Being Free Now

“And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.” (Isaiah 12: 1)

God does not hold a grudge. The anger that we may feel He has for us over certain behavior and circumstances in our lives, does not sit on us like a curse. God is not like that. He is sustained Love. He is not subject to the whims of human emotion and reaction. He is the divine Principle that stands firmly as Truth, Life, and Love.

We may feel at times that we have disappointed Him and so we are suffering. But we have only strayed from what is His highest ideal, what He caused us to be, and because we are not being ourselves, it feels uncomfortable, like punishment, like we have riled God’s wrath. But we can never truly be anything or anyone but who we are. God knows this. His comfort toward us for our mistaken belief about ourselves is ever at the ready. Love is always His activity and intention.

So, let’s do see that clinging in thought to the mistakes of our past as well as self-judgment for ignorance in this moment, are the only things that are damning us to hell. God is ready to show us that children are here to learn right from wrong, through trial and error at times, and that it doesn’t make the Mother-Father love us any less. Her child is always worthy of a comforting and cleansing embrace, a second chance to know and prove his true goodness and the joy and peace that brings.

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“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8: 38-39)

To be persuaded is to be convinced by way of an appeal to reason or understanding. It is a response to an entreaty to believe. Paul, the author of this quote, was not an immediate believer by any means. He did not come into his Christianity and healing work by way of an easy and ignorant faith. He needed to have the understanding, needed to have every reason to believe in what he came to see was a vital force for good in the world.

The Christ message and its light did not fail to bring about a conviction in Paul, just as it must in us. It must become clear and inarguable to us that separation from God is not only something we strive to overcome, but that which is utterly impossible. Paul’s persuasion didn’t come through human argument or material methods of reasoning. He knew that the Love of God was always with him and in him, by means of divine revelation. Mary Baker Eddy refers to this compelling force as “Science…a law of divine Mind, a persuasive animus.” (Miscellany 3: 15)

This animus, this animating spirit, purpose, and intention is the Truth acting upon us and for us. It is that divine impetus that moves us to know in our hearts that what Paul says to the Romans is true for us. We are persuaded by God Himself, by the honest Truth, that He is always with us and that nothing, no matter how evil or dark or aggressive, can separate us from Him and His faithful, tender, perfect Love.

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“All that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine.” (I Chronicles 29: 11)

Everything is God’s own creation. There is nothing that came from outside His thought, that has drifted out of His care, or that has lost His qualities and loving intention. All belongs to God, to Truth, to Spirit. He governs everything there is, and the earth is as blessed as His heaven, the limitless reality.

The earth is simply a limited perception of heaven. This world still belongs to God, since He governs all. God sees all clearly as the ideal concept that He created, and He keeps this perfect idea in His Mind. His Love owns and embraces every detail of what seems to the human senses to be a material experience, consisting of an imperfect creation. The flawed, limited human viewpoint never changes the fact that all God created was and is perfect. This earth simply must be as glorious and good as His concept of heaven would be. His presence is everywhere, so it is in the seeming physical as much as the actual, the spiritually absolute and real.

Let’s not try to take ownership of the earth, of our human experience, or of our bodies. They belong to the only One Who is absolutely clear about His creation, Who sees through that mist of sense to the reality of His perfect idea. God is in the here and now. He is the very substance of His own expression, and that expression is everywhere and at all times. We can accept the glory of this earth and man in it, for we belong to God, and God has made only what is right, loving, and good. Heaven and earth are one, and that one is God, good.

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“He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.” (Deuteronomy 32: 10)

God’s love finds us wherever we are. He is with us in the wilderness, in those times that feel confusing, dark, and lonely. We are never without His eye upon us and His arms around us. We are not small and unworthy or too far off for God to see or to tenderly care for. We are always the very apple of his eye, the center of His thought and the very focus of His sight.

You are never lost from Him, from the direct gaze and immediate help of God’s Love and His wise guidance. God brought the children of Israel out of the desert of limit and fear and into the knowledge of their heritage as the very sons and daughters of God. We, too, are His beloved children, never far from His heart and the very expression and object of His perfect Love.

The wilderness cannot hold us captive when we are in God. He fills the place of doubt and fear with the calm, confidence of His loving presence and holy purpose. The desert land is not dry and dull and fruitless with God in it. His wisdom instructs us, opens our eyes to see the abundant garden of promise, one that we are capable of faithfully tending and causing to grow and blossom.

You are the apple are His eye. You are the pupil in His eye and the pupil of His instruction. You will never be lost in the dark or lost in ignorance. God sees you clearly and loves you dearly, always, perfectly, and now.

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“Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.” (Psalms 71: 21)

We are made to succeed. God has caused us to flourish and continues always to lead us to our best selves, our most perfect, satisfying, and productive lives. This ever-present divine Love is constantly lifting us up to a clearer awareness of our greatness, our real gloriousness and worthiness in the eyes of God. We can accept this, our true nature, and by doing so bless the world with our goodness and light.

This spiritual success and its expression in our life and work, does not leave us then to fend for ourselves. We may realize our true stature and all that we have to give, and people may respond to our qualities and our pure motives. This does not mean that we are now taking over for God, or that we are left to suffer and be burdened for our goodness and success, like some martyr. As the psalmist knew, we get to be comforted “on every side.”

You never fail to be surrounded by the very things that keep you feeling safe and at peace. Greatness, spiritual understanding and power, may put us on the front lines, but we have God before us and behind us and beside us. We are in a mighty company, and we will always have that protection, that reliance. It isn’t up to us to go it alone. We may at times feel misunderstood or that our purpose makes us both attractive to others as well as a target. But we can’t forget that a comfort is ours at all times and under all circumstances. This is the Christ, the Comforter that revealed our glory to us to begin with. This same tender Love is still here to show us that we are always cared for, supported, blessed, and beloved.

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“It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.” (Psalms 119: 71-72)

The afflictions of material life serve a purpose. While God doesn’t give them to us, each time we are challenged or tempted, we have a new opportunity to become even more well acquainted with God’s statutes, the answer and resolution that only comes through divine law. God has a remedy for every affliction in His loving law of Life, and these answers are more than just quick fixes. They are riches that uplift, renew, and continue to give.

The psalmist knew just as Paul later did as well, that fleshly troubles were stepping stones to a higher understanding of God and our reliance on Him, on the infinite good. Each of His statutes is applicable to the errors and trials that would confront us and try to lure us away from our grateful peace. We truly learn and fully appreciate these truths and their power when we put them to use in our lives. Thus our afflictions become a testing ground for God’s laws, for the Science that relies on one God and love for one another, those two great commandments Jesus gave us.

And this understanding gained and put into practice is our treasure. As we overcome these temptations to believe in other gods and powers and purposes, we are able to see Soul’s bounty before us, in us, and in others. Our increased devotion to God is an expansion in blessings, for we are claiming our true inheritance, knowing ourselves to be children of God and gratefully obedient to His cleansing, healing, saving law of Love.

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“Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.” (Psalms 130: 7)

Don’t give up hope. Don’t let go of the heart that is open to God’s purpose and His loving care. Do give up a belief that matter and human circumstances can tell you how you should feel and what your prospects should be. This is effectively walling yourself in and giving up, expecting the worst, or at the very least settling for less than what your life can be and what it has to give.

Open the window. Let the dove of hope fly in on a refreshing breeze, and show you the great sky outside, the infinitude of freedom and promise at hand. Let hope reveal that God’s mercy is bigger than matter’s walls of despair, and that His redemption, His rescue and restoration, is at hand and “plenteous.”

Hope is your angel, and it is not a difficult one to find. This quality of thought is ready for us at all times, because we are truly built to believe in good. The mortal mind may try to convince us otherwise–that life is hard, depressing, dangerous. But our hearts truly want to believe in a better idea. We can look deep within and find that we aren’t willing to give up, because something inside tells us that good prevails, that we deserve better. It tells us we are willing to give up anger and fear, for Love and peace.

God is here to deliver you from your own despair. Let that sliver of hope light the darkness and keep your focus on that slim beam of promise. It will expand, and inspire, leading you naturally to a beautiful day. And that hope remembered with gratitude, will help you guide others into the promised land of plenty as well.

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“The divinity of the Christ was made manifest in the humanity of Jesus.” (Science and Health, page 25)

Jesus knew God’s presence and love. He was well aware of the fact of His own unity with the divine Father-Mother. He recognized that God alone was power and reality, and that man was God’s beloved and His own image. Jesus was assured of where he came from and he brought that heavenly understanding to earth. This was the purpose of the Christ–to know the Truth so deeply that he could express it in every place and at all times.

The divinity of this Christ-understanding, embraced humanity. Let’s take a great lesson from this demonstration. Recognize and claim your divine heritage, the true state of your own being as the child and expression of God and made of His quality, His intention. Know yourself as this spiritual radiance and God as the Source. You are at one with infinite goodness. This gives you confidence, peace, and power.

Do not leave your humanity out of this. Jesus didn’t. He was able to take the human sense into his arms, the fullness of his love. He was able to tenderly recognize the need for mercy and understanding, for hope and relief, and to give it to mankind.

As we know ourselves and accept the true nature of our spirituality and God’s presence with us, we can take our human fears and doubts and ignorance into our own Christly embrace, a love which heals. We can see this dear human sense for its own innocence, and feed it with the loving care that lifts it out of that limited sense into the recognition of the divine, an awareness of ourselves and others as the loved and lovable and worthy sons and daughters of God. The Christ does not dismiss humanity as beneath its care. It loves it and so uplifts it.

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“GETHSEMANE…the human yielding to the divine; love meeting no response, but still remaining love.” (Science and Health, page 586)

Jesus’s time in the garden of Gethsemane, communing with God before facing his crucifixion, was essential to his demonstration. He seemed to be afraid and uncertain. He felt the weight of his mission and likely the weight of the world upon his shoulders. He must surely have felt very human in those moments, very far from transcendent.

And these moments with His Father were where the final yielding could take place. He yearned for comfort and for peace, for a release. He desired an answer from God and an escape. He discovered in his prayer that he was not going to find his way through some human circumstance changing. He could only find peace by giving up that desire altogether and letting Spirit’s holy purpose be revealed, through faith and understanding.

Jesus won his release from fear and confusion by Love. He knew his own Father-Mother to be pure Love and so, in spite of what appeared to be a silence from God, Jesus continued to love. This love was so deep and certain, so much bigger than his human fears, that it lifted him out of them. Jesus’s continued love for God and for man in spite of the horrors he faced, was his salvation. This unconditional love was divine–it had God’s own quality and power, and so it elevated his own perspective and the human yielded to infinite Life and its proof for humanity.

Let us aspire to love like Jesus did. Let us remember that Love is the greatest thing, the most powerful thing, and that to love God in spite of the human picture, is to yield a limited sense of life for the infinite possibilities.

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“The human will which maketh and worketh a lie, hiding the divine Principle of harmony, is destructive to health, and is the cause of disease rather than its cure.” (Science and Health, page 445)

Human will is not where your strength lies. Willful pushing for the win is not a useful method for healing. This forced intention tends to causes unease, discomfort, lack of stability, poise, and peace. Human will burdens and unsettles us, so it certainly can’t be the catalyst for harmony. Only the divine Principle of harmony itself can promote and preserve its own qualities.

Yield that firm grip on the self. Stop setting yourself up as creator, savior, or destroyer. The will that relies on a human sense of separateness, mortal courage, or pride can’t lead us to that unity of Life that is health, joy, satisfaction, and safety. It is only by realizing that we are one with God and His will, His perfect control–all that is right, active, and ours naturally—that we can really feel the Truth of that in our own health and well-being.

The divine Principle of harmony is the active fact at all times and it is right where we are, right now. The false and alluring belief in mortal minds, in personalities separate from the One Ego, would hide this fact of our own being by giving us a wrong perspective. The all-knowing Mind is the only Mind that sees clearly. When we presume a separate mind it only brings a lack of clarity–a mist that hides the reality of heaven, our heaven, right here and now. God’s view is gorgeous and right. The divine will is entirely good and it is actively leading you home. Let it. Release to that natural salvation, the hand of infinite wisdom. Let go and let your life reveal the tender peace of His loving, perfect will.

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