Being Free Now

“Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened.” (Matthew 7: 7-8, Amplified Bible)

This translation gives us a clear sense of what seeking and finding is all about. It is more than a fleeting plea for help or momentary relief from trouble. It is devotion. It is persistence. It is a genuine and patient openness. It is listening each moment for direction and instruction, and being willing to hear not simply what our human hopes would want us to hear, but what is really true, satisfying, healing, and right.

You will find, and the treasures of God will be given to you. In fact, they already are yours. Our constancy and grateful asking is an hourly opportunity to see more of our heaven open up before us; to not only have momentary relief, but to gain deep understanding of what is real and why, and so to gain true healing, that which endures and which continues to reveal blessings.

The verse is not meant to discourage us. It is not meant to make us feel as if we must wait for our God. It is a promise that as we seek rightly, we will find rightness and peace. As we bring our whole hearts to God with consecration and expectation, we will gain a new gift of Love for each asking, a new joy for each prayer, and a daily occasion to find out just how devoted God is to each one of us. His rich daily gifts never run out and are always just right for today.

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“I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.” (John 14: 18)

It may feel at times as if life has left you without options and hope, or uncomfortable in your choices, your situation, or your body. But we are never at a point so far gone to be too distant for God to reach with His healing, saving, Love.

Ever-presence does not need to be sought in a distant outcome or eventual set of circumstances. It is already right where you are and it is God, infinite good, perfect Mind, Life, and Love. The comforts of the great Comforter, the Christ-Truth of being, will come. The very message of the healing goodness of God, that Jesus brought to mankind in what seemed miraculous, just keeps on coming—to you.

You will never be left alone or without an answer of peace. You will never be left to work things out through your own human ingenuity or force of will. You will never be without a tender touch of assurance when you need it, wherever you are or however guilty or ashamed or doubting you may feel. The comforting Truth of God’s Love will always be with you.

Jesus left his disciples with this assurance. His physical presence would not be with them or with us, but the very purpose and substance of his healing word would and does remain and remain active. It is the Comforter, the immediate presence of Love, and it will always come and keep on coming right to us, right where we are, right now.

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.

“Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.” (Psalms 62: 8)

You can trust in God’s presence and care. Your heart’s desires as well as your doubts and fears are safe with Him. Don’t be timid or prideful about pouring out your heart to Him, releasing those challenging concerns to His tenderness and His power to cleanse and renew you.

We can trust our Father-Mother at all times. There is no occasion too small or too shameful or too difficult for God’s infinite Love and guidance to handle. He is always a refuge, one that is more present than our friends and more understanding of us than we even are of ourselves. He has a lap big enough for each and every one of us to sit on, to be the child whose tears get wiped away and whose ignorance is instructed into wisdom and grateful joy.

God is Truth and He is Love. He will never fail us. His purpose is not to make us feel stupid or ashamed, but instead to bring us into an awareness of what is true, right, and real. He is always with us, a sanctuary where honest revelations are met with kindness, new ideas, assurances, and that clear awareness that we are perfectly understood, perfectly loved, and never alone.

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.

“Spirit, the synonym of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance. The spiritual universe, including individual man, is a compound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit.” (Science and Health, page 468)

What are you made of? Can you stand the test of time and of life and of challenges? Of course you can! You are made of a divine substance. Every good and perfect quality composes your being and that of the universe. And all this wonderful substance of Life, Truth, and Love are in God Himself, sustained and maintained by Him.

We reflect Spirit, infinitude and immutable goodness. We are individually and collectively a compound idea. That doesn’t make us a collection of material parts or a grouping of mortal minds or even a galaxy of stars and planets. It means God is the substance of all that is, and His plentiful yet collaborating qualities make up creation including each one of us.

Acclaimed scientist Carl Sagan has been quoted as saying “we are made of star-stuff,” referring to the physical elements that make up the cosmos. Well, we are made of star- stuff in that we are made of the same celestial goodness that God caused to shine in our heavens. But our cosmos is spiritual. It is that which has existed and will exist forever in the Mind of God, in the creative intelligence of divine Love.

In fact, the word “cosmos” is derived from the Greek meaning “order, harmony.” So we truly exist in absolute oneness with all, built of God’s intention, and harmoniously expressing in unity with all creation that spiritual “star-stuff” that glows with beauty, intelligence, constancy, and immortality!

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“…prayer, coupled with a fervent habitual desire to know and do the will of God, will bring us into all Truth. Such a desire has little need of audible expression. It is best expressed in thought and in life.” (Science and Health, page 11)

You can pray at any time. You can make use of your genuine desire to know God better, to feel and lean on His presence, and pray with your life even when the human experience says there is not time, quiet, or room in thought for inspiration.

God knows our heart. Trust that He does and don’t qualify your prayer according to how many words you have said or read. It is the true allegiance to goodness that is a constant prayer, and it will open the way for life to show its agreement with reality, with the harmony God made and kept. It will also lead naturally to perfect opportunities for conscious communion with God, deep and thorough prayers that settle and save us.

If doing the will of God is our desire then to do this means to yield up a limited sense of how we need to get to Him, talk to Him, listen to Him. God is omniscient Love. Let Him reach you. Release yourself to His control and activity and simply live as He made you to live—as the very expression of His own goodness and the grateful object of His knowing, tender, unfailing 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.

“I will save the limping [ones] and gather the outcasts and will make them a praise and a name in every land of their shame.” (Zephaniah 3: 19, Amplified Bible)

God’s all-embracing Love will not stand for limits, pain, cruelty, division, fear, and shame. This divine Love won’t let any of His ideas be hindered in their progressive way, held back from getting to their destination, from gaining a fuller understanding and awareness of His presence and power.

There are no outcasts from God’s nation. Those who are shunned by humanity’s ignorance or neglect or by their own feelings of unworthiness or failure, are not left out of God’s care, His cleansing and uplifting Life and Love. He assures that those that seem to suffer as outsiders, or those who have made mistakes, will be made to be His very praise, the bright evidence of Life. Through overcoming and through grace they will show forth even more of God’s wisdom, power, and unconditional Love for all to witness.

This promise tells us that we can’t be allowed to limp along physically or mentally. God’s powerful energy and His unhindered purpose, will always lead us forward and upward. This assurance lets us know that where we may feel the least accepted, the most shunned, the most ashamed and unloved, right there will we find that we are not only accepted, but truly appreciated, understood, and thoroughly loved.

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“The image of Spirit cannot be effaced, since it is the idea of Truth and changes not, but becomes more beautifully apparent at error’s demise.” (Science and Health, page 543)

Spirit can’t be defaced or erased. Spiritual being is not available to matter and material sense to ruin it or rub it out. Spirit exists forever and is always intact. It is governed by divine Principle, that which requires all that is right to be also permanent, immutable, and whole.

You are the image of Spirit, of God. You are made up of the divine qualities of Life which don’t get damaged and have always existed. The recognition of this divine selfhood, our nature as the image of God’s wonderfulness, may seem to appear as destruction, the demise of the false sense of things. We may be witnessing the end of a sense of ourselves that we’ve become accustomed to, one that we’ve accepted as real and true and reasonable.

But this false sense of personality with a focus on mortality, time, age, environment, was never good enough for us. It needs to go down before Truth. The limits must be swallowed up in the limitless, in God’s design and in His Love. When that muddy and imperfect presentation of ourselves gets cleared off, it is only the dirt itself that goes away, nothing you really want or need or that makes you up. And then the gleaming idea that God made is right there to be seen even more beautifully, polished by inspiration and made more durable by understanding.

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.

“And so God makes it possible for you and us to stand firmly together with Christ. God is also the one who chose us and put his Spirit in our hearts to show that we belong only to him.” (II Corinthians 1: 21-22, Contemporary English Version)

We can stand together firmly in our purpose, in our mission of life as Love. We can remember that it is not our human knowledge that makes us capable of bringing peace to the world and to ourselves. It is a gift of God. It is grace. It is a holy appointment and backed by divine authority.

You belong to God. This is an exclusive relationship. You don’t belong to material circumstances, to a physical body, or to time. You aren’t owned by a corporation or a nation or another individual. You are God’s chosen. He specifically designed you to be His own very ideal idea, to actively and accurately express His intention.

And this purpose has been put within you. It is Love and it binds you with mankind. So, while you belong to God, you are at one with all His ideas, fellow children of Spirit and of Life, and this is a firm and irreversible commitment. God’s Principle makes no exceptions and it made no mistake in choosing you, in naming you as His very own, the perfect expression of His excellence, activity, intelligence, beauty, and goodness.

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“The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.” (Psalms 93: 4)

The cacophony of life’s troubles and distractions is no match for the silencing song of God’s powerful Love. Let’s be clear that while things may seem overwhelming in our own lives and bodies and in the world, these mighty waves of sense testimony are no match for the likes of God, the Almighty, Who is our only real Life.

Be calm and untroubled when circumstances seem out of your human control. They were never meant to be in your control. All things belong to God and He sees no challenge whatsoever to His righteousness, His design, His loving and intelligent plan for your being. God must always be glorified. It is His mandate, and so goodness must always reign true and real.

Knowing this, we can remain calm in the storms, ride out those storms, and even ride upon those waves gratefully while still being carried forward in our lives. The noise of material life and the voices of material opinions are just a whining wind with no substance or power. It is like the bluster of a pompous yet ignorant man. His voice may annoy you, but you are not even tempted to believe what he says. He just wants your attention.

Stay calm and peaceful when life tries to irk you. The gentle voice of God is more powerful than any mad rant of error, and His word is always clear, loving, infinitely wise and eternally true for you and for all.

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.

“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.” (Jeremiah 17: 7-8)

Our stability in all times and in every circumstance is found in God. As we put our full trust in Him, we find we are not subject to the randomness of nature or the whims of mortals. Likewise, this genuine faith in God’s goodness, presence, and wisdom, frees us from worry and fear. It eases our minds and brings us peace.

How do we gain this great trust? First of all, by believing that the prophets like Jeremiah were saying it like it is. These inspired individuals spoke the Truth and shared it with mankind because it was the Truth and it was for mankind’s use. And then we deepen our faith in God’s provision and unequaled care by drawing closer to Him, by becoming better acquainted with His loving nature and unopposed power, and so coming to know even better why He is so utterly trustworthy.

Those waters, rivers, and roots that Jeremiah talks about all belong to God and are truly under His wise and exclusive control. He possesses them and they must therefore express His qualities and do so abundantly. The flourishing fields of our lives and the sustaining and cleansing waters of Love are in His hands and therefore ours to receive and utilize, to rejoice in and be grateful for.

Our faith in God and not our fear of matter gives us a great dominion over all that would come into our experience and a well-rooted stability. Our confidence in Him is our freedom, keeping us steady in the storms and sustaining us in the wilderness of doubt, darkness, and fear. Our trust in God gives us all that we need to truly thrive and as a bonus, it includes enough strength and supply that we are also able and eager to share our goodness with the world.

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.