old. It expands and develops. Like brandy, it matures with time. So I look at what is called the future with equanimity and peace. My God of the past is my God of today and my God of tomorrow and forever.

I often feel sadness when I read the letters sent to us, sadness that the senders have not yet learnt to trust God. They believe, but their belief has not yet developed into faith, into understanding. My own security lies entirely in my consciousness of God. For several decades I have lived my own life and carried out my work in The School of Truth never looking left or right or behind. As I look forward into the Light I can see only Light. It blocks out all other vistas with its brilliance.

The 23rd Psalm says it all: The Lord, or Love, is my Shepherd, I shall not, I cannot, want. The Lord is not a personality but the very Law of Love and Life within me, my Guide, my Director, Who walks through my feet, gives through my hand, speaks through my voice, brings understanding through my ears, perception through my eyes. God is all the Knowledge and Power of the universe, and is fully present in you and in me. How could there be anyone or thing that we need fear? What need could there be for concern? These words come to mind: "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will work for you today."

Do we forget our true Self? Of course we do, many times. Even the Master was overcome by grief, and lost his temper. But life is like a blackboard and Love is the duster that comes along and wipes off all our omissions and commissions. God is of too pure eyes to behold negation. Love can never know fear or any of its forms. To "sin" means nothing more than to separate yourself from God in consciousness. When we look upon any negation, giving it power in mind and heart, we "sin." We make mistakes, but God gives us the correct answers. Over the years I have said to God "I put myself in Your care. You are Omniscience and Omnipotence, and You constitute my very body. You protect me, and guide me, and direct me." And for all the mistakes I make He gives me the answers, the solution.

As I mature and grow older I become ever more childlike in my acceptance of God the Good. I live and move and exist in this very Presence of Love. It cannot, under any circumstances, remove Itself from me. "But" protests the intellectual mind "how can I become a little child after I have learned so much and had so much experience?" I have met them, top intellectuals with strings of academic degrees, but still afraid of life, afraid of disease, afraid of material poverty. The wisdom of man is foolishness with God. The essence of Truth, I remind you constantly, is simplicity. The more simple you are in your approach to God the more access you give Him into your consciousness. There is no busy intellect, no constrained reasoning, blocking the way.

What is it that you truly want? In humility you will find it is the voice of God speaking to you: "This is what I am within you. Set Me free." You have the key to the Kingdom, only you can use it. "But" you may argue "no-one accepts what I believe in." Yes, Someone does - there is God and yourself, Mind and intellect, Soul and heart. Omniscience enters your thoughts, Omnipotence enters your feelings. Let intellect agree with Mind that all is well, let heart agree with Omnipotence that all is possible.

The testimony of others may encourage you, but you will not find God in books. Omnipresence is not transported - It IS. You open your consciousness to It and discover It is there, always was there. Opening your consciousness is like me switching on this light. "Now I see, I perceive, I understand." You have inner realisation of yourself, not as something God has created but as God's presence Itself manifesting in you and as you.

We each have a different concept of God, but each view contains the little leaven, weak belief though it may be, that is enough. As you nurture it, use it, it grows and opens your life to God's health, security and joy. Religious show is meaningless. How do you feel inside? How do you feel about God? Imagine the warmth, happiness and upliftment that you experience with the person or people you most love. If you want God to work in your life you must feel the same about Him, and more.

"God loves me and approves of what I do" is a fearless statement of Truth. No matter how wrong you may be or how right, as long as you believe you are doing the right thing God makes it right for you. Too many people practice the letter of the law in their lives but not the spirit of the law. Ask yourself earnestly and sincerely "Is my heart right with God?" I know He is Law and Principle, but we are thinking, feeling beings. Again, how do I feel about God? When I pray what is my attitude? Is there a sense of warmth, of love, and of companionship, an inner knowledge that God is with me, that there is nothing in the whole world for me to fear?

Christmas is the time for many when there is a conscious celebration of Love coming into the world, a universal Love, the only thing in the world that can set us free from our problems, a realisation that there is no other way. Our "enemies," our problems, are the wind that helps us fly our kite. If there is no resistance you cannot fly your kite. Our difficulties are the essential medium that helps us grow in awareness of God, stimulating the inner yearning that draws our attention to Him. Divine discontent within us resists compromise, seeks God-the-best.

You are sons and daughters of God. You have no inherent evil and sin. God loves us and approves of our sincere strivings towards good, regardless of how they may appear to others. Is it not wonderful that the whole Universal Love is concerned about me specifically, and you specifically, that Divine discontent within us is God pressuring us to accept His good, to reject everything that is the antithesis of Good?

I speak as a little child to God, and shall do so until the time I die, to keep myself in the awareness of His presence. So which are you - the simple person, accepting God into your consciousness, or the person full of words that obscure God?

This season is a time of awareness of the presence of Love. Say, as you awaken each morning, "God loves me and approves of what I do" and go out and release this Love to everyone. Let Christmas really be a Feast of Love, a benign circle drawing in more and more people, growing and developing. This is your duty. This is what sets the world free from hatred.

There is only one Neighbour in the whole world. The Neighbour is called God-the Good, and fills our minds, our hearts, our bodies and affairs with health, and security and joy.

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