John 6:29 Meaning Jesus Answered Them

The mind imagines that returning to God is a labor of effort, a mountain of deeds to be climbed. Yet the only work asked of it is to trust the presence sent to remind it of what it is. Belief here is not strain but relief, the willingness to let the awakened teacher be true instead of the ego's fear.

The ego builds an endless ladder of tasks so that peace always waits beyond the next rung. But the single thing required is to lay down that ladder and accept the one who was sent. A mind that trusts this presence has done the only work there is, and finds that what it labored so hard to reach was already given.

Only one labor is asked, and it is inward. To believe on him whom he hath sent is to trust the state a person has been given to assume, the desired end held as already so. That sent one is not a distant figure but the wish fulfilled, standing before the mind and waiting to be believed in.

The work of God is not effort in the world, not striving or arranging or forcing outcomes. It is the single act of resting the whole of belief on the unseen state until it is felt to be so. Everything a person does with his hands is beside the point if he withholds this. A state believed in becomes the state a person lives from, and the believing is the entire work. Nothing else is required and nothing else will do.