What has your religion done for you? For years, probably, you have been attending church, reading spiritual books, studying the Bible, and so forth. Now I suggest that you have a spiritual stock-taking. Ask yourself—what has your religion done for you? What difference has it made in your life, in your home, in your affairs? How much peace of mind has it given you? How much courage? How much understanding? How much opportunity for service? For, make no mistake, real religion does give all these things.
If your spiritual stock-taking does not turn out to be satisfactory, if your religion is not working in this way—if, on examining your life, you find there are a number of places at which you are not demonstrating, if certain needs are still lacking to you, if there are still negative things that refuse to go—I believe that you will find the explanation to lie in the following law: What you put into your religion, that you get out of it.
If you put 5 per cent of yourself and your life into your religion, you will receive a 5 per cent dividend or demonstration. If you put 20 per cent of yourself and your life into your religion, you will receive a 20 per cent demonstration. And until you put 100 per cent of yourself and your life into your religion, you will not receive a 100 per cent demonstration.
A complete, all-round demonstration calls for an all-in policy.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- (1) Do I experience anger, resentment, fear, worry, guilt, low self-worth?
- (2) Do I experience external lack or limitation?
- (3) Do I experience internal lack or limitation?
- If so: a further question:
- Have I completed the first nine steps of the Twelve Steps?
- If not: complete them, as swiftly as diligence and progress allow
- [Plus attend to the list below]
- If so: increase
- Service
- Prayer
- Meditation
- Spiritual reading / listening / study / learning
- Step Ten
- Step Eleven
- Step Twelve
- By how much?
- Increase until I answer no to questions 1–3
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