Being Free Now

“God is infinite, therefore ever present, and there is no other power nor presence.” (Science and Health, page 471)

God is present and in the present. He is right where you are at all times, and the only power and substance to every moment, this very one, right now. God, perfect Truth, fills this place of Being, of Life, of consciousness. God and His active presence is truly all that is ever going on. We can’t escape it, deny it, or defy it. There is only God, boundless Love, to this precious moment.

This is our reliable reliance. We can know and be grateful for the fact that no matter where human thought might go or which material circumstances may want to draw us in, the only Truth to the situation and to you in it, is God and His Love. The Almighty One does not share His presence with any other power. Infinity is filled with God and we are forever His ideas, the very evidence that He is All and always and right and good.

We don’t need to look over there, back to a past time, or toward a future life or understanding. God is in our presence presently. He is fully here now and we will never be closer to Him and His loving reality than we are at this very instant. Be still with this realization. Claim it as your own state of being. Wrap yourself up in this Truth of God’s faithfulness, nearness, sweetness, and power. You are in Love. Relish this fact and rejoice, right here, right now!

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“Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love.” (Science and Health, page 477)

Who am I? Who are you? We are the very reflection of Spirit. This is our identity, the truth of us, our nature and essence. Nothing about Spirit is bound up in personality and limits of physicality or physiology. Our identity isn’t a combination of genes or environment. We are the very expression of Spirit’s infinite ideal.

God has formed us out of His own qualities. We are an expression of all that He is and that He loves. Our identity is individual and original, but it always complies with the original Principle. This is a given, a guarantee, and our reliance. This fact of your real heritage makes you amazing, of a character beyond compare and yet always reiterating the original Principle.

That Principle is Love. And it is “living” Love, a law of Being that stands forever immutable, and yet moves, expresses, acts. Our identity is that which is the necessary expression of a Principle that is alive, that is Life. And that wonderful Life that we are living and being is always and only Love. You are made of Love and made to Love. And since this divine Love has infinite ways of being expressed, God has made infinite ideas—you and me and all—to do this.

Who am I and who are you? We are Love’s intention carried out, alive, active, and always and now just right.

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.

“…this is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (I John 1: 5)

Jesus told us the Truth. We can believe him and join his followers in declaring and walking in the full light of this knowledge. God is all that is good and right and loving. He is Life and Truth and in Him is not a single vestige of ugliness, evil, ignorance, destruction. This is Our God, the only One, and a cause for gratitude and continual praise.

This light in Him is the light in us. We have this radiant goodness within us and as the very nature of our being. We can accept without reservation the fullness of this good news of God and what it means for each one of us. When we look for or expect darkness, negativity, a down side, we are really only believing lies, attributing evil to Omnipotent God, the Infinite good. There is no darkness in Him at all. None. Zilch. Zero.

Let’s bask in that wondrous light and believe it. Let’s know that no shadow of fear or limitation, sickness or sin, can have reality in Life, in the God that is all and only perfect good. There are no exceptions or qualifications in this mighty declaration from I John. This realization of the reality of God’s changeless and infinite radiance brought healing to Jesus and his early followers, and is still powerfully and faithfully here to enlighten our way and lighten our load today.

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 open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.” (Isaiah 41: 18)

The rivers and fountains of God’s rich supply and glorious beauty are now present and available. This wonderful abundance does not suddenly appear in dry places, in our depressed states, in our fear, in our sense of lack. This fullness was always and already there for our use.

Every good and needful thing is in God, a quality of His Being and therefore always present, perfect, complete, and overflowing. His pure pool of renewal is not held deep in the earth of human analysis or back or forward in time. His refreshment of opportunity isn’t off in a distant land or after some human even takes place or a shred of luck comes our way.

The abundance is already right where we are. To find it, we must open our spiritual eyes to its presence and our perfect right to use it, for it will never waste and its inspired activity only causes it to multiply. The right ideas for a full life are already right where you are. Opportunity is as ever-present as God. Material sense limits, but it also lies. There is a wellspring beneath your feet and a rose bush blooming in your midst. Open your eyes to the nature of God and you will see that Love always has your good in Mind and it is always in easy, natural, comfortable reach.

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“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5: 6)

Cleanse yourself of all the complicated desires that always feel either unsatisfying or just too much. Let go of that thought that human wants must be constantly met by material things. Listen to Jesus’s words. He knew what it meant to claim a blessing and also recognized the very thing that would seem to keep those treasures out of reach.

Let’s nurture those higher desires—not the cravings of sense but the call of Soul into its promises. Let’s come to where our first thoughts in the morning are ones which seek God’s will and His way, rather than outlining experiences we might dread or those that might give us pleasure. Let’s have the last thoughts as we close our eyes be not of worry or doubt or reliving every detail of today or planning (or bracing) for tomorrow’s activities. Let’s instead rest in that right desire to know God’s peace, simple and sweet and His alone to lovingly give and to securely keep.

It comes to watching our thought. But that vigilance shouldn’t feel like a burden. It’s a sweet opportunity to let go of our habits and seeming material needs, so that God’s bigger, grander, more satisfying ideas can take natural place in our thinking, and lead our experience. This right desire sets us free to live the good life, one that God made for us—one which isn’t merely about fleshly pleasures, but about an ongoing, permanent, deep, satisfying, grateful goodness and true peace.

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.

“The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up they bed and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walk.” (John 5: 7-9)

How often do we think we are impotent, having no power to get up and walk away from trouble and sickness and confusion? Do we like this man stand looking toward the pool, the magic fountain of healing possibilities, and get transfixed by this supposed answer to all our problems, that seems so close and yet elusive for us?

Perhaps we need a more active approach. Perhaps we need to turn from ourselves as needy and powerless and somehow missing out on what others seem to be freely receiving. Maybe we need to step out of the line and open our eyes to our own ability to be free. Jesus didn’t pick this man out because he was more deserving than the rest. The Christ was ready for anyone who was prepared to look away from the pool of problems and uncertain solutions, and see the Christ—the true idea of his own perfect identity.

No one is more privileged than you, luckier than you, quicker than you where healing is involved. The Christ is always here, not to put you into some alluring pool where everyone else is going, but to show you who you uniquely and already are. This Christ-Truth announces your preparedness at all times to be potent, to be powerful enough by your own nature to walk away from being transfixed by a problem and continual contemplation of a solution.

This tender, active Christ in you is beckoning you to get up from that position of victimization and preoccupation with trouble, pick up your life where it waits for you, and walk forward in your own worthiness for victory, health, and happiness.

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“We treat error through the understanding of Truth, because Truth is error’s antidote. If a dream ceases, it is self-destroyed, and the terror is over.” (Science and Health, page 346)

Understanding Truth is waking up. It is breaking the sleep of mortal beliefs and coming into the day and its promise of goodness. Those errors of sense, of sin and disease and evil and lack, can’t be healed through contemplating more of the lie, going into “dream analysis.” The Truth is the only antidote, and it completely releases us from that mesmerism into wide-awake reality, tangible good.

We know that in a dream we have no real freedom to move and think and do as our conscious mind might instruct. We are stuck in the subconscious sense of things–that which is beneath a conscious, conscientious mind, which has no real control and is limited. The unreality of the dream and our lack of control as we dream are just like our belief in error, a material experience. We seem stuck and the more we stay fixed on the limits, the more they seem to hold us back.

But Truth is our antidote. It is that refreshing splash of water that wakes us from the dream of a damaged, destructible life, to the real world. Our day is full of blessings and the Truth of God as Life, as Love, and of man as inseparable from that infinite Life, sets us free to be fearless. The Truth is that we are not out of control in a nightmare, but absolutely controlled by perfect Mind, awake to God’s experience, the Life He caused to be. The night terrors can’t hold us in the light of God’s glorious, honest, vividly beautiful day!

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.

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galations 5: 1)

We have seen our freedom. We have been told and have loved this recognition of ourselves as no longer the slaves of sense and matter, but free men and woman who have the right to flourish and be happy. The Christ-message has given us a great vision of what is possible, what is really true for us. Liberty.

But this freedom can’t be taken for granted. We must daily take a stand to be on the right side of that liberation, rather than sinking back into the familiarity of being a slave to circumstances, material sense, and fear. We have to choose anew to join together with the forces of goodness, purity, and to claim fully the strength that comes by that unity. The allure of the senses can captivate us again if we are not alert. We must not let that captivating take us captive again. We are free born and we must not forget this. Stand strong and certain and renew that trust in and love of the Life that sets you free every day, today.

Keeping that yoke of mortal beliefs off of us may seem difficult. Doesn’t the world say otherwise? Doesn’t finiteness and evil appear to be the nature of life? It may seem daunting to stay faithful to your heritage of freedom. But you have the law on your side! God’s Truth of you, your birthright and your very innocent and lovely selfhood, is bigger than the world’s temptations and more loving than its propositions.

Know who you truly are. This is your “get out of jail free” pass, and it can be used over and over again, until you forget you ever needed it because you are so busy relishing the wide open life you are gratefully living!

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.

“Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is individualized, but not in matter.” (Science and Health, page 477)

Our individuality is not material. Our uniqueness is not found in our physicality or personality. It is spiritual. We are made to express with absolute completeness as well as originality, all that is God’s own nature, His own perfect quality made evident.

So what is spiritual individuality? What makes each radiant ray of God’s sun different and special? How can we reflect infinite good and yet be unique and individualized? Spirit certainly doesn’t allow for a limited view of person as confined to body and personality traits, to time and age and circumstance, heredity, birth order or marital status. Our spiritual individuality is created of God’s substance, out of His nature, which is Love.

So, it seems to me that our spiritual individuality, our unique character, is founded on the specificity of God’s love for each of us. The precise way in which He loves you makes up your unique beauty, your incomparable identity, your needed originality. It is because God loves you in such a pointed and perfect way, that you are the expression of something unlike any other idea. Our individuality is founded on and made glorious by the particular, masterful precision of God’s love for the brilliant idea that is you!

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.

“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)

God is our Commander-in-Chief. He tells us with assurance that we have nothing to fear. Divine Truth announces our freedom from the terrorism of anger, disease, lack, confusion. We are being told by God, the Creator and Preserver of all, that we have every reason to be strong and unafraid.

Why? Not because there will never be a single threat to our poise and peace, but because we will always have God, perfect Truth and Love to save us, uplift us, set us free, as the true victors that we always and already are. You will never enter into a circumstance that is too hard for God or for which He has left you alone. You will always be guarded and protected, loved and safe.

So let’s take this command and guarantee at its word. Let’s not act like victims when we are standing firmly on the winning side, with God and His graceful power. Let’s not allow the sense of battle to get us discouraged. This seeming conflict only gives us more occasions to triumph, to see our own strength and ability as God’s reflection, and to thrive even more on the spoils of our victory—the blessings of inspiration, revelation, more trust in God, and less fear in man and matter.

Don’t be afraid. Don’t let discouragement creep in. You are not alone and your companion is always the Christ, the Savior of all that is good and right–of you!

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.