Continuation; Jesus’ message in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 364, titled, The longing is quicker than the thought.
“As spiritual longings ascend to the Father, they are heard and answered, and by a law of your relationship to God, affect the qualities of the brain in the way of preparing it for the union with the spiritual thoughts of the spirits who desire to write. Your thoughts of spiritual things and of truths of the spirit world, as they have been revealed to you, and especially those which pertain to the Love and mercy of the Father, also affect the qualities of the brain to produce the condition which is necessary for our rapport.
“It may be surprising to you that this condition is required in the brain of a human, in order that a rapport may be made, so that a spiritual truth may be delivered. And also surprising that you have been selected as a person in whom this condition and development shall be made. There are certain qualities in your constitution, both spiritual and material, that render you susceptible to the influences of our powers, which led us to choose you for the work in which I and the other spirits have heretofore used you.
“It may seem strange that, in all the long ages preceeding, I have not found one human who met all the requirements for this work. I have used others before, but they did not submit their minds and souls, beliefs and forethoughts to our influence and directions to the degree that you so far have done. Many people have had the required conditions of spiritual and material makeup to perform our work; but as they all have free wills, which we cannot compell, and as circumstances, education and beliefs are all elements which affect and determine the possibility of our using a particular medium, we had not been able to find a suitable instrument previously.
“You were not selected because of any special goodness or freedom from sin, or because you were more beloved by the Father or by reason of any spiritual condition that you were in, for there were others superior to you in goodness, and more in at-Onement with the will of the Father, and whose love nature was more perfect than yours. So you realize that you were not selected because of any special spiritual merits you possessed.” To be continued…