Being Free Now

“And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.” (II Kings 6: 15-16)

Are you feeling surrounded? Are you like the servant here, so focused on all the obstacles and limits, on the feeling of overwhelm in the middle of life, that you have no idea what to do? Are you feeling afraid you are trapped?

While the mass army of worries and impediments that would surround us and impede our way may seem real and daunting, we have a recourse, an escape, a victory. We can open our eyes to the reality of the good that is always on our side, the fullness of God’s protecting and advancing power. The horses and chariots of fear are easily vanquished when we see through their ability to corner us. God’s purpose for us is not conquered or even delayed by our worries. The infinite army of Love’s angels has already won as omnipotence must always do, and we can rely on this.

As we stayed focused like Elisha’s servant on the troubles that seem to be many and looming large, we can’t see the salvation which is always so much bigger, more real, and ours to freely claim. The angel ideas, the guidance, the peace, the certainty and authority, is right here with us and fears are no match for this heavenly host. Our doubts disappear when we look away from them and toward the invincible, supreme, saving forces of our faithful Principle, Love. You are not cornered by evil, but embraced on all sides by the powerful presence of good! Fear not!

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“It is true that no human being has ever had a direct vision of God. Yet if we love each other God does actually live within us, and his love grows in us towards perfection. And, as I wrote above, the guarantee of our living in him and his living in us is the share of his own Spirit which he gives us.” (I John 4: 12-13, JB Phillips New Testament)

What is our proof of God? How do we know that he is present and that we are made in His image and likeness? How do we gain a sense of the tangible presence of God enough to trust that He is here with us, His power preserving us?

It is by love. The love that we share with others is the expression of His activity. God is Love, so love felt and expressed is the evidence that He is present and active. God is Love and He is also Life. These two qualities are inseparable. We can’t have one without the other. As we love with the pure love of God, receive of His love and put it into practice, so do we truly live. Our lives expand to their full size and scope and satisfaction—the unconfined life that is not mere human existence but divine, infinite freedom and goodness and joy.

This sharing of “his own Spirit” which is freely given to us is our own necessary growth in grace. As we use this Spirit of love that He has never denied to us for a moment, we find not only peace, but we find ourselves. As we attempt to utilize anything less than love, our lives feel stagnant, confused, unsatisfying. When we refuse or qualify the life-giving properties of divine Love, we push away our most natural and good life for one that is not ours at all, that does not suit us. Our Father has seen fit to equip and embrace us with infinite love for our own good and the good of others!

Let’s receive and give the love of Love freely and confidently. Let’s bear witness gladly to God’s own loving nature and find our own lovely and lovable life in the process!

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“There is to-day danger of repeating the offence of the Jews by limiting the Holy One of Israel and asking: ‘Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?’ What cannot God do?” (Science and Health, page 135)

God is infinite and all-powerful. He has the ability to do all things and there is nothing that is too hard for Him to carry out. He is also infinite Love, pure goodness, and perfect wisdom. Everything that God would do, He can do. And everything that He would do is good, loving, and right.

Let’s not limit God. Let’s not let our eyes and thoughts stay so focused on the “why nots” that physical senses would present to us. Material obstructions and restrictions and limitations are no match for infinite Spirit, the Life that is All and eternal and ours. God doesn’t back down or get discouraged by a presentation calling itself human circumstances or even material laws. He is the Law itself and He is not concerned. He knows what He can do and we should know it, too.

We must honor God with our trust and not darken that with doubts. God can furnish a table in the wilderness, can provide us with sustenance and ideas and inspirations in the midst of what seem to be our darkest hours, our deepest need. And His table is not merely a place with a few crumbs upon it. His table is a sumptuous spread of beauty and goodness, filling and fulfilling, satisfying and entirely natural for divine Love’s infinite grace to provide.

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“Let us rid ourselves of the belief that man is separated from God, and obey only the divine Principle, Life and Love. Here is the great point of departure for all true spiritual growth.” (Science and Health, page 91)

If we are going to make lift off, we have to get on the right runway. We need to be at the necessary point of departure, one that is smooth and clear, ready and solid, and aiming in the right direction. Getting off the ground of limits and leaving behind our fears requires that we know where we are, why we are safe, and Who is carrying us onward and upward.

Our growth spiritually–coming to own our true identity and to live it with its inherent freedom and joy–starts by knowing that we are not alone. We are not for a moment separate from God, with a will of our own to make us good or bad, take us down or up. We have to start from the standpoint of God alone. He is the Mind and the Life. He is the Principle that governs all things at all times. We never need to get to Him, and the glory of His Love. We are already and always there.

Obeying the divine Principle is that conscious and grateful yielding of the self that is separate (and a lie about us) to the Life and Love that is God, which we can’t ever be separate from, and is the grand Truth of our being. Starting from the Truth, we have our wings. Beginning with the awareness that we are in God, in good, in infinite Truth, and inseparable from it, makes our growth, our progress natural. It gives us the grounding on which to comfortably stand and off of which to steadily, safely, gloriously ascend heavenward, to real peace and satisfaction!

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“Remember that man’s perfection is real and unimpeachable, whereas imperfection is blameworthy, unreal, and is not brought about by divine Love.” (Science and Health, page 414)

Your perfection is unimpeachable! Your sustained flawlessness is “above suspicion, impossible to discredit; impeccable.” Nothing and no one can challenge the truth about you or negate the reality of your perfection. Your wonderful nature is beyond reproach and without a single weakness to bring your life crashing down.

Remember this, Mrs. Eddy advises us in this passage. Keep this thought of your reflected perfection near in thought. Let it replace those voices that would argue for guilt, shame, flaws of character and of body. Divine Love neither creates mistakes and vulnerabilities nor does this Love allow them to continue to accuse innocence.
Your perfection is real. Do not forget this. It is not mere human perfection, so it can’t be subject to human qualification and conditions. It is a perfection that is divine, that is given to us by God, and is claimed not through forced behavior or punishment, but by humble acceptance.

We can replace a personal sense of self, always subject to analysis and review, and take hold of the Truth of ourselves–the lovely and happy idea that is settled in perfectness, God’s own unimpeachable Life shining forth as the flawless and saving light of His own pure Love.

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“Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.” (Science and Health, page 454)

The rightest motive in any endeavor or thought is always love. Its rightness comes not only from its kindness, but from the very fact that Love truly is the only Cause; Love is the Truth itself, and it is Life. As we come from this ultimate premise of Love, from the demand of divine Love in each moment, we are in line with God and therefore, with reality and power.

It is wise to check your motive before you proceed in something and along the way as well. Is Love truly inspiring me and leading me? Is Love giving me the most comforting way, the one which is best for everyone, and which is compelling me and others toward more understanding, peace, and joy? Or, alternately, is something unloving motivating me? Is it fear, pride, revenge, ego, competitive ambition, or a drive to prove something not fully felt or understood?

Pause and listen for Love’s impelling. It is always there–the motive that causes Life to blossom as it should and Truth to have its day in our satisfied and satisfying activities. With Love as our purpose, we can’t fail to succeed, because in Truth the only intention that makes any sense and that has any power at all is always and only Love.

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“If we are ungrateful for Life, Truth, and Love, and yet return thanks to God for all blessings, we are insincere and incur the sharp censure our Master pronounces on hypocrites. In such a case, the only acceptable prayer is to put the finger on the lips and remember our blessings.” (Science and Health, page 3)

Gratitude is not merely some mantra to get us to feel better about ourselves. Giving thanks when we are not feeling truly conscious of God’s blessings is being hypocritical and it isn’t going to help us find favor with God or men, or reveal the healing we may desire.

If we are still engrossed in our lack, our misery, our material circumstances, or the behavior of others, our thanksgiving has no sincerity. An honest and quiet recognition of God, of the Truth of our Life, will awaken us from the mesmerism of ingratitude and any reason for it. We can’t talk our way into seeing God’s blessings revealed. It is Truth, a genuine honesty and receptivity that must and can open our eyes and call out our natural songs of praise.

Being grateful is not about counting the good in our human lives (the pros) while remaining still well-aware of the opposite (the cons). True gratitude is not human argument. It is a rest in God’s presence, in the awareness that good is All and therefore right where we are. It is a silent consciousness that Love is bigger than the human picture presents and that our coffers are more than full of blessings because our lives are full of the great treasures of divine Love.

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“Even eternity can never reveal the whole of God, since there is no limit to infinitude or to its reflections.” (Science and Health, page 517)

Life is full of surprises. Our magnificent Life is God, the infinite Almighty, and there is no end to His creativity. Eternity is not big enough to hold all that God is and does, and all that His brilliant Mind is actively and perfectly revealing.

There is no such thing as monotony in God’s Life. There is no dropping off of interest and enthusiasm. Neither did God create a single idea that does not reflect His nature, the quality of unendingly wondrous being and acting. The number and diversity of God’s creations can’t be counted or confined within limits, nor can any single idea be less than infinite in its potential and expressiveness.

We cannot even grasp humanly anything as large and lovely as God’s infinite reality, His heavenly cosmos of ideas, nor do we need to. God is grasping, holding within His own Mind, every idea He has caused and cherishing these thoughts within His Love. God knows that there is more to His world and more to each one of us than the physical senses can behold. So, let’s open our spiritual eyes–that higher, broader, truer perception of things–and catch a glimpse of that limitlessness. We can do this one glorious day, one unfolding idea at a time, and be glad that there will always be surprises, newness, and wonder yet to be revealed and experienced.

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“O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.” (Psalms 139: 1-3)

God knows you always and thoroughly. His ever-presence with you means He is fully acquainted with who you are–who you really are–and what you need. He is your intimate friend and your faithful guardian. He is your protector and your encourager. God knows you so well for He made you and He is the very substance and Life of you.

The divine Mind is way ahead of us. God already knows what our life looks like and why we can rest easy. He also has a perfect vision of our being, the enduring and beautiful idea that He saw fit to create and perpetuate and to constantly, actively love. God knows your true nature and it pleases Him. There is no reason to hide or be ashamed. There is no cause to justify your actions or thoughts or plead with God to understand.

Our Father-Mother is fully aware of you and your innocence and goodness. He is right there with you when you lay your head down in exhaustion or when you are tossing and turning in confusion. His Love is never blaming and it is never absent. God understands you. He knows your heart and your life and He finds you pleasing, worthy of His attention, His enduring protection, and His boundless, ever-present affection.

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.

“No form nor physical combination is adequate to represent infinite Love.” (Science and Health, page 256)

Love is bigger than anything or anyone. It has no boundaries and no limits and can’t be lost or found in a person or situation. Infinite Love is God’s own substance and being in action, and He is never out of reach or distant in His affections. We can’t lose infinite Love and because it is spiritual, divine, it is full and unconditional and unfailingly right.

No physical form can represent what divine Love is nor can a certain set of circumstances express its fullness; and yet since this Love is infinite, it necessarily embraces and includes all that appears to us as physical being, individuals, and our world. Divine Love encompasses the real and eternal and exists right where the limited personality would try to get our attention and beg for affection. Perfect Love is perfect in its entirety, its unopposed presence and power. It is our comfort in this moment, always enough, and always at the ready.

Let’s snuggle down into that awareness of Love’s presence. It is in us, with us, and for us. We can’t be separated from Omni-presence. We can’t be in the middle of hate and anger and divine Love at the same time. Infinite Love is our solace, our companion, our peace, our power. Realize the limitless nature of the Love that is yours both to have and to naturally express now and always, here and everywhere!

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