Success Tied to Devotion

I broached the idea in Interesting Things to Think About #2: The Season of Grace Succeeded in Turmoil without really noticing it. I get comments from people who are conscious of the Law of Assumption and try to work it without success. How come it worked for Neville and Joseph Murphy but not them? I have to ask, what are they dedicated to?

The Dead Sea Scrolls paint a picture of unusual dedication. Many Jews withdrew to the Jordan Valley and other retreats to prepare themselves for the nearly due Messiah. Rehnborg offers that at least one of the teachers saw that coming of the "Son of Man" was postmortem(!), and gambled that he was destined to become that Son of Man. He gave his life, and won. Once for all who dedicate themselves.

Neville Goddard witnessed one little miracle: penniless, he imagined he slept in his bed in Barbados, and it worked. "When it works," he said, "You have found God to be your own, wonderful, human imagination." He devoted the rest of his life to trying to understand and to communicate this fact. God wants it communicated. We are hard pressed to find more dedicated, successful practitioners and teachers than Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy.

God is not jealous of anything or anybody. He is DEVOTED to manifesting the Ineffable. The Hebrew word translated 'jealous' in the Bible in the ancient Aramaic means "devoted" - "for He is the God of Devotion" (Exodus 34:14b, see Alexander's note). The devotion of the man who became the Son of Man is our exemplar. It is horribly confusing that Jesus was not that man but is the principle of devotion in the nature of YHWH, whom we cannot see, and yet that man is the responding agent of Jesus we do see. So we ask for Jesus, and we get 'Jesus.' Truly, the two are one. Devoted, we are, too.