Being Free Now

“Now if your experience of Christ’s encouragement and love means anything to you, if you have known something of the fellowship of his Spirit, and all that it means in kindness and deep sympathy, do make my best hope for you come true! Live together in harmony, live together in love, as though you had only one mind and one spirit between you.” (Philippians 2: 1-2, J.B. Phillips New Testament)

Paul had high hopes for his fellow disciples of Christ. He felt deeply that the understanding, comfort, peace, and uplift that his followers found in the Christ-Truth, should not stop with a personal sense of salvation and well-being. If the great blessing of divine Love meant anything to them, it must mean that conscious, conscientious peace must be practiced.

To be Christ-like and to have an honest gratitude for God and His graceful purpose, we must cherish His Truth. We must agree with His law of oneness, of harmony, and every day and in all ways make this practical in our lives. We must realize and claim that One Mind and leave no one out of its embrace. We must dwell in peace with others, bringing Jesus’s teachings of God into our lives and by doing so, witness healing for all.

There is no stinginess in Love. We can’t make exceptions to our caring and expectations for good. We must adore God and our own blessings enough to be faithful to Him, to infinite, perfect Love. Our One Mind must be obeyed as One Mind and in this understanding all shall “live together in love!”

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“O come, let us worship before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.” (Psalms 95: 6-7)

Let’s come forward and worship our Father. Let’s not wait for desperation to call on Him with expectation of help. Neither let us wait for a perfect human scenario to praise His goodness and His power. Let’s not neglect listening to and following our Shepherd, for the pasture belongs to Him and He knows where we will find rest and when we are to safely play.

God is our Maker. He knows us inside out and designed us to follow Him, to express His intention, to be the sheep that He cares for and who demonstrate His sweet Life. He is our God, the very nature of the good within us, and this awareness leads us home to safety and at the same time gives us the freedom to roam, knowing we will never be left behind. We will always be in His flock and He will always care where we are and how we are.

And the same goes for all the other sheep. Our Shepherd is the Love that made us all. He does not play favorites or neglect any of His own brilliant ideas. Each is important to God and important to the full integrity of the flock. Not one can be lost from it, and all must necessarily obey the Shepherd. He knows the way and the way is divine, perfecting, protecting 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.

“As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.” (Proverbs 26: 2)

The divine Cause is Love. There is no curse from this one and only Source of Life. We have always been out of range of such a false belief, such a cruel attack on us and on God’s infinite goodness. That which would condemn a man or a woman to misery and shame, pain, humiliation, and constant woe, can never land upon us and keep us under its spell. Our Creator loves us.

We are the blessed. We are like those birds that escape the earth by flying above it, expressing their natural freedom from constraints. The sense of a cursed mortal, a man destined to be a miserable sinner or a woman fated to pay the price for an unreal Eve’s mistakes, can’t come to us; it must ever miss its target. We are not mortals who must suffer, but the ideas of God who are truly and permanently blessed.

The curse is never legitimate. It will never be true about you and its shroud will never hide your light, never find you as you are wrapped in God’s blessings. The curse is without cause, without Life, without Truth. It will never have any accuracy, any power to find you or confine you. You are the blessed and beloved. You are not under a hex of evil, but under the infinite grace of God!

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.

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

Do you know who you are? Do you really see what makes you up and why it is so uniquely wonderful? Our identity is not personality or physicality. We are not that small and limited. We are not confined to an age and a gender and a type and a history. We are not the result of heredity or environment.

Your identity is the very expression of the infinite Spirit, of God whose purpose and action and substance is Love. Divine Love is the reason for your being. It is why you were caused and why God preserves your sweet self with such great care and devotion. The idea that is you is a demonstration of His Love. It makes His name heard everywhere, and in infinite ways.

We can stop the intense search into our background and analysis of our character traits and their limits and strengths. We can instead be consciously aware of our true identity, that which reflects Love, that “living” Principle, that which is always active and real and eternal in spite of what the senses might present. Know yourself by knowing God and the nature and broadness of His Love. Each idea is precious and each has its unique identity, an individuality based in Spirit, not in matter. Each of the “forms” that God made proceed from this loving Principle. All are of the same perfect substance, made to harmonize with one another, and yet each having its own unique radiance, continuity, purpose, and beauty.

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 devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.” (Science and Health, page 199)

In any human endeavor as we devote our thought to something, as we fully commit to it, we lay hold of a great power to achieve our goal. Setting our mind to anything is a powerful thing to do and when we remain focused on the expectation, we can accomplish far more than we may think possible.

In this passage, Mrs. Eddy qualifies this statement with the word “honest.” We may feel that anything is possible and the sky’s the limit, but an aim that isn’t honest, isn’t genuine, isn’t from the heart, can’t truly be God’s purpose, His necessary plan, and does not have this same power to achieve and also to satisfy. Let’s weigh each idea that comes to us for advancement and decide whether or not it feels like God’s intention, the idea of Truth and Love: Does it mutually bless ourselves and others? Will it make us sincerely happy in the doing of it? Does it meet a need that will give us or others comfort or freedom from fear? Can we feel divine Love’s seal upon it, when all human justifications are set aside?

If you can answer “yes” to these questions, then put your whole trust in this idea to carry itself forth to fruition. Devote yourself to daily listening and following God in order to reach that goal in the right and most timely way. Realize that the devotion of thought to the achievement includes a devotion to God who formed that idea. So with grateful hearts and listening ears, confidently march forth into the endeavor, whether it be large or small, whether it be a healing we are working toward or a career goal that calls us forward. There is nothing that devotion to God cannot accomplish. You are well on your way!

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.

“For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.”  (Hebrews 6: 10)

Your good works are not forgotten. All of the heart-felt and God-led endeavors you pursue in caring for others, sharing the goodness, expressing love, and your highest sense of what is needed, is never in vain. God blesses our good–all that is done in His name, in the name of Love.

Our ministry toward others is well worth it. And each of has a unique way of taking that deep and healing love of God and spreading it around to others. We have our calling and this true calling is not selfish or self-indulgent. It gives. We were built to share, to bring our infinite God-qualities to our brothers and sisters, and to also, willingly, receive what others have to give of their love, of that same divine Love that feeds and encourages us.

It may seem at times nice guys finish last. It may seem that we don’t always receive the appreciation we expect for the good we do. But God is aware of the goodness that is genuine, that comes from the heart, for He is at the very heart of it Himself. If we are working and alert and listening and helping and supporting others, we have a purpose that is blessed. If we require human praise or even acknowledgment, then we may need to regroup and reflect. We do what we do for Love and because of Love. If it is honest and if we let God do the leading, we will naturally and necessarily feel blessed and refreshed by doing it, and His Love within us will give us a sense of appreciation that more than satisfies.

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“…thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ’s victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere,” (II Corinthians 2: 14, Amplified Bible)

You are the very evidence of God’s presence. You exude the nature of His goodness as you walk this earth. The Christ has revealed your divine heritage to you. There is no reason to hide this precious light from the world. You have every reason for a confident stride through the world, dappling the way before you with a beautiful and inviting promise.

We have every cause for gratitude. We are triumphant because we have the eternal Christ, the true idea of God with us. We can claim this sweet and powerful goodness as our own inherent and inherited being, and we can naturally and joyously share this knowledge with the world. It is our duty and honor to give of this healing light of Love, just as we have received it ourselves.

The blessing of being the child of God is in expressing it, touching others with the love that uplifts and saves. This is how love multiplies and that “glorious fragrance of the knowledge of God” is found everywhere, sweetening the bitterness of mortal life, and awakening the world from the mesmerism of darkness to the beauty and freedom of Life. Rejoice that you naturally and broadly spread God’s word by your awareness and love of it. Own that! Flaunt it! Be the perfume of Soul that refreshes and invites all to know the Truth of divine Love.

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“Never record ages. Chronological data are no part of the vast forever. Time-tables of birth and death are so many conspiracies against manhood and womanhood.” (Science and Health, page 246)

Aren’t you more than a number? Can God’s magnificent idea be confined to an age, a classification based on the passage of time, on that which has no place in eternal Life? We were not conceived on a material date and required to pass through certain material phases, relegating us to the experiences and expectations associated with each age of human life.

Truth sheds light on the conspiracy against us. Divine Love reveals mortal mind’s insidious deceptions which would beckon us into a tapering sense of experience instead of the expanding one which is our true life-walk. How eager we often are to join the club of those who have reached a certain age, to grouse over the expected pains and losses, and to mourn the good old days as if they are all behind us. Do we really want to get on the band-wagon that gives a voice to a depressing lie?

Surely it must be mortal mind–whose most-used trick is “time”–that lures us into this conspiracy, these clubs called youth, middle age, senility, etc. Don’t sign that application! Be at one with the vast forever and wake up to the fact of life as one in which we are new born every day–new to God’s grace, new children subject to God’s laws of Life not material laws of birth and death. You were not made to fit into a box with a number on it. You were made to fly in the unconfined forever, free of any classifications at all except your unchanging status as the image and likeness of God!

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.

“How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.” (Matthew 18: 12-14)

No one is lost to God. Not a single of His ideas is less than precious to Him; all are worth His care, His guidance, a place in His flock, in His loving home. No one has gone beyond or outside of the Father-Shepherd’s interest or influence. No one child has gotten lost in the shuffle of so many others, to disappear and be less than important, less than beautiful, less than beloved.

Those that stay faithful and true–the homebody sheep that stay close to what feels comfortable and right–are already in a solid and familiar place. They are not left alone when the Shepherd goes to seek the lost. His presence and love remain with them, and they know it. They don’t feel slighted when the Shepherd goes in search of the lost one or even the disobedient one. It is what they know He, Love, will do. That missing sheep is one of their own brethren. They don’t feel complete without that little one safe with them.

No one is cast off. No one is abandoned and left to fate. Our God consciously and conscientiously seeks us out. He knows that human mistakes that take us off our human course have not ever taken us out of His Love which is everywhere. He knows the one He has nurtured and He sees this little one’s real potential, goodness, and beauty.

We may seem at times to abandon our best life or may feel abandoned by others, but God, our good Life, has never left us or forgotten us. He knows exactly how to find us for He sees us even when we hide from goodness. He hasn’t stopped believing in us, watching us, and loving us.

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.

“For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord.  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”  (Jeremiah 29: 8-9, 11)

The sources of information seem endless these days. We can always find a qualified or unqualified opinion concerning the prospects for our lives, whether it be our health, our careers, our relationships, or our financial well-being. These modern-day prophets may have more material science on their side than the prophets of old, but they still do not have the voice of absolute Truth.

How often do we hear of a physical prognosis of disease that is treated as a death-sentence, as the last word on the case? The concerns may seem to come from a basis of medical examination or experience and from a basis of legitimate care, but they often lead only to fear and grief, or resignation, surely not God’s thought on our being. The last word on life can only come from Life itself, God. He alone knows what He caused and the nature of His own intention: peace, not evil. We must always plead innocent and let God’s word defend our life, His Life.

Likewise, we should not let our own sleeping or waking dreams dictate terms to us. These are false prophets, parading as truthful sources, as gods that can make or break us. Your night dreams are not prophets of life, nor are the stars or time or heredity. The mortal mind’s fearing concepts will never have the force of God’s word which is infinite, eternal, infallible Truth. Divine Love does not doom His own child to a miserable fate, cause him to give himself over to mere material predictions and interpretations.

Your “expected end” is God’s thought about you and towards you. It is Love’s foresight promising you a future full of hope, satisfaction, peace, and joy.

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.