Joy: The Living Fountain of Eternal Youth
Edna Lister
July 4, 1957
Seattle, Washington

Joy is the living fountain of Eternal Youth. Joy is the permeating, sustaining life and power running through all my creations and the foundation upon which I build all my affairs. Joy flows through my day in a never-ceasing, vitalizing and quickening thread of Divine rapture. Joy is the spirit of youth upholding the laws of life, which express my attitudes of love toward God and my compassion toward man.

Joy leads me up from an earth-consciousness to the Christed consciousness step by step: I accept. I surrender. I arise. I ascend. I accept my inheritance as a child of God and as a “joint heir” to the Kingdom of Heaven. I surrender myself to be the servant of all God’s wonderful Power. I arise and move into my room of light in “the house of the Lord” where I shall dwell forever. I ascend into the heart of the light and the Golden Silence, where all creative ideas freely flow and it enfolds me.

I now desire to accept my own responsibility for all my past and all my present creations. I accept responsibility for every word I speak, knowing that I am accountable for them and that they are my creative tools. I accept full responsibility for all delays in my life and in the collection of my great inheritance. God’s Plan for me in the beginning of time has been a lavishly abundant one and only my own lack of comprehension of law has caused the smallness of my collections in the past.

I realize how many times the windows of heaven have been open to pour out my share of heaven’s bounty and how I have grown weary of waiting, how I have turned away to face the darkness in selfpity with the scalding, bitter tears flowing that blame both God and man for the delay. Each time it has been as if I had stepped out of the line of life, and upon my return – for I always return to the light – I have had to take my place at the end of the line. However, each return has found me with greater strength and understanding of law, so I have stood and declared the lesson good while prayers have gained in the joyous expectancy of receiving my inheritance very soon.

So have I learned to know and accept that God must have my full cooperation if I am ever to collect my daily dividends coming to me from this inheritance of health, strength, understanding and success. I now ask to stand without shadow of turning, in continuity of purpose and unwavering prayers of praise and rejoicing for the understanding that enables me to stand steadfast and conform to the laws of the spirit divine that bring into expression all success.

I accept every promise telling me that Divine Power, and every agent of God shall move into action here and there upon earth bringing together every needed thing to fulfill my heart’s desires of good.

I surrender myself to this new concept of an upward, forward look that will hold me determinedly upon my pathway of light until I reach my goal of full comprehension of the laws of God and how to apply them to my daily life. I surrender myself to the idea that I was created for perfect law to use in a perfect way. I discard the old notion that I was created to use God’s Law in my own conceited idea of being powerful in my self.

I surrender to the love of God so that it may open all doors before me and shine a glorious light in all dark places, making my future clear as it uses me as a servant of all the Power. I seek to realize how great is this inheritance from the kingdom of Heaven, while knowing that God, my Father, has kept my place open for me since the beginning of time. I have learned that the reason my present place has seemed so unsatisfactory is because it is one that I have been busy building for myself. I know that I must conquer where I am, and I seek new ways of conquering self and mastering everything sent to me.

I arise! I arise and reach for the stars and knock at new doors of illumination so that I may know how to translate all past experience-lessons into new laws to aid me in creating new outer forms of success. I arise into higher realms of consciousness and glory, and my soul expands with the joy of walking with God.

I know that must work out my own salvation through my own illumination and application of the laws I have learned through acceptance and surrender to the Power of God and the spirit of joy. I listen to everything available as Truth, reading and studying and praying much, but my faith is in God as the love that fulfills the law, and I am not dependent upon either teachers or books.

I am free! Others can show me their way of life and tell me how they “ask, seek, knock and find,” but they cannot do it for me. I cannot be disappointed in another when I make demands for protection only upon myself.

I arise and step into my own Christed consciousness and my “knocking” is done at that high consciousness of illumination, that gives me to know that I stand firmly within the House of the Lord, Christ-statured and waiting upon the law to receive my inheritance in boundless and lavish measure.

I ascend into the heart of the light and there I find myself in the Golden Silence of a Christed illumination. As I stand, folded within the light, I know that I must go about my Father’s business in the outer world, finding new ways to serve God through serving His needy children. I give my service with a new song upon my lips, a joy which dwells upward from that new found fountain of joyous love awakened in my heart, that perennial source of Eternal Youth.

As I ascend into an ever greater, higher Christed consciousness, my ability to stand with loving persistence thrives and expands. I find myself waiting to redeem every moment of wasted time, wanting to do all those things that I have left undone, one at a time, of course. I know that I cannot do everything all at once to catch up with all my past obligations and neglects, but I do know that God will accept each daily service of prayer and helpfulness toward others as my proof-of-intention and another payment-on-account for the past.

It is now that I find myself endowed with “riches, honor and life” as promised by the prophet of old. My riches consist in the increased quality and quantity of the love and compassion I can pour into my service in the world. I find myself honored with the glory and the joy of soul that is beyond earth’s ability to give. At night and trail’s end, I find that I have plenty of life left over and to spare because I live and move and have my being in the life of God.

I ascend each day in the finding of new friends, new ways to serve, new vistas opening up, new visions to follow, new ideas to bring forth into outer forms of expression, and above all, new ways for the conquering of self and the mastering of all lesson-experiences or conditions sent my way. Each morning I face the day with a blithe spirit of joy and expectancy, and with the spirit of Eternal Youth possessing me. Each night I face my God with such love in my heart that the heights of glory and illumination I can reach forth to grasp stretch in limitless ways before me. I accept! I surrender! I arise! I ascend!

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