Article June 19, 1954 Issue

OUR LIMITLESS INHERITANCE

WILLIAM SHACKLE

There can be no question but that each one of us is influenced very largely by what he thinks or believes about any particular subject or condition. This accounts for the aptness of Shakespeare's words, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

To illustrate: Were you left a large legacy, which, however, could not be delivered to you because your whereabouts was unknown, you still might believe yourself destitute, though in fact you would be wealthy. Your belief would determine your suffering or joy. But if one day you learned of this legacy, would you not immediately set out to claim your inheritance? Of course you would; and the first thing that you would to produce would be proof of your identity. You would be joyous, and probably excited because you had become aware of your true status.

If, then, we would take such steps to claim material treasures, which "moth and rust doth corrupt," how much more important it is to claim our divine inheritance of health, joy, and rightful activity. We must identify ourselves as the man of God's creating, altogether perfect and complete, without a single quality underived from Him.

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