Would you meditate on GOD? Then meditate on Good, the Eternal Good. HE is the Eternal Good, and anything that is not good is not of HIM. It is a shadow that has been cast upon the outer threshold of HIS manifestation. There are those who deny that there are any shadows, but then you have but to understand to know that there are deep, deep shadows; but they are not of HIM.

There are those who think HE cannot know anything that is not like HIMSELF, and therefore cannot know shadows. But then you know many things that are not of you, they do not belong to you and are not in you, but you recognize they are there. And thus in a fallen world like this there cannot be other than shadows until it is redeemed back into its former estate of glory. And so the outer threshold of this part of HIS creation is shadowed, but the shadow is not of HIM. Yet HE has been working through the ages through HIS Glorious ONE, so to change the conditions which produced the shadow that it will flee away forever. And so it is to be, and it is being hastened in these days.

You think Of GOD as Good. Would you be good? - and I do not use the term in the weak sense in which it is used in the world. But would you be good and noble and pure and beautiful, strong in those things that are of beauty and truth, daring to live the life that is good? Goodness never casts shadows. Goodness has inherent radiance. That is why when you do a good action it even reflects its light back into itself and fills you with secret joy, and it conveys that very radiance to the one to whom you do the beautiful thing. Goodness itself contains the light within itself even of the radiance of GOD.

To meditate on GOD is to meditate on HIS Goodness - not simply to me personally, to you personally, that is, to the individual - to meditate on HIS Goodness unto HIS children. It is good, of course, to remember how good HE is to me, to you; and is HE not wonderful in HIS Goodness to me and to you? But meditate on Good. HIS Goodness fills all HIS worlds. It would obtain everywhere in this world if men understood it, if it touched them in the inward parts, if it realized itself as HIS Law in them giving right direction. But Goodness is the beauty of walking in the true way. I repeat it: Goodness is the beauty of walking in the true way.

If you would grow like GOD you must grow good. We cannot get to HIM except through being like HIM. We could not endure it, you see. HIS Law is perfect, and its operation in us, through us, compels us to obey it if we would know HIM, if we would approach HIM, if we would dwell in HIS Presence. So meditate on Goodness, and if you see its opposite, meditate on the Goodness and it will help to heal the opposite. Think of HIS wonderful Goodness unto HIS children; it will help you yourselves to be good unto HIS children. To remember how HE blesses you will help you to remember how to bless others. It is the way to GOD.

Quotation from A Meditation on God (pp.7-9 ) by John Todd Ferrier.
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