Psalm 15, Verse 1-5
1 LORD, who may abide in
your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain? 2 Whoever
walks without blame, doing what is right, speaking truth from the
heart; 3 Who does not slander with his tongue, does no harm to a friend, never
defames a neighbor; 4 Who disdains the wicked, but honors those
who fear the LORD; Who keeps an oath
despite the cost, 5 lends no money at interest, accepts no
bribe against the innocent.
In life we are always
moving toward the future. Our destination is life eternal with our creator. In
our little sailboat of life we tend to be either moving toward God by taking
advantage of His graces which provide the wind for our sails or we do nothing
but drift.
Napoleon Hill noted in his
manuscript on a book he never published entitled “Outwitting the devil” stated
drifting was one of the tools the devil uses to keep us off tack and not sailing
towards God’s mountain.
A Protection against drifting lies
within easy reach of every human being who has a normal body and a sound mind.
The self-defense can be applied through these simple methods:
1)
Do
your own thinking on all occasions. The fact
that human beings are given complete control over nothing save the power to
think their own thoughts is laden with significance.
2)
Decide
definitely what you want from life; then create a plan for attaining it and be
willing to sacrifice everything rather than accept permanent defeat.
3)
Analyze
temporary defeat, no matter of what nature or cause, and extract from it the
seed of an equivalent advantage.
4)
Be
willing to render useful service equivalent to the value of all material things
you demand of life, and render the service first.
5)
Recognize
that your brain is a receiving set that can be attuned to receive
communications from the universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence, to help
you transmute your desires into their physical equivalent.
6)
Recognize
that your greatest asset is time, the only
thing except the power of thought which you own outright, and the one thing
which can be shaped into whatever material things you want. Budget your time so none of it is wasted.
7)
Recognize the truth
that fear generally is a filler with
which the Devil occupies the unused portion of your mind. It is only a state of mind which you can control by
filling the space it occupies with faith in your ability to make life provide
you with whatever you demand of it.
8)
When
you pray, do not beg! Demand what you want and insist upon getting exactly
that, with no substitutes.
9)
Recognize that life is
a cruel taskmaster and that either you master it or it masters you. There is no
half-way or compromising point. Never accept
from life anything you do not want. lf that which you do not want is
temporarily forced upon you, you can refuse, in your own mind, to accept it and
it will make way for the thing you do want.
10) Lastly, remember that your
dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest
and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.
A simple formula combining all
the ten points:
Be definite in everything you do and never leave
unfinished thoughts in the mind. Form the habit of reaching definite decisions
on all subjects.
Can the habit of drifting be
broken, or does it become permanent once it has been fanned?
The habit can be broken if the
victim has enough willpower, providing it is done in time. There is a point
beyond which the habit can never be broken. Beyond that point the victim is
mine. He resembles a fly that has been caught in a spider’s web. He may
struggle, but he cannot get out. Each move he makes entangles him more
securely. The web in which I entangle my victims permanently is a law of nature
not yet isolated by, or understood by, men of science.
