Daily Inspiration, September 10th

Posted on September 10, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”  (Joshua 1: 9)

Strength and courage are requisite. They are God’s command—His active qualities which He consistently expresses to us and through us. This fearless confidence is not about human bravery though. It is not about stoicism or stubborn, willful pushing forward.

It is about reliance. The reason we do not need to be dismayed, worried, uncertain, confused, or afraid, is because God has commanded this one very basic unchangeable thing: I will be with you everywhere and at all times. We are never for an instant or by an inch separate from God’s presence and power. We are always in the safe certainty of His perfect wisdom and Love.

So realize that it is not your duty to try to convince yourself of strength you don’t feel or fearlessness you can’t quite claim. These great and graceful qualities are not personal traits. They are the infinite attributes of God, forever available, always intact and active. And back of these powerful qualities is always God’s nature and unfailing purpose: Love.

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, September 8th

Posted on September 8, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Let us be faithful in pointing the way through Christ, as we understand it, but let us also be careful always to ‘judge righteous judgment,’ and never to condemn rashly.” (Science and Health, page 444)

When we have the Truth and feel the power of knowing it, we can’t help but be compelled to share it. Do not be timid about giving of this rich awareness of the Christ, the way to freedom and peace which we can experience by knowing who we are as God’s children. We certainly don’t want to hoard the Truth of Love, for how loving would that be?
We can also feel confident that we don’t have to know the full measure of God’s gracious Truth in order to share it with others, to help and guide and point the way to healing and harmony. We can give of what we do understand, from our hearts, with honesty and enthusiasm, and that will do much good for those who are seeking a better way.
But be wise to preaching without listening. Be careful not to condemn or judge those who we may feel are not as wise as we think we are or who have a different viewpoint. And don’t measure, without inspiration, just who may or may not be receptive to what you have to offer. Pointing the way through Christ requires we utilize that Christ—listen moment by moment to Love’s great word and follow wisely, humbly, and with genuine love.

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, September 3rd

Posted on September 3, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Jesus…claimed no intelligence, action, nor life separate from God.” (Science and Health, page 136)

In all that Jesus said and did, he honored God as the Source. He consciously and conscientiously remembered and reminded others that he was not a specially gifted human doing miracles and surviving difficulties. Jesus knew with his whole heart that he was never alone. He was aware that his entire existence was at one with God, his Father-Mother-Life.

This active cognizance of His oneness with God was what empowered Jesus and gave him instant access to wisdom, protection, peace, and the pure love that healed. Jesus continually and humbly proclaimed God as the one and only good, the one Life and Truth and Mind. Jesus wasn’t just trying to take the attention away from himself. He was telling us something vitally important!

We are all inseparable from God in intelligence, action, and life, just as he was. Jesus repeated this fact often so we would realize that we, too, are never apart from God; in claiming this truth and relying on God (not self) we, too, could and can do great things. With God honored as our Life, we cannot fail to be good, wise, loving, confident and (just as Jesus always was!) abundantly grateful.

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, September 1st

Posted on September 1, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” (Romans 12: 2, New Living Translation)

How often do we attempt to gain a successful life with the approach of mimicking the world’s presentations of what constitutes the ideal? We look at the parade of things and situations that look best, that fit a certain customary way of doing things, and we hope to achieve this picture of well-being.

And yet, the traditions and expectations of the world should not be our goal or our path to contentment. These are too small for us, and yet not specific enough either. They are limited and random. The so-called ideal for perfect human life has transformed significantly over time and across cultures. It is not a reliable standard and it is not one that has Spirit and its limitless goodness behind it.

If you want to know what will bring you peace and joy and a feeling of worth and satisfaction, stop gauging things according to the world’s “acceptable” view of what that is. Let God change your thought—transform your consciousness to one that is truly grounded on a reliable Principle, Truth and Love. Let God’s expansive vision of reality show you what is truly possible to you—what excites and at the same time settles your soul. This transformation is truly a revelation. It is God’s natural revealing of you. It is not as the world would have you appear, to conform, to be like everyone else, but as God sees you—rich in what is right, full of genuine joy, and uniquely yours to be and to live and to share.

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 27th

Posted on August 27, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“While he was still speaking, messengers arrived from the synagogue president’s house, saying, ‘Your daughter is dead—there is no need to bother the master any further.’ But when Jesus heard this, he said, ‘Now don’t be afraid, just go on believing!’” (Mark 5: 35-35, JB Phillips Translation)

Jesus was able to heal the daughter of this seeking soul, to bring her back to life. And his words to the concerned father are two key ideas that can support our own healing. We should take Jesus’s comforting words to heart. There is, as all Christly imparting, a power to them.

“Now don’t be afraid.” Jesus’s initial instruction to this dear fretting one was for him to give up the fear. It is really always the first thing we all must do when seeking peace and healing. And Jesus was not saying to lose fear when the healing was evident, but to stop being afraid now. Jesus was giving this man and all of us a message from our Father. Jesus was one with God and knew that His goodness and Love was greater than the fear and any seeming cause for it. His gentle words expressed that Love, just as the Christ does for us—reminding us in the moment, right now, that fear is not needed, healing, nor does it give us a clear vision of what is really going on—peace, safety, perfect care.

Then Jesus gave that second piece of healing advice. The man had come with trust to Jesus, expecting healing. Jesus was saying, essentially, it doesn’t matter that things seem dark now, that the report from the messengers (mortal mind, sense testimony) want to tell you to give up. Trust your faith, your believing, and just keep on trusting it. The guidance and faith that turned this man, and us, toward the healing Christ, was valid. Be patient and steadfast with this trust. Let God tell you the true and perfect state of things, and in the meantime, give yourself permission to be fearless and trusting, calm and confident. Jesus said so!

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 25th

Posted on August 25, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Suppose I had wings like the dawning day and flew across the ocean. Even then your powerful arm would guide and protect me.” (Psalms 139: 9-10, Contemporary English Version)

God’s powerful arm is always beneath us and around us. No matter what condition we may seem to be in or even what frame of mind, God’s Love is right there, upholding us and keeping us safe from harm.

We can’t ever be separate from divine Life, Truth, and Love. God’s infinite and active presence is right where we are—where our lives and our hearts rest and where they journey toward. You DO have “wings like the dawning day” and the very reason you are able to fly beyond the limits of human doubts and material beliefs is because God’s limitless power and love are with you, underneath you and around you, making all things possible.

Don’t be afraid. You are not alone. Your companion, your home, your vessel to greatness, is God, the Almighty One Who loves you. Right where you are. Wherever that is. God is always there to lift you above fear and discouragement and show you that you are safe, dearly loved, and free to fully use those beautiful and capable wings He gave you to fly!

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 20th

Posted on August 20, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.” (Isaiah 51: 3)

It may seem at times like we are out in the gloomy wilderness. We can’t see any beauty, any fruitful place, only waste and emptiness and the fear that this ugly place is our fate.

But God’s Love sees something else. God sees our worth, our potential for growth, fruitfulness, loveliness, and contentment. This loving power comes to us right where that barrenness might seem its worst, and brings the comfort of fresh soil, new seeds to bloom, and a renewed sense of Life at its very best.

Receive that comfort with thanksgiving, with gratitude. Be ready to see past the shadow to the sun that is right here, awakening you to reality, to the great garden that is within you.

You don’t need anyone to create a flowering place for you. You don’t need any particular change of location or circumstance in order to flourish. What is needed is to receive willingly and gratefully the message of that Comforter, calling you to recognize within yourself what God sees in you—a divine purpose, a childlike readiness, a brilliant ability to do good, to feel joy, to blossom, and to hear that true and glorious song of your harmonious, melodious life!

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 18th

Posted on August 18, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“…please don’t, out of old habit, slip back into being or doing what everyone else tells you. Friends, stay where you were called to be. God is there. Hold the high ground with him at your side.” (I Corinthians 7: 23-24, Message Bible)

Stay loyal to goodness. Hold to your convictions. Continue to cherish that wonderful revealed Truth of Life that you are coming to know. This great law of Love that is the very heart of Life is your salvation and your most natural state of being.

We may feel the pressure of the world or the call of our old habitual ways of thinking and acting. It may seem alluring just to go with the flow and let others tell us what is best for us or what is easiest.

But Paul is pleading with the Corinthians for a reason here. He knew the better way and that they deserved to know it as well. Paul knew, as we do, that to take the high ground, to stand firm on our own individual inspiration, to remember and honor the touch of the Christ in our lives, is heaven. For being true to God, to that high standard of real freedom and goodness and love, is being true to ourselves.

And stepping out from the crowd to do what our higher sense would beckon us to do is not going it alone at all. God is there. The Almighty is by your side—as your guide, trustworthy companion, faithful defender, and the One Who knows and loves you best.

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 13th

Posted on August 13, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.” (II Corinthians 9: 7)

We all have a divine purpose. We have something significant to give in the greatness of our lives as well as in the day-to-day opportunities. As we recognize this intention, this right desire to share of our love, our goodness, our hope, our strength, we can trust it to lead us in a way that is fruitful.

But if giving seems like a burden or if we feel resentful or merely methodical in what we do, take a pause and reflect. Look again to what that purpose is, whether it is truly from God and therefore right for us. If our heart tells us this is God’s intent, then let that same heart feel the joy in that; let it gain power and energy and satisfaction from the fact of a holy intention, Love’s design to bless others and ourselves as well.

Joy is essential. Don’t let God’s work, your own daily business as you have been led to pursue it, become drudgery, too serious, or wearying. God’s loving purpose for you contains with it a natural enjoyment, uplift, and gratitude. Without recognizing and claiming this cheerful willingness, we lack in sincerity and our work will lack luster, power, and contentment.

Give freely of God’s rich intention. Share of His abundant goodness and rejoice that you are an essential expression of and recipient of God’s loving, purposeful Life.

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 11th

Posted on August 11, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. This is the first and most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, ‘Love others as much as you love yourself.’  All the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets are based on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22: 37-40, Contemporary English Version)

Jesus understood the law. He knew that all the good behavior and obedience espoused by the inspired prophets who preceded him, were squarely based on these two important principles.

We must surely begin with honoring God. But this action goes beyond simply recognizing His power and worshiping Him. We must love God fully, thoroughly, sincerely, and consistently. This love is not something we can put on or simulate through forced actions. It is pure and genuine. This honest love brings us right in line with God’s true and enduring love for us.

This great love for God is not difficult when we realize it means we must be devoted, heart and soul, to love and goodness itself. Loving God means loving what is natural to us, most pleasing, and satisfying.

And when we recognize that God abundantly, unconditionally loves us, we can’t help but love others, too. For divine Love made every idea—conceived them as the very image and expression of His own Love. Each one is lovable and worthy of God’s love, so, therefore, certainly worthy of ours. We can follow these powerful commandments with natural ease and freedom because we were born to love and to be loved. It’s the law!

This is today’s e-inspire. These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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