Being Free Now

“To material sense, earth is matter; to spiritual sense, it is a compound idea.” (Science and Health, page 585)

Our earth is worthy of our love and our grateful praise. It may appear to the material senses that it is a bunch of matter taking on various forms and subject to the elements of time and climate and circumstances. These days it may appear that our earth is enduring extremes and that the end is not so far off.

But spiritual sense redefines our earth for us. This earth is not a pitiable and limited mass of matter. It is a compound spiritual idea, made of the elements and ingredients and substance of God’s design, a sphere that has no beginning or end, for it is God’s creation, the evidence of His enduring harmony and perfection.

The earth we walk upon and call our home is a limited view of the heaven that God gave us in which to dwell. The sins of sense testimony may have closed our eyes to our Eden, but that doesn’t mean that we aren’t still in it, still in God’s beautiful dwelling place, a garden of His own lovely and enduring qualities big enough for all to dwell in comfortably and meeting His standards of integrity, goodness, timeless wholeness and fruitfulness.

Let’s use our spiritual eyes and love our earth not so much because it needs our love, but because it expresses God’s Love.

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“My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.” (Psalms 31: 15-16)

Our lives are not in the hands of people and circumstances. Our days do not depend on the kindness of strangers nor can they be ruined by the neglect or ignorance of friends. The enemies named fear, lack, vulnerability, unkind personal opinions and behavior, can’t overpower the might of God and His mercy, His ever-present, always-active Love.

God’s face is shining upon us. Love and Life are revealing our freedom, protection, and goodness at hand. Let’s stop looking at material situations and people as our salvation or our doom. Your times are in God’s hand. Look to His benevolent nature, His Principle of justice and Truth to see the prospects for your day and for your life. The persecution we may feel at times does not disappear when we continue to empower it with our attention.

Look to God. Focus on Him and His gentle and healing promises. He is the one with the power and He is the one who has your life in His caring hands. God made you and keeps you. Every moment of your experience belongs to Him. Trust Him with your days and your nights. Let His merciful goodness show you just how safe you are. Let God’s confident assurances reveal to you today that your enemies are already conquered by the powerful fact of the infinite Allness of Love.

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“And do not [for a moment] be frightened or intimidated in anything by your opponents and adversaries, for such [constancy and fearlessness] will be a clear sign (proof and seal) to them of [their impending] destruction, but [a sure token and evidence] of your deliverance and salvation, and that from God.” (Philippians 1: 28, Amplified Bible)

Don’t be afraid of bellowing error, the bluster of resistance to your goodness. Stay faithful to your intentions. Believe in God’s righteousness more than you fear others’ unrighteousness. Don’t let the opponents of good cause you to cower and give up. The adversaries of good are also the adversaries of God, and therefore already doomed.

God is all-powerful. You are His idea, wrapped in His care, fueled with His grace, and equipped with His weapons—your own sweet qualities, broad vision, and kindness. The very raging of your enemies–whether it takes the form of other people or of circumstances or of the mortal voice in your own head–is a sign that you are winning. The wrong sense is fighting for a life, frantically, desperately. The Truth remains confident and we remain so as well in its promise.

Your salvation is at hand and it comes not through material efforts or changes in circumstance. It comes from God, from the very Truth of you that is insisting that it be realized, seen, and expressed in this place, in you and in your life. Be calm and grateful. You can’t be intimidated. You know that with God you are not only winning, you have already won!

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“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2: 10)

God had formed us of the substance of Himself, pure goodness. We have been made to be a blessing in the world, and the Christ-Truth has revealed this natural purpose to us. Claim the fullness of your potential and your reason for being. Don’t be shy about expressing what you are and don’t hide yourself behind a bunch of lies.

You are not unworthy. That is a lie. You are not too weak or too ignorant. Those are lies. You are not too full of anger and doubt and fear. All lies. God has created you to magnify Him, to be the very glorious expression of His own being, to be good and to do good. Our omnipotent God is not opposed. The Truth of your powerful innocence is always bigger than the lie that says you are not good enough, that human mistakes or personality can somehow hide what the Almighty saw fit to make.

God has ordained us to go forth as His workmanship, His own design, and to spread the word of His goodness through the beauty of our lives. We are built to bless and be blessed. The Christ has revealed that we are indeed the children of God, of Spirit and not of matter or material sense, and therefore we are well-equipped to bring a purposeful light to the world and a smile of approval to the loving face of our Father-Mother-God.

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“The people I formed for Myself, that they may set forth My praise [and they shall do it.]” (Isaiah 43: 21, Amplified Bible)

We are God’s people. We were formed out of His intention and to accurately express His own beauty, perfection, harmony, and grandeur. God made His people for Himself, in order that He be seen in every place, and so that He would have a wonderful reason for and a worthy object of His boundless, perfect Love.

What is our purpose? To be what God’s Love caused us to be; to show forth His glory as we walk in this world, bringing His own Spirit to life in all that we think and express, in our very being. Not only is it right to praise God, the Source and substance of us, but it is an imperative demand. God requires that we shall do it! No ifs, ands, or buts!

Let’s know our own dignity, our own well-being, and our own splendor. God made us to radiate forth His own perfect Self, His eternal and magnificent qualities. You can’t fail to do this, just as God can’t ever stop being the infinite All-in-all. God’s glory is in this very place and you are, right now and always, the evidence of that amazing fact! Be that glory now. Just do it!

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“Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.” (Psalms 73: 25-26)

We always have a ready companion, a steady hand to guide us and keep us upright, and a constant Source of loving care. We may lose hope and strength when we look at our material circumstances. We may feel we are alone and that we are enduring hardships that seem overwhelming.

But this sense of lack is already filled with God’s presence. He is with us with His conscious wisdom in our day and with His love in our night. The physical senses may taunt us with limitations and fears, but our all-seeing and tender Father-Mother has the true story and holds us securely there. It is a love story and we are in it with God, with the One true Love that always sufficiently loves us.

Turn away from complaint and doubt and pity and see the fact of your salvation already at hand. God and His goodness are infinite. They are active and powerful. You are never separate from that loving-kindness, that boundless provision, and that focused attention and affection. God is your reliable reliance. He has your hand, your heart, and your life and it is absolutely safe, complete, and so very good.

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“It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3: 22-23)

Each day may bring us a new set of challenges to confront and to overcome. It may seem like a never-ending climb up and then a quick slide back down. Material life would seem to have a way of presenting new limits and obstructions to our freedom each day.

But we don’t have to be consumed by discouragement or fear. We have a reliable solution forever available. God’s mercies don’t have an expiration date. Yesterday’s healing and new understanding does not use up His Love or His patience. Just as God is new and fresh and full for every day, so is the measure of His Love for us. The ignorance and confusion we may feel today is simply a ready position to feel the influx of God’s cleansing kindness along with new revelations to get us back up and moving forward.

God’s compassion endures. He is Love itself and He is also Truth. His compassion is not based on pity for our sad state of affairs or sins, but it comes of His full awareness of why we are indeed lovable, good, worthy. God is faithful in His knowledge of the real man and woman that you are. He is the Father and Mother that knows you better than you know yourself and is well pleased with you.

Don’t let the morning fill you with dread or worry. Open yourself up to the new dawn of God’s Love, those merciful and beautiful rays of light and life that must wake us up to the promise of a wonderful, fruitful, and grateful day!

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“…ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.” (I Thessalonians 5: 4-5)

We are made to shine forth and blend harmoniously with God’s beautiful day. Everything about us is built to radiate goodness and light in the world. Identify yourself rightly, as the children of light you are. Don’t let the allure of self-doubt, self-judgment, anger, and fear cause you to believe you are more welcome in the darkness than in the light, more comfortable there.

Get uncomfortable quickly with that shadowed sense of life. It doesn’t dignify you or the Almighty God Who made you. It’s a creeping lie and it will keep you buried in a sense of gloom and doom when fruitful freedom is beckoning you out to play. Not only are you worthy of coming out of belittlement and cynicism and fear, you must come out! The world is being deprived of a precious thing without your light to shine in it. Truly.

Let’s stop justifying our reasons to hide, to sleep, to give up. There is no reason valid enough or large enough to conquer your true brightness, God’s own light and Life expressed as the eternal flame that is you. Don’t hide away like a thief. Don’t let the evil sense of material life rob you of your true goodness, enthusiasm, and peace.

We are children of light. We know the Truth and power of Love. We are mighty to bless and to be blessed!

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“The changing glow and full effulgence of God’s infinite ideas, images, mark the periods of progress.” (Science and Health, page 511)

Are you afraid of change? Are you predicting what’s ahead and bracing for what’s next? Are you analyzing the reason why certain things have lost their appeal or place in your life? You can still that ruminating, questioning mind with this guarantee of your natural progress.

God’s infinite ideas, you and me and our magnificent lives, will always sustain their full effulgence—their brilliant radiance and shining forth. The change that may appear is simply the glow from a different perspective, the altered view through a new prism of experience and inspiration and growth in understanding. We needn’t be concerned about this changing glow in our lives. The light source has not changed. It is still and always God, infinite Love.

Our periods of progress are a good thing. The shift out of one thing and into another isn’t a move out into the wilderness, but the natural next step into new light, new enlightenment, an expanded sense of Life and our expression of it.

Think less about your life as a series of circumstances and more as a varied and colorful tapestry of new images to see and enjoy. Our progress is governed by God, so it is natural, necessary, and comes both out of righteousness (the right thing at the right time) and out of Love (what will satisfy, bless, and comfort us and others).

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“From one forefather he has created every race of men to live over the face of the whole earth. He has determined the times of their existence and the limits of their habitation, so that they might search for God, in the hope that they might feel for him and find him—yes, even though he is not far from any one of us.” (Acts 17: 26-27, JB Phillips New Testament)

We are one big universal family in which there are no favored children and no black sheep. Each idea of the One Father-Mother is cared for uniquely and perfectly, his life designed to meet God’s high standards and to glorify His own name which is Love. We have each been formed to fit into our perfect life–one with a specific purpose and plan, and whose only “limits” are those which assure that we never lose our way, never stray from the path of good, God.

The whole earth expresses God’s nature, His infinite Love and beauty and creativity. We are always being called to seek Him, to strive to know divine Love and immortal Life better. Everything is leading us to this conscious recognition of God’s presence and our unity with Him and so with all mankind.

The search for God is not one beyond any one of us. His Love is already and always actively with us in every place and at all times. He is near to each one of us, knows us truly, clearly, and dearly, and is each moment drawing us in to Himself, into a knowledge that we are dwelling in His grace and so is the whole world—all our sisters and brothers across this beautiful, heavenly earth.

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