Pioneering Mystic Sermons, 2009

Love: The Only Limitless Credit

Linda Mihalic, October 18, 2009, Cleveland, Ohio, Romans 13:8-12

  Taking credit to the self is a nasty habit; you reinforce that glory-usurping habit every time you bridle at the offense another offers, his affront to your will, your pride, or your earthly status. “How dare he say that? How dare she do that?”
  Divine law dictates that you may take our credits in one of two places, inner or outer, but not in both places at once. Taking outer credit may seem satisfying in the moment, but easily runs you into the red in heaven.
  The physical body and material world are the ultimate trickle-down destinations for all vibrations, attitudes and habits, which originate at the spiritual level and descend as false ideas, wrong thinking, and cognitive distortions. These in turn create emotional upsets that become complexes and syndromes. Finally you express them as a physical ailment or chronic condition.

Edna Lister said that you must have a poverty in consciousness before you could have a poverty in your wallet. Following that idea, you can see that your state of earthly debts mimic your attitude about spiritual debts, too.
  Do you love enough to cover any spiritual debts you may owe another? Are you in arrears spiritually? Do you always pay more than your heavenly credit balance due? Do you ignore interest penalties that may be creeping up on you? Have you maxed out your heavenly line of credit? Most important, have you outsourced your sense responsibility by believing that you can do nothing because you do not control the situation?
  God cannot give you anything more than you give Him. It’s a circuit, He gives, you receive, and your job is to complete the circuit. You give, and He fills you a hundredfold. When you give that hundredfold, God can fill you a thousandfold. You could walk through this world as an open door of Light, leading to Him.
  We are at the turning of an age. Always at such time, the nature of the Messianic Salvation Message is restated and disseminated in language appropriate to the time. Edna Lister spoke on “The New Messianic Message” in Bournemouth, England, September 7, 1962. She said:<
  “From Rome to modern China, from feudalism through empires to federations of nations, all governments have collapsed under internal revolutions when the building of more destructive weapons of warfare upsets the balance of power. It invites the masses of underdogs to revolution! This has been so from clubs to slingshots, bow and arrows to guns. Revolution means ‘to revolve.’ As the seeds and bulbs burst their bonds of darkness, so does humanity burst its enslaving shackles. Opinions and prejudices cause crystallization and bondage; we must break, shatter physical, mental, emotional slavery. Civilization must move onward, upward.”
  This is where we are today: We, the Elect, must move with the Christed consciousness enveloping us or suffer from unendurable internal conflict. You may face hard initiations, not because you have been bad, but because the sheep are being separated from the goats, and the order is changing. God needs to know whether we are suitable leaders of humanity, so He tests us for endurance, strength and flexibility.
  First, you cannot afford to think an unconsidered thought, feel an unproductive emotion, speak an unconsidered word or commit a single act without first ascending into the higher Light for guidance. This conscious awareness, which is really Christed consciousness, is impossible if you constantly allow yourself to fall from grace, from the Light in which you are meant to dwell.
  Second, you must stay up in consciousness and deliberately dwell in the Light. Do not use the phone, answer the door or speak to another without first invoking the Light to fill you. When you consciously dwell in the Light, you do not register an offensive tone of voice, an insulting look or gesture. Nor do you entertain a tendency to offer offense – for you, it is simply not there.
  Third, cease worrying about who owes you or who you owe, and just pour out more love than the person or situation needs. If you devote yourself to overpaying your account, you quickly build a high-value credit balance.
  Fourth, stop distinguishing between friends and enemies, loved or non-loved, or practicing armed neutrality. Wonderful friends or rotten skunks, the Lord God made them all. He is asking that you pour love upon them, fill them with Light so that they change their minds to do His will and aspire to His desire for them.
  Fifth, you must be on guard against harming your neighbor, which is easy when you are always consciously living in the Light. You can harm a neighbor with inconsideration, choosing to dislike him, or permitting your little self to harbor angry thoughts or unloving or unhealthy emotions against him.
  Sixth, constantly remember that NOW is the high time to awaken from sleep. You may permit self no naps or lapses from full Christed consciousness. You must operate with a zero-tolerance policy regarding who is running your show, self or soul. Only soul may rule the Christed consciousness.
  Seventh and finally, cast off the works of selfish darkness, forever. Your full armor of Light fits perfectly, without gaps or holes when you evict the self to house only the Light. Stand tall, unbowed by the self and the undiluted Light shines through you to enlighten the hungry frightened world. The Christ Light makes your armor impenetrable and your consciousness impervious to any pollution by self or worldly darkness. You become invincible.
  Our Christed Mandate: “Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments…are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.”—Romans 13:8-12
  Apply for this new Christed Credit, the Love Card. It’s your trump card and tops any other card played. No matter what you meet, no matter what another tries to give you, you can play the Love Card. When other asks what you have and how you do what you do, you can joyfully share with them the only unlimited credit in the universe: Christed Love.

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Linda Hildebrand Mihalic
1946 –
Christian Platonist, American Idealist,
minister, teacher, author, and editor of
The Via Christa


Linda Mihalic


Linda Mihalic met Edna Lister in 1971, and was immediately chosen as her successor, following Lotus Judson Landis (who had met Edna Lister in 1932 and was ordained by her in 1956). Linda left corporate America in 1981 to work for the Society of the Universal Living Christ full time. She was ordained by Lotus Landis and assumed formal leadership of the Society in 1991.


Reference

The Holy Bible. King James Version (KJV).