Build well the foundations for the growth of a noble
character of spiritual endowments,” he said:
“In order to yield the fruits of the spirit, you must
be born of the spirit. You must be taught by the spirit and be led by the
spirit if you would live the spirit-filled life among your fellows.
But do not make the mistake of the foolish carpenter
who wastes valuable time squaring, measuring, and smoothing his worm-eaten and
inwardly rotting timber and then, when he has thus bestowed all of his labor
upon the unsound beam, must reject it as unfit to enter into the foundations of
the building which he would construct to withstand the assaults of time and
storm.
Let every man make sure that the intellectual and
moral foundations of character are such as will adequately support the
superstructure of the enlarging and ennobling spiritual nature, which is thus
to transform the mortal mind and then, in association with that re-created
mind, is to achieve the evolvement of the soul of immortal destiny.
Your spirit nature—the jointly created soul—is a
living growth, but the mind and morals of the individual are the soil from
which these higher manifestations of human development and divine destiny must
spring. The soil of the evolving soul is human and material, but the destiny of
this combined creature of mind and spirit is spiritual and divine.”
Michael
Of Nebadon
Urantia
Revelation
