God's Own Bill of Rights
By Emmet Fox
You can have anything in life that you are entitled to-if you will pay the price by building the mental equivalent for it. That is to say, you can get anything you are entitled to, provided that you make yourself mentally ready.
You have a right to anything that would be good for you-anything that would make you healthier, happier, more free, and more useful. This is God's Bill of Rights
When you think, "I would like to do that, or be that, or have that," it is the voice of God in your soul which is telling you that the time has come to take a step forward.
Note particularly that you have a right only to the things which would be good for you and make you happy. Obviously you have no right to something that belongs to someone else, or to something which would infringe upon the rights of others, by making them do something which they would not want to do, for instance.
When you find yourself wanting something to which, in your heart, you know you are not entitled, it simply means that you are misinterpreting the channel. What you really want is the happiness and freedom that you think you would get by obtaining that particular thing-not really the thing itself which is only the channel.
In such a case, you should think, "That cannot be the way because I have no right to it, but there is some other way in which God can give me all that happiness and opportunity without infringing upon anyone else's rights."
Treat yourself by thinking, "I am in touch with the Source of that good, and Divine Power is bringing it to me through another and legitimate avenue."
God's Bill of Rights says you have a right to health, happiness, and true success; and there is always a legitimate way to obtain these things. He will show you the path, and open it up if you trust in Him.
"In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:6
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